Iraqi forces seized the Kirkuk governor's office, key military sites and an oil field on Monday as they swept across the disputed province following soaring tensions over an independence referendum.

BAGHDAD/KIRKUK, Iraq — Iraqi government forces captured the major Kurdish-held oil city of Kirkuk on Monday, responding to a Kurdish referendum on independence with a bold lightning strike that ...

FORWARD OPERATING BASE WARRIOR, KIRKUK, Iraq - Kirkuk city, Iraq has been considered by residents here to be one of the most beautiful and cleanest cities in Iraq. But, due to budget constraints, ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — A series of explosions shook the center of the northern city of Kirkuk Thursday, killing at least four people and wounding 23, Iraqi security officials said. The six blasts went off in ...

KIRKUK, Iraq — A surge in violence in this oil-rich city divided among Kurds, Sunni Arabs and Turkmens vying for power has alarmed Iraqi officials amid intensifying sectarian warfare in central and ...

KIRKUK, Iraq >> Islamic State militants armed with assault rifles and explosives attacked targets in and around the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk early today, in an assault that appeared aimed at ...

KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - All are welcome to attend free English language discussions and lessons in Sami Sulaiman's bookshop - on the strict condition that they steer clear of politics and religion ...

Iraqi forces have launched an operation to take Kurdish-held oil fields and a military base near Kirkuk. Rachel Martin speaks with reporter Fazel Hawramy in Iraq. Two of America's allies in the fight ...

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 ...

Iraqi security forces took direct control of the strategic city of Kirkuk, driving hundreds of families from the oil-rich territory that had been under Kurdish control for more than two years, ...

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 ...