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 The mood was festive as Kurds queued to vote in their regional capital, Irbil, and other towns and villages that make up the three provinces of Iraq's Kurdistan region. | ||
By Ellen Knickmeyer - Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, December 17, 2005; A17
BAGHDAD, Dec. 16 - Kurdish and Shiite factional militias and other armed men blocked voters from polling sites in scattered locations during Iraq's national elections, Iraqi and U.S. officials said Friday. While the intimidation likely was not serious enough to influence the outcome of Thursday's vote, one U.S. diplomat said, the overt militia role was part of a dangerous trend in Iraqi politics.
December 11, 2005 - Op-Ed Contributor By KANAN MAKIYA - London
WASHINGTON and Baghdad will be tempted, with the adoption of a new Constitution and the election on Thursday for a four-year government, to declare victory in Iraq. In one sense, they are right to do so. The emerging Iraqi polity undoubtedly represents a radical break not only with the country's past but also with the whole Arab state system established by Britain and France after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.
Thu Dec 15, 2005 - 6:04 AM ET
Kurdish regional president and Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) leader Masoud Barzani drops his ballot at a polling station in the northern city of Arbil December 15, 2005. A steady stream of Iraqi voters walked to polling stations nationwide on Thursday to elect their first full-time parliament since Saddam Hussein's overthrow, ignoring sporadic violence such as a mortar attack in Baghdad. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari
The Guardian - Monday December 12, 2005
Pop star drafted in as voters threaten to stay away in protest at living conditions Michael Howard in Sulaimaniya
Sat Dec 10, 3:30 PM ET DAMASCUS (AFP) - Syrian security forces dispersed a Kurdish protest in Damascus organized to coincide with the UN-designated International Human Rights Day, an AFP correspondent said.
By Cyrille Cartier, Special for USA TODAY - Fri Dec 9, 2005
The semiautonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq has struck a deal with a foreign oil company to drill for oil in a mountainous region just outside this town. Kurdish leaders hope the new oil well will spur further exploration in the area and tighten the regional government's control over its oil wealth.
by Aljazeera.net Tuesday 29 November 2005 7:00 AM GMT
A Turkish court has charged and arrested two paramilitary officers on suspicion of involvement in a recent grenade attack on a convicted Kurdish separatist as allegations of state-backed summary executions resurfaced.
ANKARA, Turkey (AP-11/25/2005) - Turkey vowed Friday to offer no tolerance for Kurdish militants despite concern over actions of its own security forces after a convicted rebel was allegedly targeted in a grenade attack earlier this month.
By SUZAN FRASER - The Associated Press - Friday, November 25, 2005
ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkey vowed Friday to offer no tolerance for Kurdish militants despite concern over actions of its own security forces after a convicted rebel was allegedly targeted in a grenade attack earlier this month.
