TEHRAN, September 19 - Iraqi police have imposed a curfew in the northern city of Kirkuk, which witnessed skirmishes between Kurds and Turkmen days before a controversial Kurdish referendum on independence from the mainland.
TEHRAN, September 15 - The Takfiri Daesh terrorist group has reportedly executed one of its high-ranking militant commanders in Iraq’s northern oil-rich province of Kirkuk on charges of “attempts to escape to the land of non-believers.”
TEHRAN, September 14 - The Iraqi parliament has voted to dismiss the governor of the northern oil-rich province of Kirkuk after the provincial council voted to take part in the upcoming Kurdish independence referendum irrespective of the central government’s strong opposition to the planned vote.
TEHRAN, August 31 - Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi described as ‘provocative’, the decision of councilors in Iraqi province of Kirkuk on taking part in the upcoming independence referendum.
TEHRAN, April 3, YJC - Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi slammed a recent move to hoist Kurdish flags over government buildings in Iraq’s northern city of Kirkuk as a measure which escalates tensions.
ARBIL, Iraq, Sept 30, 2014 (AFP) - Kurdish troops launched offensives against the Islamic State jihadist group on three fronts in northern Iraq on Tuesday, senior officers told AFP.