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The Iraqi foreign minister and the Turkish ambassador discussed on Tuesday the activation of an oil pipeline from Kirkuk to ...

BAGHDAD/ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Iraq's oilfields in the disputed Kirkuk region have taken on new significance after the United States restored oil sanctions against neighbouring Iran. Washington is ...

Iraqi Turkmen have gained momentum in the country's multi-ethnic city of Kirkuk after a governor of Turkmen origin was ...

Baghdad is urgently trying to revive northern export routes through Turkey, including the Kirkuk-Ceyhan system and a new ...

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. Subscribe to read ...

In a closed-door meeting at a Washington think tank in July, I had the opportunity to ask a high-ranking Iraqi Kurdish official whether he worried that Kurds might be overplaying their hands in Iraq ...

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 ...

Eighty-two Kurdish fourth-year students at the College of Law at Kirkuk University warn that new academic measures could ...

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 ...