EghtesadOnline: Authorities in the autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan have opposed exporting oil from the northern fields of Kirkuk via Iran, marking their first escalation of a spat which has started with secessionist calls.

EghtesadOnline: The boy looked scared and younger than 16 when Iraqi police grabbed him on the street in the northern city of Kirkuk . Pulling off his shirt, they found a two-kilogram bomb strapped to his skinny frame.

EghtesadOnline: Iraq, OPEC’s second-biggest producer, will increase crude exports by about 5 percent in the next few days after an agreement to resume shipments from three oil fields in Kirkuk .