Iraq Kurds

Iraqi Government Demands VP Face Terrorism Charges

AP | ADAM SCHRECK | Posted 03.09.2012

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BAGHDAD — Iraq's Shiite-led government on Sunday demanded that authorities in the semiautonomous Kurdish region hand over the country's top Sunn...

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US Withdrawal From Iraq: Good for America, or Good for Iran?

Haggai Carmon | Posted 12.23.2011

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The Iranians are motivated to tear Iraq up not only because of the Iraqi oil; in the Middle East, injury to honor is never forgotten and must be avenged.

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Turkey Launches Incursion In Iraq

AP | SELCAN HACAOGLU and SUZAN FRASER | Posted 12.19.2011

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ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish soldiers, air force bombers and helicopter gunships launched an incursion into northern Iraq on Wednesday, hours after ...

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Inertia in Iraq

James Denselow | Posted 05.25.2011

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The results of the Iraqi elections at the end of last month deepened a sense of conspiracy and dangerous inertia in the country. Events show that this disillusionment is threatening to reverse the security gains of the previous two years.

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Iraq Elections: Kurds Show Influence With Strong Turnout

guardian.co.uk | Martin Chulov | Posted 05.25.2011

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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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Kurdistan PM Barzani Condemns Post-Election Violence

AFP | Posted 05.25.2011

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Iraqi Kurdistan's prime minister on Monday condemned post-election violence in the autonomous region that left one person dead and 12 injured, as oppo...

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Iraq: Kurd-Arab Strife Takes Center Stage

Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Louis Khno is a city councilman whose city is beyond his control. In his barricaded streets are militiamen -- in baseball caps and jeans, wielding Kal...

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Genocide in April

Heidi Kingstone | Posted 05.25.2011

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I mention April because that month kept coming up as I toured room after room in the genocide museum. One by one 20th century genocides, like the stacks of the bodies of their victims, piled up.

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Iraq's Struggle for Civil Rights

Jeff Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

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We cannot abandon Iraq's minority groups -- most importantly, the Kurds -- to the tender mercies of those who have systematically oppressed them in the past.

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Turkish warplanes bomb Kurd bases in northern Iraq

AP | SELCAN HACAOGLU | Posted 05.25.2011

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ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish warplanes have bombed Kurdish rebel bases in northern Iraq, the military said Sunday, two days after rebels killed 15 s...

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A Single Person Out of Thousands in the Iraqi Countryside

Shaun Alan Jakob | Posted 05.25.2011

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In the US, race, creed, and ethnicity are often times matters of great contention. But to the Iraqis that we deal with, there is no race or creed among Americans. We are our own ethnicity.

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Turkish Troops Enter Iraq Seeking Rebels

AP | SELCAN HACAOGLU and CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA | Posted 05.25.2011

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CIZRE, Turkey — Supported by air power, Turkish troops crossed into northern Iraq on Friday in their first major ground incursion against Kurdis...

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Turkish Warplanes Bomb Kurdish Rebels In Northern Iraq

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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Turkish warplanes bombed separatist Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq on Saturday, a statement posted on the military's Web site said. The milit...

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