03 Mar 2006 13:24:18 GMT ARBIL, Iraq, Oct 22 (AFP) - 18h40 - Arab League Secretary General Amr Mussa flew Saturday to the Kurdish city of Arbil in northern Iraq for an historic visit to the autonomous region, saying he had always been close to Kurds.
Thursday June 21, 2007 | Michael Howard in Sulaymaniya
Iraq's Kurdish leaders said last night they had struck an important deal with the central government in Baghdad over a law to divide up Iraq's oil revenues, which is seen by the Bush administration as one of the benchmarks in attempts to foster national reconciliation.
October 17, 2007 | By ALISSA J. RUBIN
BAGHDAD, Oct. 16 - With tensions high along the Iraqi-Turkish border as the Turkish government seeks parliamentary approval for military raids into northern Iraq, the Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said today that the approval would not necessarily immediately be followed by military action.
Turkey and Iran have dispatched tanks, artillery and thousands of troops to their frontiers with Iraq during the past few weeks in what appears to be a coordinated effort to disrupt the activities of Kurdish rebel bases.
February 5, 2008 | Commentary | By DAVID L. PHILLIPS
Continued democratization and economic development is the best way for Turkey to drain the swamp of domestic support for the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
Mon May 1, 2006 10:28 AM ET
SULAIMANIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - Iranian forces battling Kurdish rebels shelled parts of northern Iraq's region of Kurdistan on Monday, the regional interior minister said, the second attack in 10 days.
Othman Mahmoud said Iranian troops shelled at least 10 villages in several border areas in northeastern Iraq.
June 26, 2006 - From James Bone in New York
LINKS between Boutros Boutros Ghali, the former UN Secretary-General, and an alleged agent for Saddam Hussein will come under the spotlight when the first American trial of a major figure in the Oil-for-Food scandal gets under way today.
December 16, 2007 | By PETER SCARLET
BAHMAN GHOBADI first came to the movie world’s attention in 2000, when his “Time for Drunken Horses” won the prize for best first feature at the Cannes Film Festival. Perhaps because the film — a harrowing depiction of five orphans struggling to eke out a hardscrabble existence as smugglers in the mountainous border region between Iran and Iraq — was billed as Iranian, few took notice that the movie was not in Persian but in Kurdish. “Drunken Horses” became the first feature film in that language, a tongue banned in Iranian schools since the 1940s, to achieve an international release.
