ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The official appointment of a director for Kirkuk’s agriculture department has reignited ...

Iraq’s ministry of the interior on Monday announced the death of a member of the Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) regiment ...

Iraq and Syria are planning to restore the Kirkuk-Baniyas oil pipeline, which runs from oil fields in Kirkuk to Syria's ...

Worshippers gathered in Kirkuk’s churches to celebrate Christmas Mass, highlighting local traditions and a message of peace ...

CJTF-OIR said the training underscores the coalition’s continued commitment to supporting the development of a sustainable ...

Ali said the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has played a key role in supporting Kurdish education, noting that the KRG’s Ministry of Education sends more than one million textbooks annually to ...

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 ...

Outside Kirkuk, Iraqi troops were filmed trying to halt the advance of Sunni militants. But when the government forces fled, Kurdish fighters moved into the city that they have long claimed as their ...

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 ...

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 ...

DIANA, Iraq — The northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk is like a grenade primed to explode in Saddam Hussein’s clenched fist. His army has blocked most escape routes in an effort to stop civilians from ...

KIRKUK, Iraq — The cotton factory was burning and ethnic tensions were rising Friday as 4,000 U.S. troops began arriving in Kirkuk, where the toppling of Saddam Hussein’s government has left a skyline ...