July 29, 2007 | By AYUB NURI
I was born in 1979 in the northern Iraqi town of Halabja. In Kurdish, Halabja means “the wrong place,” and that is how the town felt when I was growing up, because I never knew a life without war. My father worked in Halabja’s electricity office, and we farmed for a few months every year.
July 30, 2007
Nineteen independent candidates supported by the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) completed procedures to register as parliamentary representatives in Parliament on Sunday.
July 30, 2007
SULAIMANIYA, Iraq, July 30 (UPI) -- Iraqi Kurdistan security forces will be sent to neighboring provinces to protect key power towers once Iraq's prime minister gives the green light.
Tuesday, July 31, 2007 | DUYGU GÜVENÇ
Iraqi PM Maliki's visit can mark a historic step for the two countries if joint steps against the PKK are approved, diplomats say
Monday July 30, 2007 | Ewen MacAskill in Washington
Wednesday, 01 August 2007
The two men were charged with subverting national security. Their lawyers have 20 days to appeal before they die by hanging. Government crackdown intensifies as nine journalists languish in Iranian jails.
Tuesday, 31 July 2007
Iran has sentenced two dissident journalists from its ethnic Kurdish minority for being "enemies of God".
July 30, 2007
The deputies and executives of the DTP met for three hours in Ankara Sunday.
July 2007 | By Morton Abramowitz
With Gaza under the sway of Hamas, Lebanon paralyzed, and Iraq near collapse, the Middle East has never looked more perilous. But if the United States doesn’t move to defuse the dangerous situation in Iraqi Kurdistan fast, Washington could find itself with yet another ticking time bomb.
24 July 2007 | Nicholas Birch in Istanbul
As Turkey's government savoured an overwhelming electoral victory yesterday, regional analysts agreed that the immediate impetus for an invasion of northern Iraq had receded.
