Kirkuk Still Divides Arabs, Kurds in Iraq
Despite the passage of more than 43 years since an autonomy agreement was signed between Iraq’s central government and the Kurds, tensions persist between Baghdad and Erbil, writes Abdel Hamid Zebari.
![Security personnel and residents gather around a crater caused by a suicide car bomb attack in Debis Security personnel and residents gather around a crater caused by a suicide car bomb attack in Debis, west of Kirkuk March 11, 2013. Three civilians were killed and some 70 others were wounded when a suicide car bomb went off on Monday, west of the ethnically mixed northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, police and hospital sources said. A large number of school pupils were wounded in the attack, which reduced a number of houses to rubble and damaged about ten cars. REUTERS/Ako Rasheed (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST P](/sites/default/files/styles/article_hero_medium/public/almpics/2013/03/RTR3EUCC.jpg/RTR3EUCC.jpg?h=2d235432&itok=TqB5wrJZ)
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