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.


  

Iran`s new leader suspected in `89 attack


By William J. Kole, Associated Press
VIENNA, Austria — Austrian authorities have classified documents suggesting that Iran's president-elect may have played a key role in the 1989 execution-style slayings of an Iranian Kurdish leader and two associates in Vienna, a newspaper reported Saturday.

  

Kurds Object to Iraqi Provincial Election Law



July 23, 2008 | By ALISSA J. RUBIN

BAGHDAD — The Iraqi Parliament approved legislation on Tuesday to govern provincial elections, but Kurdish lawmakers boycotted the session, vowing to force the measure to be rewritten, and probably delaying the balloting for months.


  

In Iraq, Conflict Simmers on a 2nd Kurdish Front



October 23, 2007 | By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr.

BAGHDAD, Oct. 22 — Deadly raids into Turkey by Kurdish militants holed up in northern Iraq are the focus of urgent diplomacy, with Turkey threatening invasion of Iraq and the United States begging for restraint while expressing solidarity with Turkish anger.


  

Lawyers for Hussein Accuse Kurd of Treason



August 24, 2006 - by Damien Cave

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Aug. 23 — Defense lawyers for Saddam Hussein accused a former Kurdish militant of treason on Wednesday, arguing on the third day of Mr. Hussein’s genocide trial that chemical attacks on Kurds were legitimate acts against local militias conspiring with Iran.


  

Cabinet Shakeup in Iran



April 11, 2008 | By NAZILA FATHI

TEHRAN — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has decided to dismiss his economics and interior ministers, a government spokesman said in Iranian newspaper accounts published Thursday.