Kirkuk

Source: www.startribune.com --- 26 days ago
As the government tries to normalize the region, at stake are questions of parliamentary power, oil and revenue-sharing, the limits of federalism and relations with neighbors. ...

Source: www.kansascity.com --- 33 days ago
The men line up by the hundreds every day at the blast wall on al Quds Street: Kurds who were forced out of the province of Kirkuk under Saddam Hussein's regime, Arabs who were brought in to replace them and others. They're all waiting for their checks. ...

Source: www.catholic.org --- 1 day ago
"We issue an appeal to all honest men of good will, that they reject these attacks and preserve the ... ...

Source: www.iraqslogger.com --- 38 days ago
In late August, the police training center in Kirkuk started training women recruits. ...

Source: www.aina.org --- 35 days ago
The Kurds' call to join Kirkuk to Iraqi Kurdistan showed a lack of wisdom because the other political parties would never accept such a decision. It does not take into consideration any of the changes that have occurred in the past few decades, says Samah Samad. ...

Source: www.iraqslogger.com --- 14 days ago
Kirkuk -- A group of armed men assassinated two civilians in front of their home in central Kirkuk on Thursday afternoon. ...

Source: www.iraqslogger.com --- 15 days ago
The composition and supervision of a fact-finding committee for the province of Kirkuk was at the center of the compromise that permitted Iraqi MPs to vote unanimously on Wednesday to amend a draft provincial elections law, creating an exceptional electoral arrangement for Kirkuk province, and allowing provincial elections to proceed in the rest of the country. ...

Source: www.iraqslogger.com --- 22 days ago
Contrary to earlier statements by Iraqi officials who confidently asserted that the Provincial Elections' law will be smoothly passed today, Iraqi and Arab media is reporting that the parliament could not agree on a draft, and that "acute arguments" took place in the session between Kurdish MPs on one hand, and Arab and Turokman representatives on the other. ...

Source: www.alsumaria.tv --- 24 days ago
The five parties committee substituting the quartet committee disbanded by Parliament speaker Mahmoud Al Mashhadani in charge of considering Article 140 in the provincial election law held its first meeting yesterday. The committee discussed the proposals of UN Chief Envoy Steffan De Mistura ... ...

Source: www.iraqslogger.com --- 11 days ago
Municipal authorities in Kirkuk city launched a cleanup program on Sunday to prepare for the Eid al-Fitr holiday, the city's deputy mayor has said. ...

Source: www.iraqslogger.com --- 13 days ago
With the ongoing dispute over the status of the contested city of Kirkuk at the center of the debate over Iraq's new elections law, an Iraqi polling organization has released results of a poll of 1,000 northern Iraqi individuals in five governorates probing attitudes about the Kirkuk question. ...

Source: www.krg.org --- 14 days ago
Al Jazeera TV: Happy Ramdhan Mr President and thanks for giving us this chance to meet you. It looks that some problems have emerged between Kurdistan Region and Iraqi Federal government so it will be good to talk about them and to clarify the truth of these problems. ... ...

Source: www.iraqslogger.com --- 29 days ago
An unknown group of militants abducted three Iraqi civilians in the west of Kirkuk city, according to an eyewitness. ...

Source: www.iraqslogger.com --- 22 days ago
Kirkuk - Iraqi security forces fanned out west of Kirkuk city on Wednesday, in response to a palpable tension inside Kirkuk city as police point to an elevated threat of car bombing attacks on the city from its western flanks. ...

Source: www.alsumaria.tv --- 23 days ago
The legal committee and the committee of provinces non-affiliated to a region held a second meeting to reconsider paragraph 24 of the provincial election law regarding Kirkuk issue. To view the video report of this topic, click on play movie. ...

Source: www.aina.org --- 9 days ago
In the heralded new Provincial Elections Law of Iraq, it seems as if Iraqi politicians have learned an old trick of American politics. When faced with an intractable but very real problem that seems to offer no easy solutions, create a commission to study it. ...

Source: www.iraqslogger.com --- 35 days ago
People in Baghdad are talking about three things today... ...

Source: www.iraqslogger.com --- 8 days ago
A round of hiring at a major hospital has led to allegations of ethnic discrimination in the contested city of Kirkuk, residents tell IraqSlogger. ...

Source: www.roadstoiraq.com --- 23 days ago
Kirkuk If we go through the main points decided today, we can conclude that they are a modified version of the 22 July law that was rejected by the Kurds and postpone the problem until next year: - Postpone the provincial election in Kirkuk. - Keep the status-quo in the province as it is for the time being. - [...] ...