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FACTBOX: Security developments in Iraq, Nov 23...- A roadside went off near a U.S. military patrol in northern Baghdad's Hussainiya district, wounding two civilians, police said. KIRKUK - Gunmen kidnapped a Christian oil industry worker on his way to work in southern Kirkuk, 250 km... In this article: Baghdad, Mosul, U.S., Iraq, Kirkuk, and Iyad Allawi |
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Boston Globe -- Today's paper A to Z | 1 day ago
Kirkuk’s factions are on speaking terms
...threatened boycotts, Iraqi legislators ended three days of ground-breaking negotiations in Baghdad on the future of the disputed city of Kirkuk with an agreement yesterday to keep talking in coming months, a Boston-based mediator said.
In this article: Helsinki, Baghdad, Ayad al Samarrai, Boston, University of Massachusetts, and Saddam Hussein
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Reuters | 1 day ago
Iraqi parliament fails to reach election deal
...election law was approved on November 8 after weeks of wrangling between Kurds, Arabs and Turkmen over how to hold the vote in the city of Kirkuk, which they dispute. U.S. diplomats and U.N. officials lobbied energetically for passage of the...
In this article: U.S., Iraq, Thomson Reuters, U.N., Small business, NYSE, and Nasdaq
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BBC News | 3 days ago
NI politicians in Iraq conference
...the violence in Kirkuk A conference is being held in Iraq examining how NI peace principles might be applied to the city of Kirkuk. Kirkuk is the centre of the northern Iraqi oil fields and is an ethnically mixed city populated by Kurds,...
In this article: Saddam Hussein, Iraq, Good Friday, Sinn Fein, and Alex Maskey
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washingtonpost.com | 7 days ago
Six killed in Kirkuk car bomb blast
...over the past 18 months but attacks remain common in volatile areas like the oil city of Kirkuk, the northern city of Mosul and in Baghdad. Kirkuk is one of several flashpoints between Iraq's Arab-led government in Baghdad and minority...
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Reuters | 7 days ago
Two killed, 10 wounded in Kirkuk car bomb blast
Violence has dipped sharply in Iraq over the past 18 months but attacks remain common in volatile areas like the oil city of Kirkuk. Kirkuk is one of several flashpoints between Iraq's Arab-led government in Baghdad and minority Kurds...
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TIME | November 15, 2009
Iraq Approves Election but Kirkuk Kurds' Tensions Remain
The vote had been delayed for weeks over the apparently parochial issue of electoral lists for the contested northern city of Kirkuk. Oil-rich Kirkuk, claimed by Iraq's Kurds as an integral part of their autonomous semistate but administered...
In this article: Iraq, Baghdad, Saddam Hussein, U.S., Nouri al-Maliki, Revenue, and U.S. invasion of Iraq
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Reuters | November 09, 2009
Investors seen positive on Iraq law, eye Kirkuk row
...over who is allowed to authorise oil deals in Kurdistan, and Kurdish officials also say they must be involved in any deals in Kirkuk. Kirkuk, with 8.5 billion barrels of reserves and another northern field, Bai Hassan, which holds 2.29...
In this article: Iraq, Royal Dutch Shell, Headache, Saddam Hussein, and U.S.
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Kirkuk (also spelled Karkuk or Kerkuk), Arabic: كركوك, ܐܪܦܗܐ, Kurdish:Kerkûk/کهرکووک is a city in Iraq and capital of Kirkuk Governorate.
It is located at 35.47°N, 44.41°E, in the Iraqi governorate of Kirkuk, 250 kilometres (156 miles) north of the capital, Baghdad. The Kirkuk region lies among the Pir Magrun (Gudrun) to the north-east, the Zab River and the Tigris River to the west, the Hamrin Mountains to the south, and the Sirwan (Diyala) River to the south-east.
It stands on the site of the ancient Assyrian capital of Arrapha
, which sits near the Khasa River on the ruins of a 5,000-year-old settlement (Kirkuk Citadel.) Arrapha reached great importance under the Assyrians in the 10th and 11th centuries BC. Because of the strategic geographical location of the city, Kirkuk was the battle ground for three empires, Assyria, Babylonia, and Media , who controlled the city at various times.
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Kirkuk is the centre of the northern Iraqi petroleum industry. It is an historically and ethnically mixed city populated by Kurds, Assyrians,Turkmen and Arabs.
- Name:
- Kirkuk
- Local Name:
- كهركووك, كركوك
- Time Zone:
- GMT +3
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