Kurdish Institute of Paris

Sept. 24, 2007 | By Peter Galbraith 

Qandil mountain is an unusual trouble spot. Straddling the Iran-Iraq border in the Kurdish regions of both countries, it is inaccessible and inhospitable.

September 17, 2007 (RFE/RL)

Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari says that relations with Iran have been hurt by Tehran's shelling of areas in Kurdish-administered northern Iraq and its support for anti-coalition militants in the south. RFE/RL correspondent Charles Recknagel spoke with Zebari about Iran-Iraq relations during the minister's visit today to RFE/RL in Prague.

September 16, 2007

Four years ago, photographer Hal Yeager and I came home to Birmingham after nearly six weeks on assignment with an Alabama Army National Guard unit in northern Iraq.

September 18, 2007

Kurdistan is safe, orderly, and bustling with economic development. It's what we hoped Iraq would become. And it's time to make sure it stays that way.

13 September 2007 | By Brian Padden

Irbil- The Kurdish region of Iraq is still coming to terms with the cultural and political ramifications of the brutal honor killing of a 17-year-old Yazidi girl in April.  Men in her village killed the girl because she was in love with a Muslim boy. 

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.