A member of Iraqi Turkmen Front in Kirkuk on Thursday criticized the Federal Supreme Court’s recent suspension of a law that ...

The Federal Court of Iraq has rejected complaints from Arabs and Turkmen regarding the alleged illegal formation of Kirkuk’s ...

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Kirkuk is an oil-rich province claimed by both the Kurds and the central government. It is thought to have a Kurdish majority, but its provincial capital has large Arab and Turkmen populations.

The land in dispute was part of Baathist-era demographic changes that forced Kurds and Turkmen off their land and brought in Arab settlers. Kirkuk Governor Rebwar Taha intervened and an agreement ...

However, the process has become entangled in long-standing ethnic disputes in places like Kirkuk, where Arabs, Kurds, Turkmen and other minorities have competing claims. In the disputed oil-rich ...

In a statement issued by Iraqi Security Information Unit, it stated that after Iraqi F-16 fighter jets attacked the ISIL terrorist hideout in Hamrin Mountains in Kirkuk, Iraqi forces from the ...

However, the process has become entangled in long-standing ethnic disputes in places like Kirkuk, where Arabs, Kurds, Turkmen and other minorities have competing claims. “The Prime Minister ...