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
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.
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.
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.