Shakhawan Abdullah, senior Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) official and Deputy Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament, has urged ...

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 ...

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

Iraq’s largest non-associated gas field, Khor Mor, has increased capacity by 50% to 750 MMscf/d after Crescent Petroleum and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BARTELLA, Iraq --The Iraqi army pushed into a town near the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria-held city of Mosul on Saturday, a day after dozens of ISIS militants stormed into the northern city of ...

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 ...

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 ...

In northern Iraq, Kirkuk has always been a flashpoint with Kurds, Turkmen and Arabs, who all claim it as their own. It has a special place in the new Iraqi constitution, but nothing has changed for ...