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Iraqi News
April 22, 2018
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Three people were killed and injured in a bomb blast, southwest of Kirkuk province, a security source was quoted saying on Saturday. Speaking to Baghdad Today website, the source said, “a bomb, went off at al-Humeira crossroads in al-Rashad town, southwest of Kirkuk.
Iraqi News
April 20, 2018
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Three Islamic State members were killed in confrontations with security troops, southwest of Kirkuk, a security source from the province said on Thursday. Speaking to AlSumaria News, the source said, “armed confrontations occurred between the Federal Police and al-HashdÃâà...
Iraqi News
April 12, 2018
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Four Iraqi policemen were wounded on Thursday in an attack by Islamic State militants in Kirkuk province, according to a security source. The source told Alsumaria News that a Federal Police patrol became under fire from Islamic State militants in Theybat, al-Rashad, southwest ofÃâà...
Rudaw
April 9, 2018
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – The KRG has begun paying Kurdish teachers in Kirkuk as of Monday and under the salary-saving system. ... teachers and employees of more than 400 schools and 30 kindergartens will be paid their salaries,” Sherzad Rashid Kaka, the supervisor of Kurdish education in Kirkuk, told Rudaw.
Kurdistan24
April 1, 2018
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – Muqtada al-Sadr, an influential Shia cleric in Iraq, has ordered the deployment of the Saraya al-Salam militia group to protect the Kirkuk-Baghdad road, an Iraqi Member of Parliament revealed on Saturday. Saraya al-Salam, previously known as the al-Mahdi Army, is a Shia factionÃâà...
Kurdistan24
March 31, 2018
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – Iraqi forces and Iran-backed Hashd al-Shaabi militias launched a military campaign on Saturday to pursue members of the Islamic State (IS) near the town of Tuz Khurmatu, 78 kilometers south of Kirkuk. The operation comes after increased IS activity in the area, includingÃâà...
Al-Monitor
March 29, 2018
BAGHDAD — For the first time since 2005, Kirkuk governorate in Iraq will hold elections Dec. 22 to select its local governing council. Parliament included the multiethnic province of the Kurds, Arabs and Turkmens in the provincial election law approved March 3. The decision follows an agreement amongÃâà...
Iraqi News
March 29, 2018
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi security forces on Thursday foiled an attempted bombing of a Shia rituals facility and killed the attacker in Kirkuk province, a commander was quoted saying. Maan al-Saadi, an army commander in charge of the recent security campaign against remnant Islamic State cells inÃâà...
Rudaw
March 29, 2018
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – An Iraqi counterterrorism unit in Kirkuk has asked the families of Peshmerga fighters killed in the war against ISIS to remove the ... The Kurdistan flag was hoisted, albeit in a position lower than the Iraqi standard, on the castle of Kirkuk during Newroz celebrations in the city.
Iraqi News
March 28, 2018
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Islamic State militants killed a tribal fighter in an overnight attack in Kirkuk province, a security source was quoted saying on Tuesday. A member of the so-called “Tribal Mobilization” forces was killed by the militants when they staged an attack on his patrol in Bajwan village,Ãâà...
Kurdistan24
March 28, 2018
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – Iraq will begin the export of crude oil from fields in Kirkuk Province to Iran in the next two weeks, the head of the Iraqi state-oil marketer SOMO said on Tuesday. In an official statement, SOMO head Alaa al-Yasiri said Iraq would begin exporting oil from fields north of Kirkuk to Iran “inÃâà...
Iraqi News
March 27, 2018
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Two civilians were wounded as a mortar missile was shot in southwest of Kirkuk province, a security source was quoted saying on Monday. “A mortar missile fell on one of the main streets in Hawija town, west of Kirkuk, leaving two civilians wounded,” the source said. “Security troopsÃâà...
IHS Jane's 360
March 27, 2018
MEDIA reports on 13 March stated that two people had been wounded when an improvised explosive device (IED), emplaced on a motorcycle by unidentified militants, detonated near the residence of a member of the Kirkuk Governorate Council in Tisin neighbourhood in Iraq's Kirkuk province on an earlierÃâà...
Kurdistan24
March 27, 2018
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – A Kurdish Member of the Iraqi Parliament on Monday warned that the Islamic State (IS) was regrouping in the disputed province of Kirkuk as a wave of attacks in recent weeks has killed dozens. Kurdish MP Shakhawan Abdullah said Kirkuk was no longer safeÃâà...
Iraqi News
March 26, 2018
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Five personnel of the pro-government troops were killed as an armed attack targeted them, southwest of Kirkuk, a security source said on Sunday. Speaking to AlSumaria News, the source said, “Islamic State members set up an armed ambush near Dugheila village, located betweenÃâà...
Iraqi News
March 26, 2018
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The Iraqi military has denied news circulated by media channels over blowing up a Sufi Shrine, southeast of Daquq in Kirkuk. In a statement on Sunday, the Security Media Center said “what was circulated by media channels that Islamic State blew up a Sufi shrine in Tal Hama,Ãâà...
