Speaking to BasNews, Idris Refaat, of the security troops in Kirkuk, said "Islamic State blew up a pipeline used for transferring crude oil in west of Kirkuk, late on Saturday, using two bombs."
The fire, according to Idris, "has not be put out yet."
Idris blamed the Iraqi troops for not being able to control the region, which was previously under control of the Kurdish Peshmerga forces, which allows Islamic State members to attack oil establishments and troops.
news reports quoted sources as saying that seven people were killed as Islamic State members attacked al-Bu Shaher village, near Yayji town, west of Kirkuk.
In December, the Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi announced gaining control on all the territories that were captured by Islamic State, since 2014. However, Security reports indicate that the militant group still poses threat against stability in the country. The group still has dormant cells, through which it carries out attacks, across Iraq like it used to do before 2014.
Thousands of militants as well as Iraqi civilians were killed since the government campaign, backed by paramilitary troops and the coalition was launched in October 2016 to fight the militant group, which declared a self-styled "caliphate" from Mosul in June 2014.
Nehal is a senior writer and translator at Iraqi News. She graduated from Cairo University in 2009 with a Bachelor's degree in Journalism. Before joining Iraqi News, she was a newsroom editor and translator for Egypt Independent.
Reminds me of the burning Iraq oilfields
On August 17, 2016, the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 acquired an image (above) of dense smoke plumes roughly 50 kilometers (30 miles) south of Mosul. There appear to be multiple sources of fire, most likely oil wells from the Qayyarah oil field. The images in the grid below show the plumes changing direction and thickness since they were first spotted by Landsat 8 on June 14.
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Let us not forget the devastation of Mosul the lives lost, a city, a community, bombed into the stone age, no Western Nation will accept responsibility for it's reconstruction. a wasteland of death and destruction.