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A country that has been occupying part of a neighbor state for decades, that often sends its air force to bomb anti-government militants, that refuses to give civil
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“What the Kurds are experiencing today is genocide” said Öcalan and added, “There is no sense, no gain and a lack of conditions to continue this process. I _______________________________
The hasty execution of five Iranian political dissidents, four of them Kurds, has sparked unprecedented support for their cause including a one-day strike that
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Mahdieh Golroo, an imprisoned member of the Right to Education Council has written a letter in memory of her cellmate executed political prisoner Shirin Alam
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A year ago, The Washington Times helped bring the world's attention to the plight of Farzad Kamangar, a Kurdish school- teacher wrongly accused of being _______________________________
ERBIL, Iraq — Hundreds of university students tried to storm the local parliament building here in the capital of Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdistan region on
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ERBIL, Iraq — A Kurdish journalist was kidnapped here in the capital of the semiautonomous Kurdistan region of Iraq, tortured and then found dead with two
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Asos Hardi, the Editor in Chief and founder of the Awene newspaper in Iraqi Kurdistan, has been awarded the 2009 Gebran Tueni Award, the annual prize of ________________________________
Twenty-five years and 40,000 deaths after the PKK began its struggle against the Turkish army, there is now an historic opportunity to end the conflict. But there are
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The result of the July 25 regional parliamentary and presidential elections in the Kurdish autonomous region is a significant landmark in the history of the Kurds
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It was a triumph of democracy. On July 25, in a free election, Iraq's Kurds finally elected a real opposition party to their regional parliament.
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Leyla Zana, an internationally renowned Kurdish politician and spokesperson was Tuesday 28 July sentenced to 15 months imprisonment
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ERBIL, Iraq — The president of the semiautonomous Kurdistan region, Massoud Barzani, on Tuesday rejected proposals by the United Nations to resolve Iraq’s
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On July 25th, the Kurdish region of Iraq is scheduled to have its first major election since 2005. The election is pivotal, and vital to U.S. interests, because it will
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AS IRAQ’S Kurds prepare to vote on July 25th for a regional assembly and a president, the buzzword is Goran, meaning change. It is also the name of a new
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If raw excitement is any indication, big things may be happening in Iraqi Kurdistan. After months of delay, campaign season has finally begun for the
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A draft constitution passed by the parliament of Iraqi Kurdistan has drawn divided reactions, with some questioning the very legitimacy of a lame-duck parliament _________________________________
An Austrian lawmaker on Thursday linked Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the 1989 murder of a Kurdish opposition leader in Vienna.
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Professor Ismail Beshkchi is a supporter of the Kurdish cause in Turkey. He has spent more than 17 years in Turkish prison for his positions in support of Kurdish
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The Iraqi people will defend our democracy. It is in the best interests of the U.S. to continue its firm support for democracy in Iraq and not to slide back into the dead-
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AMMAN -- The Iraqi federal oil ministry said Sunday it will allow the autonomous Kurdish government in northern Iraq to start exporting crude oil in June to world
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All Things Considered, May 8, 2009 · American troops are scheduled to withdraw from Iraqi cities by the end of June. But U.S. commanders have expressed
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Kurds in Syria have been denied basic social, cultural, and political rights, in many cases stemming from the Syrian state’s refusal to grant citizenship.
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BAGHDAD – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton tried to reassure nervous Iraqis that the U.S. won't abandon them, even as she said the American
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Ottawa – An Iranian Kurdish representative from Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran, Sharif Behruz appeared before the Subcommittee on International Human
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The United Nations is suggesting to the Iraqi central and Kurdish regional governments that they either share the disputed territory of Kirkuk on an equal
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Stateless infants, children and youth, through no fault of their own, inherit circumstances that limit their potential and provide, at best, an uncertain future.
