Iraq Kurds

Kurdistan PM Barzani Condemns Post-Election Violence

AFP | Posted 08.27.2009 | World


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...

Iraq: Kurd-Arab Strife Takes Center Stage

Washington Post | Posted 08.27.2009 | World


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...

Genocide in April

Heidi Kingstone | Posted 05.01.2009 | World


Heidi Kingstone

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.

Iraq's Struggle for Civil Rights

Jeff Johnson | Posted 03.19.2009 | World


Jeff Johnson

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.

Turkish warplanes bomb Kurd bases in northern Iraq

AP | SELCAN HACAOGLU | Posted 11.05.2008 | Politics


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

A Single Person Out of Thousands in the Iraqi Countryside

Shaun Alan Jakob | Posted 08.06.2008 | Politics


Shaun Alan Jakob

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.

Turkish Troops Enter Iraq Seeking Rebels

AP | SELCAN HACAOGLU and CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


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

Turkish Warplanes Bomb Kurdish Rebels In Northern Iraq

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


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