Iraqi security forces, backed by pro-government fighters, have started an operation to purge villages near the oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk from Daesh militants.

Turkey invites Iraq's oil minister just ahead of Baghdad's start of oil exports from the northern Kirkuk fields to Iran.

A large-scale military operation begins in northern Iraq against a new militant outfit reportedly comprising Daesh remnants and Kurdish mafia elements.

Iraqi forces are bracing for a major military operation in the northern governorate of Kirkuk to eliminate the remnants of Daesh terrorists, and prevent future terror attacks.

Iraqi security forces have killed six Daesh Takfiri terrorists in the country’s northern town of Hawijah.

Iraqi Hashd al-Sha’abi fighters have discovered a mass grave in the country’s northern province of Kirkuk.

Iran’s Petroleum Minister Bijan Zangeneh says an oil swap agreement would be signed with Iraq over the next few days – an agreement that he says would concern exports of oil from Iraq’s northern province of Kirkuk.   

The former governor of Iraq’s northern oil-rich province of Kirkuk has reportedly fled to the United States with millions of petrodollars.

Iraqi pro-government Hashd al-Sha’abi forces have recaptured 4 villages in an anti-Daesh offensive in the northern province of Kirkuk.

A truck bomb attack in the northern Iraqi town of Tuz Khurmatu kills 32 and injures 75 people.