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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

LONDON—Iraq's Oil Ministry said Friday Kurdish Peshmerga forces had seized control of production facilities at two key oil fields near the northern city of Kirkuk, in a move that could further ...

Kurdish Peshmerga forces in northern Iraq regained control of an oil field near Kirkuk, after Islamic State militants overran the facility, setting fire to two storage tanks and causing crude ...

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 ...

The Iraqi Oil Ministry will begin exporting oil from fields in semi-autonomous Kurdistan, an official said on May 10, heralding a breakthrough in a bitter feud over control of Iraq's oil wealth.

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 ...

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 accused Kurdish forces of seizing two northern oil fields near the disputed city of Kirkuk Friday, as relations between Baghdad and the autonomous Kurdistan region hit a new low.