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.


  

Turkish PM slams BBC, Reuters over Kurdish rebels


ANKARA, July 14 (AFP) - 17h25 - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan lashed out Thursday at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and the Reuters news agency, accusing them of having called the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) a "militia" in their news reports.

  

Iraq Kurd leader rejects Baker report as 'inappropriate'


BAGHDAD (AFP) - The president of        Iraq's Kurdish Autonomous Region issued a strongly worded rebuke of the Iraq Study Group's report on the situation of Iraq and recommendations for US policy, describing it as "unrealistic and inappropriate".

  

Turkish police charged for Kurd attack


Al jazeera  by Aljazeera.net Tuesday 29 November 2005 7:00 AM GMT
A Turkish court has charged and arrested two paramilitary officers on suspicion of involvement in a recent grenade attack on a convicted Kurdish separatist as allegations of state-backed summary executions resurfaced.


  

Iraqi Kurds mourn victims of gas attacks 20 years ago



16 december 2008

HALABJA, Iraq (AFP) — Iraqi Kurds mourned on Sunday the deaths of around 5,000 villagers from Halabja who were massacred 20 years ago in chemical attacks blamed on Saddam Hussein's forces during the Iran-Iraq war.