February 21, 2008 | By Ahmad Al-Khaled, Staff writer

KUWAIT: Kurdish Regional Government President Masoud Barzani yesterday addressed the question of Kurdish independence saying, "As long as Iraq is abiding by the current constitution, we are bound by a united Iraq." "We are a major and important part of the government of Iraq and we are not in opposition. It is natural to have differences of opinion but on the core national and strategic issues, we are part of the state and have an understanding with the federal government," said Barzani of the sometimes a
t odds Kurdistan capital of Erbil and the federal capital Baghdad.

Saturday 19 January 2008 | By Hewa Aziz

Sulaymaniyah, Asharq Al-Awsat- Despite the passage of 17 years since the liberation of the city of Sulaymaniyeh and the whole Iraqi Kurdistan region following the 1990-1991 uprisings against the former Iraqi Baathist regime, the traces of terror and suffering still remain in attestation of the brutality of the deposed regime.

17 January 2008

Erbil, Kurdistan-Iraq (KRG.org). A bipartisan delegation of six members of the US House of Representatives visited the Kurdistan Region in Iraq yesterday for meetings with Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) officials.

13 September 2007 | By Brian Padden

Irbil- The Kurdish region of Iraq is still coming to terms with the cultural and political ramifications of the brutal honor killing of a 17-year-old Yazidi girl in April.  Men in her village killed the girl because she was in love with a Muslim boy. 

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Sat Aug 18, 2007 | By Mariam Karouny

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's political leaders held "cordial but candid" talks on Saturday in an attempt to revive national reconciliation efforts and repair the fractured unity government.

June 28, 2007 by JOOST LAGENDIJK*

Without a doubt, the Kurdish issue is one of the most important political problems in Turkey.