InfoMonday, 6 June, 2005 - Syrian police have broken up a large protest by Kurdish demonstrators in the town of Qameshli, residents said.

  

By Robert F. Worth The New York Times - TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2005

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BAGHDAD President Jalal Talabani of Iraq issued a bitter rhetorical broadside against other Arab countries Monday, saying they had insulted Iraq by not sending diplomats to Baghdad and by not sending condolence letters about the stampede last week in which nearly 1,000 Shiite pilgrims were killed.


  

SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq, Oct 15 (AFP) - 16h07 - Iraqi Kurds flocked to the polls Saturday to vote for a constitution that confirms the status of their autonomous region and was hailed as historic step by regional president Massoud Barzani.

  

Attorneys Also Absent From Court
By Jonathan Finer and K.I. Ibrahim - Washington Post Foreign Service - Friday, February 3, 2006

BAGHDAD, Feb. 2 -- Barred from entering the courtroom by a stern new judge tired of his antics, Saddam Hussein watched his own trial unfold on closed-circuit television Thursday from a courthouse chamber.


  


16 June 2008 | By Suzanne Presto | Irbil

A group of American tourists just wrapped up a two-week trip to Iraqi Kurdistan. Local tourism officials say they are the first American tour group, and only the second tour group ever, to travel through northern Iraq's Kurdish region. Suzanne Presto joined the tourists in the region's capital, Irbil, on the last evening of the trip and has this report.


  

By Cyrille Cartier, Special for USA TODAY - Fri Dec 9, 2005


The semiautonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq has struck a deal with a foreign oil company to drill for oil in a mountainous region just outside this town. Kurdish leaders hope the new oil well will spur further exploration in the area and tighten the regional government's control over its oil wealth.


  

Volume 52, Number 13 · August 11, 2005

By Peter W. Galbraith

On June 4, Jalal Talabani, president of Iraq, attended the inauguration of the Kurdistan National Assembly in Erbil, northern Iraq.

  


September 12, 2007 | By AMIR TAHERI

FOR the last year at least, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the back bone of the Islamic Republic in Iran, has been engaged in a bloody war against Kurdish rebels in four provinces bordering Iraq.
Initially, the authorities in Tehran tried to keep the war a secret, referring to it only occasionally as "operations against evildoers."


  


3 octobre 2007 | Ankara

The pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DPT) on Monday responded to a statement by Chief of General Staff Gen. Yaşar Büyükanıt calling for legal measures to stop the DTP, which is represented in Parliament.

  

THE NEW IRAQI GOVERNMENT


IBRAHIM JAAFARI: PRIME MINISTER
Ibrahim Jaafari, a 58-year-old physician, was spokesman for the Islamic Daawa Party, one of Iraq's oldest political parties. Born in Karbala in 1947, he was educated at Mosul university as a medical doctor. He lived in Iran and UK from the 1980s until the fall of Saddam Hussein. When he was serving in the mainly ceremonial role of vice-president in the US-appointed interim regime, an opinion poll last year suggested Mr Jaafari was Iraq's most popular politician. Mr Jaafari is widely seen as a unifying figure, keen to bring Sunni Arabs into the democratic fold after their widespread absence from election polling stations.
Posted: 05/09 - From: BBC