By KIRK SEMPLE and RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. - Published: April 21, 2006
BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 20 - Under intense domestic and American pressure, Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari dropped his bid to retain his job on Thursday, removing a major obstacle to forming a new government during a time of rising sectarian violence.
IRBIL, Iraq - By ANNE GEARAN, AP - Fri Oct 6, 8:07 AM ET - Convinced oil revenue is the long-term key to economic independence for a unified Iraq, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice appealed Friday for cooperation from the autonomous and oil rich Kurdish north. 
July 26, 2007 | Featuring Soner Cagaptay, Matthew Bryza, and Alan Makovsky
On July 23, 2007, Soner Cagaptay, Matthew Bryza, and Alan Makovsky addressed a Policy Forum at The Washington Institute. Dr. Cagaptay is a senior fellow and director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute. Mr. Bryza is deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs. Mr. Makovsky is a senior staff member with the House Committee on International Relations.
December 02, 2007 | By Abdel Hamid Zebari
ARBIL, Iraq (AFP) A leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) acknowledged on Sunday that rebel fighters had come under attack by Turkish helicopters inside Iraq but insisted they had suffered no casualties.
Friday August 15 2008 | Robert Tait in Istanbul
Ahmadinejad snubbed by breakdown of energy sale
Aim of president's visit thwarted by intervention
Turkey delivered a humiliating snub to Iran's visiting president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, yesterday by backing out of a lucrative energy deal under pressure from the US government, which feared it would enhance Iranian nuclear ambitions.
December 19th 2007 | ANKARA | From The Economist print edition
Raids across the border
AS IF Iraq did not have enough problems of its own. On December 16th Turkish aircraft bombed what they said were Kurdish rebel positions deep inside northern Iraq. It was one of the biggest cross-border air strikes in recent years and was followed by an incursion by about 300 Turkish troops. They were said to be lightly armed, and advanced only 3km (1.9 miles) into Iraq. But the two actions mark a big escalation of the traditional hostilities.
Friday, December. 28, 2007 | By Charles Crain/Baghdad
For close to two weeks, Turkey has been targeting the guerrillas of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) inside Iraqi territory.
June 7, 2007 | By Najmaldin O. Karim is the president of the Washington Kurdish Institute.
Postponing a vote on making the city part of Kurdistan could imperil the U.S. mission in Iraq.
EVEN AS THE battle for Baghdad continues to rage, the United States must begin considering the future of another Iraqi city: Kirkuk.
February 8, 2008 | Op-Ed Contributor | By NOAH FELDMAN | Cambridge, Mass
THE West doesn’t know quite what to think of Turkey’s Islamic-oriented ruling party: does it envision a liberal, European future for Turkey or an Islamist one? A vote this week on the seemingly minor issue of whether head scarves should be allowed at universities will help us begin to answer that question.
