2020-12-30 No political support for turning Kirkuk province into a federal region Despite an injury and lack of training, Amal wins two national titles 32-year-old Amal Khidir won first place in the 800- and 1,500-metre races in the Iraqi athletics championships, despite the injury she was suffering from... Retired police personnel stage demonstration in Kirkuk 137 police retirees are demanding the Kirkuk administration to grant them residential land plots. An order by the Ministry of Interior to grant some of them... “We can’t succeed without one another:” PUK and Kirkuk’s Arab Political Council turn over a new leaf The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) stressed that Kurds and Arabs will not succeed in administering Kirkuk Province without each other. Both sides speak... Kirkuk water shortage issue partially solved “We used to buy water from tankers when there was a water shortage, but our water tanks [at home] now get filled without even using pumps,” said Harem... Baghdad sends Kirkuk only $0.42 per ton of rubbish that has to be collected and disposed of Baghdad government has sent Kirkuk Municipality only 500 Iraqi Dinars ($0.42) for the collection and disposal of each ton of rubbish. For the entire year... Can Erbil residents travel to Kirkuk? At a checkpoint manned by Iraqi security forces, Erbil residents are not allowed to pass to travel to Kirkuk, say two individuals. But the authorities deny... Kirkuk farmers unable to sell their summer produce due to imported mass-produced cheap fruit and vegetable Sarkawt Tahir prefers to let his crops go to waste than harvest and take them to the market, because the sum he can get for them is less than the costs he... Ten high-level officials in Kirkuk caught COVID-19 Ten high-level officials in Kirkuk caught the coronavirus and one of them has died. Most of them work in security departments. According to KirkukNow’s... Security vacuum necessitates revival of joint operation room in Iraq's disputed territories The security vacuum created in the disputed areas has compelled the Iraqi MInistry of Defense and Kurdistan Region Government’s Peshmerga Ministry to...
