Battle of Pirde
Part of Battle of Kirkuk (2017)
Date 20 October 2017 Location Altun Kupri, Iraq Result Kurdish victory [1]
Belligerents
Kurdistan Region	Iraq
Commanders and leaders
Masoud Barzani Sirwan Barzani Husein Yazdanpanah	Haider al-Abadi (Commander-in-chief) Maj. Gen. Fadhil al-Barwari (ISOF commander)
Units involved
Peshmerga Parti Azadi Kurdistan
Strength
unknown	unknown
Casualties and losses
unknown	unknown

The Battle of Pirde was the first military confrontation between the Peshmerga and the Iraqi Army, it was the first military confrontation between both sides since the Iraq War

The battle first started when Hashd al-Shaabi soldiers captured Kirkuk and made an attempt at capturing Erbil. ^[2]

The fighting began at 8:00 in the morning on the Erbil-to-Kirkuk road near the village of Pirde, when Iraqi Counter Terrorism Service began to mortar Kurdish units. An apparent 81-millimeter mortar exploded not far from a group of Kurdish generals standing outside a command post. ^[3]

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