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.
March 9, 2008 | By JAMES GLANZ
Two senior members of the Senate Armed Services Committee have requested a full accounting of how Iraq is spending its soaring oil revenue, amid starkly conflicting estimates of how much the country has invested in rebuilding its broken infrastructure and providing basic services to its citizens.
April 23, 2008 | By Maad Fayad
London, Asharq Al-Awsat and Agencies - The population of Arbil and the rest of the Kurds who live in Iraqi Kurdistan prefer to use the historical name ‘Lir’ in reference to the Kurdish region’s capital, Arbil, as an homage to the history of the region, which predates back to over 6,000 years.
March 11, 2008 | Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
July 30 2008 | By Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington
Iraqi oil production has risen to its highest level since the 2003 invasion on the back of improved security across the country, according to a new US government report.
July 14, 2008 | Op-Ed Contributor | By BARACK OBAMA
CHICAGO — The call by Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki for a timetable for the removal of American troops from Iraq presents an enormous opportunity. We should seize this moment to begin the phased redeployment of combat troops that I have long advocated, and that is needed for long-term success in Iraq and the security interests of the United States.
