... deadliest bombing this year. The blast near Kirkuk a city rife with ethnic tensions came ... 10 miles (20 kilometers) south of Kirkuk, following noon prayers when the truck ... victims to the overwhelmed hospital in Kirkuk and some victims had to be taken to nearby ...

... devastated a food market in the city of Kirkuk, killing at least 33 people and wounding ... Qaida in Iraq, was the second in the Kirkuk area since a truck bombing killed 82 people ... citing the "senseless bombing" in Kirkuk the latest in a series of attacks that ...

... accomplished the task that they came for, which is defeating terrorism," said Miriwan Kerim, a 32-year-old watch peddler in Kirkuk. "The security situation is still fragile so the withdrawal will not restore us to square one but to square zero." President ...

... After two days of travel, the coaches arrived in Iraq late Wednesday night. On Thursday they met with soldiers in Mosul, Kirkuk and Baghdad. The NFL has been working with the USO to send players to visit troops overseas since 1966. Last year, commissioner ...

... unfair arrests. In the northern city of Kirkuk, security patrols were boosted after ... a week ago, then arrived Wednesday in Kirkuk, where he was moved from safe house to ... authorized to release the information. Kirkuk police chief Maj. Gen. Torhan Abdul ...

... horrific attacks, along with the December 11 suicide bombing in Kirkuk, demonstrate that despite the great progress we have made ... said in a joint statement. The bombing in the northern city of Kirkuk killed 55. Other Islamic extremist groups also have used Ashura ...

... cannot take unilateral action. Two Iraqi soldiers and three policemen were killed in attacks Thursday. In the northern city of Kirkuk, Iraqi and U.S. troops killed three suspected al-Qaida gunmen during a raid, police said. Many of the changes inaugurated ...

... attacks continue, especially in the north. At least 55 people were killed Thursday in a suicide bombing in a restaurant near Kirkuk. It was Bush's last trip to the war zone before Obama takes office Jan. 20. Obama won an election largely viewed as a referendum ...

... eligible voters. Elections are scheduled for later in the northern Kurdish autonomous region and have been indefinitely postponed in the province around oil-rich Kirkuk, where ethnic groups could not agree on a power-sharing formula.

... our military the forces and the flexibility they need to support our Iraqi partners, and to succeed." The northern city of Kirkuk is another potential trouble spot. Tensions between Kurds and Sunni Arabs over control of the city and center of the northern ...