July 15, 2007 | Andrew Sullivan
The phrase on everyone’s lips now is “postsurge”. The logistics of military tour cycles, the logic of congressional politics and the sheer impossibility of putting Iraq back together again in anything like the foreseeable future have caused something of a Rubicon in Washington.
Friday, 29 February 2008
The Turkish military says it has withdrawn its troops from northern Iraq, following a controversial ground offensive against Kurdish rebels.
The policy of the Presidency, the Government, and the political parties of the Kurdistan Region related to this issue can be summarized as follows:
WASHINGTON -- You can't have one without the other, but with many of Iraq's power plants shut and refineries stopped, Iraqis have neither fuel nor electricity.
Sunday, July 8, 2007 | By Jim Hoagland
The relative stability and prosperity of Iraqi Kurdistan provide the only bright spots of redemption for President Bush in the bloody anarchy that Iraq has become under a mismanaged occupation. Permanently securing the Kurdish minority from Baghdad's genocidal impulses and acts would be a historic accomplishment.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 | By LOLITA C. BALDOR | The Associated Press
ANKARA, Turkey -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday that Turkey should remove its troops from northern Iraq in the next few days, sending a strong message that U.S. patience is running out on the operation targeting Kurdish insurgents.
10 November 2005 - Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees
GENEVA, November 10 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency said Thursday it has started rehousing the last 2,000 Iranian Kurd refugees remaining in a decades-old camp in Iraq, which has been badly affected by the security situation since the fall of the Saddam Hussein regime in April 2003.
