The Way Out


July 10, 2007 | Flynt Leverett, Suzanne Nossel, Charles A. Kupchan, Lawrence J. Korb and Peter W. Galbraith

A roundtable discussion of our options for exiting Iraq.

In our June issue, Flynt Leverett penned a memo to the incoming president laying out the options for an exit from Iraq. Below, several prominent progressives respond and offer their own suggestions.


  

Villagers tell of terror after Turkey launches rocket attack across border



October 16, 2007

Deborah Haynes in Matin Mountains
The Turkish rockets streaked out of the night sky and slammed into the mountainside next to a village in northern Iraq, setting fire to a swath of grassland and forcing families to dive for cover.

  

Turkish PM promises Kurds more democracy despite new rebel violence


DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, Aug 12 (AFP) - 16h02 - Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan pledged Friday that the Kurdish conflict in Turkey would be resolved with "more democracy" despite a marked increase in violence by armed Kurdish rebels whom Ankara considers "terrorists."

  

Iraqi Kurds protest for self-determination


KIRKUK, Iraq, Aug 14 (AFP) - 14h04 - Hundreds of Iraqi Kurds demonstrated Sunday in Kirkuk calling for self-determination in the constitution and demanding a Kurdish identity for the northern oil hub city.

  

Gas City' launched by Kurdish government



Thu July 31, 2008

ARBIL, Iraq (CNN) -- Two United Arab Emirates based companies announced on Tuesday that they will be investing in the Iraq's autonomous region of Kurdistan.


  

In a First, Ahmadinejad To Visit Iraq Next Month



Friday, February 15, 2008 | By Sudarsan Raghavan

Iran Postpones Fourth Round of Talks With U.S.

BAGHDAD, Feb. 14 -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will travel to Iraq next month in the first such visit by a leader of the Islamic Republic, Iraqi officials said Thursday, adding that Iran had postponed a fourth round of talks with the United States to discuss Iraq's security.


  

Iraqis Denounce Mubarak's Remarks on Strife



April 10, 2006 - By EDWARD WONG

BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 9 — Iraqi leaders on Sunday denounced Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, for publicly asserting that Iraq was already engulfed in civil war and that Iraqi Shiites were loyal to Iran.

  

Kurdish parliament opens, Iraqi insurgents tracked in Baghdad


BAGHDAD, June 5 (AFP) - 2h45 - Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has called on Kurdish regional deputies to set a democratic example for the war-torn nation, while more suspected insurgents were rounded up in Baghdad.

  

Iran: End Executions of Juvenile Offenders



Geneva, July 29, 2008

29 Adults and Two Juvenile Offenders Hanged

The Iranian judiciary should immediately halt all executions of juvenile offenders and Iran’s parliament should move swiftly to ban such executions, a group of human rights organizations said today.


  

Shi'ite, Kurd leaders start to split posts


The Washington Times-ASSOCIATED PRESS- Published December 28, 2005

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra
BAGHDAD - The Shi'ite religious bloc leading Iraq's parliamentary elections held talks yesterday with Kurdish leaders about who should get the top 12 government jobs, as thousands of Sunni Arabs and secular Shi'ites protested what they say was a tainted vote.