Rice pledges US help to Turkey against Kurd rebels


 

Tuesday, April 25, 2006
ANKARA (Reuters) - The United States tried on Tuesday to ease Turkey's concerns instability in Iraq was threatening its security, pledging continued support for Ankara's fight against the rebel Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).


  

Iraq's Kurdish president tells of confession from Saddam


Associated Press - September 7, 2005

Info BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's president said Tuesday that Saddam Hussein had confessed to killings and other "crimes" committed during his regime, including the massacre of thousands of Kurds in the late 1980s.

  

Remains of massacred Iraqi Kurds returned home 20 years on


ARBIL, Iraq, Oct 17 (AFP) - 22h29 - Kurdish leaders and tearful family members on Monday met 512 coffins carrying the remains of Kurds who have been missing for two decades during a somber ceremony in the northern Iraqi city of Arbil.

  

Justice, but No Reckoning



December 30, 2006
Washington Op-Ed Contributor / By NAJMALDIN KARIM

MY personal battle with Saddam Hussein — which began in 1972 when I abandoned my medical career in Mosul, Iraq, and joined the Kurdish armed resistance — is at an end. To execute such a criminal, a man who reveled in his atrocities, is an act of justice.

  

US Vice President Cheney on first visit to Kurdistan says Region is 'extraordinary example' for rest of Iraq



18 March 2008

Erbil, Kurdistan - Iraq (KRG.org) - US Vice President Dick Cheney, accompanied by his wife Lynne, became the highest ranking official to visit the Kurdistan Region when he arrived today for meetings with President Masoud Barzani and senior officials in Erbil.


  

Police on trial for Kurd attack


 By Sarah Rainsford / BBC News, Van  


  

Kurd leader named Iraq president


Wednesday, April 6, 2005 BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) - Iraq's transitional National Assembly chose a president and two vice presidents Wednesday in a televised session reportedly watched by ousted dictator Saddam Hussein

  

Iraq could have largest oil reserves in the world



May 20, 2008 | Sonia Verma in Sharm el-Sheikh

Iraq dramatically increased the official size of its oil reserves yesterday after new data suggested that they could exceed Saudi Arabia’s and be the largest in the world.


  

Turkey`s harmful empty gesture



December 18, 2007

TURKEY did the wrong thing for the wrong reasons Sunday when it sent more than 50 of its air force jets to bomb sites in northern Iraq. The goal was to kill fighters of the PKK, Kurdish rebels who have been mounting guerrilla attacks in southeastern Turkey. Sunday's bombing and shelling killed at least two civilians and five PKK members, while setting Iraqi Kurdish farms and villages afire. But as a strategic move, Turkey's raid was worse than useless.


  

KRG Prime Minister reports progress in Baghdad meetings



22 Apr. 2008

Erbil, Kurdistan – Iraq (KRG.org) The Kurdistan Regional Government's (KRG) Prime Minister, Mr Nechirvan Barzani in Erbil today said that he is very optimistic about his recent discussions with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on the hydrocarbons law, the Peshmerga forces and Article 140 of the Iraqi constitution.