January 9, 2008

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- President Bush has told Turkish President Abdullah Gul that Kurdish terrorism in southeastern Turkey and Iraq cannot be defeated by purely military means.


  


September 12, 2007 | By JAMES GLANZ and DENISE GRADY

BAGHDAD - A cholera epidemic in northern Iraq has infected approximately 7,000 people and could reach Baghdad within weeks as the disease spreads through the country’s decrepit and unsanitary water system, Iraqi health officials said Tuesday.


  


By YAHYA BARZANJI,
Associated Press Writer -
September 3, 2006 

The leader of the Kurdish region in northern Iraq threatened secession Sunday as a dispute over flying the Iraqi flag intensified.


  

DAMASCUS, March 24 (AFP) - 15h32 - Syrian authorities arrested more than 40 Kurds following Kurdish New Year celebrations in the northern city of Aleppo, human rights lawyer Anwar Bunni said Thursday.

  

Whitehouse.gov
18 March 2008 | For Immediate Release | Office of the Vice President

KRG Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani's Private Office
Irbil, Iraq

PRESIDENT BARZANI: (As translated.) On behalf of the people of Kurdistan, I would like to welcome very warmly Mr. Vice President, Dick Cheney, the Vice President of the United States for a very helpful visit in Kurdistan region.


  

In Interview, Egyptian Leader Also Says Shiites More Loyal to Iran


By SALAH NASRAWI
The Associated Press - Sunday, April 9, 2006; 10:36 PM

CAIRO, Egypt -- Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak angered Iraqi leaders Sunday by saying Shiites there and across the Middle East are more loyal to Iran than to their own countries as he gave a startlingly frank warning about possible civil war in Iraq.


  


March 9, 2008 | By JAMES GLANZ

Two senior members of the Senate Armed Services Committee have requested a full accounting of how Iraq is spending its soaring oil revenue, amid starkly conflicting estimates of how much the country has invested in rebuilding its broken infrastructure and providing basic services to its citizens.


  


April 23, 2008 | By Maad Fayad
 
London, Asharq Al-Awsat and Agencies - The population of Arbil and the rest of the Kurds who live in Iraqi Kurdistan prefer to use the historical name ‘Lir’ in reference to the Kurdish region’s capital, Arbil, as an homage to the history of the region, which predates back to over 6,000 years.


  


March 11, 2008 | Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor


  


July 30 2008 | By Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington

Iraqi oil production has risen to its highest level since the 2003 invasion on the back of improved security across the country, according to a new US government report.