16 January 2008
Although attacks in Iraq have decreased, insecurity continues to severely limit the activities of the United Nations mission there, while the political situation has not improved as much as had been hoped, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in a new report.
22 February 2008
Along Turkish-Iraqi border
Wednesday, 23 January 2008
Iraq's parliament has voted to change the country's flag.
The three stars that represented Saddam Hussein's Baath Party will be removed, to address the concerns of Iraqi Kurds.
A Kurdish separatist group, the TAK, said it carried out the attack in response to recent violence in the mainly Kurdish south-east of Turkey.
Xinhua - Editor: Wang Yan - ANKARA, July 23President calls for minister to step aside
By Yahya Barzanji
The Associated Press - October 3, 2005
KIRKUK · Iraq's Kurdish president called on the country's Shiite prime minister to step down, the spokesman for the president's party said Sunday, escalating a political split between the two factions that make up the government.
| Guest Voice
5 March 2008 | Dr. Günes Murat Tezcür
Few places symbolize state power and security challenges more than the border zone between Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan. Whether this border will blossom with commerce and cultural exchange or become a transit point for tanks and militants has great implications for the future of the Middle East and the relationship between the Muslim world and the West.
By Scott Peterson, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
Mon Jul 9, 4:00 AM ET
Sultan Koyun says she cries as much for fallen Turkish soldiers as for killed militants of the Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK). For the first half of this story, published June 6, click here.
