Conflict between Kurdish north and Arab south plague Iraq’s politics including in Kirkuk, an ancient city known in English as the Kurdish Jerusalem

Iraq’s Kirkuk at heart of Arab-Kurd territory row

Marwan Ibrahim/AFP/File – An Iraqi woman walks past a damaged car at the site of a suicide bomb attack outside a police station in Dibis, northwest of the northern city of Kirkuk, on March 11, 2013Violence-plagued, ethnically mixed and rich in oil, Kirkuk province stands at the heart of an Arab-Kurd dispute.