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Shortly after taking office, US President Barack Obama congratulated Iraqis on successful provincial elections. "Millions of Iraqi citizens from every ethnic and
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DİYARBAKIR - Local election results manifested, once again, evidence that Kurdish nationalism is strong and the tactics of the incumbent Justice and
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KIRKUK, Iraq - Seeking to head off an explosion of ethnic violence, the United Nations will call for a power-sharing system of government for Iraq's deeply
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Reporting from Salahuddin, Iraq — Masrour Barzani, the head of the Kurdistan regional government's intelligence service and internal security agency in
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Kurdistan region president Masoud Barzani says patience has limits and the suspended problems between Kurdistan region government and the federal
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The commander was rushing off to mediate the latest dispute between the Kurds, who dominate the local government, and the Shiite Muslim Arab-led Iraqi army,
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Kurdish suspicions of Iraq's central government have reignited after a January 22 decision by Baghdad to deploy the army's 12th Division north towards the
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The United States of America had done the Kurds a great favor by setting up a safe heaven for them which lasted until the overthrow of Saddam. In return, the
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Arbil- According to the first official results the Kurdish lists in Mousl and Dyala won second in the Iraqi provincial elections that was held on January 31, the
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Iraqi government sources said the army's 12th Division has deployed thousands of troops in Kirkuk amid the rivalry between Kurds and ethnic Turks. The army's
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The people of the Republic of Turkey have been laboring for 84 years to establish a prosperous, unified nation-state, and despite formidable obstacles--a
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“Contrary to what most people think, I say if you withdraw American military support and presence from Iraqi cities and subsequently from Iraq as a whole,
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First off, let me correct my mistake in identifying citizens of the Kurdistan Regional Government as "Kurds," because their leaders prefer the term Kurdistanis, a label
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Christians from Mosul are hesitant about returning home despite cash offerings and pledges of stronger security in and around the volatile northern city.
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A prominent Kurdish political figure who co-founded the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, PUK, is using his influential media company to challenge the party and
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BAGHDAD --Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki stepped up a war of words with the country's Kurdish parties Wednesday over the issue of pro-government local
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As tensions rise between Iraqi Kurds, Arab Sunnis, and Arab Shiites in ethnically mixed Diyala Province during a massive and ongoing military operation by
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The status of the ethnically diverse city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq may be best settled by a public vote on the matter, analysts said.
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TEHRAN - An Iranian appeals court has upheld a four-year jail term handed down to a Kurdish women's rights activist, a press report said on Sunday.
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ERBIL, Iraq -- A regional law offering incentives to foreign investors in Iraqi Kurdistan has brought in nearly $16 billion in pledged projects, Kurdish officials
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Secular women’s groups and religious leaders are battling over how much influence Islamic law should have over Iraqi Kurdistan’s new personal status
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Tens of thousands of people gathered yesterday in Kadıköy district on Istanbul's Anatolian side demanding a “peaceful solution” to the Kurdish problem.
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The prominent Kurdish politician Leyla Zana has called for dialogue to end the quarter century of conflict that has scarred south-eastern Turkey and killed more
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A Kurdish lawmaker on Monday rejected the proposal to divide Kirkuk into four constituencies, branding it as “unconstitutional.”
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This past weekend, I spent time with Kurds; the first event being an all-day hearing on the Hill involving Kirkuk, the much-disputed oil-rich Iraqi city known as the
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Ahmet Türk, the chairman of the parliamentary group of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP), said yesterday that the outlawed Kurdistan
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Kurds should explore the possibility of a power-sharing agreement for Kirkuk because the competing claims of the province’s communities will not be resolved
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SULAYMANIA, Iraq - A slender frame and quiet demeanor belie the fiery online presence of Nasseh Abdel Raheem Rashid, a 29-year-old biology student
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The script for Iraq was supposed to go like this: The dictator topples; the oppressed masses celebrate; democracy takes root; and the United States,
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ISTANBUL, (PanARMENIAN) - All pillars of the Turkish state are being attacked, said Deniz Ulke Aribogan, rector of the Istanbul's Bahcesehir University.
