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.
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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.
April 23, 2007
Lobby groups, TV commercials highlight region as 'the other Iraq'
By Rajiv Chandrasekaran
The Washington Post
The 30-second television commercial features stirring scenes of a young Iraqi boy high-fiving a U.S. soldier, a Westerner dining alfresco, and men and women dancing together. "Have you seen the other Iraq?" the narrator asks. "It's spectacular. It's joyful."
"Welcome to Iraqi Kurdistan!" the narrator continues. "It's not a dream. It's the other Iraq."
September 24, 2006
By Steve Negus, Iraq correspondent
Iraq’s oil minister on Sunday disputed the validity of deals signed between the Kurdish Regional Government and international oil companies, reportedly saying that the central government was not bound by the investment contracts.
28 january 2006
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein's cousin told a court trying him for genocide on Sunday he had ordered Kurdish villages cleared in the 1988 "Anfal" campaign but insisted he was right to do so and had nothing to apologize for.
