The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

Kirkuk’s oil sector in February 2025, marking its third attempt to operate in the region amid ongoing geopolitical complexities.

Error occured during this request! Please try again later. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The disputed oil-rich city of Kirkuk is only three percent green, a local ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Several suspected Islamic State (ISIS) members were arrested in Kirkuk in a joint operation between Kurdish and Iraqi forces, the Kurdish Counter Terrorism Group ...

188-208 (21 pages) The Iraqi state-directed demographic engineering of the oil-rich Kurdish districts of Kirkuk and Khanaqin was launched in the early 1920s and has continued to the present day. The ...

It has a long history of association with bp. The Kirkuk oilfield was discovered in the 1920s by a consortium that included bp. It underwent technical studies conducted by bp from 2013 to 2019 to ...

BP has a long-standing history in the region, being part of a consortium that first discovered oil in Kirkuk in the 1920s. With an estimated nine billion barrels of recoverable oil in the area ...

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, as Baghdad seeks to win ...

LONDON, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Iraq and British oil major BP (BP.L), opens new tab will sign a mammoth deal covering four Kirkuk oil and gas fields by the first week of February, Oil Minister Hayan ...

Control over oil and gas has long been a source of tension between Baghdad and the Kurds, with Kirkuk - a region rich in hydrocarbons - at the centre of the dispute. The Kurds lost control of the ...

UK supermajor BP signed a deal with the Iraqi government on Tuesday to evaluate redevelopment of Kirkuk oil and gas fields, the Iraqi Prime Minister’s office said. “The objective is to enhance ...

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 ...