The Next Battle in Iraq?



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.


  

Gates to Turks: End Iraq Incursion Soon



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.


  

Dozens injured in clashes with pro-Kurd rebel mourners


Tue 28 Mar 2006 5:30 PM ET
(Releads with injured, adds details)

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, March 28 (Reuters) - Thirty-five people, including 11 police, were injured in Turkey on Tuesday in violence which started when mourners at a funeral for Kurdish militants clashed with police, officials said.

  

Last group of Iranian Kurd refugees start relocation from endangered Iraq camp



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.


  

Saddam dominates courtroom drama



5 November 2006
By John Simpson - World affairs editor, BBC News 

The melodramatic end of Saddam Hussein's trial was as fascinating as the first moment when he stalked into the courtroom at the beginning of the trial, just over a year ago.


  

The Road Home



July 8, 2007 - Editorial

It is time for the United States to leave Iraq, without any more delay than the Pentagon needs to organize an orderly exit.

  

Kurd parliament elects Barzani as president


Sun Jun 12, 2005 09:45 AM ET - By Shamal Aqrawi

ARBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - The Kurdish parliament in northern Iraq on Sunday elected veteran leader Masoud Barzani as president of the region, giving the group greater autonomy after decades of oppression under Saddam Hussein.

  

What a headscarf can mean



Tuesday, April 1, 2008 | By Anne Applebaum

It can be a little wisp of fabric, nothing more. It comes in longer versions, shorter versions, versions that cover the hair, others that cover the face. According to Le Monde, you can even get a Viennese stylist to design one in the manner of "Catherine Zeta-Jones and Naomi Campbell," with a whiff of supermodel glamour.


  

Protestor reported killed as tensions simmer in Turkey's Kurdish regions


ANKARA, Nov 16 (AFP) - One person was killed and 15 injured in the mainly Kurdish province of Hakkari in southeastern Turkey on Wednesday in flaring violence between Kurdish protestors and the security forces, Anatolia news agency reported.


  

A Surge Against Maliki



By David Ignatius
Wednesday, January 9, 2008; A15

A new movement to oust Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is gathering force in Baghdad. And although the United States is counseling against this change of government, a senior U.S. official in the Iraqi capital says it's a moment of "breakthrough or breakdown" for Maliki's regime.