Iraqi protesters block a road following protests in the multi-ethnic Iraqi city of Kirkuk on September 2, 2023. At least one civilian was killed and...
Iraqi security forces deploy in the multi-ethnic Iraqi city of Kirkuk on September 3 after curfew was lifted. Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani...
Iraqi protesters block a road following protests in the multi-ethnic Iraqi city of Kirkuk on September 2, 2023. At least one civilian was killed and...
People lift the regional flag during a rally in Dohuk city in the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq on September 5 to protest unpaid...
Photo shows a scene near Kirkuk, where Dr. Chiera made the excavations and discovered the clay tablets.
Fighters of the Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitaries are seen riding on infantry-fighting vehicles during the advance towards villages between the...
Iraqi workers pump oil at the Shirawa oilfield, where oil was first pumped in Iraq in 1927, outside the northern city of Kirkuk 19 January 2004. The...
Kurdish men and women attend a traditional wedding celebration June 15, 2003 in Bakochek, Iraq. Saddam Hussein's regime killed an estimated 180,000...
Group of Bedouin Arab artisans, surrounded by the pipe-laying equipment on which they work, eat their mid-day meal at Kirkuk, North Iraq during the...
Soldier secures the site where a suicide car bomber attacked at a petrol station in the northern city of Kirkuk, 27 June 2006. Three people were...
An Iraqi militia fighter from Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Saraya al-Salam , fires a mortar during heavy clashes with Islamic State fighters in...
Boy from the Turkmen community serves bread at a restaurant 27 August 2003 in Kirkuk, a city with simmering tensions between the Kurdish and Turkmen...
Refugees flee from the city of Kirkuk as they head towards an Iraqi Kurd area known as Khush tapa March 14, 2003 which is located south of Erbil in...
Army sergeant gives a briefing to US troops, Iraqi policemen, soldiers and Kurdish peshmerga fighters prior to conducting a combined security force...
Kurds wave flags of northern Iraq's Kurdish region during an election campaign rally in the enthincally-mixed Iraqi city of Kirkuk, 255 kms north of...
Gas flares burn at the Northern Kirkuk Oil in northern Iraq on January 06, 2010. Iraq has approved all pending deals with foreign energy firms over...
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates speaks to soldiers at F.O.B. Warrior December 11, 2009 in Kirkuk, Iraq. Secretary Gates stopped in Iraq following a...
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates speaks to soldiers at F.O.B. Warrior December 11, 2009 in Kirkuk, Iraq. Secretary Gates stopped in Iraq following a...
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates speaks to soldiers at F.O.B. Warrior December 11, 2009 in Kirkuk, Iraq. Secretary Gates stopped in Iraq following a...
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates speaks to soldiers at F.O.B. Warrior December 11, 2009 in Kirkuk, Iraq. Secretary Gates stopped in Iraq following a...
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates speaks to soldiers at F.O.B. Warrior December 11, 2009 in Kirkuk, Iraq. Secretary Gates stopped in Iraq following a...
Member of a local council walk amid US soldiers at the town hall in the oil-rich Iraqi province of Kirkuk 24 May 2003. Only 24 of the 30 members of...
View of the 150 year-old Sunni Muslim mosque located in the center of the northern oil-rich city of Kirkuk, 225 kms from Baghdad on November 02,...
Manaa al-Obaydi, the head of Iraq's state-owned North Oil Company , is seen during an interview at his office in the oil-rich northern Iraqi city of...
An Iraqi worker checks the valves at the Kirkuk oil field on June 29 225 kms from the capital Baghdad. Iraq will unveil on June 30th which foreign...
Picture taken on October 18, 2017 shows displaced Iraqis, who fled from Hawija in 2014 to Kirkuk, riding in vehicles as they return to Hawija, after...
Picture taken on October 18, 2017 shows displaced Iraqis, who fled from Hawija in 2014 to Kirkuk, riding in vehicles as they return to Hawija, after...
Picture taken on October 18, 2017 shows displaced Iraqis, who fled from Hawija in 2014 to Kirkuk, riding in vehicles as they return to Hawija, after...
