Kirkuk

[ kir-kook ]

noun

1. a city in N Iraq.

Kirkuk

/ kɜːˈkʊk; ˈkɜːkʊk /

noun

1. a city in NE Iraq: centre of a rich oilfield with pipelines to the Mediterranean. Pop: 548 000 (2005 est)

Example Sentences

So far there were none, though the danger would be greatest closer to Kirkuk.

From Washington Post

Soon he was overseas again, in the first of a series of tours that ended with a roadside bomb explosion and severe brain injury outside the Iraqi city of Kirkuk.

From Washington Post

The planned route from his forward operating base to Kirkuk was just 60 miles, but it required traveling on roads that were pocked with craters from countless roadside bomb explosions.

From Washington Post

“We were part of the unit protecting gas and oil depots outside of Kirkuk,” Rashid says.

From The Daily Beast

At the time, the Kurdish Peshmerga did take up positions in the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, where they remain to this day.

From The Daily Beast

Locals also know that ISIS needs more fighters in places like Tikrit, Anbar, Diyala and toward Kirkuk.

From The Daily Beast

The oil of Kirkuk could make an independent Kurdistan economically viable.

From The Daily Beast

When KRG forces seized the oil-rich city of Kirkuk last week, there were hardly any protests from Ankara.

From The Daily Beast

It provides an easy passage practicable in the depth of winter, from Armenia to Kirkuk and Baghdad.

From Project Gutenberg

This is Kirkuk, a town which contains, in its present name, one of the few memorials of the old Seleucid rulers.

From Project Gutenberg

Once we had reached the far side we set out to pick our way round Kirkuk to get astride the road leading thence to Altun Kupri.

From Project Gutenberg

Kirkuk is of very ancient origin—but of its early history little is known.

From Project Gutenberg

It was rumored that we would continue to push on and would attack Kirkuk.

From Project Gutenberg