As Iraqi forces advance in Kirkuk from the south and west, families are fleeing after gunfire and bombs blasted through the city. Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) moved into Kirkuk in the early ...

NPR's Ivan Watson joined Iraqi Christians in Kirkuk as they celebrated Easter. Kirkuk's Catholic bishop appealed for peace at the service, which honored friends and relatives killed in the recent ...

The Kirkuk operation brings the Kurds, who make up 20% of Iraq's population, closer than ever to their dream of an independent state.

During Saddam Hussein's regime, tens of thousands of Kurds and Turkmen were forced out of the oil rich Iraqi city of Kirkuk, as Iraqi Arabs were moved in to change the region's demographics. Now ...

Iraqi security forces deployed in the northern Iraqi oil city of Kirkuk on Sunday to prevent further violence as the death toll in clashes between ethnic groups the previous day rose to four ...

Two vital American allies have reignited their rivalry in Iraq. After months of simmering tensions, national military forces and militia moved to push Kurdish forces out of the disputed city of ...

The United States Institute of Peace held an Iraq Working Group panel on 'Kirkuk: Can It Be Solved?' Among the topics members of the panel discussed were: Dealing with the challenges of ...

Two armies funded and trained by the United States have faced off in northern Iraq, in a confrontation that, while seemingly over for now, could have lasting consequences for the future of the ...

At least nine Iraqi federal policemen were killed on Sunday after a bomb struck their convoy southwest of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, two security sources told Reuters.

Iraqi forces clashed with fighters from the Kurdish semiautonomous region in the oil-rich province of Kirkuk, Iraqi and Kurdish officials said, in a standoff over Kurdish independence that ...