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.

24 Feb. 2008

Erbil, Kurdistan - " Iraq (KRG.org) - " Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani today held a press conference in Erbil, capital of the Kurdistan Region, to discuss the ongoing Turkish military incursion in Iraq and his recent visits to the Republic of Korea and State of Qatar.

22 February 2008

Statement by the Kurdistan Regional Government

Erbil, Kurdistan – Iraq (KRG.org) The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) condemns yesterday's military operations in the Kurdistan Region in Iraq and joins the federal Iraqi government in Baghdad in calling on Turkey to end its violation of Iraqi sovereignty.

22 February 2008

Along Turkish-Iraqi border

Saturday, 23 February 2008 | By Patrick Cockburn

Up to 10,000 Turkish troops launch an incursion which threatens to destabilise the country's only peaceful region.

February 25, 2008 | By Gina Chon

KIRKUK, Iraq -- As Turkish troops pursue Kurdish rebels inside Iraq, an ethnic political dispute is heating up in this largely Kurdish town where the country's northern oil industry is based.

February 26, 2008 | WKI Press Release

Washington, D.C. – The President of Washington Kurdish Institute, Dr. Najmaldin Karim, urged the government of Turkey to withdraw its troops from Iraqi Kurdistan and immediately cease military attacks that infringe on the sovereignty of Iraq.

Sunday, February 24, 2008 | By Joshua Partlow and Ellen Knickmeyer | Washington Post Foreign Service

BALINDA, Iraq, Feb. 23 -- The Iraqi Kurdish soldiers stood at the edge of the collapsed steel bridge and looked down into the teal waters rushing below. The last sign of the Iraqi government, a small border checkpoint, was far behind them down in the river valley.

February 23, 2008 | By ALISSA J. RUBIN and SABRINA TAVERNISE

BAGHDAD — Turkey’s military said Friday that it had sent troops into northern Iraq on Thursday night, in what Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey called a limited operation to weaken Kurdish militants there.

February 23, 2008 | By Tina Susman and Yesim Comert, Special to The Times

BAGHDAD -- Turkish troops clashed with Kurdish militants in the snowy mountains of northern Iraq on Friday after staging an invasion, the most serious offensive in years in Turkey's conflict with anti-government rebels.