KIRKUK

U.N. Readies ‘Grand Deal’ to Resolve Iraq’s Dispute Over Kirkuk

OTB News (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago

The United Nations said on Wednesday it would present a list of proposals to resolve the conflict over the oil-rich city of Kirkuk and other disputed regions in northern Iraq.

The U.N. Readies a ‘Grand Deal’ Over Kirkuk

New York Times (Free subscription) | yesterday

The United Nations said on Wednesday it would present a list of proposals to resolve the conflict over the oil-rich city of Kirkuk and other disputed regions in northern Iraq.

In Kirkuk, Iraqi Women Form Thin Blue Line Against Terror

Villainous Company (Free subscription) | yesterday

In the Iraqi province of Kirkuk, Iraqi women step up to the plate in the war on terror: Thirty-seven females attended the first day of training at the Kirkuk Police Academy outside of Kirkuk City, Aug. 16. It’s been a year since the academy has seen any Iraqi females in blue, and never a class of this size. “We need these females badly,” Lt. Col. Muid, a cadre at the academy said....

U.N. Readies Grand Deal to Resolve Iraqs Dispute Over Kirkuk

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The United Nations said on Wednesday it would present a list of proposals to resolve the conflict over the oil-rich city of Kirkuk and other disputed regions in northern Iraq. …Read more

Civilian killed, suspect detained in Kirkuk (Voices of Iraq)

Investor's Iraq Forum (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago

Unidentified gunmen killed a man, while security forces arrested a suspected gunman in Kirkuk, local police chief said on Wednesday. Read the entire article at IraqiUpdates.com Post your thoughts below

Threat of ethnic tension in Iraq’s Kirkuk (IRIN)

Investor's Iraq Forum (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

Ethnic tension and violence could erupt if decisions on the future of the ethnically-mixed city of Kirkuk are imposed without agreement among its residents, an analyst said on 17 August. Read the entire article at IraqiUpdates.com Post your thoughts below

Young man killed, two wounded south of Kirkuk (Voices of Iraq)

Investor's Iraq Forum (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago

Unknown gunmen on Wednesday opened fire on a group of youth playing football in Touz Khormato district, south of Kirkuk city, killing a young man and wounding two others, a police source said. Read the entire article at IraqiUpdates.com Post your thoughts below

Under attack in Kirkuk?

PrairiePundit (Free subscription) | yesterday

MNFI: Staff Sgt. Cole Abernethy, 1st Brigade, 10th Mountain Division, and Maj. Peter Colt, 443rd Civil Affairs Battalion, play with young Iraqi children in Gaydah village, which is located in the Kirkuk province of northeastern Iraq. The Soldiers met with the village leaders, Aug. 13, 2008, to discuss current developments and other civil service projects that will benefit the area. Photo by...

Dark Humor - Kirkuk

Baghdad Bureau (Free subscription) | yesterday

Qassem H.J. is a newspaper cartoonist working in Iraq. He abbreviates his name to protect his identity. For more on the combustible situation in Kirkuk, read today’s story by Richard A. Oppel Jr. here. Baghdad Bureau, cartoons, dark humor, Kirkuk, Qassem H.J.

Invalidation of political claims on Kirkuk (Kurdish Globe)

Investor's Iraq Forum (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago

This article focuses on these allegations and aims to display that, with some common sense, it is a complete politically inconceivable assumption that could be seen as being no more than incorrect propagandistic attempts to withhold Kurdish policy... Read the entire article at IraqiUpdates.com...

Ethnic clashes feared in Kirkuk

News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008

The United Nations says concern is growing in Kirkuk, Iraq, that changes in the city's current political arrangement could stir up dangerous ethnic clashes.Baghdad University lecturer Amer Hassan al-Fayadh told the U.N. Integrated Regional Information Networks Tuesday that it might be best for the Iraqi government to take a hands-off approach to the ethnically mixed northern oil city.I do believe...

Political blocs failed to reach consensus on disagreements over Kirkuk

Investor's Iraq Forum (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago

*Attorney Hossam Al-Azzawi excluded from the list led by Iraq's Iyad Allawi's main political parties reach consensus on differences over the elections in Kirkuk before the end of holiday Parliament early September next and Al-Azzawi said in a statement to Agence (Lucky) Italian News, * "The...

The UN readies a 'grand deal' over Kirkuk

International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago

The United Nations said on Wednesday it would present a list of proposals to resolve the conflict over the oil-rich city of Kirkuk and other disputed regions in northern Iraq.

Iraq mustn't let Kirkuk feud sink polls, U.S. says

Reuters (Free subscription) | yesterday

ARBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi politicians must not let a bitter feud over the oil-rich city of Kirkuk stand in the way of provincial elections expected to redraw the country's political map, the U.S. ambassador in Baghdad said on Wednesday.

• Iraq mustn't let Kirkuk feud sink polls, US says - Alertnet

Kurdish Control of Kirkuk a Powder Keg

Drudge Retort (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008

Of all the political problems facing Iraq today, perhaps none is so intractable as the fate of Kirkuk, a city of 900,000 that Kurds, Arabs and Turkmens all claim as their own. As Arabs and Turkmens demand in Parliament that the Kurds be forced to cede some of their power in the city, little short of a military intervention that could make that happen.