SULAIMANI (ESTA) — Authorities in Kirkuk launched a detention campaign for the outlaws on Wednesday, a police official said.
As many as 29 suspects were detained by the police since the campaign have begun, the spokesman of Kirkuk police told Esta Media Network.
He revealed that the security forces have set up roadblocks and searched houses in several neighborhoods of the city, resulting the 29 detention by the local police.
The official did not specify further but said they were detained over a variety of charges, including terror, stealing as well as some mild crimes.
Kirkuk lies in an oil-rich and ethnically mixed part of the country. Control over the city has been contested by Kurdish and Iraqi authorities.
Kurdish forces used to control the city when the Iraqi army fled during the Islamic State offensive back in 2014. However, the Iraqi forces retook the city in the wake of the Kurdish referendum for independence in 2017.
