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. 
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.
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.
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.
Monday, 9 October 2006
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. 
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.
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.
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.
Thursday, August 24, 2006 / ANKARA - The Turkish capital has dismissed the comments made by a top U.S. adviser to Iraqi Kurdish leaders regarding Turkey and the “reality” of an independent Kurdish state in northern Iraq.
