Members of the Kurdish security forces stand at a checkpoint during an intensive security deployment on the outskirts of KirkukReuters
Iraqi Kurdish fighters claim they have taken full control of the city of Kirkuk after the country's army fled Islamic State of Iraq and al-Shams (Isis) insurgents.
"The whole of Kirkuk has fallen into the hands of Peshmerga," said Jabbar Yawar, a Peshmerga spokesman, referring to the Kurdish forces.
"No Iraq army remains in Kirkuk now."
Isis militants have captured the Sunni towns of Mosul and Tikrit in northern Iraq as they continue to surge southward towards the capital Baghdad.
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