Iraqi soldiers gesture on top of a vehicle as they enter the city of Kirkuk on October 17, 2017. Kurdish peshmerga forces withdrew without a fight...
Iraqi army artillery are seen on a road southwest of Kirkuk on October 17, 2017. Iraqi forces took control of the two largest oil fields in the...
Picture taken on October 17, 2017 shows excess flammable gasses burning from gas flares at the Havana oil field, west of the multi-ethnic northern...
Iraqi government forces enter the Bai Hassan oil field, west of the multi-ethnic northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, on October 17, 2017. Iraqi forces...
Iraqi government forces remove a Kurdish flag from the Bai Hassan oil field, west of the multi-ethnic northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, on October 17,...
Iraqi government forces remove a Kurdish flag from the Bai Hassan oil field, west of the multi-ethnic northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, on October 17,...
Picture shows an Iraqi army vehicle at the country's Bai Hassan oil field west of Kirkuk on October 17, 2017. Iraqi forces took control of the two...
Picture shows Iraq's Bai Hassan oil field west of Kirkuk on October 17, 2017. Iraqi forces took control of the two largest oil fields in the disputed...
Picture shows Iraq's Bai Hassan oil field west of Kirkuk on October 17, 2017. Iraqi forces took control of the two largest oil fields in the disputed...
An Iraqi boy drags a Kurdish flag as Iraqi forces advance towards the centre of Kirkuk during an operation against Kurdish fighters on October 16,...
An Iraqi forces member takes down a Kurdish flag as they advance towards the centre of Kirkuk during an operation against Kurdish fighters on October...
Smoke billows as Iraqi forces advance towards the centre of Kirkuk during an operation against Kurdish fighters on October 16, 2017. Iraqi forces...
An Iraqi forces member takes down Kurdish flags as they advance towards the centre of Kirkuk during an operation against Kurdish fighters on October...
Iraqi forces walk in front of an oil production plant as they head towards the city of Kirkuk during an operation against Kurdish fighters on October...
Iraqi forces advance towards the city of Kirkuk during an operation against Kurdish fighters on October 16, 2017. Iraqi forces clashed with Kurdish...
Iraqis wave to Iraqi forces as they arrive in the first neighbourhood on the southern outskirts of Kirkuk on October 16, 2017. Iraqi forces clashed...
Iraqi children wave to Iraqi forces as they arrive in the first neighbourhood on the southern outskirts of Kirkuk on October 16, 2017. Iraqi forces...
Iraqi civilians gather as Iraqi forces arrive in the first neighbourhood on the southern outskirts of Kirkuk on October 16, 2017. Iraqi forces said...
Iraqis wave to Iraqi forces as they arrive in the first neighbourhood on the southern outskirts of Kirkuk on October 16, 2017. Iraqi forces said they...
Member of the Iraqi forces walks past a defaced Kurdish flag painted on concrete blocks on the outskirts of Kirkuk on October 16 as troops head...
Iraqi forces drive past an oil production plant as they head towards the city of Kirkuk on October 16, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / AHMAD AL-RUBAYE
Iraqi forces drive past an oil production plant as they head towards the city of Kirkuk on October 16, 2017.
Iraqi forces rest on the road as they drive towards Kurdish peshmerga positions on October 15 on the southern outskirts of Kirkuk. The presidents of...
Iraqi forces drive towards Kurdish peshmerga positions on October 15 on the southern outskirts of Kirkuk. The presidents of Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan...
Iraqi forces drive towards Kurdish peshmerga positions on October 15 on the southern outskirts of Kirkuk. The presidents of Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan...
Member of the Iraqi forces sits on a river bank across from Kurdish peshmerga positions on October 15 on the southern outskirts of Kirkuk. The...
Iraqi forces drive towards Kurdish peshmerga positions on October 14 on the southern outskirts of Kirkuk. Thousands of Iraqi troops were locked in an...
Kurdish peshmerga fighters hold a position on a river bank across from Iraqi forces on October 14 on the southern outskirts of Kirkuk. Thousands of...
Kurdish peshmerga fighters hold a position on a river bank across from Iraqi forces on October 14 on the southern outskirts of Kirkuk. Thousands of...