January 3, 2007 / By Peter W. Galbraith

IN HIS FINAL minutes, one of Saddam Hussein's executioners shouted, "Go to hell, Saddam." The condemned man replied dryly, "You mean the Iraq that is today." After his body dropped through the trap door, the assembled witnesses chanted Shi'ite slogans.

Sat December 1, 2007

ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) -- The Turkish military said Saturday it attacked 50 to 60 Kurdish rebels inside Iraqi territory, inflicting "significant losses."

28 january 2006

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein's cousin told a court trying him for genocide on Sunday he had ordered Kurdish villages cleared in the 1988 "Anfal" campaign but insisted he was right to do so and had nothing to apologize for.

July 16, 2007

IRBIL, Iraq, July 16 (UPI) -- The premier of Iraq's Kurdish region is urging the federal government to make headway on a stalled oil law, claiming "unauthorized" changes were made to it.

Monday, 16 July 2007

A convoy of cars snakes its way through a wheat field. Crammed inside are hundreds of mourners heading for the wake of the latest person to die in more than 20 years of conflict.

January 15, 2008 | By Ned Parker | Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

If Baghdad doesn't arrange for a vote in the next 6 months, then the provincial government should be allowed to sponsor the balloting, he argues.

Monday January 28, 2008 | Richard Lea

Thirteen people have been arrested in Turkey as part of an investigation into an ultra-nationalist gang reported to be planning the assassination of Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk.

Wednesday, 6 February 2008 | By Aiyob Mawloodi

Ministry of Planning in a conference about the mechanism of improving the banking system.

March 13, 2008 | By JAMES GLANZ

BASRA, Iraq — Several senior Iraqi officials said on Wednesday that the government might soon deploy Iraqi Army troops to seize control of this city’s decrepit but vital port from politically connected militias known more for corruption and inciting terrorism than for their skill in moving freight.