Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 12:00 AM
By Richard Boudreaux - Los Angeles Times

BAGHDAD, Iraq — The Shiite Muslim and Kurdish parties leading Iraq failed to win enough seats in last month's parliamentary election to form a new government on their own, complete returns showed Friday, setting the stage for U.S.-backed talks aimed at bringing Sunni Arabs and other minority parties into a broader ruling coalition.

Friday, July 11, 2008 | By Gareth Jenkins

On July 10 Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Baghdad in the first official visit to Iraq by a Turkish head of government since 1990 and only the second by a regional leader since the U.S. invasion and occupation of the country in 2003.

- 2005/03/16- Iraq's political and ethnic rivalries have long converged on Kirkuk, the northern city that commands the country's biggest oilfields. The Kurds of northern Iraq see it as a potential seat of power, a site of emotional as well as economic significance.

Meanwhile real power, until recently, has rested with the city's Arab population, boosted by migrants from the south under Saddam Hussein's "Arabisation" programme.

GUERNICA
March 2008 | Lewis Alsamari

Rumors were spread by word of mouth. Some of them were exaggerated in the telling, no doubt, but even the most grisly were not, I am sure, so very far from the truth.

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.

Friday, 31 March 2006

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.