Kirkuk

The Peshmerga's return: A looming crisis in Iraq's disputed Kirkuk

Maintaining the tenuous peace in the multi-ethnic city of Kirkuk will require a nuanced approach as part of a wider strategy to counter Daesh.

Casualties in northern Iraq as Daesh, Peshmerga fight

Daesh terrorists reportedly take over remote Luhaiban village while fighting near Qara Salem village leaves five people, including four Peshmerga soldiers, dead.

What are the best political scenarios emerging from the Iraq elections?

Without Muqtada al Sadr, Iraq's kingmaker, no coalition government can be formed, experts say. And if it is formed, Sunni bloc’s Halbousi and Kurdish leader Barzani are likely to be in the new government.

Has Iran lost grip over Baghdad after the Iraqi election?

Iran-backed groups have lost significant ground in Iraq but Tehran still has some supporters to help it keep its influence over the neighbouring country.

Daesh kills more than a dozen policemen in northern Iraq attack

At least 13 policemen killed in attack on a checkpoint near Kirkuk city, officials say.

How the PKK drug trade in Iraq finances the terror network

Iraq Turkmen Front leader, Ershad Salihi, says the PKK is using drug trafficking across the country to support its terrorist activities.

US-led coalition pulls out of 3rd Iraqi base this month

The K1 Air Base is the third site coalition forces have left this month in line with US plans to consolidate its troops in two locations in Iraq.

Three killed as Iraqis keep up protests amid fears of 'bloodbath'

Police and medics say Iraqi forces shot dead three anti-government protesters, adding to the hundreds killed in weeks of unrest, as a rights group warned a deadly crackdown could spiral into a "bloodbath."

At least four killed after six blasts strike Iraq's Kirkuk

Meanwhile, Daesh set fire to farmland overnight in a village in Iraq’s Kirkuk province killing one person and wounding seven others, police said on Thursday.

Turkey and Iraq mull military cooperation, trust agreement

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Ankara and Baghdad discussed a possible deal to increase military and security cooperation, after meeting with visiting Iraqi PM Adil Abdul Mahdi in Ankara.

Iraq begins recount of votes from disputed election – report

Iraqi authorities in the northern oil-rich province of Kirkuk have begun recounting votes from a parliamentary election in May that was marred by allegations of fraud, Reuters reports.

Bomb kills one and wounds 14 in Iraq's Kirkuk

Tensions are high in Kirkuk, where the results of a parliamentary election in May are being disputed by the Turkmen and Arab communities after a Kurdish party appeared to have won.