February 26, 2008 | By Asso Ahmed and Tina Susman, Special to The Times
The fighting between its ally and a Kurdish separatist group it considers a terrorist organization puts the Bush administration in a bind. 'They could do more,' an Iraqi official says.
SHILADEZAH, IRAQ -- Artillery and gunfire echoed through the mountains of northern Iraq on Monday during continued clashes between invading Turkish troops and Kurdish rebels, with Turkey saying that 153 guerrillas had been killed in four days.
Friday, Nov. 16, 2007 | By AP/SELCAN HACAOGLU
(ANKARA, Turkey) ��" Turkish authorities on Friday took steps to ban the country's leading pro-Kurdish political party and expel several of its lawmakers from parliament on charges of separatism.
May 29, 2008 | Secretary Condoleezza Rice | Stockholm, Sweden
SECRETARY RICE: Thank you all for being here today. The United States, of course, remains committed fully to fostering a sovereign, democratic, prosperous, and unified Iraq, a federal Iraq that is at peace with itself and at peace with its neighbors. And as we move forward with the International Compact with Iraq, the United States is deeply grateful to our international neighbors for their efforts in helping Iraq develop that framework and the mechanisms not only to transform economically, but to become a full, viable partner in the international economy.
Tue, Aug 05, 2008
JV project led by Gas Cities LLC to generate investments over USD 40 billion
Erbil, 28 July 2008: Gas Cities LLC, a joint venture between Dana Gas PJSC, the Middle East's first and largest regional private-sector natural gas company, and its partner Crescent Petroleum, announced today that the 461 million square foot site for the Kurdistan Gas City has been officially assigned by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), for development by Gas Cities LLC, following extensive surveys that have been completed on potential sites within the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
January 9, 2008
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- President Bush has told Turkish President Abdullah Gul that Kurdish terrorism in southeastern Turkey and Iraq cannot be defeated by purely military means.
September 12, 2007 | By JAMES GLANZ and DENISE GRADY
BAGHDAD - A cholera epidemic in northern Iraq has infected approximately 7,000 people and could reach Baghdad within weeks as the disease spreads through the country’s decrepit and unsanitary water system, Iraqi health officials said Tuesday.
By YAHYA BARZANJI,
Associated Press Writer - September 3, 2006
The leader of the Kurdish region in northern Iraq threatened secession Sunday as a dispute over flying the Iraqi flag intensified.
Whitehouse.gov
18 March 2008 | For Immediate Release | Office of the Vice President
KRG Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani's Private Office
Irbil, Iraq
PRESIDENT BARZANI: (As translated.) On behalf of the people of Kurdistan, I would like to welcome very warmly Mr. Vice President, Dick Cheney, the Vice President of the United States for a very helpful visit in Kurdistan region.
By SALAH NASRAWI
The Associated Press - Sunday, April 9, 2006; 10:36 PM
CAIRO, Egypt -- Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak angered Iraqi leaders Sunday by saying Shiites there and across the Middle East are more loyal to Iran than to their own countries as he gave a startlingly frank warning about possible civil war in Iraq.
