Kirkuk is a city with many ethnic and religious divisions, and they’ve all been watching the situation unfold in Syria. Different groups in Kirkuk have different loyalties: Shiites support Assad.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A 73-year-old Kurdish farmer said the Iraqi army tried to arrest him for working on his farm in Kirkuk where longstanding ... the Baath regime, Iraq began a policy ...

A deadline allegedly set by Iraq's central government for Kurdish fighters to withdraw from key sites in the disputed city of Kirkuk has passed. Kurdish security officials said the deadline had ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Arab settlers in Kirkuk say they will persist with ... After 2003 and the fall of the Baath regime, Iraq began a policy of de-Arabization within the framework of Article ...

Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...