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The Islamic State group, ISIS, staged an attack early Monday in Kirkuk province and killed one police officer, Anadolu reports citing an official of internal security in the province. Afrasyav Kamil in statement reportedly indicated the terror group targeted a Read more
ISIS claimed responsibility for a deadly attack that took the lives of 27 pro-government militia fighters near the northern Iraqi oil city of Kirkuk. ISIS members, disguised as soldiers, set an ambush to the Popular Mobilization Units, two months after Read more
British Petroleum (BP) signed a memorandum of understanding to increase the flow of oil from the oil fields of Kirkuk, in the country’s north. BP has been asked by the Iraqi oil ministry to boost production capacity from the field Read more
Iraq will start exporting oil from the northern fields of Kirkuk to Iran by the end of January, Iraqi oil minister announced. Jabbar Alluaibi said about 30,000 barrels per day will be trucked to Iran’s Kermanshah refinery in the first Read more
President Erdogan of turkey has voiced concern over the developments in neighboring Iraq before warning that the future military operations will have “not (only) a Syrian dimension, (but) also an Iraqi dimension” due to the “situations” in Tal Afar and Read more
Fighters of the Islamic State attacked the oil rich city of Kirkuk on Friday killing workers at an Iranian-run power plant before blowing themselves up. This came days after Iraqi forces and their allies began an offensive operation on Mosul. Read more
Prominent Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has warned that the 560 additional troops that Washington is preparing to deploy to Iraq would be targeted by his supporters without going into details. “They are a target for us,” he said. Sadr’s armed Read more
Turkey’s military and Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) forces have clashed after the latter attacked military outposts in the province of Hakkari which is a border town close to Iraq. . PKK’s attack is seen as a response to Turkey’s large Read more
Control over oil in the autonomous region of Kurdistan has been a push-and pull between the central government of Iraq and the autonomous government of the region. It has resulted to the freezing of oil exports from the region because Read more
At least 45 people were killed and more than 200 injured in a series of car bombings and shootings that rocked Tuesday several regions of Iraq. These coordinated attacks, which occurred in Baghdad, Hillah, Karbala and Kirkuk and other cities, Read more