September 12, 2007 | By AMIR TAHERI

FOR the last year at least, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the back bone of the Islamic Republic in Iran, has been engaged in a bloody war against Kurdish rebels in four provinces bordering Iraq.
Initially, the authorities in Tehran tried to keep the war a secret, referring to it only occasionally as "operations against evildoers."

September 12, 2007 | By JAMES GLANZ and DENISE GRADY

BAGHDAD - A cholera epidemic in northern Iraq has infected approximately 7,000 people and could reach Baghdad within weeks as the disease spreads through the country’s decrepit and unsanitary water system, Iraqi health officials said Tuesday.

September 10, 2007 | By Chip Cummins

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Hunt Oil Co. has struck a deal to explore for oil in Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdish region, signaling a new willingness by some large Western companies to bypass the fractious government in Baghdad and deal directly with regional authorities in the war-torn country.

September 9, 2007 | By Borzou Daragahi, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

BARZAN, Iraq — Patience, the mothers begged their children. Saddam Hussein will fall. Liberty will come. Your father will return.

In 1983, the men of Barzan were taken by Hussein's troops, never to be seen again. But the women still wait.

Sep 6th 2007 | ERBIL AND SULAYMANIYAH
From The Economist print edition

Iraq's Kurds have never had it so good. But they still have a long way to go before securing a safe and stable, let alone democratic, future

Thursday, September 6, 2007; A20

Regarding Nina Shea's Aug. 27 op-ed, "Iraq's Endangered Minorities":

5 september 2007

Diyarbakır Mayor Osman Baydemir was the recipient of harsh words from the government and the opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) yesterday after he complained his southeastern city was subject to discrimination and declared his pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) was ready if the government wants to launch a war on Diyarbakır.

Tue August 21, 2007

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Saddam Hussein's cousin known as "Chemical Ali" and 14 others faced charges of crimes against humanity for the brutal crushing of a Shiite uprising after the 1991 Gulf War Tuesday as Iraq's third trial against former regime officials began with three of the defendants already sentenced to death in another case.

Tue Aug 21, 2007 | By Aseel Kami

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner called on Europe on Tuesday to play a bigger role in Iraq because "the Americans will not be able to get this country out of difficulty alone."

Tuesday, August 21, 2007  | The Associated Press

BAGHDAD: A witness on Tuesday recalled the random shooting deaths of a teenaged girl and three other people in a square packed with detainees as Saddam Hussein's forces rounded up Shiites after a 1991 uprising against his regime after the Gulf War.