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In a case that might make Joseph Heller's farcical "Catch 22" seem mundane, the case of Iraqi translator Saman Kareem Ahmad is enough to make one wince in
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For decades Nawshirwan Mustafa fought for Kurdish autonomy against the tyranny of Baghdad. The steely-eyed intellectual turned guerrilla commander
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The Kurdish town of Halabja, site of a brutal chemical weapons attack by Saddam Hussein’s forces, is being promised millions of US dollars of aid, after
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In an increasingly globalised world, few places symbolise state power and security challenges more than the border zone between Turkey and Iraqi
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Recent reports quoting Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as announcing $12 billion in new investments in the predominantly Kurdish southeast
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The February incursion of the Turkish army into northern Iraq has ended in a terrible debacle for both U.S. imperialism and Turkey. The two allies are at
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A car bomb Monday evening targeting a hotel in Sulaymaniyah in Iraq's Kurdish Autonomous Region left a guard dead and 28 injured, some of them seriously,
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The brother-in-law of Iraqi president Jalal Talabani has apologised after threatening to kill a journalist who he said insulted his late father in an article.
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Writer-director Jalal “Jay” Jonroy, a Kurdish expatriate who has lived in New York for more than a decade, populates his feature debut with characters who embody
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"We are not attacking anyone. We are not fighting without cause, but are defending our national values, and we show sensitivity - especially when it
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BRUSSELS, Belgium: The European Union's enlargement commissioner urged Turkey's government Monday to promote cultural rights and reduce poverty
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QARAWOLA, Iraq • Iraqi Kurdish villagers expressed joy at the end of Turkey’s eight-day military operation inside northern Iraq yesterday, but many said they
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In Turkey, the use of non-Turkish words, for instance from French and English, is common in books and also in names of workplaces and shops.
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KIRKUK, Iraq - The leader of Iraq's Kurdish region says Kurds could have occupied Kirkuk after Baghdad fell, but chose instead to pursue independence
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Baghdad - Iraqi Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahristani has the authority to cancel contracts that oil companies signed with the government of the Kurdish
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For the last two years, Hunar Kamal has tried to learn English in the hope that his language skills will bring him a brighter future.
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ANKARA - Turkey has sustained about $300 billion in losses from the 24-year long confrontation with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a Turkish government
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BAGHDAD: Iraq's parliament on Saturday ordered an inquiry into the delay of a referendum over whether the oil-rich city of Kirkuk will join the semiautonomous
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First our chief of General Staff and then our prime minister acted like scolded children emulating their parents and declared they would not talk to the “tribal
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The United States runs the risk of creating new militias in Iraq if it arms Sunni Arab tribesmen indiscriminately to battle al Qaeda, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki
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Adnan Hassanpour was reportedly transferred to Marivan prison on 26 March,
together with another Kurdish journalist, Mansour Tayfouri. Both were
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The sister of a young Kurdish woman allegedly murdered by her family in a so-called honour killing described yesterday how she had been told she deserved
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi seems likely to win the House vote on war funding today. It would be a massive blow to her prestige if she didn't. But do not be misled: A
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The Kurds have not submitted an official map and should not be accused of swallowing what is not in the Province. The area of Iraqi Kurdistan is about 80,000
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President Bush accused congressional Democrats Wednesday of meddling in Iraq war policy and setting a deadline for a U.S. pullout that would have
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Dr. Zeki Fattah, senior economic adviser to the Kurdistan Regional Government, will share his knowledge of investment laws at Iraq's Aviation, Electricity, and
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RIYADH,-- Iraq's government does not need a "diktat" from the Arabs on how to amend its constitution and boost national reconciliation, Iraqi Foreign Minister
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ANKARA, -- A Turkish prosecutor launched a formal investigation Monday into Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan over allegations he praised Kurdish rebel
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BAGHDAD, March 21 — About 160,000 Iraqis from outside the mountainous Kurdish north have moved there to flee a growing civil war, according to a draft of
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KIRKUK, Iraq - While the world focuses on Baghdad’s security, a series of bombings here may be the long-feared start of a second deadly war in Iraq — this
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Prosecutors played a videotape Sunday depicting executions and the destruction of Kurdish villages in the trial of six defendants
