Mon May 1, 2006 10:28 AM ET
SULAIMANIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - Iranian forces battling Kurdish rebels shelled parts of northern Iraq's region of Kurdistan on Monday, the regional interior minister said, the second attack in 10 days.
Othman Mahmoud said Iranian troops shelled at least 10 villages in several border areas in northeastern Iraq.
June 26, 2006 - From James Bone in New York
LINKS between Boutros Boutros Ghali, the former UN Secretary-General, and an alleged agent for Saddam Hussein will come under the spotlight when the first American trial of a major figure in the Oil-for-Food scandal gets under way today.
December 16, 2007 | By PETER SCARLET
BAHMAN GHOBADI first came to the movie world’s attention in 2000, when his “Time for Drunken Horses” won the prize for best first feature at the Cannes Film Festival. Perhaps because the film — a harrowing depiction of five orphans struggling to eke out a hardscrabble existence as smugglers in the mountainous border region between Iran and Iraq — was billed as Iranian, few took notice that the movie was not in Persian but in Kurdish. “Drunken Horses” became the first feature film in that language, a tongue banned in Iranian schools since the 1940s, to achieve an international release.
Regarding Nina Shea's Aug. 27 op-ed, "Iraq's Endangered Minorities":
BAGHDAD, Aug. 16, 2007
PM Announces New Unity Government, But No Sunnis Aboard; New Blast Hits Baghdad
(CBS/AP) The search continued Thursday in Iraq for victims of a coordinated string of bombings two nights earlier that killed at least 250, but possibly as many as 500 members of a small religious sect in northern Iraq.
By AMIR TAHERI
As the Baathist government hunted down its opponents, Mr Maliki followed other Dawa leaders into exile - fleeing the country in 1980 and eventually finding refuge in Syria.
Wednesday, 06 February 2008 | Randy Fabi
The Kurdistan regional government (KRG) said on Tuesday it will continue to sign contracts with oil companies despite threats from Baghdad to cut exports due to a dispute over their legality.
23 juillet 2007
Former Kurdish deputy Leyla Zana faces an investigation after she called for division of Turkey into administrative states, including a “state of Kurdistan.”
