Monday, October 22, 2007
The Turkish government is weighing calls for action against international pressure for restraint, after Kurdish separatist fighters killed 17 Turkish soldiers and captured several more.
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, July 31 (AFP) - 11h35 - A member of the Turkish paramilitary forces in the predominantly Kurdish region of southeast Turkey was killed early Sunday in clashes with rebels of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), local security sources said.
[Reuters - September 13, 2005] - Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said on Tuesday that Iraq will not set a timetable for a withdrawal of U.S. troops, backing away from his published remarks that the United States could withdraw as many as 50,000 troops by the end of the year.
BAGHDAD, June 4 (AFP) - 14h56 - Iraq's Kurdish regional parliament held its first session on Saturday with the Iraqi president urging the Kurds to set an example of unity to the nation torn by sectarian strife.
Sunday, 9 April 2006 A student who slept with a rifle by her side to take pictures of women fighting Saddam Hussein has won a prestigious photography contest.
BAGHDAD, Aug 27 (AFP) - 15h19 - Iraq's Sunnis on Saturday were holding out against a draft constitution deal thrashed out by the Shiites and the Kurds, offering their own proposals for the new charter just a day before it goes to parliament for approval.
Posted on Wed, Feb. 15, 2006 By Borzou Daragahi and Raheem SalmanLOS ANGELES TIMESBAGHDAD, Iraq - Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari, named his Shiite Muslim coalition's candidate to continue leading the country for the next four years, outlined plans Tuesday to build a broad-based government to tackle the country's woeful security conditions.
ISTANBUL, July 31 (AFP) - 16h30 - Rebels from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on Sunday claimed responsibility for kidnapping the mayor of a town in southeastern Turkey, rejecting earlier reports he had been freed.
20 January 2006
Iraq's Shia-led United Iraqi Alliance has won the country's parliamentary elections, but failed to obtain an absolute majority. The alliance took 128 of the 275 seats - 10 short of an outright majority. Kurdish parties have 53 seats and the main Sunni Arab bloc 44.
March 24, 2008 | By Michael Marcous
An international panel of experts discussed the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq and its implications for the broader Middle East, the United States and U.S. allies during a public forum Thursday at UCF’s Student Union.
