8 February 2008 | Interview by Mina Al-Oraibi in Davos

[Asharq Al-Awsat] You have stated that 2008 will be the year of political progress in Iraq. How will you achieve that?


  


Saturday, 20 May 2006
After five months of negotiations following December's general elections Iraq's parliament has approved a new government, including members of the main Shia, Kurd and Sunni parties.

Here is the full list of ministers.


  


March 13, 2008 | By UCF Staff

At a time when Kurds are becoming known as “the Iraq that works,” the University of Central Florida will receive a $1 million donation to create the first endowed chair in Kurdish Political Studies in the United States.


  


June 16, 2008 | By ALISSA J. RUBIN and SUADAD AL-SALHY

BAGHDAD — Discussions among Iraqi politicians on the country’s long-term security agreement with the United States were under way over the weekend, but it will take many weeks and more likely months before the agreement is completed, people close to the negotiations said.


  


June 29, 2007 |  | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

Diyarbakir, Turkey  | While Kurds are testing the limits of legal reforms that grant more freedoms, an uptick in attacks from separatists threaten to erode gains made by the ethnic minority.
By Scott Peterson | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
 


  

Edward Wong, New York Times - Thursday, June 9, 2005

Baghdad -- The rift between Iraq's government and disgruntled Sunni Arabs widened further on Wednesday as Iraq's leaders came out in support of sectarian militias that Sunnis fear could be used against them.

  


April 15, 2008  | The Associated Press

ANKARA, Turkey: A Turkish court on Tuesday found 53 Kurdish mayors guilty of praising a criminal group because they asked Denmark to let a television station with alleged links to Kurdish guerrillas continue to operate there.


  


2 June 2007 | BEJAN MATUR

The University of Kurdistan is the modern face of the Kurdish region, seeking as soon as possible to become the new Dubai and integrate with the world without compromising its traditional side.


  

ARBIL, Iraq, Aug 6 (AFP) - 14h03 - The president of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, Massud Barzani, said Saturday that the Kurds would not accept an Islamic identity for Iraq when the war-torn country's new constitution is finalised.

  

Iraqi transitional assembly elects Kurdish leader

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraq's new transitional assembly took an expected but historic step Wednesday, electing Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani as the nation's president -- a symbol of the new Kurdish clout in the largely Arab nation.