Kirkuk
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Barzani says former Turkish president wanted federation with Iraq’s Kurds / Amberin Zaman
In his memoir, Iraqi Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani shares that Turkey's former President Turgut Ozal had once floated the idea of "annexing" Iraqi Kurdistan.
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Years after IS defeat, northern Iraq struggles to rebuild
In Iraq, "maku" means "nothing", and father-of-five Issa al-Zamzoum says "maku" a lot: no electricity, no home, no rebuilding and no job.
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Iraqi Kurdish soldier killed in ISIS attack in Makhmour
An Iraqi soldier was killed in an Islamic State (ISIS) group ambush in the Makhmour district of Erbil Province on Sunday, April 25, NRT reported.
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Cross-sectarian bloc emerges in Iraq / Hassan Ali Ahmed
As none of the political coalitions are able to hold a legal session for selecting the president that requires two-thirds of the members, the Iraqi political scene is facing a deadlock.
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Baghdad initiates proceedings to implement Supreme Court's decision on KRG's oil autonomy
Iraq's Ministerial Council of National Security on Wednesday has initiated the implementation proceedings of the Supreme Court's decision against Erbil's independent administration of Kurdistan's oil resources.
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Two terrorist elements arrested in Kirkuk
Two terrorist elements were identified and arrested during an operation by Iraqi federal police forces in the northern Kurdish-majority province of Kirkuk.
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Kurdistan Region's Parliament denounces Baghdad's decision about oil and gas
The Kurdistan Region Parliament said that the Federal Court's decision regarding the oil and gas law is a "serious blow to the Iraqi federal system and the rights of citizenship."
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Iraqi federal supreme court deems Kurdish oil, gas law unconstitutional
The Federal Supreme Court issued a verdict on Tuesday, February 15, that the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) law on the independent sale of the Region’s oil and natural gas was against the Iraqi constitution.