KIRKUK, May 08, 2009 (AFP) - When Ayad Tariq paces the dusty ruins of the ancient citadel towering over the disputed city of Kirkuk he sees a dazzling new tourist attraction just waiting to rise from ...

Formed in 2003, the short existence of the University of Kirkuk has inevitably been defined by the recent changes in Iraqi history. Kirkuk, at the foot of the Zokra Mountains around 150 miles north of ...

Museums in Iraqi Kurdistan are reported to be collecting Yazidi artefacts, notably the Slemani Museum in Sulaymaniyah, as well as the Ethnographic Museum at the Erbil Citadel, according to ...

He would spend hours reading in his favorite spot at the house, under his oil paintings depicting the citadel of his birthplace Kirkuk, which he painted in his early teens (in 1947!).

The US State Department has urged Iraqi and Kurdish authorities to seek resolution through dialogue and uphold Iraq's constitution in the face of escalating tensions in Kirkuk, resulting in multiple ...

Iraqi security forces deployed in the northern Iraqi oil city of Kirkuk on Sunday to prevent further violence as the death toll in clashes between ethnic groups the previous day rose to four ...

Kirkuk, a flashpoint oil-rich province in northern Iraq along the fault lines between the Kurdish autonomous region and areas controlled by Iraq’s Shia-dominated central government, has been the ...

ERBIL — The historic Kirkuk Citadel in Iraq is set to be restored, as Iraq's Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Antiquities has received several studies for this purpose, an official said on Saturday..

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The Assyrian Citadel in Kirkuk, Iraq stands on an artificial mound 130 feet high. (Goran Sabah Ghafour/K24) Once a site of synagogues, churches, and now a grand mosque, Kirkuk Citadel is the city's ...

Kirkuk Citadel's Bughda Khanim Shrine, also known as Gok Kumbet. (Photo: Goran Sabah Ghafour/K24) "This citadel is proof that this city is so precious," Kareem said. "It was once the house of all ...

Historical sites in the central province of Kirkuk are also in a sad state of disrepair and "neither authorities nor private ... He pointed to the 3,000-year-old citadel and the ...