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Kirkuk's provincial council has voted in ... tensions after the council last week voted in favour of raising the flag of Kurdistan on municipal buildings in the city, leading to public protests ...

Iraqi military vehicles were rolling into the heart of Kirkuk. A picture shared on social media appeared to show Iraqi forces sitting in the governor's office. Forces pulled down the Kurdish flag ...

The problem is that most of it is around Kirkuk and for the moment the Kurdistan Regional Government doesn't control that historically Kurdish city. The politics of Kirkuk are too complex to go ...

Please try again later. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Residents of a neighborhood in the disputed city of Kirkuk are worried about being excluded in the upcoming census as household mapping officials ...

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A deadline allegedly set by Iraq's central government for Kurdish fighters to withdraw from key sites in the disputed city of Kirkuk has passed. Kurdish security officials said the deadline had ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A Kurdish member of Kirkuk’s provincial council is concerned that Iraq’s census is premature and could be tainted by new settlers in the province, which is given ...

At least four Kurdish demonstrators were shot dead last weekend in the oil-rich province of Kirkuk, raising the specter of Arab-Kurdish conflict. The bloodshed was triggered by an Iraqi federal court ...

Iraqi air defenses shot down a Turkish drone Thursday morning over the northern city of Kirkuk, Iraqi military ... it ...