KIRKUK, Iraq, July 29 (UPI) -- Kirkuk's provisional leaders issued pleas for Iraqi troops and a U.N. peacekeeping force for the city, where a suicide bombing killed at least 17 people. In one of the ...

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The northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk has become a symbol for one of the country's most intractable problems — the debate over who should control Iraq's oil riches and the conflict among its major ethnic ...

The U.S. military says violence is at a five-year low in Iraq, but the political battles in the country have rarely been worse. The flashpoint for the growing strife is Kirkuk, an oil-rich city in ...

KIRKUK, Iraq — Howard Keegan sweeps into a dusty street market in the late afternoon heat and is immediately mobbed by shoppers, storeowners and local press eager to talk about their daily struggles ...

KIRKUK, Iraq, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- A top Kurd in the Kirkuk Provincial Council warns of joining Iraqi Kurdistan automatically if a referendum for the oil-rich province doesn't take place. Iraq's ...

A suicide bomber set off his explosives Thursday in a crowded restaurant near the northern city of Kirkuk, killing at least 55 people, wounding about 100 and ending what had been a stretch of calm ...

Meanwhile, in non-campaign news, Spencer Ackerman notes that Iraqi Kurds are now pretty clearly threatening violence unless a referendum on the status of Kirkuk is held by May: The war has quieted ...

KIRKUK, Iraq — Police Col. Bestoon Mohammad Qadir isn’t the typical Iraqi police chief. He’s nicknamed "Crazy Bestoon" for the way he cuts up and jokes with everyone around him, in contrast to the ...

A look at deadly attacks in or near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk over the past few years: – Dec. 11, 2008: A suicide bomber strikes a crowded restaurant where Kurdish officials were meeting with ...