Saturday June 16, 2007 | Michael Howard in Rowanduz

All the fun of the fair - it must be Iraq
Regional chiefs hope new resort will help kick-start holiday industry

June 6, 2007 | By Tony Blankley

Yesterday I googled "Turkey and the Kurds" and got 1,310,000 hits. Then I googled "Paris Hilton"andgot 45,800,000 hits. That seems about right.

June 8, 2007

Absolutely the last thing Iraq needs right now is to have thousands of Turkish troops pour across the border into the country’s one relatively peaceful region - the Kurdish-administered northeast. Turkey’s government needs to know that it will reap nothing but disaster if that happens.

June 7, 2007 | By Najmaldin O. Karim is the president of the Washington Kurdish Institute.

Postponing a vote on making the city part of Kurdistan could imperil the U.S. mission in Iraq.

EVEN AS THE battle for Baghdad continues to rage, the United States must begin considering the future of another Iraqi city: Kirkuk.

April 2007 | by Christopher Hitchens
Letter from Kurdistan

Over Christmas break, the author took his son to northern Iraq, which the U.S. had made a no-fly zone in 1991, ending Saddam's chemical genocide. Now reborn, Iraqi Kurdistan is a heartrending glimpse of what might have been.

 | SLATE
Monday, June 4, 2007 | By Christopher Hitchens
A question every American politician needs to address.

I chanced last week to run into a senior staff member of UNAMI, which is the little-known (and somehow not very reassuring) acronym for the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq. You could read acres of news from that country as it undergoes everything that the death squads of the parties of God can inflict on a society, without ever being reminded that coalition forces are applying a U.N. mandate for the reconstruction and democratization of Iraq. The assaults by the Baathists and the Bin Ladenists on the U.N. presence have been especially vicious: The U.N. headquarters in Baghdad were utterly demolished by military-grade explosives three years ago, murdering among others the heroic Sergio Vieira de Mello, a senior U.N. peacemaker who was explicitly targeted by the Islamists for his role in overseeing the independence of "Christian" East Timor from "Muslim" Indonesia.

2 June 2007 | BEJAN MATUR

The University of Kurdistan is the modern face of the Kurdish region, seeking as soon as possible to become the new Dubai and integrate with the world without compromising its traditional side.

Tue May 8, 2007

Iraqi Kurd leader Massud Barzani denied that he threatened to intervene in Turkey over the Kurdish minority question, while warning Ankara he would not tolerate any threats from them.

Wednesday, May 2, 2007 | By Edward Wong and Sheryl Gay Stolberg

ERBIL, Iraq: Kurdish and Sunni Arab officials expressed deep reservations on Wednesday about the draft version of a national oil law and related legislation, misgivings that could derail one of the benchmark measures of progress in Iraq laid down by President George W. Bush.

April 30, 2007  | By Guy Dinmore in Washington

Before its latest political crisis erupted, Turkey had been pondering a military incursion into northern Iraq to attack Kurdish rebel bases just beyond its border. But the US has begun warning Ankara to learn a lesson from what some officials in Washington are starting to call Israel's "strategic defeat" in Lebanon under similar circumstances last summer.