April 14, 2008 By Stefan Buchen, John Goetz and Sven Röbel
NEW KURDISH TERROR GROUP?
A new Kurdish party, the PJAK, is causing Germany's intelligence agencies concern. Public prosecutors are investigating whether the group, whose leader lives in Cologne, is a terrorist organization.
March 11, 2008 | Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
April 11, 2008 | By Abdulkadir Onay
Earlier this month, Europol -- the European Union law enforcement agency that handles criminal intelligence -- released its annual Terrorism Situation and Trend Report, part of which addresses the European criminal activities of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
April 11, 2008 | By NAZILA FATHI
TEHRAN — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has decided to dismiss his economics and interior ministers, a government spokesman said in Iranian newspaper accounts published Thursday.
11 Apr 2008 | By Paul Taylor
BRUSSELS, April 11 (Reuters) - The United Nations will suggest a formula next month to resolve conflicts on several disputed areas in Iraq that could serve as a template for the future of Kirkuk, a senior U.N. official said on Friday.
April 10, 2008 | Michael Gunter
Michael M. Gunter offered a brief overview of his new book titled The Kurds Ascending, which discussed the recent events that improved the Kurdish situation in Iraq and Turkey. He mainly attributed positive developments in Kurdish rights to the US wars against Saddam Husayn, and Turkey’s successful EU candidacy along with Justice and Development (AK) Party reforms within Turkey.
April 10, 2008 | İstanbul
A Turkish court has sentenced Kurdish politician Leyla Zana to two years in prison for spreading propaganda of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
April 7, 2008
ERBIL, Iraq, April 7 (UPI) -- With aid from the Kurdistan government, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers helped open a government complex less than a year after an explosion ripped it apart.
March 3, 2008
London, Asharq Al-Awsat - Asharq Al-Awsat was suprised by an attempt Thursday by Muhammad Habash, the head of the Syrian-Iranian committee and a member of Syrian parliament, to deny comments that he had made to Asharq Al-Awsat Wednesday, in which he said that Iran has been building listening stations in Syria.
March 24, 2008 | By Deroy Murdock | Chilling Confirmation
Yes, Saddam Hussein was an Islamofascist threat
As Operation Iraqi Freedom is now five years old, a new study confirms that ousting Saddam Hussein was justified and vital to U.S. national security. Though war critics hate to admit it, the Baathist dictator was up to his mustache in aid for Islamofascist terrorism.
