June 8, 2007
Absolutely the last thing Iraq needs right now is to have thousands of Turkish troops pour across the border into the country’s one relatively peaceful region - the Kurdish-administered northeast. Turkey’s government needs to know that it will reap nothing but disaster if that happens.
BAGHDAD, Oct 22 (AFP) - 21h28 - ArabLeague chief Amr Mussa made two landmark visits in Iraq Saturday toraise support for a proposed national reconciliation conference, whilethe toll of US deaths grew to nearly 2,000.
April 29, 2008
When Sen. Barack Obama questioned Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker on April 8, he expressed the conviction that the United States would find a solution for Iraq only when talking with that country's neighbors, including Iran. Mr. Obama may be right — but not for the reason he seems to think.
March 28, 2008 | The Associated Press
WASHINGTON: The United States condemned on Thursday an attack by Syrian security forces on Syrian Kurds celebrating the Kurdish new year. Three Kurds were reported killed and five wounded in the March 20 incident.
Tue Aug 21, 2007 | By Aseel Kami
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner called on Europe on Tuesday to play a bigger role in Iraq because "the Americans will not be able to get this country out of difficulty alone."
March 14, 2008 | By Nina Shea | Paulos Faraj Rahho, R.I.P.
The Catholic Chaldean archbishop of Mosul, Paulos Faraj Rahho, was found dead Thursday in a shallow grave in that northern Iraq city. On February 29, Islamist extremists had abducted the 65-year-old prelate while he prayed, in Aramaic, the language of Jesus himself, the Lenten Stations of the Cross at his church.
Monday, July 23, 2007 | Christopher Hitchens
The mills of justice grind with maddening slowness, but they do at least grind. In October 2005, my friend Denis MacShane, the radical Labor member of Parliament for Rotherham, rose on the floor of the House of Commons to demand a joint inquiry by the British parliament and the U.S. Congress into the financial relationship between George Galloway and the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
October 5, 2007 by Ivan Watson | Morning Edition
More than a month has passed since four suicide bombers driving trucks filled with explosives attacked two villages in northwest Iraq - killing 310 people and wounding more than 700.
