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.

A DANGEROUS dynamic was set in motion Wednesday with the vote of Turkey's Parliament to authorize a military operation in the Kurdish region of Iraq against the guerrilla band of Turkish Kurds known as the PKK.

September 10, 2006
Editorial   New York times

After a Kurdish group claimed responsibility for a series of recent bombings in Turkey that killed three civilians and injured many others, the United States appointed a retired Air Force general and former NATO commander, Joseph Ralston, to work with Turkish authorities.

Guardian- Saturday October 29, 2005

Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk faces trial next month for referring to his country's massacre of Armenians. He argues that the great European writers have revealed a continent in constant flux, in which modern Turkey has earned its place Orhan Pamuk

March 11, 2008 | By Stephen Farrell

GOPALA, Iraq — Just northeast of Kirkuk is a factory doing some of the best business in Iraq, but whose workers would be content to see it close down.