March 14, 2008 | By Nina Shea | Paulos Faraj Rahho, R.I.P.
The Catholic Chaldean archbishop of Mosul, Paulos Faraj Rahho, was found dead Thursday in a shallow grave in that northern Iraq city. On February 29, Islamist extremists had abducted the 65-year-old prelate while he prayed, in Aramaic, the language of Jesus himself, the Lenten Stations of the Cross at his church.
Monday, July 23, 2007 | Christopher Hitchens
The mills of justice grind with maddening slowness, but they do at least grind. In October 2005, my friend Denis MacShane, the radical Labor member of Parliament for Rotherham, rose on the floor of the House of Commons to demand a joint inquiry by the British parliament and the U.S. Congress into the financial relationship between George Galloway and the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
October 5, 2007 by Ivan Watson | Morning Edition
More than a month has passed since four suicide bombers driving trucks filled with explosives attacked two villages in northwest Iraq - killing 310 people and wounding more than 700.
By SELCAN HACAOGLU, Associated Press WriterThu Apr 6, 2006
Turkey's leaders promised a tough fight against Kurdish militants but said Thursday that would not mean backtracking on reforms critical to their bid to join the European Union.
ISTANBUL - Police believe Nobel laureate novelist Orhan Pamuk and Kurdish politicians were on the hit list of an ultranationalist group whose alleged members were detained this week, newspapers reported Wednesday.
By Sabrina Tavernise
The New York Times - MONDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2005
BAGHDAD - Sunni Arab political leaders asked the main Shiite political bloc Sunday to give them 10 Shiite seats in the new Parliament in an early attempt to resolve questions over the results of the election last week. The Shiites refused the request.
Monday, March 3, 2008 | By David Romano
After only eight days, Turkey abruptly ended its military incursion into Iraqi Kurdistan on Friday February 29. The withdrawal of Turkish troops caught many observers, as well as the Turkish public, by surprise.
May 27, 2008 | The Associated Press
ANKARA, Turkey: Kurdish politicians boycotted a major speech by Turkey's prime minister on Tuesday to protest what they say is the government's refusal to recognize the country's Kurdish minority.
February 25, 2008 | By Gina Chon
KIRKUK, Iraq -- As Turkish troops pursue Kurdish rebels inside Iraq, an ethnic political dispute is heating up in this largely Kurdish town where the country's northern oil industry is based.
