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
April 10, 2008 | Michael Gunter
Michael M. Gunter offered a brief overview of his new book titled The Kurds Ascending, which discussed the recent events that improved the Kurdish situation in Iraq and Turkey. He mainly attributed positive developments in Kurdish rights to the US wars against Saddam Husayn, and Turkey’s successful EU candidacy along with Justice and Development (AK) Party reforms within Turkey.
March 16, 2008 | War Torn | Five Years | By JOHN F. BURNS | LONDON
On the evening of March 19, 2003, a small group of Western journalists had grandstand seats for the big event in Baghdad, the start of the full-scale American bombing of strategic targets in the Iraqi capital. We had forced a way through a bolted door at the top of an emergency staircase leading to the 21st-story roof of the Palestine Hotel, with a panoramic view of Saddam Hussein’s command complex across the Tigris River.
Wed Apr 16, 2008 | By Wojciech Moskwa and Joergen Frich
OSLO, April 16 (Reuters) - Shares in Norwegian oil and gas producer DNO (DNO.OL: Quote, Profile, Research) soared on Wednesday on hopes Iraq is close to finalising an oil and gas law for Baghdad to back oil contracts signed by Kurdish authorities.