July 4, 2007 | By Tina Susman and Saif Hameed | Times Staff Writers

The Cabinet OKs a key bill, but factional disagreements pose a hurdle. A second measure still requires approval.

BAGHDAD — Legislation to manage Iraq's oil industry won Cabinet approval Tuesday and could go before the parliament for ratification within days, but political wrangling raised the possibility of delays in passing the long-stalled measure.

Geneva, 29-30 June 2007

Speech by President of the Republic of Iraq, H. E. Jalal Talabani

June 28, 2007 by JOOST LAGENDIJK*

Without a doubt, the Kurdish issue is one of the most important political problems in Turkey.

July 2, 2007 | By Nicholas Birch

IRBIL, Iraq - Growing tensions between Turkey and Kurds in control of northern Iraq belie a deepening cooperation, as Turkish companies, workers and goods flock to a market enriched by 17 percent of Iraq's oil revenues.

The full footage of all 8 Iraq Commission Hearings are available to watch below.

The Hearings will also be screened on Channel 4 in July. Highlight clips will appear on this website after transmission.

http://www.channel4.com/news/microsites/I/the_iraq_commission/video.html

June 29, 2007 | By Scott Peterson | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

Diyarbakir, Turkey  | While Kurds are testing the limits of legal reforms that grant more freedoms, an uptick in attacks from separatists threaten to erode gains made by the ethnic minority.
By Scott Peterson | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
 

June 28, 2007 | By Peter W. Galbraith, PETER W. GALBRAITH, author of "The End of Iraq," was on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff in the 1980s and 1990s, with responsibility for Iraq.

The slaughter of Kurds under Saddam Hussein was official government policy, not the act of a rogue general.

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

The death sentence for the man known as Chemical Ali won't bring justice to the long-persecuted Kurds, in Iraq or elsewhere. Nor will his quick death help realize the dream of a state for a wounded nation.

 
Monday, June 25, 2007  | By Amir Afkhami and Michael Soussan

HALABJA, Iraq - In a few days, "Chemical Ali" will face death by hanging. Ali Hassan al-Majid earned his nickname after he ordered the use of chemical weapons to eradicate the population of Halabja, a Kurdish town located near Iraq's northern border with Iran.

June 25, 2007 | Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman

The guilty verdict against Ali Hassan al-Majid or Chemical Ali is a milestone for the people of Kurdistan in Iraq.