(Boston Globe)- A wave of village burnings, forcible evictions, and armed clashes between Kurdish forces and Arab fighters is sweeping through north-central Iraq, centering on the oil-rich city of Kirkuk. Major Robert Gowan said, ''We are trying not to allow any forcible evictions. We are trying to stop people from being killed.....We want to freeze the situation in place and have property disputes settled by some kind of court.''
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