BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A convoy of elite Iraqi military forces took control of the governorate building in central Kirkuk on Monday, meeting no opposition from Kurdish forces deployed in the city, ...

Iraqi state-run North Oil Company (NOC) has boosted its crude oil production from the Kirkuk governorate to above 360,000 barrels per day (bpd), a company source told Shafaq News Agency on Friday.

The United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) and the National Security Advisory (NSA) of the Republic of Iraq, conducted a three-day workshop for personnel from the Iraqi security apparatus ...

Jabbar Yawir, the undersecretary of the autonomous Kurdistan region's Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs, says the Kurdish self-rule government and the federal government in Baghdad have agreed to send the ...

At least three Kurds were killed and 16 people wounded Saturday during protests in the multi-ethnic Iraqi city of Kirkuk, as authorities imposed a curfew after days of tensions. Two people were shot ...

The 80-page report, “Marked With An ‘X’: Iraqi Kurdish Forces’ Destruction of Villages, Homes in Conflict with ISIS,” looked at destruction of homes between September 2014 and May 2016 in disputed ...

(Beirut) – Iraqi and Kurdistan Regional Government security authorities are unlawfully restricting the freedom of movement of displaced people in camps near Kirkuk. Despite the lack of hostilities in ...

New Kirkuk Governor Rebwar Taha has issued a directive for the province's administrative units to include the usage of the Turkmen and Syriac languages in all official documents. "We direct the use of ...

A group of Islamic State militants launched two attacks against the Iraqi Federal Police forces in Kirkuk governorate, a source in the area told Kurdistan 24 early on Monday. The source claimed ...

The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is refusing to ship oil to Iran because Baghdad refused to consult the semiautonomous regime regarding the export program, according to a new report by ...

Both Kurds and non-Kurds have threatened to take violent action in Kirkuk (file photo) (epa) November 30, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- November 15 was supposed to be an important date in Iraqi history. It was the ...