Kirkuk
(2002 est. pop. 729,000). Kirkuk, a city in northern Iraq, has been occupied for thousands of years, from at least the third millennium BCE. The city is bounded by the Little Zab River to the n...
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A series of car bombs struck the oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk in a two-hour span on Saturday, killing at least two people and wounding 30, police said.The explosions struck various parts of the...
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Iraq's parliament on Saturday ordered an inquiry into the delay of a referendum over whether the oil-rich city of Kirkuk will join the semiautonomous Kurdish region in the north.The Iraqi constitut...
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Turkey's prime minister on Tuesday urged one of Iraq's two vice presidents to delay a referendum on the future of Kirkuk, fearing Iraqi Kurdish groups could seize control of the northern, oil-rich ...
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Iraq's Kurdish deputy prime minister warned Monday that failure to resolve the fate of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk could result in more strife and accused people within the government of blocking a...
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KIRKUK, Iraq—Here in Kirkuk, the streets are lined with trash, and green, slimy sewer water runs down the streets. Children play soccer on fields littered with garbage, while sheep graze arou...
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Umm Nasser sits on a curb in northern Iraq, trying to decide where her home is.The black-draped Shiite woman left her native Baghdad for this contested city 27 years ago — one of tens of thou...
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Iraq's government has endorsed plans to relocate thousands of Arabs who were moved to Kirkuk as part of Saddam Hussein's campaign to force ethnic Kurds out of the oil-rich city, in an effort to und...
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Kirkuk (dpa) - Deputy Speaker of the Kurdistan Parliament Kamal
Kirkuki said Friday there were "historical documents proving that
Kirkuk was Kurdish."
Speakin...
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Kirkuk/Cairo (dpa) - The lowering of the Iraqi flag at the
municipal building in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk about two weeks ago
stirred tensions between Kurds on the one hand ...
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Kirkuk
Car bombings strike Kirkuk, killing 2
