January 15, 2008 | By Ned Parker | Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

If Baghdad doesn't arrange for a vote in the next 6 months, then the provincial government should be allowed to sponsor the balloting, he argues.

January 11, 2008| By NAZILA FATHI

TEHRAN — Using strict enforcement of Islamic law, the judicial authorities in a restive region of southern Iran amputated the right hands and left feet of five convicted robbers this week, part of what the government said was an effort to deter other troublemakers.

January 10, 2008 | By BEN LANDO UPI Energy Editor

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- Turkey's president made it clear during his visit to Washington this week that his country will continue a hard-line approach in dealing with the Kurdish guerrilla campaign in his country and ensuring Kirkuk, Iraq's oil-rich northern city, doesn't fall under control of Iraq's Kurds.

Wednesday, January 9, 2008 | By David Ignatius

A new movement to oust Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is gathering force in Baghdad. And although the United States is counseling against this change of government, a senior U.S. official in the Iraqi capital says it's a moment of "breakthrough or breakdown" for Maliki's regime.

January 9, 2008

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- President Bush has told Turkish President Abdullah Gul that Kurdish terrorism in southeastern Turkey and Iraq cannot be defeated by purely military means.

By David Ignatius
Wednesday, January 9, 2008; A15

A new movement to oust Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is gathering force in Baghdad. And although the United States is counseling against this change of government, a senior U.S. official in the Iraqi capital says it's a moment of "breakthrough or breakdown" for Maliki's regime.

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February 2008 Atlantic Monthly | by Jeffrey Goldberg

Not long ago, in a decrepit prison in Iraqi Kurdistan, a senior interrogator with the Kurdish intelligence service decided, for my entertainment and edification, to introduce me to an al-Qaeda terrorist named Omar. “This one is crazy,” the interrogator said. “Don’t get close, or he’ll bite you.”

January 7, 2008 | M. Alıhan Hasanoğlu Dukan

Both Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and Iraqi Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani have condemned the bomb attack which killed last week five people in Turkey's predominantly Kurdish populated southwestern Anatolian province of Diyarbakır, describing the bombing as a brutal act that targeted Kurds.

Monday, January 7, 2008 | The Associated Press

BAGHDAD: Iraq's Kurdish deputy prime minister warned Monday that failure to resolve the dispute over the oil-rich city of Kirkuk could result in more strife in the war-ravaged country and accused unnamed parties in the government of preventing a solution.

Friday, December. 28, 2007 | By Charles Crain/Baghdad

For close to two weeks, Turkey has been targeting the guerrillas of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) inside Iraqi territory.