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One of the successes of the Kurdish forces in Iraq in the past year has been to consolidate their hold on the city of Kirkuk, at the centre of the northern oilfield. The governor of Kirkuk is Najmaddin Karim. Dan Damon asked him to assess how the fight against the self-styled Islamic State is going.

(Photo: Iraqi Kurdish fighters outside Kirkuk. Credit: Marwan Ibrahim/Getty Images)