KIRKUK, Iraq -- This ethnically mixed city sitting atop vast oil resources has become dangerously polarized, with Kurds and Arabs vying to dominate it in the new Iraq. Talk of ethnic brotherhood has ...

KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - The streets of Kirkuk, which has violently changed hands several times since Iraq's last election, are crammed with a dizzying patchwork of banners for nearly 300 candidates ...

Iraq is conducting its first census in 27 years. It hasn't happened more recently because undertaking such a head count could upset a political power-sharing system that was set up to prevent civil ...

(AINA) -- For the last 100 years, the Kurds, through wars and rebellions against their neighbors, have driven the Christian Assyrians out of their land and have occupied it. The Christian Assyrian ...

During the first months of the Obama administration, Iraqis watching the appointments of Richard Holbrooke, George Mitchell and Dennis Ross would call me and ask, "Who will be Iraq's special envoy?" ...

Iraq is set to announce a two-day curfew to hold its first census in 27 years. Iraq, ravaged by sectarian conflict, foreign interventions, and civil war for the past three decades, has finally reached ...

Damascus (AINA) -- Everyone has heard of the Kurds, Shi'a and Sunni Muslims but few people are aware that Iraq has the oldest surviving Christian population in the world. In fact Assyrians still speak ...