Kirkuk

...year because lawmakers were unable to agree on how to divide seats there. Saddam Hussein forcibly displaced Kurds from Kirkuk and surrounding areas during his reign. After the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, Kurdish officials offered Kurds...

In this article: United States, United Nations, Max Boot, Iraq, Massoud Barzani, Suicide, and Council on Foreign Relations

...authorities have laid claim to the oil resources around Kirkuk. Much of the political tension between the Kurds and Arabs in Kirkuk stems from an Iraqi-government programme of the 1970s - under Saddam Hussein - that moved thousands of...

In this article: Saddam Hussein, Iraq, Good Friday, Sinn Fein, and Alex Maskey

...Arab votes in Baghdad. But while it smooths the way for January's elections, the deal does not address the status of Kirkuk, which will remain one of the most difficult questions confronting Iraq's next government. Ever since the U.S....

In this article: Iraq, Baghdad, U.S., Saddam Hussein, Nouri al-Maliki, Revenue, and U.S. invasion of Iraq

...to be here in strength through the election.'' The Kirkuk issue, which generates deep emotions among Iraq's Arabs, Kurds and Turkomen, had repeatedly stymied efforts to pass the law. Many Kurds were expelled from the area under Saddam...

In this article: U.S., Iraq, Raymond Odierno, The Miami Herald, Saddam Hussein, and Barack Obama

...want it part of their self-ruled region. During the rule of former dictator Saddam Hussein, tens of thousands of Kurds were displaced under a forced plan by Saddam to make Kirkuk predominantly Arab. The Arab-led central government vehemently...

In this article: United States, Saddam Hussein, Iraq, Council of Representatives, and Ray Odierno

...the past five years. The late dictator Saddam Hussein drove thousands of Kurds out of Kirkuk and surrounding areas and encouraged Sunni Muslim Arabs to settle there in an attempt to "Arabize" the strategic area. Since the March 2003...

In this article: Iraq, Saddam Hussein, Baghdad, U.S., and Democracy

...26, 2003, opening a northern front against Saddam Hussein's armies. After Baghdad's fall, Bean's unit moved into Kirkuk, an ethnic tinderbox home to Arabs, Kurds and Turks. Once the celebrations over Saddam's fall faded, those ethnic tensions...

In this article: Suicide, Iraq, George W. Bush, U.S., and Panic attack