As the U.S. military tries to bring peace to Baghdad, the political struggle for the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk is heating up. Kirkuk, 180 miles north of Baghdad, is home to three separate ethnic ...

Flies are everywhere. It stinks. And the people just walk around it and in it and near it like it’s no big deal. “If the city is dirty, no one is happy—no matter what you do for them,” said Abdul ...

Violence is growing in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, long a hotbed of ethnic tensions among its Kurdish, Arab and Turkmen residents. It now appears that the long dispute over the city's status is ...

The ancient city of Kirkuk has a large minority of ethnic Turks as well as Christians, Shiite and Sunni Arabs, Armenians and Assyrians. The city is just south of the Kurdish autonomous zone stretching ...

Before the end of this year, the residents of the city of Kirkuk (about 250 KM north of Baghdad) will partake in a referendum to choose their fate. At issue is whether the oil rich city will be ...

Three bombs killed at least 76 people in the oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk on Monday, police said, the city’s worst attack in recent memory. Ethnic tensions have been building in Kirkuk, a city ...

Kirkuk Conference Raises Tensions On January 16, a two-day symposium titled "Kirkuk 2007," sponsored by the Turkish Global Strategy Institute, ended in Ankara with a final declaration calling for "the ...

JURIST Guest Columnist Haider Ala Hamoudi of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that a recent proposal to turn the contentious northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk into an independent federal ...

KIRKUK, Iraq – Twin suicide car bombings exploded within 20 minutes of each other in Iraq’s north on Monday, killing at least 80 people and wounding around 150 in attacks targeting a Kurdish political ...

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