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05 Sep 2021

Islamic State attack kills 10, wounds four policemen near Iraq's Kirkuk

IS killed 10 Iraqi policemen and wounded four during an overnight attack on a guard post near the city of Kirkuk. Militants used roadside bombs to prevent police reinforcements from reaching the post.

26 Sep 2017

Curfew declared in Kirkuk as Kurds celebrate independence vote

Authorities in Kirkuk declared a curfew an hour and a half before polls closed in a Kurdish independence referendum on Monday as jubilant Kurds celebrated a vote that has raised fears of a new outburst of ethnic conflict.

25 Oct 2016

Iraq fully retakes town attacked by IS: officials

Iraqi security forces on Tuesday regained full control of a western town that was attacked by Islamic State group militants two days earlier, officials said.

24 Oct 2016

131 killed in clashes between Islamic State, Iraqi forces

At least 131 persons, including 74 militants, were killed and 150 others injured in clashes in an Iraq's Kirkuk city, sources reported on Monday.

21 Oct 2016

Air raid near Iraq's Kirkuk kills 15 women: Officials

"Fifteen women were killed and another 50 wounded in a raid that targeted a Shiite place of worship at Dakuk," local official Amir Huda Karam told AFP.

21 Oct 2016

Six Iraqi police, 12 IS fighters killed in Kirkuk clashes: police

21 Oct 2016

Suicide attackers kill 16 at Iraq power plant, says officials

"Three suicide bombers attacked the power plant at around 6:00 am (0830 IST), killing 12 Iraqi administrators and engineers and four Iranian technicians," Dibis mayor Abdullah Nureddin al-Salehi told AFP.

21 Oct 2016

Suicide Bomber attacks government targets in northern Iraq

Gunmen wearing suicide vests attacked government targets in the Kurdish-controlled city of Kirkuk and killed 16 at an Iranian-run construction site further north on Friday as troops advanced on jihadist bastion Mosul.

24 Aug 2016

Iraq forces launch push to retake town south of Mosul

Iraqi forces on Wednesday closed in on the centre of Qayyarah, officials said, on the second day of an operation to recapture the town from jihadists.

31 Jul 2016

Militants attack two energy plants in north Iraq, at least four killed

Militants stormed two energy facilities in northern Iraq on Sunday, shooting at least four workers and detonating explosives that sent flames into the sky, security sources said.

31 Jul 2016

Militants attack second energy facility in northern Iraq: Security sources

Militants in northern Iraq stormed an oil facility on Sunday and detonated explosives at an oil storage tank, sending flames into the sky, security sources said.

11 Jul 2016

WATCH viral video: Man shouts 'Allah hu Akbar', triggers panic in crowded market in Iraq

A sensational video showing how vulnerable people are in terrorism-hit and Islamic State-controlled Iraq has now come to fore.

03 Nov 2015

IS attack kills four in Kurdish-held Iraq town

A suicide bomber detonated explosives near the entrance to a police building in the town of Dibis in Kirkuk province.

30 Sep 2015

Iraq Kurds take back land from IS jihadists

A ground offensive led by 3,500 Iraqi Kurdish forces on Thursdaya recaptured several villages west of the city of Kirkuk from the Islamic State group, officials said.

11 Sep 2015

Bombs kill 7 Iraq Kurds in anti-IS operation

Bombs killed seven members of the Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces during an operation against the Islamic State jihadist group in the northern province of Kirkuk today, officers said.

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