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Kirkuk

ˌkɪrˈkʊk
WordNet
  1. (n) Kirkuk
    a city in northeastern Iraq; the center of a rich oilfield with pipelines to the Mediterranean
Usage in the news

Set on an arid plain southeast of Kirkuk, Hasira looks like a place forsaken by time. csmonitor.com

Iraq's disputed city of Kirkuk is hit with a string of bombings. globalpost.com

Turkey to send observers to Kirkuk . cnn.com

Looking for bad guys in 'the underbelly of Kirkuk '. idahostatesman.com

Car bomb in Kirkuk kills one. idahostatesman.com

Rebuilding Kirkuk takes some different tactics. idahostatesman.com

Iraqi security forces inspect the scene of a car bomb explosion outside Kirkuk University on April 15, 2012. globalpost.com

Rough Cut Return to Kirkuk BY Karzan Sherabayani and Claudio von Planta June 27, 2005. pbs.org

Interview With Karzan Sherabayani Karzan Sherabayani talks about the betrayal that put him on Saddam Hussein's black list and about why Kirkuk is so important to the Kurds. pbs.org

Iraq's simmering ethnic war over Kirkuk. csmonitor.com

Looking for bad guys in 'the underbelly of Kirkuk'. idahostatesman.com

BAGHDAD — A senior Kurdish military commander says the president of Iraq's self-ruled Kurdish region has visited Kurdish troops in disputed areas near the oil-rich city of Kirkuk. sanluisobispo.com

BAGHDAD — A senior Kurdish military commander says the president of Iraq's self-ruled Kurdish region has visited Kurdish troops in disputed areas near the oil-rich city of Kirkuk. sanluisobispo.com

The president of Iraq's self-ruled Kurdish region visited Kurdish troops Monday in ethnically disputed areas near the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, a move likely to worsen already poor relations with the country's central government. fortmilltimes.com

T he president of Iraq's self-ruled Kurdish region visited Kurdish troops Monday in ethnically disputed areas near the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, a move likely to worsen already poor relations with the country's central government. cortezjournal.com

Usage in literature

It was rumored that we would continue to push on and would attack Kirkuk. "War in the Garden of Eden" by Kermit Roosevelt

In Kirkuk, the struggle is between Kurds, Arabs, and Turkmen. "The Iraq Study Group Report" by United States Institute for Peace

On the Kirkuk road, the main Bagdad-Mosul highway, lying east of the Tigris, British patrols entered the southern outskirts of Kirkuk. "The Story of the Great War, Volume VIII (of VIII)" by various