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Rice pledges US help to Turkey against Kurd rebels


 

Tuesday, April 25, 2006
ANKARA (Reuters) - The United States tried on Tuesday to ease Turkey's concerns instability in Iraq was threatening its security, pledging continued support for Ankara's fight against the rebel Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).


  

November off to bloody start in Iraq


  By STEVEN R. HURST, Associated Press Writer  - BAGHDAD, Iraq - A blood-drenched October has passed into a violent early November as a motorcycle rigged with explosives ripped through a crowded Shiite market in Sadr City on Thursday and suspected Sunni insurgent gunmen killed a Shiite dean of Baghdad University.

  

Iraqi President Expects U.S. Troops to Stay for 2 Years



By KATRIN BENNHOLD International Herald Tribune
November 2, 2006

PARIS— President Jalal Talabani of Iraq said today that American-led troops should remain in Iraq for at least two years to give the country time to build up its security forces.


  

Timeline: Saddam Hussein Anfal trial


Tuesday, 17 October 2006

Saddam Hussein and six other defendants - including his cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as "Chemical Ali" - have gone on trial over the killing of more than 100,000 Kurds during "Operation Anfal" in 1988.

  

Saddam's genocide trial resumes



 Tuesday, 17 October 2006

Saddam Hussein's genocide trial against the Kurds has resumed, a day after the former president predicted Iraq's "liberation" from US military control.

  

Iraq troops 'buried family alive'



Monday, 9 October 2006
A witness in the trial of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has said her family was "buried alive" by government forces who attacked her village.

  

Rice makes visit to Kurdish north


 IRBIL, Iraq - By ANNE GEARAN, AP - Fri Oct 6, 8:07 AM ET - Convinced oil revenue is the long-term key to economic independence for a unified        Iraq, Secretary of State        Condoleezza Rice appealed Friday for cooperation from the autonomous and oil rich Kurdish north.

  

Judge expels Saddam from court



By Ahmed Rasheed and Ibon Villelabeitia
Reuters - September 20, 2006; 3:00 PM

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A new judge expelled a defiant Saddam Hussein from his genocide trial on Wednesday and defense lawyers stormed off in protest after the government sacked the chief judge, throwing the month-old case into turmoil.


  

Turkey at the Tipping Point



September 10, 2006
Editorial   New York times

After a Kurdish group claimed responsibility for a series of recent bombings in Turkey that killed three civilians and injured many others, the United States appointed a retired Air Force general and former NATO commander, Joseph Ralston, to work with Turkish authorities.


  

Kurdish leader threatens Iraq secession



By YAHYA BARZANJI,
Associated Press Writer - September 3, 2006 

The leader of the Kurdish region in northern Iraq threatened secession Sunday as a dispute over flying the Iraqi flag intensified.