"We are putting up our flags now that the kurds have gone. We took all theirs down. Since last night we can live peacefully, it will be a better life than before" Explains Jihad Khalid, a turkman resident of Kirkuk, raising Turkman flags with his family the day after Iranian group Hashd al Shaabi and the Iraqi Army drove the Kurdish Peshmerga out of the city. Kirkuk, Iraq, 17th october 2017