Mon Aug 11, 2008
TUNCELI, Turkey (Reuters) - Nine Turkish soldiers including a lieutenant colonel were killed on Monday when their vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device planted by separatist guerrillas, military sources told Reuters.
Oct. 2, 2007 | By BEN LANDO | UPI Energy Editor
WASHINGTON, Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government made a sudden but not unexpected announcement Tuesday it had signed four more controversial oil deals. While the move highlights success in the region, it comes as the central government in Baghdad struggles to meet long-term agenda items like a national oil law.
Wednesday, January 9, 2008 | By David Ignatius
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.
February 4, 2008 | Harry Schute - Erbil, Kurdistan; Iraq
I have no problem with the U.S. military rewarding tribal sheikhs with contracts in thanks for their turning against the insurgency ("Military: 75% of Baghdad areas now secure," News, Jan. 18).
BAGHDAD, Oct. 18 — Turkey’s decision to allow the dispatch of troops over Iraq’s border in pursuit of Kurdish guerrillas throws into relief a troubling quandary for Iraq’s leaders.
15 March 2008
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) strongly condemns the killing of Archbishop Faraj Raho, the head of the Chaldean Church in Mosul.
24 July 2007 | Nicholas Birch in Istanbul
As Turkey's government savoured an overwhelming electoral victory yesterday, regional analysts agreed that the immediate impetus for an invasion of northern Iraq had receded.
