Once a site of synagogues, churches, and now a grand mosque, Kirkuk Citadel is the city's oldest building. It was first built back in 858 BC during the reign of Ashurnasirpal II, an Assyrian king, for ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – Despite the ongoing crisis and displacements in the city of Kirkuk, it remains a jewel of the Middle East: a biblical city with vast oil reserves, a towering ...

Waking up on Monday, the residents of Kirkuk found themselves facing the possibility of conflict engulfing the streets once more. The Iraqi government had sent its troops to retake the city which ...

The ghost of the citadel of Kirkuk – or Kerkük as the Turks now know it – appears at dawn, when the domes and minarets of the old city are picked out by the sunrise and its broken walls seem whole. In ...

KIRKUK, Kurdistan Region - The residents of the Kurdish-majority Panja Ali neighborhood in Kirkuk city have been deprived of paved roads for years. When Kurdish governor Rebwar Taha took office ...

Iraqi government forces have captured key installations outside the disputed city of Kirkuk from Kurdish fighters. A military statement said units had taken control of the K1 military base ...

BP plc (BP) announced an agreement with the Iraq government to redevelop the Kirkuk oil and gas fields in northern Iraq, per a Reuters report.The deal, finalized on Dec. 19, outlines technical ...