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.
27 june 2007 | By Damien McElroy in Kashan Valley, northern Iraq
On a mountain ridge overlooking a riverside picnic spot in Kashan, Roshad Adel picked at the broken soil. Within minutes he was holding a handful of shrapnel.
June 27, 2007 | By KIRK SEMPLE
ERBIL, Iraq - "It is a measure of soaring Kurdish optimism that government officials here talk seriously about one day challenging Dubai as the Middle East’s main transportation and business hub.
Thuesday June 26, 2007 | By Shamal Aqrawi
Thursday June 21, 2007 | Michael Howard in Sulaymaniya
Iraq's Kurdish leaders said last night they had struck an important deal with the central government in Baghdad over a law to divide up Iraq's oil revenues, which is seen by the Bush administration as one of the benchmarks in attempts to foster national reconciliation.
Sunday, June 17, 2007 | By Joshua Partlow
IRBIL, Iraq - Iraqi border police believe neighboring Turkey has amassed 20,000 to 30,000 soldiers along its southern border with Iraq. Turkish helicopters have flown into Iraqi airspace to conduct missions against Kurdish rebels in the mountainous region, and Turkish mortar shells regularly crash down on Iraqi soil, according to U.S. and Iraqi officials
Monday June 18, 2007 | Michael Howard in the Qandil mountains
A Kurdish rebel leader has warned Turkey that it faces disaster if its troops and tanks cross into northern Iraq, amid growing concern of a big Turkish operation to hunt down Kurdish guerrillas holed up across the border.
Saturday June 16, 2007 | Michael Howard in Rowanduz
All the fun of the fair - it must be IraqRegional 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.
