March 31, 2008 | Author:  Greg Bruno

The recent explosion of intra-sect violence (NYT) in Baghdad, Basra, and other Iraqi Shiite strongholds has ominous implications for the U.S. and Iraqi governments. The reemergence of fighters loyal to cleric Muqtada al-Sadr threatens to reverse security gains since an additional thirty thousand U.S. soldiers flooded Baghdad in 2007.

March 28, 2008 | The Associated Press

WASHINGTON: The United States condemned on Thursday an attack by Syrian security forces on Syrian Kurds celebrating the Kurdish new year. Three Kurds were reported killed and five wounded in the March 20 incident.

March-April 2008 | By Ted Galen Carpenter

SITTING AT the edge of international attention are states in all but name. Although existing as highly functioning nations, they rest also on the edge of extinction. Taiwan. Kurdistan. Somaliland. Kosovo. With little meaningful international diplomatic recognition, each still often exercises effective self-rule, frequently possessing a vibrant economy and a unified body politic.

March 26, 2008 | Istanbul | By MUSTAFA AKYOL

Who would you expect to be zealous enemies of "moderate Islam"? Islamic fundamentalists? You bet. From Osama bin Laden & Co. to less violent but equally fanatic groups, Islamist militants abhor their co-religionists who reject tyranny and violence in the name of God. But they are not alone. In this part of the world, there is another group that holds a totally opposite worldview but shares a similar hatred of moderate Islam: Turkey's secular fundamentalists.

Tuesday, 25 March 2008 | By AFP

Several people were injured as fresh violence erupted in Turkey's Kurdish cities.

March 24, 2008 | By Michael Marcous

An international panel of experts discussed the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq and its implications for the broader Middle East, the United States and U.S. allies during a public forum Thursday at UCF’s Student Union.

March 24, 2008

ANKARA, Turkey —" Police broke up a protest Monday by hundreds of demonstrators in a fifth straight day of clashes with Kurds in southeastern Turkey.

 
Monday, March 24, 2008  | The Associated Press

ANKARA: The police on Monday broke up a protest by hundreds of masked and stone-throwing Kurdish demonstrators during the fifth straight day of clashes that have killed two people and wounded dozens, news reports said.

Sunday, March 23, 2008

Hundreds of Kurdish protesters have thrown stones at police and soldiers in southeastern Turkey, in the fourth day of clashes that have killed at least two people and injured dozens of others.

Saturday, March 22, 2008 | David Frum

Five years later, the debate over the Iraq war rages as hot as when it began. We have never ceased looking over our shoulders. We have attempted to fight our way forward with our eyes fixed backward.