In-depth: Forming a local government in Kirkuk, Iraq’s oil-rich and ethnically diverse province, is only possible through consensus.
The Kurdish and Iraqi flag sway in the wind as a bonfire burns during the Noruz spring festival celebrations in the northern city of Kirkuk, about 240 kilometres (150 miles) north of Baghdad on 20 March 2017. [Getty]
Iraq‘s Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) on 21 January ratified the final results of the country’s first provincial elections in a decade, with Kirkuk taking…
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