Kurdish candidate in Kirkuk wins the race for governor, news reports say


Wednesday, February 9, 2005
ANKARA - Iraqi Kurds and Shiite groups will soon launch post-election talks over sharing government posts, Iraqi interim Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said yesterday.

Tuesday, 23 October 2007

The top US military commander in Iraq, Gen David Petraeus, tells BBC diplomatic correspondent Jonathan Marcus of his fears about a possible Turkish raid in the autonomous Kurdish region of Iraq.

14 December 2007

Remarks made by Chief of General Staff Gen. Yaşar Büyükanıt, stating that he believes the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is "in Parliament," have been a source of legal and political controversy from the moment they were first uttered on Wednesday

 
Monday, June 25, 2007  | By Amir Afkhami and Michael Soussan

HALABJA, Iraq - In a few days, "Chemical Ali" will face death by hanging. Ali Hassan al-Majid earned his nickname after he ordered the use of chemical weapons to eradicate the population of Halabja, a Kurdish town located near Iraq's northern border with Iran.

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.

April 27, 2008 | BEJAN MATUR
  
Imagine that you live in Diyarbakır. If you did not vote for the Democratic Society Party (DTP) in the last election, you must have chosen the Justice and Development Party (AK Party). You did so for a number of reasons.

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.

FORLORN mounds of sun-bleached clothes stretch across the barren field. Traces of the people who died wearing them - a washed-out vertebra near a small canvas shoe, a jawbone by a faded lavender dress - reveal that they mark the shallow graves of 1,200 of Saddam Hussein’s unidentified victims.

April 23, 2007

Lobby groups, TV commercials highlight region as 'the other Iraq'

By Rajiv Chandrasekaran

The Washington Post

The 30-second television commercial features stirring scenes of a young Iraqi boy high-fiving a U.S. soldier, a Westerner dining alfresco, and men and women dancing together. "Have you seen the other Iraq?" the narrator asks. "It's spectacular. It's joyful."

"Welcome to Iraqi Kurdistan!" the narrator continues. "It's not a dream. It's the other Iraq."