A senior police officer was shot dead on Friday outside his home in Kirkuk after gunmen opened fire on him from a vehicle, ...

Iraq’s Interior Ministry says the killing of a police colonel in Kirkuk was criminal in nature, carried out by two fellow officers after personal disputes. One suspect died by suicide, while the other ...

The deputy police chief in the northern Iraqi town of Kirkuk escaped unharmed when a bomb exploded near his convoy Saturday in central Kirkuk, but one of his bodyguards was killed, police said. In ...

Iraq’s counter-terrorism forces arrested six suspected members of the Islamic State (IS) terror group on Wednesday as part of ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - On Kurdistan Flag Day, security forces in Kirkuk prevented a group of Kurdish youths from raising ...

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 ...

Kurdish communities across the globe honored their national symbol on Wednesday, reflecting on decades of struggle, pride, and the ongoing fight for autonomy.

British Petroleum is set to ramp up oil and gas production in northern Iraq, with plans to lift output at four key ...

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 ...

KIRKUK, Iraq — The cotton factory was burning and ethnic tensions were rising Friday as 4,000 U.S. troops began arriving in Kirkuk, where the toppling of Saddam Hussein’s government has left a skyline ...

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 ...

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 ...