January 23, 2008 | By Kimi Yoshino | Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

BAGHDAD -- Iraqi lawmakers approved a new flag Tuesday, defusing a long-simmering dispute with the country's northern Kurds, who had refused to fly the national banner because of its connection to Saddam Hussein.

ISTANBUL - Police believe Nobel laureate novelist Orhan Pamuk and Kurdish politicians were on the hit list of an ultranationalist group whose alleged members were detained this week, newspapers reported Wednesday.

WASHINGTON -- You can't have one without the other, but with many of Iraq's power plants shut and refineries stopped, Iraqis have neither fuel nor electricity.

January 22, 2008 | By NAZILA FATHI

TEHRAN — Iran’s supreme religious leader, in what appeared to be his first public dispute with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, sided with Parliament on Monday in a conflict over energy policy.

Wednesday, 23 January 2008

Iraq's parliament has voted to change the country's flag.

The three stars that represented Saddam Hussein's Baath Party will be removed, to address the concerns of Iraqi Kurds.

Saturday 19 January 2008 | By Hewa Aziz

Sulaymaniyah, Asharq Al-Awsat- Despite the passage of 17 years since the liberation of the city of Sulaymaniyeh and the whole Iraqi Kurdistan region following the 1990-1991 uprisings against the former Iraqi Baathist regime, the traces of terror and suffering still remain in attestation of the brutality of the deposed regime.

January 22, 2008

LLC, to Operate the Kurdistan Business Center

RESTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Enterra Solutions, LLC, has signed a services contract with the Minister of Trade for the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to provide a full service Business Center in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. The contract marks a new era for business and economic development in the Kurdistan region and provides a viable model for similar centers in other emerging market countries. Under the multi-year service contract, Enterra Solutions will establish and operate the Kurdistan Business Center in Erbil, Iraq, with a branch in Washington, DC and a future location in Europe.

14 january 2008 | Raghida Dergham

Al-Hayat: Obviously I'm going to start with your visit here to the United States and your talks with president George W. Bush. You are pursuing the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) inside of Iraq and it seems that Administration in Washington has given a sort of approval for that. What is in return, Mr. President? Are there any guarantees that you gave that you would not invade Iraq? Are there promises from the United States that they will not establish a base in Kurdistan Iraq?

17 January 2008

Erbil, Kurdistan-Iraq (KRG.org). A bipartisan delegation of six members of the US House of Representatives visited the Kurdistan Region in Iraq yesterday for meetings with Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) officials.

16 January 2008

Although attacks in Iraq have decreased, insecurity continues to severely limit the activities of the United Nations mission there, while the political situation has not improved as much as had been hoped, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in a new report.