BAGHDAD, May 20 -- Iraq's first constitutional government since the fall of Saddam Hussein took office in a televised ceremony Saturday, with unfilled cabinet posts and last-minute sectarian bickering underlining the difficulties it will face in bringing peace and order to the country.
Like their colleagues across Iraq, the doctors and nurses at the Emergency Management Centre in Irbil work relentlessly.
WASHINGTON — American diplomats are working to secure assurances that yesterday's overwhelming vote in the Turkish parliament to authorize cross-border raids into northern Iraq is purely symbolic and that the Turkish military will not enter the mountainous Kurdish region of Iraq.
- 2006 February 13
At least 11 people have been hurt in Turkey in an explosion in front of a supermarket in the city of Istanbul.
Istanbul's Governor Muammer Guler said the blast was apparently caused by a bomb left outside the shop. A Kurdish militant group has claimed responsibility for planting the device in the Bahcelievler suburb, the Kurdish news agency Firat reports.
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
