Dec. 4, 2007 | Ben Lando, UPI Energy Editor
WASHINGTON, The U.S. energy secretary "encouraged" the visiting Iraqi Kurdish region's oil minister to work with Shiite and Sunni Iraqis on a national oil law.
Tuesday, February 05, 2008 | Theo Caldwell, National Post
An interview with Iraq's ambassador to Canada
Howar Ziad, the Iraqi ambassador to Canada, has seen the best and the worst of humanity in his homeland. The courage of the Iraqi people, and in particular the emergence of the Kurdistan region from decades of genocide and devastation, represents the highest aspirations of the human spirit.
By: PETER W. GALBRAITH
The New York Times - February 1, 2005
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
"Erbil, (Southern Kurdistan) � OF all the remarkable things that happened at the Iraqi polls on Sunday, perhaps the most striking was pulled off by the Kurdish independence movement. With almost no advance notice, hundreds of Kurds erected tents at official polling places in Iraq's Kurdish areas and asked those emerging from the ballot booths to take part in an informal referendum on whether Kurdistan should be independent or part of Iraq. From what I saw, almost everyone stopped to vote in the referendum, and the tally was running 11 to 1 in favor of independence.
Washington Kurdish Institute
Tuesday July 10, 2007
Interview by Elie Nakuzi; “Frankly Speaking” in President Talabani’s Baghdad Office
*Elie Nakuzi:* Mr. President, thank you for receiving us. On my own behalf and on /Al-Arabiya's/ behalf we thank you. We know of course that you are quite busy and you have a crowded timetable, but thank you for accepting our invitation. I begin by asking about your health, for we have heard many rumors. How is President Talabani's health today ?
BAGHDAD, April 17 -- Handwriting experts confirmed that Saddam Hussein signed a document linking him to the killing of 148 people during his rule as Iraqi president, prosecutors said at Hussein's trial on Monday.
July 30, 2007
Nineteen independent candidates supported by the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) completed procedures to register as parliamentary representatives in Parliament on Sunday.
July 15, 2008 | By Laura King, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
The 86 accused in the indictment face terrorism-related charges. They are said to be ultranationalist secularists who wanted to drive out the Islamist-rooted ruling party.
ISTANBUL, TURKEY -- In an explosive case that reflects political turmoil fueled by this country's religious-secular divide, Turkish prosecutors on Monday brought charges against 86 people for allegedly trying to overthrow the government.
April 25, 2008 | By Sam Dagher | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq is expected to unveil a plan in May that it hopes will lead to a compromise over contentious land issues in oil-rich northern Iraq.
KIRKUK, Iraq - Kirkuk provincial council head Rizgar Ali says one proof of the province's "Kurdishness" is in the maps.
Tuesday, 31 July 2007
Iran has sentenced two dissident journalists from its ethnic Kurdish minority for being "enemies of God".
