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  • Iraq
    Mosul battle: IS launches Iraq counter-attack at Kirkuk

    Islamic State (IS) militants have mounted a ferocious counter-attack in north Iraq, killing at least 19 people in and around the city of Kirkuk.

  • Anti-ISIS Campaign: Iraq
    Kurdish Fighters Seize Chunk of Strategic Territory From Islamic State Near Kirkuk

    The assault early on Wednesday morning consolidated Kurdish control over the strategic, oil-rich city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq, bringing Kurdish fighters closer to the IS stronghold of Hawijah, about 34 miles to the west.

  • Iraq Oil Exports
    Iraq to Double Exports of Kirkuk Crude Amid Oil Surplus

    Iraq will double exports within weeks from its northern Kirkuk oil fields and continue boosting output further south amid a global market glut that’s pushed prices to their lowest level in more than five and a half years. Crude shipments will rise to 300,000 barrels a day from the Kirkuk oil hub, where authorities are also upgrading pipelines between fields, Fouad Hussein, a member of the Kirkuk provincial council’s oil and gas committee, said yesterday in a phone interview.

  • Turkish Perspective
    Turkey, the Kurds and Iraq: The Prize and Peril of Kirkuk

    The United States may currently be focused on the Islamic State, but Turkey is looking years ahead at the mess that will likely remain. This is why Turkey is placing conditions on its involvement in the battle against the Islamic State: It is trying to convince the United States and its Sunni Arab coalition partners that it will inevitably be the power administering this region. Therefore, according to Ankara, all players must conform to its priorities, beginning with replacing Syria's Iran-backed Alawite government with a Sunni administration that will look first to Ankara for guidance.

  • ISIS and Iraqi Kurds
    Oil-rich Kirkuk in Iraq’s north fears attack by Islamic State

    In recent weeks, international attention has focused on Islamic State advances elsewhere in the Kurdish region, such as near the strategic Mosul dam and the city of Irbil, capital of semiautonomous Iraqi Kurdistan. U.S. airstrikes have helped push back the militants — and provided a tactical and psychological lift for peshmerga fighters, who fell back last month in a humiliating retreat.