- Iraqi Paper Publishes Names of Candidates, Blocs For Upcoming Elections (December 18, 2004)
...idates will compete in the elections of the (Iraqi) National Assembly, the Kurdistan National Assembly, and the councils of governorates. The elections will be... - Kurds' Deaths Could Alter Iraq's Shape (February 2, 2004)
...sque to pray. Thousands of people waited in the streets behind them. If Kurdistan were a state, today would have been a state funeral. American officials... - University Bans 'Illegal Links' (September 26, 2002)
...ganization, got in trouble for linking to a different terrorist group, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which is also on the State Department's list. It has... - Ansar al-Islam Founder Thinks New Attacks on US Unlikely (December 28, 2003)
... war against the Sunnis. Mullah Krekar revealed that Patriotic Union of Kurdistan leader Jalal Talabani and current president of the transitional Governing... - What Do The Kurds Want? (July 16, 2004)
...e Kurds’ political agenda was the claim about an Israeli presence in Iraqi Kurdistan. As far as I know -- and I would have reason to know, given that I have cl... - Report: Iraq, Al Qaeda Run Extremist Group In Kurdish Territory (March 18, 2002)
...al operatives of the group who had been captured by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), a pro-American Kurdish group that controls one province in northern... - Patriot Act Faces New Challenge In Court (August 6, 2003)
...st case involves American activists and aid workers with ties to Turkey's Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, both o... - Iraq and Poison Gas (September 23, 2002)
...tly referring to the Iraqi military's use of chemical weapons in the Iraqi Kurdistan town of Halabja in March 1988 during the Iran-Iraq War, and then in the ar... - US Met with Kurdish Factions On Overthrow of Hussein (April 23, 2002)
...ish Democratic Party, and Jalal Talabani, leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, also discussed plans for a government that would replace Hussein's regime... - Section of Patriot Act Ruled Unconstitutional (January 26, 2003)
...iffs seek to provide support to "the lawful, nonviolent activities" of the Kurdistan Workers' Party and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, an advocate group... - Kurds, Secure in North Iraq, Are Cool to US Offensive (July 8, 2002)
...ssoud Barzani, leader of one of the two main Kurdish political groups, the Kurdistan Democratic Party, said at his mountaintop headquarters outside Salahuddin,... - Iraq Shi'ite Group Vows to Shun US-Named Council (June 7, 2003)
...gue with the Americans, he added. A senior official of Masoud Barzani's Kurdistan Democratic Party, another of the seven factions, said the KDP was not "100... - Allies Recoil at Turkey's Plans for Troops in Iraq (March 24, 2003)
...f clashes if Turkey sends in troops. Safeen Dizayee, an official of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, which controls part of northern Iraq, said Monday that e... - Shootings of Three US Soldiers Mark Escalation of Resistance (July 7, 2003)
... US position is that it does not have any important allies in Iraq outside Kurdistan. The CPA is trying to change this by nominating a Council of Governance th... - Bush Officials Say the Time Has Come for Action on Iraq (September 8, 2002)
...signed an accord today to end a longstanding rivalry. The leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Massoud Barzani, and the head of the Patriotic Union of... - Northern Iraq Could Become Second Palestine (May 28, 2003)
... At the moment, the Kurdish Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan are calling for Iraq to be reassembled as a federation offering them a con... - Car Bombs Hit Iraq, Bush Says US Will Stay (November 20, 2003)
...Baghdad. The bombings near the Kirkuk offices of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) — whose leader is currently head of Iraq's U.S.-appointed Governing... - Kurds Brush Up on Human Rights (March 11, 2003)
... Kader, a tribal elder from a small village along the border between Iraqi Kurdistan and the "other Iraq," had a long memory and a taste for revenge. In 1988,... - Plan B (June 28, 2004)
...hing a significant presence on the ground in the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan. Several officials depicted Sharon’s decision, which involves a heav... - The Day After (October 23, 2002)
