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Sat. September 06, 2008

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It has not been returned to Iraqi control and probably won't be before next year. Citing security restrictions, the army will not say where in Iraq Palin's ...
Baghdad - The Iraqi government reacted sharply Friday to published allegations that the US spied on Iraq's prime minister, warning that future ties with the ...
Kurds, for their part, deny any systematic interference and accuse their accusers. Nouri Talabany, an independent Kurd in the Kurdistan Region Parliament, ...
Iraq 's Kurdish leaders say that Saddam Hussein's Baath regime altered the demography of the strategic city by forcing its Kurds to move to other cities and ...

The election will intensify a series of ongoing power struggles involving not only the Kurds and Iraqi Arabs but also rival parties within the Sunni Arab ...
Kirkuk is the centre of the northern Iraqi petroleum industry. It is a historically and ethnically mixed city populated by Assyrians, Kurds, Arabs and Iraqi ...
Although it lies outside the Kurdish autonomy region, Khanaqin in inhabited mainly by Kurds. A week ago, after the deployment of Iraqi forces and subsequent ...
Now they say his sudden anti-Americanism is no proof of Iraqi patriotism, but just shows he is a tool of Tehran. The Iranians want the US out of Iraq, ...
Passage of the law was stymied in part by disagreements among ethnic Kurds and other Iraqi minorities about the unresolved status of the oil-rich city of ...
Minority Kurds are demanding that Kirkuk be incorporated into their autonomous northern region. Iraq's electoral commission said earlier this week that the ...
The Diyala district, which includes a string of villages and some of Iraq's oil reserves, is home to about 175000 people, most of them Kurdish Shiites. ...
Meanwhile, the Iraqi government's tense relationship with minority Kurds seems far from being contained as Kurdish and Iraqi government forces contend over ...
Iraq's Kurdish leaders say that Saddam Hussein's Baath regime altered the demography of the strategic city by forcing its Kurds to move to other cities and ...
The Iraqi press has already paid a high price and this attack sets an alarming precedent. journalists are not only targeted when they are out and about but ...
The Kurds, hoping to escape the civil unrest wish to retreat to the Kurdish autonomous region in the north. This diversity is a direct result of Diyala's ...
In 2005, 2 million out of 4 1/2 million Iraqi Kurds participated in an informal election and only 2 percent said they wanted to remain in Iraq - even though ...
Kurdish and Arab politicians ended the impasse by agreeing to withdraw both the Iraqi Army and Kurdish peshmerga security forces from the town of Khanaqin, ...
Despite having a significant Kurdish population, the city does not constitute part of the area controlled by the Kurdistan regional government. ...
A Kurdish spokesman told Haaretz: "The Americans are sure they can enlist the Kurds for every problem they encounter, but where were they when we needed ...
The handover means that operations by regular US units have to be approved by the Iraqi defence ministry, while special forces have full freedom of action. ...
But the divisions between the Shia, Sunni and the Kurds in Iraq remain very deep. The revolt by tribal sheikhs in Anbar in 2006 took place partly as a ...
Geneva Call says the Democratic party of Iranian Kurdistan destroyed almost 400 mines Monday in the northern Iraqi town of Koya. The Switzerland-based group ...
By Sherko Raouf KHANAQIN, Iraq, Aug 31 (Reuters) - A new flashpoint has emerged in the Iraqi government's tense relationship with minority Kurds as Kurdish ...
In a separate incident, two Iraqi security members were seriously wounded when a roadside bomb struck their patrol near the al-Asriyah village, ...
"If something happens in Mosul, they say 'northern Iraq.' If it happened in Diyala, they say 'northern Iraq,'" lamented Karim Sinjari, Kurdish state ...
... slum of Sadr City, saying Kurds in Khanaqin in northern Diyala should "fly the Iraqi flag," adding Iraqi, not Kurdish, forces should control the area. ...
The Kurds of Kirkuk, who are a majority and hold the top political and security posts, believe that the city belongs to Iraq's largely autonomous Kurdish ...
Other provinces that have been shifted to Iraqi control have been in the less troublesome south and in the northern Kurdish region. ...
The oil-rich Kirkuk province located north of Baghdad lies at the center of what might turn into a bloody conflict between Kurds and Arabs in Iraq. ...
Editor of Kurdish Life and the International Journal of Kurdish Studies, Saeedpour is available for a limited number of in-depth interviews. ...
Jalawla had been under the control of Kurdish fighters, or peshmerga, from northern Iraq, but they were replaced this month by an Iraqi Army unit. ...
By Missy Ryan and Shamal Arqawi ARBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraq's northern Kurdish enclave may be a haven of relative peace and serenity but independent ...
Iraq's minority Kurds want to ensure the elections, which may be delayed substantially due to political disagreement over Kirkuk, do not weaken their ...
By Alastair Hayes the United States to withdraw combat troops from Iraqi cities and towns by next June and from the rest of Iraq by 2011. ...
There's a lot less than meets the eye in the rumored US-Iraq accord. On the surface, it would seem that the US and Iraqi negotiators have sought to cut the ...
Zubaidi is a member of the Sunni Islamic Party, which supports a Kurdish federal region in Iraq. Baghdad ordered a large-scale military operation targeting ...
9, 2008, Othman, from the Kurdish province of Sulaimaniya, described the issue of deploying Iraqi forces from the country's southern part in Kirkuk city, ...
The great Iraqi Kurdish rebel leader Mustafa Barzani put his people forward to Washington as willing players between Iran's shah and Iraq's Saddam Hussein. ...
What must happen to make it possible, they agree, is a significant acceleration in the training of Iraqi security forces and in the civil reconstruction ...
Kurds have a strong cultural and emotional attachment to Kirkuk, which they call "the Kurdish Jerusalem." Article 140 of the Iraqi constitution is related ...

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