Kurdistan24
March 26, 2018
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – The Islamic State (IS) published a video on Saturday of the group executing Iraqi security members who were kidnapped on the Kirkuk – Baghdad road despite Iraqi authorities declaring they had secured the area with checkpoints, and regular patrols. The video shows eightÃâà...
Rudaw
March 25, 2018
The future of this city will be concluded based on Article 140. We have talked about a joint military administration because the current force in Kirkuk, in our point of view, is from one ethnicity and one sect, and consequently will become a sectarian force,” Rebwar Taha, a Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK)Ãâà...
Rudaw
March 25, 2018
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Three bomb blasts went off in two different areas of Kirkuk on Saturday, wounding six, according to officials. ... Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) and Shiite paramilitaries Hashd al-Shaabi are to be deployed on the main Kirkuk-Baghdad road following the reported killing of a number ofÃâà...
Anadolu Agency
March 24, 2018
A bomb exploded near a group of Turkmen celebrating the annual Nevruz spring festival on Friday in Iraq's northern city of Kirkuk, according to a local police source. “A bomb planted in downtown Kirkuk went off as local Turkmen were celebrating the Nevruz holiday,” Police Captain Hamed al-Obeidi toldÃâà...
Kurdistan24
March 23, 2018
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – The Islamic State (IS) has announced responsibility for an attack which targeted a bus carrying two families on the main road between Kirkuk and Baghdad about two days ago. Earlier in the week, gunmen raided a fake checkpoint on the road to the town of Daquq, betweenÃâà...
Iraqi News
March 22, 2018
Twenty one people, including children, were killed and injured in an attack that targeted two families, south of Kirkuk. Islamic State continues to launch sporadic attacks across Iraq against troops. Security reports indicate that the militant group still poses threat against stability in the country. A total of 91 IraqiÃâà...
Al-Monitor
February 26, 2018
SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq — For the last four months, as Kurds and the central government in Baghdad have been busy with their toxic rivalry over the Kurdistan independence referendum and over control of disputed territories, including Kirkuk, the Islamic State (IS) propaganda channels on the messaging appÃâà...
Kurdistan24
December 31, 1999
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) - A warrant was issued for the arrest of a commander of elite Iraqi SWAT forces and 20 of his subordinates in Kirkuk, a security source told Kurdistan 24 on Tuesday. According to the source, they are charged with terrorism for crimes including robbery, home invasion, and orchestrating both carÃâà...
Rudaw
December 31, 1999
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Is it impossible to hold a free and fair vote in “occupied” Kirkuk or will boycotting the election in the disputed province damage the Kurdish cause by leaving the Kurdish population without representation in Baghdad? The two traditional ruling Kurdish parties stand on oppositeÃâà...
Al-Monitor
December 31, 1999
At one home Al-Monitor stopped by along the way, a family that had returned from Kirkuk shortly after the area was liberated spoke about the hope that their girls would be able to continue their education after high school and noted that schools are open in the area and that security is good near the FathaÃâà...
Rudaw
December 31, 1999
Ankara stated Kerim was on the Kirkuk-Baghdad highway on Thursday evening when his chauffer was wounded by unknown gunmen. The driver is now recovering. Turkey calls on relevant Iraqi authorities to take the necessary steps as soon as possible as there has been an "intensification and increasingÃâà...
Iraqi News
December 31, 1999
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Five civilians, including a woman, were killed in an armed attack, west of Kirkuk, a local source said on Sunday. “A group of gunmen, believed to be members of Islamic State, attacked a village in al-Riyad town in Hawija, leaving five civilians, including a woman, killed,” the sourceÃâà...
Iraqi News
December 31, 1999
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) A security personnel was killed, while two others were wounded in an ambush launched by Islamic State members, northwest of Kirkuk, a security source from the province said on Monday. Speaking to Alghad Press, the source said, “IS members set up an ambush to trap TribalÃâà...
Iraqi News
December 31, 1999
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Twenty one people, including children, were killed and injured in an attack that targeted two families, south of Kirkuk, a source from Tuz Khurmatu hospital said on Tuesday. Speaking to Baghdad Today website, the source said, “the death toll of the attack have reached six victims,Ãâà...
Iraqi News
December 31, 1999
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Fierce confrontations occurred between Islamic State members and Federal Police troops, south of Kirkuk province, an informed security source from the province said on Wednesday. Speaking to Shafaq News, the source said IS members attacked, early today, Federal Police forcesÃâà...
Rudaw
December 31, 1999
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — Fearing the presence of ISIS in southern Kirkuk, Kurdish people from Daquq have abandoned their village homes because Iraqi forces are present only inside cities and the larger towns in southern and western Kirkuk, and Hashd al-Shaabi cannot function as a counterterrorÃâà...
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