Kurdistan

Kurdish Oil Pipeline Could Split Iraq

Daniel J. Graeber | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Iraq Oil, Crude Oil, Iea, Sunni, Shiite, Baghdad, Iraqi Kurds, Kurdistan, Iraq Sectarianism, Kurdish Oil Pipeline, World News

Kurdish leaders in the north aim to defy Baghdad by exporting oil to Turkey through a new pipeline. Given simmering acrimony between the Kurdish government and Baghdad, that pipeline may be the tether that formally pulls Iraq in two.

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A Road Trip Through Northern Iraq

Gretchen Berg | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Iraqi Kurdistan, Middle East Travel, International Destinations, Middle East, Iraq Travel, Kurdistan, Destinations, Iraq, Slidepollajax, Travel Blogs, Travel News

Karwan pointed at the prison and laughingly crowed: "Hotel five star! For terrorists! Ha ha ha! Eat, sleeping, hotel!"

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Arrests In Turkey Raise Concerns Over Press Freedom

AP | SUZAN FRASER | Posted 02.19.2012

Read More: Turkey, Pkk, Turkey Arrests, Kurdistan, Turkish Press Freedom, Kurdish Rebels, Turkey Kurdish Rebels, Turkey Pkk, Ap, Video, World News

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Police on Tuesday detained some 40 people, including several journalists, as part of a growing investigation into a group pros...

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Why Did Erdogan Apologise For The Dersim Massacre?

Ruwayda Mustafah | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Turkey, Kurdistan, Human Rights, Middle East, Dersim-Kurds, Genocide, World News

Erdogan's apology is progressive, but in retrospect Kurdish people have suffered decades of systematic killing, arbitrary arrest, unlawful detainment, banning of ethnic and cultural rights, and in light of this, a mere apology must be met with action for it to be meaningful.

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Turkish Attack On Kurds Largest In 3 Years, Military Says

AP | SELCAN HACAOGLU | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Turkish Kurds, Turkey, Turkey Attacks Kurds, Kurds, Turkey Kurds, Turkish Large Attack, Kurdistan, Turkey Kurdish Conflict, Turkey Kurdish Rebels, Kurds Attacked, World News

ANKARA, Turkey — About 10,000 elite Turkish soldiers took part in a ground offensive against Kurdish rebels in southeastern Turkey and across th...

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Syria Forces Fire On Funeral, Kill 2

AP | By ZEINA KARAM | Posted 12.08.2011

Read More: Damascus, Video, Syria Funeral, Douma, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Kurdistan, Mashaal Thamo, Syria Funeral Shooting, Syria, World News

BEIRUT -- More than 50,000 mourners marched through the capital of Syria's Kurdish heartland Saturday in a funeral procession for one of the country's...

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Kurdish Militant Group Claims Car Bomb Attack Was 'A Start'

AP | Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: Turkish Car Bomb, PKK Car Bomb, Kurdistan Freedom Falcons, Turkey, Kurds, Kurdistan Freedom Falcons Car Bomb, Turkey Kurds, Kurdish Militants, Kurdistan, Kurdish Rebels, Turkey Car Bomb, World News

ANKARA, Turkey — A Kurdish militant group on Thursday claimed responsibility for a car bomb attack near a school in the Turkish capital that kil...

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Turkish Military Assault on Kurds Sparks Outrage

Ruwayda Mustafah | Posted 10.29.2011

Read More: Kurdistan, Turkish-Warplanes, Warplanes, Human Rights, Turkey, Demonstration, Home News

The continuous shelling of Kurdish regions has lead to tensions between Turkish-Kurdish relations, and has displaced at least 124 villagers after they evacuated because of night raids, fearing for their own safety.

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Help the Hikers

Katrina Markel | Posted 09.27.2011

Read More: UC Berkeley, Iran Hikers, Josh Fattal, Kurdistan, Iran, Espionage, Shane Bauer, San Francisco News

A deadline is looming for Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal. The UC Berkeley graduates are scheduled for a final hearing in an Iranian court on Sunday, July 31st, and their friends and families are asking for your help.

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How Many Sufis Are There In World Islam?

Stephen Schwartz | Posted 09.19.2011

Read More: Iran, Islam, Sufism, Central Asia, Kurdistan, Arab Islam, Iraq, Balkans, North African Islam, Sufi Islam, What Is Sufism, South Asian Islam, Religion News

As a Muslim Sufi adherent, I am troubled especially by an expression of contempt very widely cast against Sufism by Islam-hating amateur experts in the West. That is the claim of Sufi irrelevance.

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Iran Seizes Kurdish Opposition Bases In Iraq

Posted 09.17.2011

Read More: Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraqi Kurds, Iran Revolutionary Guard, Iranian-Kurds, Pejak, Iran, Kurdistan, Iraq, World News

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces have taken control of three bases of an Iranian Kurdish opposition group in neighboring Iraq,...

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Turkish Military Launches Offensive Against Kurdish Rebels

AP | By SELCAN HACAOGLU | Posted 09.14.2011

Read More: Kurdistan, Turkish-Military, Turkey, Kurdish Rebels, Turkish Offensive, Kurds, Ankara, World News

ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkish soldiers, air force bombers and helicopter gunships conducted a major offensive in southeastern Turkey on Friday after Kurdi...

