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KirkukBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Commission on Public Integrity said its Kirkuk investigation office dismantled a network accused of accepting bribes to fast-track transactions for…
KirkukKIRKUK, Iraq — BAGHDAD — The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) has reversed its boycott of the Kirkuk Provincial Council following appeals from political blocs in the prov…
KirkukKIRKUK, Iraq — Iraq won the Arab Veterans Football Pentathlon Championship after defeating Jordan 7-1 in the final on Saturday evening, the Iraqi team was awarded the cha…
KirkukKIRKUK, Iraq — Hundreds of residents of the Yaychi district south of Kirkuk blocked the Kirkuk-Yaychi highway on Monday to protest prolonged electricity cuts, disrupting …
KirkukKIRKUK, Iraq — The commander of Kirkuk operations, Maj. Gen. Mead Bedai, said security forces seized 163 vehicles carrying smuggled goods on which customs duties had not …
KirkukKIRKUK, Iraq — Three members of a family were injured on Monday in the Vasiti neighborhood of Kirkuk when a young driver deliberately drove into them as they stood next t…
KirkukKIRKUK, Iraq — The Kirkuk Provincial Directorate of Education has rejected social media claims that the head of an exam center was related to three siblings who achieved …
KirkukKIRKUK, Iraq — Dozens of volunteer teachers in Kirkuk held a protest on Thursday demanding that they be appointed to contract positions, a measure they say has been grant…
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Joint Operations Command said an air operation in the Zapgitan Valley near Kirkuk destroyed six militant hideouts. The command said the operation w…
KirkukKIRKUK, Iraq — A fuel shortage has forced 138 private generators in Kirkuk to shut down, the head of the city's Private Generators Union, Tamer al-Ishaki, said. He warned…
KirkukBAGHDAD, Iraq — A man was arrested in Hawija district in Kirkuk province over allegations of sexual harassment and attempted sexual assault against minor girls, a securit…
KirkukKIRKUK, Iraq — Residents of Kirkuk’s Shahida Second neighborhood closed a main road on Sunday to protest worsening national electricity outages and the shutdown of a priv…
KirkukKIRKUK, Iraq — A tribal dispute in two villages in southwestern Kirkuk left 15 people wounded and led to the detention of 30 others, local sources said. The clash broke o…
KirkukBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's North Oil Company has completed technical preparations to resume pumping Kirkuk crude through the pipeline to the Turkish port of Ceyhan, the compa…
KirkukWASHINGTON, United States — A report by the U.S.-based Center for Defense Priorities says Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani's visit to Washington reflects a U.S. st…
KirkukBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraqi lawmaker Mohammed Ali al-Nuaymi announced that the Ministry of Agriculture has granted official approval for fish produced in Kirkuk to be marketed …
KirkukKIRKUK, Iraq — Police in Kirkuk have detained two minors, aged 10 and 11, in connection with the abduction, sexual assault and killing of a three-year-old boy whose body …
KirkukKIRKUK, Iraq — The head of the Kirkuk Investment Commission, Dayer Zeyyan, said networks and mafias are involved in the sale of state-owned land and in encroachments on t…
KirkukKIRKUK, Iraq — Security forces in Kirkuk conducted a search operation in the Kadisiya neighborhood to detain a suspect linked to Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) …
KirkukKIRKUK, Iraq — A three-year-old girl, Nai, was found dead in the water tank of a June Youth Center in southern Kirkuk on July 8, roughly two hours after she went missing …
