A quake, measuring 3.1 degree, Richter Scale, was detected in Halabja city in Kurdistan Region, northeast Iraq, on Friday. The quake, the second in the region within 24 hours, was not felt by local ...
Kurdish PM asserts that any BP deal for Kirkuk oil fields in Iraq must involve Kurdish region, highlighting ongoing tensions with the central government.
Control over oil and gas has long been a source of tension between Baghdad and the Kurds, with Kirkuk - a region rich in hydrocarbons - at the centre of the dispute ...