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When U.S. and Iraqi forces step up an offensive against militants in Baghdad, 4,000 Kurdish soldiers will be there on the frontlines, taking part in their
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At the end of January, Nazanin Fatehi was released from an Iranian prison. She had been there for almost two years for the "crime" of self-defense against would-
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Baghdad – The prime defendant in anti-Kurds Anfal case Ali Hassan al-Majid, Saddam's cousin, admitted on Wednesday responsibility for the evictions against
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magine watching your village turn into rubble from bombs or learning that a friend or family member had been jailed and tortured. Unbeknownst to most Americans, this _____________________________________
As the largest humanitarian organization in the world, the impact of the Red Cross can be felt in nearly every country. The 140-year-old International Red Cross and
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In a garage, one Kurdish soldier welded a machine-gun mount for the gun turret on top of his British-made armored vehicle. Outside, other soldiers milled around the
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ARBIL - Unlike other parts of the country, the three-province autonomous northern region of Kurdistan is not the Iraq of roadside bombs and beheadings. It is
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Ankara- US troops in Iraq on Wednesday raided a refugee camp housing Turkish Kurds in northern Iraq, Turkish news agencies reported. Abdurrahman Belaf
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Austria’s Oe1 radio said Tuesday that one of the arrested Iranians is Mohammad Jafari-Sahroudi, implicated in the assassination of Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou,
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A predominantly Kurdish battalion based in this northern city has started the march toward Baghdad, its commander said, as the Iraqi military gears up for a
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As part of President Bush's new strategy for Iraq, 8,000 to 10,000 Iraqi troops will deploy to Baghdad from elsewhere in the country in the coming weeks, according
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Saddam Hussein's trial for the killing of 180,000 Kurds in the 1980s resumed Monday with the late dictator's seat empty, nine days after he went to the gallows.
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As the nation and world await President Bush's speech on what could be his last chance to get Iraq policy right, it is time to face the reality that a multiethnic,
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WASHINGTON --As President Bush readies a new strategy for Iraq, some experts in Washington are looking beyond the question of U.S. troop levels to what might
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The massacre, in which about 5 000 people were killed by a combination of mustard gas and the nerve agents sarin, tabun and VX over March 16-17 1988, is
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Iraq is preparing to allow foreign companies to exploit its oil reserves, according to a British newspaper report that cited a draft law expected to come before the Iraqi _____________________________________
After nearly four years of successive disasters in Iraq, which unleashed a civil war and brought the country to its knees, not to speak of the monumental American
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Winston Churchill's black dog is back. It visited him often, depressing him but never forcing him to give in. The black dog lives in a darkened chamber that some
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Amid growing Iraqi criticism of the findings of the Baker-Hamilton commission, senior government figures yesterday expressed bewilderment at a proposal to take
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The president of Iraq's Kurdish Autonomous Region issued a strongly worded rebuke of the Iraq Study Group's report on the situation of Iraq and
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Iraqi Kurdistan's culture minister has said his region must declare its independence from Iraq on 21 March 2007 - the date of Nawroz, the traditional
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Iraqi troops have gunned down mothers cradling infants and slaughtered scores of Kurdish children before bulldozing them
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The prime minister of Iraqi Kurdistan hopes to clear up a year-long dispute with Baghdad over the control of oil resources in a forthcoming
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London and Washington are reportedly discussing a range of eight options to tackle escalating violence in Iraq.
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The U.S. should consider dividing Iraq among its major ethnic groups if it can be a catalyst for winning the war in that country, Republican U.S. Senate candidate
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Iraqi and Kuwaiti officials plan to secure an agreement of cooperation in the next few months, allowing Kuwait to help Iraq develop its oil fields, according to local
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With sectarian violence ever worse in Iraq, U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison said Monday that more consideration should be given to dividing the country into semi-
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The United States of America is the world's largest economy and it is also a very strong economy. One of the biggest differences between the American economy
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Iraq has brought the quality of political discourse in America to a sad new low point. Republicans accuse Democrats of being
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Sunni leaders have strenuously opposed the measure, fearing that it could lead to the breakup of Iraq into a Kurdish region in the north, a Shiite area in the south and
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A gathering of intellectuals over the weekend warned that military measures alone won't resolve the Kurdish problem, urging civil initiatives as well.
