March 14, 2008 | By Nina Shea | Paulos Faraj Rahho, R.I.P.

The Catholic Chaldean archbishop of Mosul, Paulos Faraj Rahho, was found dead Thursday in a shallow grave in that northern Iraq city. On February 29, Islamist extremists had abducted the 65-year-old prelate while he prayed, in Aramaic, the language of Jesus himself, the Lenten Stations of the Cross at his church.

15 March 2008

The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) strongly condemns the killing of Archbishop Faraj Raho, the head of the Chaldean Church in Mosul.

Monday, March 17, 2008 | By Christopher Hitchens

An "anniversary" of a "war" is in many ways the least useful occasion on which to take stock of something like the Anglo-American intervention in Iraq, if only because any such formal observance involves the assumption that a) this is, in fact, a war and b) it is by that definition an exception from the rest of our engagement with that country and that region.

March 17, 2008

Twenty years on, few Kurds forget that the United States and other Western countries stood idle while a chemical attack killed 5,000
MARK MACKINNON

HALABJA, IRAQ — Rafiq Laiq learned two difficult lessons as he and his family fled the chemical-gas attack Saddam Hussein's army launched on this town 20 years ago.

March 16, 2008 | War Torn | Five Years | By JOHN F. BURNS | LONDON

On the evening of March 19, 2003, a small group of Western journalists had grandstand seats for the big event in Baghdad, the start of the full-scale American bombing of strategic targets in the Iraqi capital. We had forced a way through a bolted door at the top of an emergency staircase leading to the 21st-story roof of the Palestine Hotel, with a panoramic view of Saddam Hussein’s command complex across the Tigris River.

16 december 2008

HALABJA, Iraq (AFP) — Iraqi Kurds mourned on Sunday the deaths of around 5,000 villagers from Halabja who were massacred 20 years ago in chemical attacks blamed on Saddam Hussein's forces during the Iran-Iraq war.

Friday, March 14, 2008 | GÖKSEL BOZKURT | ANKARA - TDN Parliament Bureau

The government’s investment program and social initiatives to address the Kurdish problem fail to satisfy the pro-Kurdish DTP in Parliament that calls for constitutional amendments, cultural measures and progressive amnesty.

March 14, 2008 | By Carter Andress

Saddam Hussein’s horrific 1988 genocide of the Kurds is still having repercussions.

Baghdad — This weekend marks the 20th anniversary of Saddam Hussein’s massacre of an estimated 5,000 Kurds in the Iraqi town of Halabja. The March 16, 1988 attack, using a lethal air-delivered mixture of mustard gas and nerve agent, killed virtually every man, woman, and child in the town. The destruction of Halabja initiated a campaign of mass murder that Saddam named Al Anfal — “the Spoils of War,” from a passage in the Koran. It was the high-water mark of his regime’s genocide against the Kurds.

March 14, 2008 | BY ELI LAKE - Staff Reporter of the Sun

WASHINGTON —" A Pentagon review of about 600,000 documents captured in the Iraq war attests to Saddam Hussein's willingness to use terrorism to target Americans and work closely with jihadist organizations throughout the Middle East.

13 March 2008 | AYŞE KARABAT | ANKARA

The Democratic Society Party (DTP) has, in meetings with President Abdullah Gül and Speaker of Parliament Köksal Toptan, requested that the state take the initiative to find a solution to the Kurdish problem, underlining that a new constitution, currently being drafted, is an opportunity for this.