Today, he is the head of the monastery, which is located in Sulaymaniyah, in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq. As well as Fr. Petzold--now an ordained priest in the Chaldean Catholic Church--the ...

Following another wave of persecution in Iran in 1948, more Assyrians arrived in the U.S. from Iran. In the 1960's, larger numbers entered from Iraqi cities such as Baghdad, Kirkuk, and Basra. During ...

The Iraqi government has seized control of Kirkuk from the Kurds, taking just a day to take charge of the multi-ethnic city and the oilfields surrounding it. Kurdish forces have since rapidly ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) -Oil major BP is expected to spend up to $25 billion over the lifetime of a project to redevelop four Kirkuk oil and gas fields, a senior Iraqi oil official told Reuters ...

BP (NYSE:BP) and Iraq's government will sign a major deal covering four Kirkuk oil and gas fields by the first week of February, which would be larger than a 2023 deal with TotalEnergies valued at ...