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President Bush has so badly lied himself into a corner that he now needs the bipartisan “Iraq Study Group”—headed by the
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In a surprise visit to Iraqi Kurdistan Region, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in the regional capital of Erbil on Friday,
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KIRKUK, Iraq - Bombings and shootings are increasing in Iraq’s north as part of a power struggle between Arabs and Kurds. Car bombings in oil-rich Kirkuk grew
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raq's feuding ethnic and sectarian groups agreed Sunday to consider amending the constitution and begin debating legislation to create a federated nation, while the
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Keynote speakers will include Kerim Yildiz from the Kurdish Human Rights Project in London, Mark Muller from the Human Rights Committee of England and Wales,
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Saddam Hussein had biological and chemical weapons up until just days before Operation Iraqi Freedom started in March 2003, a former advisor to the fallen Iraqi dictator
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Humanitarian organisations and local authorities in Iraq’s northern Kurdistan region have expressed concerns over the living conditions of more than 900 families
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Since the beginning of the war in Iraq, virtually everyone from U.S. government officials to Washington think tanks to the mainstream media has subscribed to the
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A Turkish court has cleared 405 soldiers of the torture and rape of a Kurdish woman in custody in a controversial case dating back more than a decade ago, a
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Iraqi President Jalal Talabani on Sunday defended the Iraqi Kurdistan region leader's move in the flag dispute, citing a "constitutional vacuum" on the issue,
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Turkey's government was in the hot seat Monday after a weekend of bloodshed by Kurdish rebels triggered calls for a tough military response and Kurdish politicians
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In his State of the Union address earlier this year, U.S. President George W. Bush had an answer for those critical of his performance in managing the war in Iraq.
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President Bush once called me a “deal maker.” I responded, “No, Mr. President, I’m a results maker.” Because I’d rather have 50 percent of something than 100
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SULAIMANIYA, Iraq Along with a Ferris wheel and ice cream stands, the park at the heart of this Kurdish city has a monument listing the names of dozens of
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A struggle between Sunni and Shiite Muslim extremists seeking to control Baghdad has eclipsed the Sunni insurgency against U.S.-led coalition forces and
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Turkey is marshaling forces along its border with Iraq as diplomatic efforts have done little to curb a separatist Kurdish group using bases in Iraq to launch attacks
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The Turkish government has once again complained to Danish authorities about Kurdish television station ROJ-TV. The station has been accused by both Turkey
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She had lived for years in Binaka village, southeast of Kirkuk, with her family of 15. Their peaceful life ended in April of 1988 when Iraqi army units moved into nearby
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This is a historic day to see Saddam and six of his assistants who masterminded the use of chemical weapons and Anfal operations against the Kurdish people
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Four months ago, in an opinion piece with Les Gelb, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, I laid out a detailed plan to keep Iraq together,
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Resolving the problems in Iraq will require separating the various factions there, with the withdrawal of U.S. troops to come by 2008, U.S. Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del.,
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Iraq-based Kurdish separatists from the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) have offered a conditional ceasefire to Turkey, one of the rebel group's leaders said
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Rebaz Ghalib Mohammed was just seven years old when Iraqi forces arrested him and nine of his family, deporting them from their small village in Germian province
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The American advisor to Iraq’s Kurdish leaders said that Kurds in Turkey would choose a Turkey in the process of joining the European Union over other
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The men in this Kurdish cafe in Kurdistan (northern Iraq) hurled their curses at the television screen as it showed Saddam Hussein in court in live coverage of his trial
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Iraq's ousted leader Saddam Hussein will return to the dock today to face genocide charges in a highly-charged case that has revived bitter memories among the
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"I have brought my family just once this season. Each year is worse than the last," said Abdul Rasoul Majeed, a 40-year old civil servant, savoring a rare vanilla ice-
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Prosperty, deocracy, security ... and even chilled lager. The Mail on Sunday discovers a corner of this benighted country where the invasion HAS worked
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BAGHDAD, Iraq – Frustration in Washington. Digging in heels in Baghdad. There's little sign that Iraq's government of national unity is bringing together the country's
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After a dozen years as a weekly newspaper, a Kurdish paper just became a daily but can't reach its readers as the distribution company now refuses to distribute it.
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