Kirkuk

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

Embedding With the Women Who Are Kicking ISIS Ass

Susannah George

December 15, 2014

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

Obama’s Iraq Plan Has a Killer Flaw—and Airstrikes Alone May Not Save It

Jacob Siegel

August 8, 2014

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

ISIS’s Newest Recruit Is 10 Years Old

Niqash

June 30, 2014

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

Turkey Gives Up On Unified Iraq

Thomas Seibert

June 19, 2014

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

Turkey Gives Up On Unified Iraq

Thomas Seibert

June 19, 2014

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

At length we got round to the road, and started to advance down it to Kirkuk.

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.

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

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