February 23, 2008 | By LOLITA C. BALDOR
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Turkey's military assault into northern Iraq will not solve the terrorist problem there, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday, calling for greater political and economic initiatives by the Turks to win over supporters of the Kurdish rebels.
By Joshua Partlow - Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, June 23, 2006; A19
BAGHDAD, June 22 -- Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's new plan to promote reconciliation among Iraq's rival factions will offer amnesty to Iraqis who have "carried weapons" but not to those who have committed serious crimes, according to Iraqi politicians who have read the proposal.
28 february 2008
Erbil, Kurdistan - Iraq (KRG.org) – Mrs Margaret Huber, the Canadian Ambassador to Iraq, this week for the first time visited the Kurdistan Region to identify public and private sector opportunities for cooperation.
Friday, February 29, 2008 | Mehmet Ali Birand
Pandora's box has been opened. The creatures that had been kept there for many years have flown out and scattered. They are impossible to catch and return to the box now.
by Ahmed Janabi
Monday 2 January 2006 7:16 AM GMT
Ibrahim al-Jaafari, the Iraqi interim prime minister, has held a long closed-door meeting with Massoud Barzani, president of the Iraqi Kurdistan province, in Salah al-Din resort in northern Iraq.
Wednesday, May 2, 2007 | By Edward Wong and Sheryl Gay Stolberg
ERBIL, Iraq: Kurdish and Sunni Arab officials expressed deep reservations on Wednesday about the draft version of a national oil law and related legislation, misgivings that could derail one of the benchmark measures of progress in Iraq laid down by President George W. Bush.
Thursday, February 14, 2008 | Cengiz ÇANDAR
The more we postpone to invite Talabani to Turkey and therefore delay talks about a ‘grand bargain,’ the more the critical foreign policy issue of Kirkuk will turn into a mess