Many residents of disputed Kirkuk say they have lost faith in Iraq’s political class ahead of the November parliamentary ...

The Iraqi army has surrounded our village, as in previous years, preventing farmers from cultivating their lands,” Mohammed ...

Iraq has put into effect a contract with BP to redevelop oilfields in the northern Kirkuk region, with an initial production ...

Iraqi politicians are dueling with new hostility over the fate of Kirkuk, the oil-rich city that both self-ruled Kurds in the north and Iraq's central government want to control. The dispute has ...

The KRG is launching two major infrastructure projects: a rainwater drainage system along Erbil's Kirkuk Road and a $424 ...

BAGHDAD/KIRKUK, Iraq – Iraqi government forces captured the Kurdish-held city of Kirkuk on Monday, responding to a Kurdish vote on independence with a bold lightning strike that transforms the balance ...

With ISIS gone, political realities descend upon the Middle East. So far it is the Kurds that have gotten the short end of the deal. In a closed-door meeting at a Washington think tank in July, I had ...

As fighting rocks northern Iraq’s oil-rich Kirkuk area, and air strikes attempt to take out Islamic State positions, the dust will likely either settle in favor of the Iraqi Kurds, who have played a ...

For decades, even a census has been considered too risky in the hotly contested northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, claimed by Kurds, Arabs and the Turkmen ethnic group. But on Monday, the city’s residents ...

KIRKUK, Iraq, April 10 -- U.S. Army troops rolled unopposed into this key northern city tonight, securing an airfield and an oil facility after a Kurdish uprising ousted Iraqi forces. Two battalions ...

When Iraqi government forces seized control of the contested city of Kirkuk on Monday, hundreds of Kurdish families were sent scattering to nearby safe havens. The swift military operation came just ...

In northern Iraq, Kirkuk has always been a flashpoint with Kurds, Turkmen and Arabs, who all claim it as their own. It has a special place in the new Iraqi constitution, but nothing has changed for ...