Peter Galbraith: The Kurdish Border Poses an Explosive Threat
Sept. 24, 2007 | By Peter Galbraith
Qandil mountain is an unusual trouble spot. Straddling the Iran-Iraq border in the Kurdish regions of both countries, it is inaccessible and inhospitable.
Iraq: Minister Calls On Iran To Focus On Supporting Government
September 17, 2007 (RFE/RL)
Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari says that relations with Iran have been hurt by Tehran's shelling of areas in Kurdish-administered northern Iraq and its support for anti-coalition militants in the south. RFE/RL correspondent Charles Recknagel spoke with Zebari about Iran-Iraq relations during the minister's visit today to RFE/RL in Prague.
Kurdistan not like other parts of Iraq
September 16, 2007
Four years ago, photographer Hal Yeager and I came home to Birmingham after nearly six weeks on assignment with an Alabama Army National Guard unit in northern Iraq.
No. 77: Kurdistan, the Iraq Worth Fighting For
September 18, 2007
Kurdistan is safe, orderly, and bustling with economic development. It's what we hoped Iraq would become. And it's time to make sure it stays that way.
Kurds Speak Out Against Honor Killing of Women
13 September 2007 | By Brian Padden
Irbil- The Kurdish region of Iraq is still coming to terms with the cultural and political ramifications of the brutal honor killing of a 17-year-old Yazidi girl in April. Men in her village killed the girl because she was in love with a Muslim boy.
Iran's war on the Kurds
September 12, 2007 | By AMIR TAHERI
FOR the last year at least, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the back bone of the Islamic Republic in Iran, has been engaged in a bloody war against Kurdish rebels in four provinces bordering Iraq.
Initially, the authorities in Tehran tried to keep the war a secret, referring to it only occasionally as "operations against evildoers."
Cholera Epidemic Infects 7,000 People in Iraq
September 12, 2007 | By JAMES GLANZ and DENISE GRADY
BAGHDAD - A cholera epidemic in northern Iraq has infected approximately 7,000 people and could reach Baghdad within weeks as the disease spreads through the country’s decrepit and unsanitary water system, Iraqi health officials said Tuesday.
Hunt Oil Skirts Baghdad, Signs Deal With Kurds
September 10, 2007 | By Chip Cummins
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Hunt Oil Co. has struck a deal to explore for oil in Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdish region, signaling a new willingness by some large Western companies to bypass the fractious government in Baghdad and deal directly with regional authorities in the war-torn country.
Kurdish widows' lives frozen in time
September 9, 2007 | By Borzou Daragahi, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
BARZAN, Iraq — Patience, the mothers begged their children. Saddam Hussein will fall. Liberty will come. Your father will return.
In 1983, the men of Barzan were taken by Hussein's troops, never to be seen again. But the women still wait.
Iraqi Kurdistan : Does independence beckon ?
Sep 6th 2007 | ERBIL AND SULAYMANIYAH
From The Economist print edition
Iraq's Kurds have never had it so good. But they still have a long way to go before securing a safe and stable, let alone democratic, future
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