Thirteen Iraqi policemen were killed in an Daesh (so-called ISIS) group attack against a checkpoint in the country's north early Sunday, security and medical sources said.
The overnight attack on a guard post near the city of Kirkuk also left four (...)
Militants ambushed a convoy of pro-government, Shiite Muslim paramilitary fighters in northern Iraq on Wednesday night, killing at least seven of them and wounding 30, Iraqi military and police said on Thursday.
No group immediately claimed (...)
At least two people were killed and six injured when multiple Daesh (the so-called IS) suicide bombers attacked a base in northern Iraq where US military advisers are stationed, security sources said on Sunday. In addition, two of the militants died (...)
Hundreds of displaced Sunni Arab families have had to leave Kirkuk after a Daesh attack on the Kurdish-controlled city, humanitarian workers and residents said on Tuesday.
The Sunni families, who had been sheltering in Kurdish-controlled Kirkuk (...)
The Iraqi army says the 9th Division has pushed into a town southeast of the Daesh-held city of Mosul and raised the Iraqi flag over a government compound in the town's center.
The army claimed to have taken the town of Hamdaniyah, also known as (...)
Gunmen shot dead a senior employee of Iraq's state-run North Oil Company (NOC) on Monday, the third company official to be killed in the past four months, police and sources within the company said, according to Reuters.
Deputy inspector-general (...)
Like hundreds of elderly men and women from the Iraqi city of Mosul, Haji Ahmed left in August to participate in the annual Haj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.
Leaving the militant-held city comes at a high price. Many residents are now forced to give (...)
Ten people were killed and six injured Tuesday
when gunmen attacked a polling station near the northern Iraqi city
of Kirkuk, dpa quoted police as saying.
Iraq is due to hold legislative elections on April 30, prompting
authorities to prepare more (...)
Iraq on Thursday resumed oil exports to Turkey hours after a pipeline, running from Kirkuk in northern Iraq to the Turkish port of Ceyhan, was attacked, officials said.
"Pumping from Kirkuk to Turkey resumed Thursday afternoon after the Turkish (...)
At least 27 people were killed Saturday in northern Iraq when a bus collided with a car in Kirkuk, according to the head of the city's traffic police, Miqdad Said.
The bus was carrying families who were going on vacation to Dohuk city, in the (...)
Iraqi police say a car bomb has exploded in a northern city, killing two bystanders and wounding 10 people.
Police Col. Ghazi Mohammed Rashid says the car exploded Monday morning in southern Kirkuk as a security patrol was driving by, according to (...)
A high-ranking officer was
assassinated in the northern city of Kirkuk on Sunday, police said.
Colonel Nouzad Talabani was shot dead by gunmen near his home in
the city of Kirkuk, some 250 kilometres north of Baghdad.
Colonel Nouzad Talabani was (...)
An Iraqi Kurdish politician in the northern city of
Kirkuk on Sunday accused election workers in mostly Arab areas of the
city of electoral fraud during last week's parliamentary polls, according to dpa.
The allegations, made in a Kirkuk press (...)
A string of attacks on Sunday left at least
six people killed and seven injured in northern Iraq, police told the
German Press Agency "DPA".
In Sunday morning's worst attack, a roadside bomb killed four
police officers and injured two others (...)
Politicians in the disputed northern Iraqi
city of Kirkuk were divided Monday over a reported request from the
top US general in Iraq for US troops to remain in the city, according to dpa.
US and British media had reported that General Ray (...)
Members of the Christian minority in the
Iraqi city of Kirkuk canceled public Christmas celebrations this year
in part because of Switzerland"s ban on minarets, a priest said
Friday, according to dpa.
"For the first time, Christians in Kirkuk (...)
Iraqi soldiers arrested
three smugglers who were trying to sell artefacts from the
Sumerian era, the earliest known human civilisation that existed
in southern Mesopotamia from about 8,000 years ago, Reuters reported.
Undercover agents posed as (...)
A bomb blew up and set fire to a crude oil pipeline carrying oil from a town in northern
Iraq to the city of Kirkuk, Iraqi and U.S. military officials
said on Thursday.
The explosion at around midnight set fire to one pipeline
and damaged a (...)
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made an unannounced visit Tuesday to Kirkuk city.
Rice was seeing members of a civilian-military
reconstruction unit based in Kirkuk and meeting provincial
politicians of all stripes.
She was seeing (...)
At least three Iraqis were killed and eight wounded Friday in a twin attack in Kirkuk, northern Iraq, police said.
An explosive device targeting a police patrol went off in eastern Kirkuk and was followed by an armed attack, dpa quoted senior (...)
Thousands of Iraqi police
and soldiers swept through the restive Iraqi oil city of Kirkuk
on Saturday, searching homes for weapons and insurgents after
all residents were ordered off the streets, according to Reuters.
Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) (...)
A ROADSIDE BOMB KILLED THE LOCAL INTELLIGENCE CHIEF AND TWO OF HIS GUARDS IN THE ETHNICALLY MIXED CITY OF KIRKUK IN NORTHERN IRAQ ON SATURDAY, KIRKUK POLICE CHIEF TORHAN ABDUL RAHMAN SAID.
MOUSA HACHIM, DIRECTOR OF INTELLIGENCE IN KIRKUK'S TA'MIM (...)
INSURGENTS LAUNCHED SIX APPARENTLY COORDINATED ATTACKS IN THE NORTHERN IRAQI OIL CITY OF KIRKUK ON TUESDAY, KILLING AT LEAST 14 PEOPLE.
"THE TERRORISTS WANT TO SEND A MESSAGE THAT THEY ARE STAYING ACTIVE DESPITE THE FACT THAT ZARQAWI WAS KILLED," (...)
UNIDENTIFIED ARMED MEN KIDNAPPED SIX IRAQI
ENGINEERS ALONG WITH THEIR DRIVER NEAR KIRKUK ON THURSDAY NIGHT WHEN
THEIR CAR BROKE DOWN ON THE BEIJI-KIRUK HIGHWAY.
CAPTAIN NOZAD OMAR OF THE KIRKUK POLICE DEPARTMENT TOLD THE
DEUTSCH PRESSE-AGENTUR (...)
Two police officers were killed and four wounded in two separate car bomb attacks targeting police patrols in Kurdish areas of Kirkuk, the oil capital of northern Iraq on Monday, police said.
Four police were wounded by the first car bomb in the (...)
