Conflicts and disputes have emerged between the Arabs and Turkmen of the Kirkuk Provincial Council surrounding the proposed security trench to be dug around the city, while the Kurds in the council have remained silent. The provincial council discussed the project of the trench on Tuesday, April 16, as the digging of a semi-circular trench [...]
Two former American professional footballers trained 50 female footballers of Kirkuk in both theoretical and practical sessions, teaching them how to lead their teams on the pitch and put successful plans and strategies into action. On Friday, April 12, US Consulate in Kirkuk opened the training camp in Erbil to further develop the abilities of [...]
Decades after the Anfal, in which tens of thousands of Kurdish people were buried alive in the deserts of the south of Iraq, the families of the victims claim they are still waiting for their beloved ones and the memories are haunting them. April 14, the Anfal day, is the 25th anniversary of the ungodly [...]
After a decade since the toppling of the former Baath regime, violence, insecurity and a lack of services still haunts the people of Iraq, while the officials are busy with political disputes and money making. Today, Tuesday, April 9 is exactly ten years since the end of Saddam Hussein’s reign and according to the Iraqi [...]
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 [...]
Kirkuk Now marks two years since its foundation, the website, which is the mirror of the lives of people of Kirkuk, delivers the latest news and changes in Kirkuk and surroundings while the readers have their notes and the editor in chief states that they are on the right path for delivering the message “From [...]
The people of Kirkuk have offered their thoughts and suggestions to Kirkuk Now and are demanding that they continue with their unbiased and neutral principles, while addressing their success in covering the news and events in the province without differentiating amongst the different ethnical components of the province. Today, April 1, is the two-year mark [...]
The presidency of the Kurdistan region and a number of parties are to come to the aid of a poor family from Kirkuk as they recently lost their father in a deadly blast in the city. The condition of the family after their loss was published in an article by Kirkuk Now under the name [...]
Handmade professions are regarded as one of the earliest professions to be practiced in Kirkuk, as they have been passed down from one generation to another. But as time passes by, the professions are being ignored by the younger generations and the massive import of products has made a hard market sale for the handmade [...]
Instead of training camps and military academies, “You can achieve the highest military rank you want and mess with people and police,” in return for a small amount of money. Despite continuous monitoring of the military markets by the security forces, the eradication of the illegal market for military uniforms and ranks are not that [...]
In photos, art gallery of Science Experts Forum
In photos, graduation of kindergarten students in Zab
In photos, final examinations in Kirkuk schools
May 8 blasts in photos
In photos, Kirkuk workers on International Workers Day
In Photos, convoy with victims of the Hawija violence to their homelands
