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Kirkuk is one of the world s richest oil regions, but two years after the war began, there is no end in sight to its suffering. At its root is the legacy of four decades of intensive ethnic cleansing ...
News Iraq » Kirkuk » People: Kirkuk governor visits Türkiye, praises President Erdoğan
Mohammed Samaan Agha, newly elected Turkmen governor of Iraq’s Kirkuk, visited the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) on Monday. Agha ...
News Iraq » Kirkuk » People: Governor Calls for People of Kirkuk to Return Ahead of Census
"I call on the people, the families, who are not in Kirkuk, to start returning to their own city, be among your household, be among your relatives. This is for you, for your future, in order to not be ...
News Iraq » Kirkuk » People: After Kirkuk, Kurdish forces pull out of more areas in Iraq
KIRKUK, Iraq -- Kurdish forces pulled out of disputed areas across northern and eastern Iraq on Tuesday, a day after handing the northern city of Kirkuk over to federal forces amid a tense standoff ...
News Iraq » Kirkuk » People: Kirkuk bookshop uses English to promote peace in divided Iraqi city
KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - All are welcome to attend free English language discussions and lessons in Sami Sulaiman's bookshop - on the strict condition that they steer clear of politics and religion ...
News Iraq » Kirkuk » People: Kirkuk A Flashpoint For Ethnic Divisions In Iraq
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News Iraq » Kirkuk » People: Car bomb targets church in Iraq’s Kirkuk wounding 15 people
Fifteen people were wounded on Tuesday by a car bomb targeting a Syrian Catholic church in Kirkuk in northern Iraq, a police officer and a priest said. The bomb exploded at the Holy Family church in ...
News Iraq » Kirkuk » People: FACTBOX-The disputed Iraqi city of Kirkuk
Aug 3 (Reuters) - Ratification of Iraq's provincial elections law has been delayed by a bitter row over the disputed northern city of Kirkuk. Following are facts about Kirkuk: THE CITY Kirkuk, 250 km ...
News Iraq » Kirkuk » People: Kurds withdraw as Iraqi forces push into disputed Kirkuk
KIRKUK, Iraq — Kurdish forces were withdrawing from Kirkuk on Monday as Iraqi federal forces moved in to the disputed city and seized oil fields and other infrastructure amid soaring tensions over ...
News Iraq » Kirkuk » People: 3 Iraqi soldiers killed in Kirkuk, where ethnic tensions remain high
Three Iraqi soldiers died in a roadside bombing Friday in the northern city of Kirkuk, where relations remain frayed among Arabs, Kurds and Turkmen after a suicide bombing and ethnic clashes earlier ...
News Iraq » Kirkuk » People: Iraqi court sentences 4 to prison for promoting banned Baath Party
BAGHDAD (AP) — An Iraqi court on Monday sentenced four people to six years in prison on charges of promoting the ideas of the banned Baath Party led by former leader Saddam Hussein. The Karkh Criminal ...