2026-11-15 Profile of Kirkuk’s Newly Elected Governor, Qahtan Al-Wandawi From Infiltration to Confrontation: Behind Scenes of Tense Security Night in Altun Kopri After 7:00 PM, when darkness had completely fallen, Iraqi Army forces abruptly closed all entrances to the center of the Prdy (Altun Kupri) sub-district... Households in Kurdistan Region Struggle to Make Ends Meet, Women Bearing Greatest Burden Delayed monthly salary payments and persistent economic hardship have pushed majority of households in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq KRI into increasingly... Kirkuk Protests Deliver Strong Message to Baghdad over Electricity Crisis, Securing Temporary Relief Two nights of public demonstrations over soaring electricity costs in Kirkuk have forced Baghdad to intervene, highlighting growing public frustration and... Shingal (Sinjar) Resistance Units, Women’s Units Officially Integrated into Iraqi Security Forces The Shingal Resistance Units (YBS) and the Women’s Units in Shingal have announced that 4,150 of their personnel stationed in the war-torn Shingal district... Iraqi Army Division Deployed to Kirkuk as Calls Grow for Joint Brigades of Local Residents Acting on the orders of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Iraq’s Ministry of Defence has deployed the 17th Division of the Iraqi Army to Hawija... Kirkuk Governorship Dispute: What Does Law Say About Position’s Future? The lack of an explicit legal provision addressing vacancies in the governor’s office has triggered a dispute between the governor of Kirkuk Mohammed Saman... Equal Work, Unequal Benefits: Widening Divide Between Public and Private Sector Employees After six years of exhausting shifts, sleepless nights, and long hours on duty, Shokh Abdullah decided she could no longer continue working at a private... Shingal (Sinjar) Crisis: Baghdad’s One-Month Deadline Raises Concerns in Erbil Iraq’s federal government has secured Turkey’s commitment to withdraw its forces and is working to integrate fighters from the Shingal Resistance Units... Currency Exchange Rate Changes: Protecting Government Revenues at Expense of Citizens Abu Abdullah, a retired resident of Mosul who receives his pension in Iraqi dinars IQD, considers himself among the biggest losers from the recent exchange... Anti-ISIS Altun Kupri Operation: “Indiscriminate Fire” Murad Zana, 14, was killed during clashes on the evening of Sunday, September 27, between Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service forces and two ISIS militants in... Kirkuk Land Dispute Sparks Tensions as MPs Reject Allocation Plans, Threaten Protests Kurdish and Turkmen members of the Iraqi Parliament from Kirkuk have expressed opposition to plans to allocate land to government employees, raising... Four Parliamentary Terms, Leading Role: Political Career of Kirkuk-Born Lawen Redar in Sweden Lawen Redar, 37, originally from Kirkuk, has secured enough votes to enter the Swedish Parliament for a fourth term after running on the Social Democratic... ‹ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ... 212 213 ›