January 15, 2008 | By Ned Parker | Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
If Baghdad doesn't arrange for a vote in the next 6 months, then the provincial government should be allowed to sponsor the balloting, he argues.
Monday January 28, 2008 | Richard Lea
Thirteen people have been arrested in Turkey as part of an investigation into an ultra-nationalist gang reported to be planning the assassination of Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk.
Wednesday, 6 February 2008 | By Aiyob Mawloodi
Ministry of Planning in a conference about the mechanism of improving the banking system.
March 13, 2008 | By JAMES GLANZ
BASRA, Iraq — Several senior Iraqi officials said on Wednesday that the government might soon deploy Iraqi Army troops to seize control of this city’s decrepit but vital port from politically connected militias known more for corruption and inciting terrorism than for their skill in moving freight.
BAGHDAD, May 20 -- Iraq's first constitutional government since the fall of Saddam Hussein took office in a televised ceremony Saturday, with unfilled cabinet posts and last-minute sectarian bickering underlining the difficulties it will face in bringing peace and order to the country.
Like their colleagues across Iraq, the doctors and nurses at the Emergency Management Centre in Irbil work relentlessly.
WASHINGTON — American diplomats are working to secure assurances that yesterday's overwhelming vote in the Turkish parliament to authorize cross-border raids into northern Iraq is purely symbolic and that the Turkish military will not enter the mountainous Kurdish region of Iraq.
- 2006 February 13
At least 11 people have been hurt in Turkey in an explosion in front of a supermarket in the city of Istanbul.
Istanbul's Governor Muammer Guler said the blast was apparently caused by a bomb left outside the shop. A Kurdish militant group has claimed responsibility for planting the device in the Bahcelievler suburb, the Kurdish news agency Firat reports.
