Tuesday, April 25, 2006
ANKARA (Reuters) - The United States tried on Tuesday to ease Turkey's concerns instability in Iraq was threatening its security, pledging continued support for Ankara's fight against the rebel Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).

  By STEVEN R. HURST, Associated Press Writer  - BAGHDAD, Iraq - A blood-drenched October has passed into a violent early November as a motorcycle rigged with explosives ripped through a crowded Shiite market in Sadr City on Thursday and suspected Sunni insurgent gunmen killed a Shiite dean of Baghdad University.

By KATRIN BENNHOLD International Herald Tribune
November 2, 2006

PARIS— President Jalal Talabani of Iraq said today that American-led troops should remain in Iraq for at least two years to give the country time to build up its security forces.

A witness in the trial of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has said her family was "buried alive" by government forces who attacked her village.

 IRBIL, Iraq - By ANNE GEARAN, AP - Fri Oct 6, 8:07 AM ET - Convinced oil revenue is the long-term key to economic independence for a unified        Iraq, Secretary of State        Condoleezza Rice appealed Friday for cooperation from the autonomous and oil rich Kurdish north.

By Ahmed Rasheed and Ibon Villelabeitia
Reuters - September 20, 2006; 3:00 PM

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A new judge expelled a defiant Saddam Hussein from his genocide trial on Wednesday and defense lawyers stormed off in protest after the government sacked the chief judge, throwing the month-old case into turmoil.

September 10, 2006
Editorial   New York times

After a Kurdish group claimed responsibility for a series of recent bombings in Turkey that killed three civilians and injured many others, the United States appointed a retired Air Force general and former NATO commander, Joseph Ralston, to work with Turkish authorities.