RAMADI, Iraq -- The American military has not yet left an air base along the contested internal border between the semiautonomous Kurdistan region and the rest of Iraq, but a dispute has already broken out over which side will control the strategic site once the Americans leave. While there, American soldiers helped keep the peace along a dozen or...
BAGHDAD -- Three explosions aimed at Iraqi security forces ripped through the divided northern city of Kirkuk on Thursday morning, killing at least 29 people, most of them police officers, and wounding scores more. The attackers used a now familiar tactic, detonating successive explosions so those who rush to the scene of the first blast are hurt....
KIRKUK, Iraq -- Many in this divided city want American troops to stay longer than the Obama administration has said they will, and a tense standoff on the southern and western edges of town last week showed why. Here, on a bridge, behind the mud brick walls of an abandoned mill and inside a hospice, Kurdish troops from the north were in positions...
Kirkuks status er et vigtigt stridsspørgsmål i det nye Irak. Kurderne hævder, byen er en naturlig del af det kurdiske selvstyreområde (Regionen Kurdistan). Omvendt ønsker mange turkmenere, at byen skal være hovedstad i en ny region, Türkmeneli (Turkmeneli). Også arabere modsætter sig, at byen skulle være en del af Kurdistan. Fold ud