Kurdistan Iraq - Kurdish Peshmerga forces Reports from the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) suggest the Kurdish Peshmerga forces have recently seized a shipment of oil equipment destined for the Iraqi state-run South Oil Company (SOC). The equipment was on their way from Russia to southern Iraq through the Turkish-Iraqi border. According to these reports, the Peshmerga forces have so far refused to release the shipment and let it reach its destination.
