BAGHDAD — Iraq's Kurds threatened Tuesday to boycott national elections, days after the country's Sunni vice president threatened to veto the ne...
Jackson Williams | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics
Peter Galbraith, son of the famed economist, is in line to reap $100 million dollars -- maybe more -- from contracts between a Norwegian oil company and the autonomous Kurdish region of Iraq.
nytimes.com | JAMES GLANZ and WALTER GIBBS | Posted 11.12.2009 | World
OSLO -- Peter W. Galbraith, an influential former American ambassador, is a powerful voice on Iraq who helped shape the views of policy makers like Jo...
thenation.com | Posted 11.17.2009 | World
The House Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights and Oversight met today to discuss issues of sovereignty and stability in Iraq ran...
GlobalPost | Posted 09.27.2009 | World
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey: If Turkish prosecutors have their way, Hebun Akkaya, a timid 16-year-old with a hesitant manner, could spend seven years in jail f...
WideAngle | Posted 08.28.2009 | World
"Jordan Farmer Kills Sister Over Alleged Affair," read a recent headline from the Agence France-Presse. The 24-year-old man stabbed his sister afte...
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...
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...
Jeff Johnson | Posted 08.16.2009 | World
This region of Iraq has not seen a coalition casualty in nearly three years and has been able to create a social reality that stands in stark contradiction to the ongoing violence in Baghdad.
James Denselow | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics
Certainly Bush's rewriting of his Iraq legacy will be helped by his decision to reverse his earlier policies, abandoning the idealism of the top-down reinvention of Iraq, for reality-based pragmatism.
Jamal Dajani | Posted 08.01.2009 | World
The upcoming days will be a real test for the Iraqi forces. Now that the United States can take credit for restoring democracy to Iraq, is it sufficiently rooted to survive the US withdrawal?
Harut Sassounian | Posted 07.05.2009 | World
German scholar Corry Guttstadt exposes the oft-repeated lie that Turkey provided a safe haven to many European Jews during the Holocaust.
Harut Sassounian | Posted 06.28.2009 | World
Erdogan is politically shrewd enough to realize that his condemnation of fascism would resonate at home and in the West, while winning him accolades and support against his powerful domestic opponents.
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.13.2009 | World
America pulling combat forces out of Iraqi cities is going to have multiple effects within the country. At this point, nobody can accurately predict what those effects are going to be with 100 percent reliability.
AP | SELCAN HACAOGLU | Posted 06.04.2009 | World
ANKARA, Turkey — Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked an engagement ceremony in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing 45...
John L. Esposito | Posted 05.16.2009 | World
Obama's performance in Turkey was flawless; he met the expectations of his admirers and won approval from many skeptics.
AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 04.23.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — A suicide bomber struck a tent filled Monday with Kurdish funeral mourners, unleashing a huge fireball that killed at least 23 people ...
Jeff Johnson | Posted 04.10.2009 | World
The Kurds have been victims of oppression for two millennium. We must protect the Kurds because Iraq is a giant legacy project for our country, whether we like it or not
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 03.30.2009 | World
The Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: American Economic Leadership Recognized Facts: US President Barack Obama made his first address to Americ...
The Independent | Patrick Cockburn in Mosul | Posted 03.26.2009 | World
A new war is threatening Iraq just as the world believes the country is returning to peace. While violence is dropping in Baghdad and in the south of ...
Jeff Johnson | Posted 03.19.2009 | World
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.
GroundReport | Posted 02.09.2009 | World
Originally published on GroundReport.com, the citizen journalism site covering world news at the local level. By Selene Verri Turkey recently conde...
Time/Current | Posted 11.23.2008 | Politics
Time has a short Current TV documentary by Mariana van Zeller and Darren Foster that fleshes out the current situation on the Iraq-Iran border, and th...
Luis Carlos Montalván | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics
Iraq remains a powder keg. "The Surge" has done little to increase security, a state of civil war remains and regional conflict threatens greater problems for the future.
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...
AP | RYAN LUCAS | Posted 11.18.2009 | World