THE CONFLICT IN IRAQ - The alliance America helped build appears set to create a religious, federal state, opposite of the secular, united Iraq that Washington seeks.
By Borzou Daragahi and Alissa J. Rubin - Times Staff Writers - From the Los Angeles Times
BAGHDAD — January 22, 2006 - They are the orphans of Iraqi history, grown up and remaking the country's political and social order. But the formidable alliance between the long-marginalized Shiite Muslims and Kurds, a union nurtured by Washington, now threatens to undermine U.S. goals in the new Iraq.
July 17 , 2007 |Peter Galbraith
The week in Iraq began with a brutal triple bombing in the oil-rich, disputed city of Kirkuk, a city whose fate is supposedly to be decided by a referendum at year's end.
10:50 ET 20 February 2006 Monday / Ankara -Turkey's media watchdog has announced that broadcasts in the Kurdish language may commence in March on private radio and television stations.
27 june 2007 | By Damien McElroy in Kashan Valley, northern Iraq
On a mountain ridge overlooking a riverside picnic spot in Kashan, Roshad Adel picked at the broken soil. Within minutes he was holding a handful of shrapnel.
Monday, March 24, 2008 | The Associated Press
ANKARA: The police on Monday broke up a protest by hundreds of masked and stone-throwing Kurdish demonstrators during the fifth straight day of clashes that have killed two people and wounded dozens, news reports said.
Kurdish candidate in Kirkuk wins the race for governor, news reports say
Wednesday, February 9, 2005
ANKARA - Iraqi Kurds and Shiite groups will soon launch post-election talks over sharing government posts, Iraqi interim Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said yesterday.
Tuesday, 23 October 2007
The top US military commander in Iraq, Gen David Petraeus, tells BBC diplomatic correspondent Jonathan Marcus of his fears about a possible Turkish raid in the autonomous Kurdish region of Iraq.
14 December 2007
Remarks made by Chief of General Staff Gen. Yaşar Büyükanıt, stating that he believes the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is "in Parliament," have been a source of legal and political controversy from the moment they were first uttered on Wednesday
Monday, June 25, 2007 | By Amir Afkhami and Michael Soussan
HALABJA, Iraq - In a few days, "Chemical Ali" will face death by hanging. Ali Hassan al-Majid earned his nickname after he ordered the use of chemical weapons to eradicate the population of Halabja, a Kurdish town located near Iraq's northern border with Iran.
