Kirkuk, Iraq News

Iraq's electoral commission on Monday submitted a proposal to hold national elections on Jan.

Parliament will supervise ethnic carve-up of power in oil-rich enclave to bring it into national elections A demonstration in Kirkuk in 2006 where Turkomans insisted on an ethnically mixed city.

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Iraq's parliament has passed a long-delayed electoral law, paving the way for nationwide elections.

The oil-rich city of Kirkuk is going to have a new dam with a storage capacity of 39 million cubic meters of water.

Iraq's electoral authorities have called for polls due next January to be delayed after parliament failed once more to agree on how to hold the vote.

Iraqi lawmakers blew another deadline Thursday as they continued haggling over an election law that's crucial to the country's political stability and to the Obama administration's plans for a speedy withdrawal of U.S. troops.

During a ceremony held at Contingency Operating Base Speicher, Iraq, on Nov 3, Maj.

Iraqi lawmakers have only a day left to agree on a new bill that would enable the country to hold key parliament elections in January, according to remarks Wednesday by the country's election commission chairman.

A bomb exploded near a mosque in Kirkuk on Thursday morning, as Iraqi lawmakers made a last-ditch effort to reach a compromise on voting in the disputed city.

Runway approach lights, along with a digital airport surveillance radar system, various navigational aids and other equipment, were part of the suite of equipment officially turned over to the Iraqi air force in a ceremony Oct.

BAGHDAD: Iraq's electoral body warned Sunday that polls set for January will have to be delayed if procedures are not ironed out in the next two days, as a parliamentary vote on an election law was postponed once more.

By REBECCA SANTANA November 01, 2009, 1:31 PM / Iraqi politicians are dueling with new hostility over the fate of Kirkuk, the oil-rich city that both self-ruled Kurds in the north and Iraq's central government want to control.

A bomb attached to a bicycle killed five people in southern Iraq on Sunday, and at least five others were killed in violence across the country, police said.

Iraqi lawmakers again put off a vote on a key electoral bill on Thursday after failing to reach a quorum when a compromise version was presented, raising the prospect of January polls being delayed.

In an Oct. 28 story about Iraq's election law, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Kurdish President Massoud Barzani said the Kurds demand the annexation of the northern Kirkuk region and would not accept any other solution.

Iraq announced Thursday the arrests of dozens of police officers and army soldiers responsible for security in the neighborhood where suicide attacks killed 155 people and wounded more than 500 this week.

U.S. troops could leave Iraq later than currently planned if the fragile nation's elections are delayed, the Defence Department said Thursday.

An Iraqi Kurdish lawmaker says his fellow Kurdish legislators are boycotting a parliament session on a crucial election law needed for the upcoming January balloting.

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