Kurd General Says His Brigade Is Training Intensively for Urban Combat in Baghdad

January 17, 2007 - The Associated Press
By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press Writers

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A Kurdish army brigade from northern Iraq is undergoing intensive urban combat training for deployment to Baghdad, where it expects to take on the Mahdi Army Shiite militia, its commander said Saturday.


  

By Gavin Jones -November 12, 200

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said on Saturday that it may be possible to reach an agreement by the end of 2006 on the withdrawal of foreign troops from his country.


  


Friday, December 14, 2007 | ÜMİT ENGİNSOY WASHINGTON

Political solution, not military one, is desirable to eliminate PKK in both Turkey and Iraq, State Dept.'s counter-terrorism coordinator says


  

23/06/2005 Deutsche Welle
Turkey’s best-selling novelist Orhan Pamuk has been awarded the German Book Trade’s Peace Prize, reflecting a growing awareness that many of the issues preoccupying Turkey these days have a profound global resonance.

  

By Richard A. Oppel Jr. The New York Times

ERBIL, Iraq - Kamal Sayid Qadir had just returned here from Austria in late October when two trusted former students invited him for coffee at the Hotel Avista.


  


2 October 2007 | By Scott Stearns | White House

President Bush welcomed Iraqi President Jalal Talabani to the Oval Office to discuss a stable future for the turbulent country.  VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns has the story.


  

Associated Press - Tue. May. 3 2005 6:17 AM ET
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's incoming prime minister struggled to find a Sunni Arab to run the key Defense Ministry in time to join Iraq's first democratically elected government when it takes office Tuesday.

  


Thursday, October 18, 2007 | The Associated Press

IRBIL, Iraq: Thousands of Kurds and supporters took to the streets in northern Iraq Thursday to protest the Turkish parliament's decision to authorize the government to send troops across the border to root out Kurdish rebels who have been conducting raids into Turkey.


  

Info Kurdish Returnees Revive Village Leveled During Saddam's Era
By TINI TRAN - The Associated Press

Aug. 23, 2005 - Even a year ago, the dusty, rolling hills north of Kirkuk were largely barren. But the horizon has changed rapidly in recent months with a flurry of newly constructed cinderblock homes dotting the hillsides.

  


18 December 2007 

The leader of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP), who allegedly evaded military service by forging a medical document, was detained at Esenboğa Airport in Ankara upon his return to Turkey from Düsseldorf on Monday.