April 5, 2006
By EDWARD WONG
BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 4 -The Iraqi court trying Saddam Hussein announced Tuesday that it had charged him with genocide, saying he sought to annihilate the Kurdish people in 1988, when the military killed at least 50,000 Kurdish civilians and destroyed 2,000 villages.
Thousands of Sunni Muslims have demonstrated in the Iraqi city of Baquba to protest against the draft constitution being debated in Baghdad. 
5 March 2008 | Servet Yanatma
An Iranian official has said his country could play a positive role in improving dialogue between Turkey and the Iraqi Kurdish leadership in countering terrorism and insisted that the Kurdish leaders do not support the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
Monday, 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
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.
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.
