Thursday June 21, 2007 | Michael Howard in Sulaymaniya

Iraq's Kurdish leaders said last night they had struck an important deal with the central government in Baghdad over a law to divide up Iraq's oil revenues, which is seen by the Bush administration as one of the benchmarks in attempts to foster national reconciliation.

Sunday, June 17, 2007 | By Joshua Partlow

IRBIL, Iraq - Iraqi border police believe neighboring Turkey has amassed 20,000 to 30,000 soldiers along its southern border with Iraq. Turkish helicopters have flown into Iraqi airspace to conduct missions against Kurdish rebels in the mountainous region, and Turkish mortar shells regularly crash down on Iraqi soil, according to U.S. and Iraqi officials

Monday June 18, 2007 | Michael Howard in the Qandil mountains

A Kurdish rebel leader has warned Turkey that it faces disaster if its troops and tanks cross into northern Iraq, amid growing concern of a big Turkish operation to hunt down Kurdish guerrillas holed up across the border.

Saturday June 16, 2007 | Michael Howard in Rowanduz

All the fun of the fair - it must be Iraq
Regional chiefs hope new resort will help kick-start holiday industry

June 6, 2007 | By Tony Blankley

Yesterday I googled "Turkey and the Kurds" and got 1,310,000 hits. Then I googled "Paris Hilton"andgot 45,800,000 hits. That seems about right.

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.

June 7, 2007 | By Najmaldin O. Karim is the president of the Washington Kurdish Institute.

Postponing a vote on making the city part of Kurdistan could imperil the U.S. mission in Iraq.

EVEN AS THE battle for Baghdad continues to rage, the United States must begin considering the future of another Iraqi city: Kirkuk.

April 2007 | by Christopher Hitchens
Letter from Kurdistan

Over Christmas break, the author took his son to northern Iraq, which the U.S. had made a no-fly zone in 1991, ending Saddam's chemical genocide. Now reborn, Iraqi Kurdistan is a heartrending glimpse of what might have been.

 | SLATE
Monday, June 4, 2007 | By Christopher Hitchens
A question every American politician needs to address.

I chanced last week to run into a senior staff member of UNAMI, which is the little-known (and somehow not very reassuring) acronym for the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq. You could read acres of news from that country as it undergoes everything that the death squads of the parties of God can inflict on a society, without ever being reminded that coalition forces are applying a U.N. mandate for the reconstruction and democratization of Iraq. The assaults by the Baathists and the Bin Ladenists on the U.N. presence have been especially vicious: The U.N. headquarters in Baghdad were utterly demolished by military-grade explosives three years ago, murdering among others the heroic Sergio Vieira de Mello, a senior U.N. peacemaker who was explicitly targeted by the Islamists for his role in overseeing the independence of "Christian" East Timor from "Muslim" Indonesia.

2 June 2007 | BEJAN MATUR

The University of Kurdistan is the modern face of the Kurdish region, seeking as soon as possible to become the new Dubai and integrate with the world without compromising its traditional side.