ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - There are no plans to export Kirkuk's oil together with that of the Kurdistan Region through the ...

Kurdish farmers in Kirkuk report systematic harassment through irrigation sabotage, water restrictions, and repeated arrests ...

KIRKUK - Kurdish officials have accused Iraq’s state-owned oil company in the northern provinces of deliberately excluding ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two vital American allies have reignited their rivalry in Iraq. After months of simmering tensions, national military forces and militia moved to push Kurdish forces out of the disputed city of Kirkuk ...

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 ...

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 ...

Reporting from Chamchamal, Iraq — Gunfire and explosions rang out Monday as Iraqi forces moved to wrest a contested city and its oil fields from Kurdish fighters, raising the specter of another civil ...