Iraqi Kurds plan vote for independence 02:26. The takeover of the Bai Hassan and Kirkuk oil fields were the latest land grabs by Kurds, who have responded to the Sunni militant insurgency that has ...

BAGHDAD — Clashes broke out early Monday in northern Iraq as Iraqi forces moved to recapture Kurdish-held oil fields and a military base near the city of Kirkuk, setting the stage for a battle ...

On July 11 Kurdish forces took control of the main oil fields surrounding Kirkuk, a move that could bolster a potential bid for independence. The Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) announced its ...

Baghdad has previously accused the Kurds of illegally exporting oil. The disputed oil fields were controversially included in the independence referendum, despite lying outside of the established ...

LONDON—Kurdish Peshmerga forces took control of production facilities at two key oil fields near the northern city of Kirkuk Friday, in a politically-charged move that is likely to worsen ...

For over a decade, U.S. efforts to promote stability across the Middle East have run afoul of many complexities. The recent independence referendum in the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG ...

President Donald Trump tweeted Thursday that the US military would continue securing oil fields in Syria while also suggesting that America’s onetime allies in the fight against ISIS, the Syrian ...

BP plc (BP), the UK supermajor, has entered into a preliminary agreement with the government of Iraq to rehabilitate and develop four significant oil and gas fields in the northern Kirkuk region.

Iraq’s main state-run firm managing oil and gas operations in the south, announced Monday that several subcontracting ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's oil ministry said on Thursday it holds the Kurdish regional government (KRG) legally responsible for the continued smuggling of oil from the Kurdish region outside the ...

Tensions have escalated between Iraq's central government in Baghdad and the semiautonomous Kurdish region in the country's north in a long-running dispute over the the sharing of oil revenues.