... future government in Baghdad. Fouad Masoum, of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, told the Weekly that all the Iraqi opposition parties are opposed to "any... - Iraq Takes Seat at Arab League Meeting (September 9, 2003)
...who worked with Washington in the war to topple Saddam. He represented the Kurdistan Democratic Party in London and Washington for several years. He speaks Eng... - Senior UN Official Warns Time Not Right For Elections (December 5, 2004)
...uicide bomber in a car close to the headquarters of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party. Despite stressing his comments were meant in a personal capacity... - Crucial US Allies On Iraq Fall Out Over Oil (November 1, 2002)
...yle crisis. Hoshar Zebari, the head of international relations for the Kurdistan Democratic Party, held talks with the government in Ankara. Afterwards he... - How to Get Out of Iraq (April 15, 2004)
...tician, the Ayatollah Baqir al-Hakim; and the deputy prime minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Sami Abdul Rahman, along with hundreds of others. - Interim Iraqi Government (June 1, 2004)
...nister of Kurdish regional government and member of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). Foreign minister: Hoshyar Zebari of the KDP will stay in his cu... - Iraqi Opponent Will Leave Iran to Plan Takeover (January 27, 2003)
...al activity in Tehran.] "We hope to go to our country in northern Iraqi Kurdistan to have consultations with the leaders over there," Mr. Chalabi said. "And... - Turkish Troop Deployment Unleashes Iraqi Opposition (October 15, 2003)
... It also highlighted that a "deployment would help crush terrorists of the Kurdistan workers' party (PKK)" based in northern Iraq. In closed-door sessions in A... - How Not to Overthrow Saddam (July 15, 2002)
...ossibility of a Kurdish state across the border. Even establishing a small Kurdistan as part of a federal Iraq might provoke a Turkish military response. The T... - Another Day In The Bloody Death Of Iraq (September 21, 2003)
...f there was security in Baghdad under his regime, there was mass murder in Kurdistan and in the Shia south of Iraq. Tens of thousands have been found in the ma... - US Newspaper Ban Plays Into Cleric's Hands (March 31, 2004)
...of moderate leader Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. Typical headlines were "Kurdistan always belonged to Iraq", "America kills then apologizes" (with a picture... - Turkey, Drugs, Faustian Alliances & Sibel Edmonds (June 28, 2004)
...rgut Özal in April 1993. According to the minister of interior, the war in Kurdistan had cost the Turkish exchequer upwards of $12.5 billion. According to the... - The Battle Between Rumsfeld and the Pentagon (April 7, 2003)
...g with Iranian officials, to discuss border issues, in case an independent Kurdistan emerges from the Iraq war. A former U.S. intelligence officer put it this... - The State of Humanity (December 28, 2002)
... Food" program, likely to be severely disrupted in the event of war. "Free Kurdistan is like a huge refugee camp," one Kurdish leader commented, dependent on U... - How We Helped Create Saddam (September 23, 2002)
...the Kurds were agitating to break off parts of Iraq and Turkey to create a Kurdistan. So Saddam was allowed to keep his tanks and helicoptersówhich he used to... - Women Under Siege (December 29, 2003)
... women's rights within the occupation—a progressive past as an activist in Kurdistan, a strong connection to her country, a history of work and study in Washin... - Al Qaeda's Grocery Lists and Manuals of Killing (March 17, 2002)
... house in Kabul, there was a public statement from the "Islamic Battalion, Kurdistan, Iraq," dated Nov. 20, 1999, calling on "the movement for Islamic unity" t... - Al Qaeda May Foment Unrest in Iraq Among Kurds (July 11, 2002)
...... - Iraqi Press Summary (19-27 Dec. 2004) (December 27, 2004)
...lling for postponing the upcoming elections, reminding of the civil war in Kurdistan in 1992 and the three postponements of the Afghani elections until an appr... - Many Balk at Preparations for War Against Iraq (August 8, 2002)
...uences for the entire region. Neighboring Turkey fears that an independent Kurdistan in Northern Iraq would fuel the separatist aspirations of its own Kurdish... - Baghdad Year Zero: Pillaging Iraq In Pursuit Of A Neocon Utopia (September 24, 2004)
...osed. If that wasn’t injury enough, all the blast walls are imported, from Kurdistan, Turkey, or even farther afield, this despite the fact that Iraq was once...
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