Latest Iraq news in English from Baghdad, Basra, Najaf, Kirkuk, Erbil and across Iraq. Follow politics, security, economy, energy and regional developments with professionally edited updates.
KirkukKIRKUK, Iraq — Armed assailants opened fire with automatic weapons on four residential houses in the Benca Ali area of Kirkuk, causing material damage to the facades and …
KirkukKIRKUK, Iraq — A bodybuilding and fitness championship kicked off in Kirkuk on Saturday under the auspices of the Iraqi National Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation and t…
KirkukKIRKUK, Iraq — The Kirkuk Sunni Endowment Directorate said no graves were found on a plot of land allocated for investment in the village of Rejbat, in the southern Layla…
KirkukBAGHDAD, Iraq — Exports of Iraqi oil through Kirkuk fields and the Kurdistan Region have fallen to between 120,000 and 135,000 barrels per day, three Iraqi oil officials …
KirkukKIRKUK, Iraq — The Shorja Youth Forum organized a chess tournament and art exhibition in Kirkuk to mark World Youth Day, bringing together artists and competitors in a co…
KirkukBAGHDAD, Iraq — The Iraqi Ministry of Defense has begun redeploying and maneuvering military units in the area between Kirkuk and the Tuzhurmatu district, ministry spokes…
KirkukBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's National Security Service said its Kirkuk Narcotics Branch Directorate dismantled an international drug trafficking network and seized 20 kilograms…
KirkukKIRKUK, Iraq — Lawmaker Mohammed Ali al-Nuaymi announced that 100,000 dunums have been added to Kirkuk's yellow corn planting area for the 2026 agricultural season, follo…
KirkukBAGHDAD, Iraq — The Iraqi National Olympic Committee has appointed Diyar Fahreddin as president of its Kirkuk branch, the committee announced. The committee said the appo…
KirkukBAGHDAD, Iraq — A member of the Iraqi Parliament's Oil and Gas Committee said he met with BP's Iraq country director to discuss developing oil and gas fields in Kirkuk, i…
KirkukBAGHDAD, Iraq — An Iraqi member of parliament has called for ethnic quotas in Kirkuk's security institutions to be distributed evenly among Arabs, Kurds and Turkmen, citi…
KirkukBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Ministry of Defense said three soldiers, including two officers, were wounded when an explosive detonated on a Humvee in the Wadi al-Shay area of K…
KirkukBAGHDAD, Iraq — Three Iraqi army soldiers, including one officer, were wounded on Monday when a bomb planted in agricultural land detonated during a military patrol near …
KirkukKIRKUK, Iraq — A member of the Kirkuk Provincial Council, Ahmed Fath al-Kirkuki, has rejected a move by a group of Iraqi lawmakers to suspend the work and budgets of prov…
KirkukBAGHDAD, Iraq — A hospital in Kirkuk's Leylan district has sat unused for nearly three years because a transformer needed to connect it to the power grid has not been fun…
KirkukBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Security Media Cell said airstrikes destroyed eight ISIS hideouts in an area under the 11th Brigade within the Kirkuk Operations Command area of re…
KirkukBAGHDAD, Iraq — Truck drivers in Kirkuk blocked the main highway connecting the city to Sulaymaniyah on Monday, protesting long waiting times and inspection procedures at…
KirkukBAGHDAD, Iraq — Regional shifts along energy and trade corridors stretching from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean have revived interest in Iraq as a potential transi…
KirkukKIRKUK, Iraq — A young man was killed and a woman was injured in two separate accidents in Kirkuk on Sunday, local sources said. In the first incident, Mustafa Aku, who …
KirkukKIRKUK, Iraq — The head of Kirkuk Provincial Council's Security and Defense Commission said responsibility for the districts of Tuzhurmatu and Daquq will be transferred f…
