March-April 2008 | By Stephen Biddle

IRAQ'S PROGNOSIS is better today than it has been for a long time. An end to major violence, and with it a major reduction in the risk of a wider war and the human cost of further bloodshed, is now a real possibility. But to realize this potential won't be cheap or easy. And it won't produce Eden on the Euphrates. A stable Iraq would probably look more like Bosnia or Kosovo than Japan or Germany.

 Wednesday, May 03, 2006
 BAGHDAD, Iraq  — The Iraqi government is using diplomacy to try to stop Iranian forces from shelling Kurdish rebel positions in the north and does not expect an incursion by ground forces, the foreign minister said Wednesday.

Friday 30 September 2005

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has accused Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari of violating laws and not implementing articles of a joint charter signed between the Kurdistan alliance and the Iraqi coalition.

July 5, 2007
Analysis by Jacques N. Couvas

ANKARA, Jul 5 (IPS) - The button of the stopwatch counting down the invasion of Northern Iraq by the Turkish army was probably pressed on Tuesday, at an impromptu meeting between Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

September 18, 2007

Kurdistan is safe, orderly, and bustling with economic development. It's what we hoped Iraq would become. And it's time to make sure it stays that way.

13 March 2006

BRUSSELS — A report from the Belgian ambassador in Turkey has poured cold water on suspicions that the death of the parents of Kurdish activist Derwish Ferho was the work of a death squad.

Sat Dec 10, 3:30 PM ET  DAMASCUS (AFP) - Syrian security forces dispersed a Kurdish protest in Damascus organized to coincide with the UN-designated International Human Rights Day, an AFP correspondent said.

Fri Apr 7, 2006 10:36 AM ET

By Shamal Aqrawi
ARBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - Writer Kamal Karim came away with a troubling lesson from his Kurdish homeland in northern Iraq -- an opinion can get you a 30-year jail sentence.

July 16, 2008 | By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON

BAGHDAD — The entire bloc of Kurdish lawmakers walked out of Iraq’s Parliament on Tuesday to protest a proposed provincial election law, contending that part of it was unconstitutional.