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1. News - World - IRAQ

   Attack on police base in Kirkuk sees 30 dead, 70 hurt

   Posted Feb 04th 2013, 12:00am by AFP

   ... that was detonated in central Kirkuk was painted to appear as though it was a police car, and the militants who sought to seize the compound were dressed as policemen, witnesses said. The attack shattered ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1142740/attack-police-base-kirkuk-sees-30-dead-70-hurt
2. News - World - IRAQ

   Suicide bomb kills 22 near Baghdad

   Posted Feb 04th 2013, 09:40pm by AFP

   ... was also reported in the capital and in the ethnically-mixed northern city of Kirkuk. In Baghdad, a roadside bomb killed a police officer and wounded three of his colleagues, while four people were ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1143317/suicide-bomb-kills-22-near-baghdad
3. News - World - IRAQ

   Iraq bombings kill 19 on eve of Muslim new year

   Posted Nov 14th 2012, 08:59pm by Agence France-Presse in Kirkuk, Iraq

   ... Wednesday’s deadliest blasts struck in Kirkuk, a disputed ethnically mixed oil-rich province in north Iraq frequently targeted by militants seeking to sow communal violence, where at least nine people ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1082500/iraq-bombings-kill-19-eve-muslim-new-year
4. News - World - IRAQ

   Wave of Iraq attacks kills 24 ahead of polls

   Posted Apr 15th 2013, 07:43pm by AFP

   ... the northern cities of Kirkuk, Tuz Khurmatu, Mosul and Tikrit, the central city of Samarra, and Hilla and Nasiriyah south of Baghdad. Roadside bombs also hit Baquba, north of the capital, ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1215365/wave-iraq-attacks-kills-24-ahead-polls
5. News - World - IRAQ

   Car bombs kill 18 at Iraq Shiite mosques

   Posted Mar 29th 2013, 09:20pm by AFP

   ... an hour of each other in the Baghdad neighbourhoods of Binook, Qahira, Zafraniyah and Jihad, as well as in an area of southern Kirkuk city. No group immediately claimed the attacks, but Sunni ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1202710/car-bombs-kill-17-iraq-shiite-mosques
6. News - World - IRAQ

   Thousands demand fall of Iraq government

   Posted Feb 15th 2013, 09:23pm by AFP

   ... after weekly Muslim prayers in Mosul, Samarra, Kirkuk, Baquba, Ramadi and Fallujah – all predominantly Sunni – as well as Sunni-majority areas of Baghdad under heavy security as the central ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1151150/thousands-demand-fall-iraq-government
7. News - World - IRAQ

   Two blasts at Iraqi Sunni mosque kill 43

   Posted May 17th 2013, 08:37pm by Reuters

   ... violence. Attacks on Sunni and Shi’ite mosques, security forces and tribal leaders have mounted since troops raided a Sunni protest camp near Kirkuk a month ago, and fears are intensifying ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1240043/bombs-near-sunni-mosque-iraq-kill-38
8. Resource-rich province the real prize

   Posted Jan 26th 2005, 12:00am by Borzou Daragahi

   ... an ethnically diverse city the elections are about one thing: Kirkuk, and only Kirkuk. 'I am willing to die for Kirkuk, and if attacked I'm willing to kill for Kirkuk,' said Hoger ...

   http://beta.scmp.com/article/487029/resource-rich-province-real-prize
9. News - World

   Briefs, January 17, 2013

   Posted Jan 17th 2013, 12:00am by VARIOUS

   ... News World Iraq North Korea Russian Mafia Egypt Kabul Poland Somali Agencies Dozens killed in wave of violence in Iraq KIRKUK - Attacks in Baghdad and northern Iraq killed 35 people as hundreds attended the funeral of a Sunni lawmaker who died in a suicide attack a day earlier, amid a political crisis engulfing Iraq. The latest violence, which also left more than 220 people ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1129693/briefs-january-17-2013
10. News - World

    Wave of Iraq attacks kills 48 people

    Posted Dec 18th 2012, 12:01am by AFP

    ... of Baghdad, wounded three police and two civilians, while an attack by gunmen on a Sahwa anti-Qaeda militia checkpoint west of the north Iraq city of Kirkuk killed one militiaman, security and medical ...

    http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1107272/wave-iraq-attacks-kills-48-people

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