Iraqi forces. A bridge was blown up near the town of prayers the size exchanged mortar and rocket fire the kurds took up positions on the road between bell and kirkuk on thursday three days after they pulled out of the city Stephanie Decker has more from the erbil kirkuk highway. We have seen smoke in the distance and just looking at the road really tells you a story immense military reinforcements being sent by the peshmerga Counterterrorism Forces also a lot of trucks with ammunition a new checkpoint has been set up further behind us where there wasnt one before further towards appeal so of course they are defending their positions their concern of course is that the iraqi forces pushed further up along this road towards the city of now just to explain just rough job graphy there is still the main checkpoint into and just a couple of kilometers down the road from Office Around a kilometer from that is where the fighting is going on theres also been ambulance a lot of ambulance activi