Investor's Iraq Forum (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
A gunman in Kirkuk surrendered to the Iraqi army 4th contingent, exploiting the national reconciliation project's amnesty decree, said a source from the Iraqi army. Read the entire article at IraqiUpdates.com Post your thoughts below
Investor's Iraq Forum (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
A policeman and three civilians, including a woman, were wounded when an improvised explosive device (IED) went off near a courthouse downtown Kirkuk province on Tuesday, a security official said. Read the entire article at IraqiUpdates.com...
The Jawa Report (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Fire one! Fire two! Fire three! Fire three? I said, fire three!! Damnit, cut the tape........
OTB News (Free subscription) | yesterday
KIRKUK, Iraq, July 7 (UPI) — U.S. officials in Kirkuk look to nationalize a literacy program to train members of the Sunni paramilitary force Sons of Iraq for vocational work.
Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | yesterday
Part one of a three-part interview with Lt. Col. Robert Dixon, an Air Force surgeon who trained in Scottsdale and is now stationed in Kirkuk, Iraq.
Alertnet (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
... between Arab and Kurdish lawmakers over what to do about voting in the disputed oil-rich city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq.Jubouri said Kirkuk was one of the main unresolved issues.Minority Kurds, who run the largely autonomous northern Kurdistan region, see Kirkuk as their ancient capital and want a constitutionally mandated referendum to be held to decide who controls the city.Arabs...
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Iraq. They fired mortars at the mansion of the governor in Mosul. They wounded the mayor of Kirkuk. There were also several attacks on members of the Awakening Councils formed under the auspices of the US.the Sunni Iraqi Accord Front has criticized the Iraqi government for its ambivalence on having the IAF rejoin the government, with cabinet members. , depicting his success at deploying...
The Conservative Voice Columns (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
... US is advancing Iraq's partition by not opposing the absurd and dangerous Kurdish claims to Kirkuk and Mosul. Second, the US isretreating by inviting Iranian forces into Iraq, led by the IRGC (Iranian Revolutionary Guards). The IRGC is reinforcing the pro-Iran forces in Iraq so they can prevail in Iraq's upcoming civil war., following theKurdish-Iranian partition of Iraq.Third, the US isretreating...
UN Dispatch (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
Spencer Ackerman has a thoughtful post on the UN's role in mediating the dispute over the status of Kirkuk, Mosul, and other territories contested by rival ethnic groups. A referendum on the status of some of these territories --...
Alertnet (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
... between Arab and Kurdish lawmakers over what to do about voting in the disputed oil rich city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq.The fate of Kirkuk, a mixed city of Arabs, Kurds and Turkmen that sits atop rich oil fields, is already one of the most divisive issues in Iraq. Minority Kurds, who control the northern Kurdistan region, see Kirkuk as their ancient capital and want a constitutionally...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Berlin - German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier pledged increased German help for Iraqi Christians after meeting Iraqi bishops in Berlin on Wednesday. Steinmeier also said the legal status of Iraqi Christians living in Germany would be reviewed with a view to facilitating the reunification of families. The bishops from the cities of Baghdad, Mosul and Kirkuk said the lot of Christians...
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
... elections beyond their scheduled date in October. Three big issues remain to be resolved:Whether Kirkuk Province will be including in the voting, even though it has not yet held the referendum mandated in the constitution on whether it will join the Kurdistan Regional Government, a provincial confederacy that has already absorbed 3 of Iraq's 18 provinces. The legitimacy of using religious...
LA Times (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
... be allowed to participate.Some factions have also argued that the election should be delayed in Kirkuk, citing uncertainty about the future of the oil-rich city and other areas claimed by Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region in the north.The U.N. envoy to Iraq, Staffan de Mistura, said after a meeting with Iraqi lawmakers today that the country was unlikely to be ready to vote by the beginning...
