The Iraqi province of Kirkuk has voted in favor of a region-wide referendum to determine if it will join Kurdistan’s government or remain tied to Baghdad. The vote was held among members of ...

But Kirkuk's governor, a Kurd, created a stir in April by raising the Kurdish flag next to it. Governor Najmiddin Karim says Kirkuk is part of Kurdistan. And since ISIS came in, Kurdish Peshmerga ...

Rudaw correspondent Ranj Sangawi sat down with Kirkuk Governor Najmadin Karim. The veteran Kurdish official answered an array of questions about the raising of the Kurdistan flag over provincial ...

He made the assertion at a Baghdad press conference held late Tuesday to address the recent appearance of the Kurdish regional flag in the northern city of Kirkuk. The press conference also comes ...

U.S. ambassador to Iraq Douglas Silliman has called for resolving the issue of flying the flag of northern Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Kirkuk within the framework of the Iraqi ...

Please try again later. KIRKUK, Kurdistan Region — The Kirkuk Provincial Council has voted on Tuesday to raise the Kurdistan flag over state buildings in the province, some Turkmen and Arab ...

Iraqi MPs voted in favour of displaying only the Iraqi flag on Kirkuk’s buildings on Saturday, in a session attended by 186 members of the 328-seat parliament. Hasan Turan, an MP for Kirkuk ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraq’s national security service on Thursday announced the arrest of two individuals in Kirkuk for burning the Iraqi flag in a video that caused outrage among Iraqi ...

The building usually holds both the Kurdish and Iraqi flags. This confrontation always seemed likely, even inevitable. Not only does Kirkuk sit on one of Iraq’s main ethnic and sectarian fault ...

(photo credit: REUTERS) In March 2017, the Kirkuk provincial council voted to raise the flag of Kurdistan over the city’s official buildings. Likewise, Kirkuk and other disputed territories were ...

The building usually holds both the Kurdish and Iraqi flags. This confrontation always seemed likely, even inevitable. Not only does Kirkuk sit on one of Iraq’s main ethnic and sectarian fault ...