Work on the proposed security trench around the city of Kirkuk is going into action and is budgeted at 3.5 billion Iraqi Dinars. The decision for initiating the project was made in the weekly meeting of the Kirkuk Provincial Council held on Tuesday, May 21, with Governor Najmdin Karim, the deputy governor, the acting chief [...]
Arshad Salhi, the leader of the Turkmen Front, has stated that Kirkuk has turned into the place of settling feuds and threats, and demanded that the security plans of the city be revised. Salhi told Kirkuk Now “The disputes and conflicts between the central government and Erbil as well as the undercover agreements and disputes [...]
The head of the Kirkuk Provincial Council has demanded in press conference held in the Sheikh Sadr office of the Sadr movement that the Ministry of Interior should provide advanced explosives detectors for Kirkuk province. The head of the council, Hassan Toran, demanded that the Iraqi Ministry of Interior, which is similar to all the [...]
The Arab arcadian meeting resulted in the demand that the Peshmarga forces return to their previous locations from before the Hawija violence. The meeting was held on Saturday, April 11 in Kirkuk with the participation of Rakan Saeed, the deputy governor, the head of the Hawija district council and the leaders and heads of the [...]
“What happened in Hawija was a real massacre,” said Jamal al-Karbuli, the leader of the Solution Movement which is part of the al-Iraqia coalition led by Ayad Allawi in an interview with Asharq Al-Awsat, and called for the international community to step up to help prevent similar acts from happening again. “We have informed the [...]
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The Iraqi Minister for Provincial Affairs, Turhan Abdullah Mufti has demanded that all the military forces settled in Kirkuk and Tuz Khormato should retreat to their previous locations. The minister published an official paper demanding that “All the military forces and units to withdraw to their previous locations in order not to be involved in [...]
The Iraqi Parliament’s session held specifically for investigating and discussing the Hawija violence was made into an ordinary consultancy session as the attendance was not up to the valid number, according to Muhammad Khalidi, the reporter of the Iraqi council of Representatives. Khalidi told Sumarya News “The speaker of the council decided to change the [...]
The chief of Kirkuk Security Forces belonging to the Kurdistan Democratic Party have stated that their superiors have not decided to unite the two security forces belonging to the two dominant political parties of Kurdistan. Hallo Najat, the security chief told Kirkuk Now “We are waiting for the two separate forces to be united but [...]
Ten years ago and exactly on April 9, 2003, after 20 days of continuous warfare in different territories of Iraq, the US-led allied forces were able to enter Baghdad thus ending the 35-year reign of the Baath party and Saddam Hussein, the former president of Iraq. Samira Kazim, a 29-year-old Arab woman living in Kirkuk [...]
