By Owen Matthews and Sami Kohen
Newsweek International

July 31, 2006 issue - Israel launched airstrikes on Lebanon in response to attacks by Hizbullah earlier this month, and George W. Bush called it "self-defense." But what to tell the Turks, who over the last week lost 15 sol-diers to terror attacks launched by sepa-ratist Kurds from neighboring Iraq?

 Xinhua - Editor: Wang Yan - ANKARA, July 23

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has telephoned Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul and promised to do whatever necessary to fight against the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK), the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported on Sunday.

July 9, 2006
The Breakup
Compiled by DEBORAH SOLOMON

Q: Your new book, "The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End," argues that the Bush administration should stop insisting that Iraq can ever be a unified nation.

 The Sunday Times July 16, 2006 
The partition of Iraq into separate Kurdish, Sunni and Shi’ite areas is the only route to peace, writes Peter Galbraith

ISIKLAR, Turkey - With his five wives, 55 children, 80 grandchildren, 400 sheep, 500 hectares of land and small army of servants, Aga Mehmet Arslan would seem an unlikely defender of monogamy.

By Ross Colvin - Reuters
Tuesday, June 27, 2006; 10:17 PM

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein and his former top army commanders will go on trial on August 21 on charges of killing tens of thousands of Iraq's Kurds in 1988 in a military operation to force them from their villages.

June 26, 2006 - From James Bone in New York
 
LINKS between Boutros Boutros Ghali, the former UN Secretary-General, and an alleged agent for Saddam Hussein will come under the spotlight when the first American trial of a major figure in the Oil-for-Food scandal gets under way today.

Amnesty Offered in Effort to Curb Violence

Monday, June 26, 2006; Page A17
By Joshua Partlow and Bassam Sebti 
Washington Post Staff Writers

BAGHDAD, June 25 -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Sunday invited insurgents to lay down their weapons and join the political process, promising an amnesty for opponents who have not been involved in acts of terrorism.

Dexter Filkins The New York Times - Published: June 25, 2006

Let it break up. It seems a simple enough solution.

Iraq's three main groups - the Shiite Arabs, the Sunni Arabs and the Kurds - are killing each other with greater ferocity than ever, and the Americans are playing referee.

By Joshua Partlow - Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, June 23, 2006; A19

BAGHDAD, June 22 -- Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's new plan to promote reconciliation among Iraq's rival factions will offer amnesty to Iraqis who have "carried weapons" but not to those who have committed serious crimes, according to Iraqi politicians who have read the proposal.