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The United Nations reports that ISIL appears to have captured up to 3,000 fleeing Iraqi villagers from Hawija District headed to Kirkuk city. Militants reportedly executed 12 people. Earlier, the Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights said ISIL is using people for human shields against attacks by Iraqi security forces.
2016-08-5

Kurdish MPs withdraw from the central government following a dispute with the Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki with Kurdish forces taking over control of two northern oil fields at Bai Hassan and Kirkuk.
2014-07-11

Iraqi Kurds take over control of the city of Kirkuk as the army flees.
2014-06-12

The Parliament of Iraq postpones a vote on Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's call for a state of emergency due to a lack of quorum.
2014-06-12

The United Nations Security Council meets to discuss the rapid progress of an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant offensive towards Baghdad.
2014-06-12

At least 26 people are killed in a series of attacks in central Iraq.
2014-01-15

A mortar attack kills four Iraq army officers and two soldiers in an army base west of Baghdad.
2013-12-23

A series of car bombings around the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, kills at least 38 people.
2013-10-27

Fifteen people are wounded in a bombing of a Syrian Catholic Church in Kirkuk, Iraq.
2011-08-2

10 killed, 13 wounded in Iraq gold market robbery in a market in Kirkuk, 250 km north of Baghdad.
2010-10-26