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Egypt, Meet Kurdistan: American University of Iraq

Russ Baker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: American University, Cheney, Kurdistan, Neocons, Oil, Rumsfeld, Iraq, Auis, Sulaimaniya, Aui-S, World News

Anyone who still wonders why the Bush administration invaded Iraq would do well to become familiar with an institution whose existence few Americans are aware of: the American University of Iraq-Sulaimaniya.

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"A Success Story in the Middle East"

Janet Ritz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq, Iraqi Kurdistan, Jalal Talabani, Qubad Talabani, Kurdistan, Slidepollajax, Religion, Environment, Iran, Turkey, The Environmentalist, Politics, Kurds, World News

A recent conversation with Qubad Talabani, the Kurdish representative to the U.S., centered on what the son of Iraq's President Jalal Talabani called the U.S.'s success story in the Middle East.

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Christians In Iraq Flee North Before Christmas

AP | REBECCA SANTANA | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Our Lady of Salvation, Terrorism, Baghdad, Christmas 2010, Christianity, Christians, Iraqi Christians, Religious Persecution, Kurdistan, Iraq, World News

IRBIL, Iraq — They saw their brethren murdered during Mass and then were bombed in their homes as they mourned. Al-Qaida vowed to hunt them down...

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Can Kurdistan Serve As an Internal Sanctuary for Iraqi Christians?

Joshua W. Walker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraqi Christians, Kurdistan, Iraq, Kurdish Regions, Iraqi Christians Kurdistan, Kurdish Regional Government, World News

By accommodating the Christians, the Kurdish region can demonstrate that it is a tolerant and multicultural society, and hence further enhance its image as a role model for the rest of Iraq and perhaps even the Middle East.

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Turkey's "Zero Problem" With Iraqi Kurds Means Big Bucks

Alexander Sasha Suderow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Erdogan, Iraqi Kurdistan, Massoud Barzani, Kurdistan, Turkey, Iraq, Ahmet Davutoglu, Qubad Talabani, World News

In a volatile region, an army of visionary merchants are reshaping geo-politics. And the Turkish government, in a policy U-turn, is capitalizing on the strategic framework charted by the private sector.

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Female Circumcision Rife in Iraqi Kurdistan, Says Report

TIME | Sarah Tung | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Female Circumcision, Sexual Health, Iraq War, Genital Mutilation, Kurdistan, Iraq, Feminism, World News

For many young girls in the world, a life-changing experience might be reaching puberty or discovering a first crush. For Gola, a 17-year-old student ...

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Erdogan: Fake Friend of Palestinians

Harut Sassounian | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jews, Foreign Aid, Islam, Turkey, Flotilla, Armenians, Blockade, Kurdistan, Ankara, United States, Iraq, Cyprus, Armenian Genocide, China, Karabagh, Palestinians, Ten Commandments, Tel Aviv, Erdogan, Iran, Nato, Gaza, Human Rights, Armenia, Arab, Assyrians, Greeks, Kurds, Israel, Alevis, World News

In the past week the world witnessed an amazing performance by a government leader that even the most accomplished Hollywood actor could not match! T...

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This is Iraq (But Not the One You've Seen Before)

Victoria Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tiziano Project, Assyrian, Canon 5d Mark Ii, Hookah, Ferris Wheel, Call to Prayer, Teaching Journalism, Music, Canon 7d, Mosque, Sunset, Citadel, Journalism, Multimedia, Stop Motion, Erbil, Kurdish, Scooter, Kurdistan, Iraq, Impact News

Iraqi Kurdistan is full of the growing pains and remarkable opportunities of a society that is moving on from violence and redefining a national and regional identity. This is the story we are here to tell.

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Take a Hike: Misconceptions and Machinations Keep Activists Incarcerated in Iran

Randall Amster | Posted 05.25.2011

You've probably heard about the three hikers being held in Iran since last summer. Their case has become a political football, highlighting the inhere...

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Iraq Elections: Kurds Show Influence With Strong Turnout

guardian.co.uk | Martin Chulov | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iyad Allawi, Jalal Talabani, Iraqi Kurds, Iraq Kurds, Kurds, Iraq Election, Iraq-Election-2010, Kurdistan, Iraq Elections, Iraq, Nouri Al Maliki, Gorran, World News

A strong turnout from Iraq's Kurds in national elections on Sunday has enhanced their status of kingmakers in forming the central government, with pre...

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The Iraqi Election

Qubad J. Talabani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraqi Elections, Kurdistan, Kurdistan Region, Kurds, Iraq, World News

On the eve of Sunday's elections in Iraq, passions will rise, creating tension within the system, and potentially lengthening the timeline for the formation of Parliament and selection of a prime minister. But this is healthy.

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Farewell for Now, HuffImpact -- It's Time to Practice What You've Taught Me

Victoria Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: South Africa, The Tiziano Project, Victoria Fine Travel, Travel Guide, Victoria Fine Journalist, Huffington Post Impact, Kurds, Northern Iraq, Kurdistan, Foreign Culture Untold Stories, World Cup, Victoria Fine, Impact News

At Impact I've learned that often, hope doesn't come from big ideas, but from everyday actions by determined individuals. So for the next six months, I'll be putting those ideas into action.

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Mission Accomplished, All Over Again ...

Josh Rushing | Posted 05.25.2011

I just returned from my sixth trip to Iraq where I expected to film a preview of Sunday's elections for an episode of my show Fault Lines on Al Jazeera English, but instead I found a civil war in the making.

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