Can the U.N. avert a Kirkuk border war?



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.


  

Death verdicts for Iran reporters



Tuesday, 31 July 2007

Iran has sentenced two dissident journalists from its ethnic Kurdish minority for being "enemies of God".


  

Hanging of Saddam`s aides filmed



15 January 2007

Iraqi officials have shown journalists video footage of the hanging of two of Saddam Hussein's aides, during which one of the men was decapitated.

  

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.