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Kurdistan: Birth of a Nation?

A COMEDY OF ERRORS: AMERICAN-TURKISH DIPLOMACY

The Safe Haven in Iraq – What does Safe Haven

The Superpowers and the Iraqi Kurdish Safe Haven

What Future for the Kurds?

The Denial, Resurrection, and Affirmation of

Green Money, Islamist Politics in Turkey

Was Abraham a Kurd?

Serbestî-English Summary: NATO’s New Spot of

The Resolution's Weakness

What future for the Kurds?

How to Get Out of Iraq

Let the Kurds be

Standing up for Syrian Kurds

The U.S. Is Brewing Up a Disaster for the Kurds –

The Kurds Must be Allowed Responsibility for

2004 Local Elections in Turkey and the Kurds

THE KURDS BETWEEN THE DESIRE FOR FREEDOM AND THE

Reflections On A Sovereign Iraq

Kurds show their grit

BOMBING FREEDOM

A Hole in the Heart of Kurdistan

The Kurds' Best Hope

A TEST OF VISION

The Kurdish Question

Iraqi Kurdish claim for federalism – A Kurdish-Ara

The Meaning of Self Determination and the Kurds

Bakh Dargali: Iraqi Kurds should get their own

THREE IRAQS ARE BETTER THAN ONE

The Three-State Solution

An Identity Crisis

Diyarbakır Military Prison Number 5: A Turkificati

WISING UP IN IRAQ

Victory in Iraq, One Tribe at a Time

Diyarbakır Military Prison Number 5: A Turkificati

Of Kurds and Madrid

Three Iraqs, not one

BUSH'S BETRAYAL

Turkey Is Joining Up

The Turkish Card

The Turkish Card

Iraq and the Kurdish dilemma – An Identity Crisis

Why Are We In Iraq? (And Liberia? And Afghanistan?

Iraq: In the Triangle of Terror

The Re-establishment of the University of Kirkuk

Federalism – For and Against

Responsibility of the international community

Transforming the Middle East

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Blood borders — How a better Middle East would look

International borders are never completely just. But the degree of injustice they inflict upon those whom frontiers force together or separate makes an enormous difference — often the difference between freedom and oppression, tolerance and atrocity, the rule of law and terrorism, or even peace and war.

Saddam's Delusions: The View from the Inside

Summary: A special, double-length article from the upcoming May/June issue of Foreign Affairs, presenting key excerpts from the recently declassified book-length report of the USJFCOM Iraqi Perspectives Project.

Kevin Woods is a defense analyst in Washington, D.C. James Lacey is a military analyst for the U.S. Joint Forces Command. Williamson Murray is Class of 1957 Distinguished Visiting Professor of History at the U.S. Naval Academy. Along with Mark Stout and Michael Pease, they were the principal participants in the USJFCOM Iraqi Perspectives Project.

An incovenient patriot

AN INCOVENIENT PATRIOT

By David Rose

Love of country led Sibel Edmonds to become a translator for the F.B.I. following 9/11. But everything changed when she accused a colleague of covering up illicit activity involving Turkish nationals. Fired after sounding the alarm, she's now fighting for the ideals that made her an American, and threatening some very powerful people.

Syria names 'killers' of Kurdish religious leader

DAMASCUS, June 2 (AFP) - 10h22 - Syria's official press Thursday named five men whom the authorities said were responsible for the murder of a Kurdish religious leader, Sheikh Mohammed Maashuk Khaznawi, who went missing last month.

'Tortured' Kurdish cleric dies in Syria: party officials

BEIRUT, June 1 (AFP) - 13h38 - A Kurdish Muslim cleric in Syria who was reported missing last month has died after being tortured, Kurdish party officials said Wednesday.

Kurdish leader Barzani to head new regional government

SALAHEDDIN, Iraq, May 29 (AFP) - 11h14 - Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani is to head an autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq after a deal with his longtime rival, Iraq's new President Jalal Talabani, a Kurdish official said Sunday.

Akre's last Muslim with Jewish roots wants to visit family in Israel

AKRE, Iraq, May 24 (AFP) - 5h14 - Hajj Khalil is the last Muslim with Jewish roots in the Iraqi Kurdish village of Akre. One of his dearest wishes is to travel to Israel to apologise to his cousins for failing in his duties as a host when they visited him five years ago.

Iraq's 'devil-worshippers' seek constitutional rights

SHAIKHAN, Iraq, May 23 (AFP) - 5h24 - At a mountainside temple in the heart of Iraqi Kurdistan, pilgrims from the minority Yezidi community come to worship the peacock angel, also known as Lucifer.

Syrian Kurds demonstrate over missing cleric

DAMASCUS, May 21 (AFP) - 16h00 - Some 10,000 Kurds demonstrated in northern Syria Saturday to demand news on the whereabouts of a Kurdish Muslim cleric widely believed to have been detained by Syrian police, a Kurdish leader said.

Remarks With Kurdistan Democratic Party Leader Massoud Barzani

Secretary Condoleezza Rice
Irbil, Iraq
May 15, 2005

MR. BARZANI: (Translated from Kurdish) First of all, I would like to welcome Madame Secretary Condoleeza Rice, on behalf of the people of Iraqi Kurdistan, and me personally, and the accompanying delegation for this visit. We value this visit, and we have appreciation for it, we feel honored to have you here, and we see this visit as a kind of reconfirmation of the United States’ support for the people of Iraq, and also for the Kurdistan region, support for the democracy process, and for building a democracy and a federal Iraq. Once again, I would like to welcome you.

Rice Makes Surprise Visit to Iraq

[SALAHADIN, 15/5 2005] — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a surprise visit to Iraq today to thank U.S. troops and diplomats for their sacrifices and encourage Iraqi government leaders to push ahead with their political process and counterinsurgency efforts. Her visit came on a day of continuing violence marked by suicide bombings, assassinations and the discovery of bodies of Iraqis apparently slain execution-style in as many as three locations.

Rice in Iraq for Kurdish meeting – Hunt for insurgents near Syria ends

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN), 15/5 2005 -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq Sunday for a meeting with Kurdistan Democratic Party leader Masoud Barzani.

Rice landed at the airport in Erbil at 10:45 a.m. (2:45 a.m. EDT) where she was greeted by Barzani who escorted her to his home for their meeting.

Rice makes surprise visit to Iraq 18 minutes ago

IRBIL, (AFP), 15/5 2005 — Condoleezza Rice made her first visit to Iraq as US secretary of state to show support for a fledgling government struggling to tame communal rivalries and battle a raging insurgency.

Syria arrests members of Kurdish parties: TV

DUBAI, May 12 (AFP) - 21h41 - A number of Kurdish political activists have been arrested in Syria, particularly in a town where deadly disturbances took place last year, a Kurdish political leader told Al-Arabiya television Thursday.

Iraqi Film at Cannes for First Time

CANNES, 12/5 2005 — For an Iraqi filmmaker on location in his homeland, one of the biggest hassles was getting hold of a key prop: a statue of Saddam Hussein.

"Kilometre Zero" is the first Iraqi film competing at the Cannes Film Festival. Director Hiner Saleem, an Iraqi Kurd who fled the country as a teenager, returned to his homeland to shoot the movie after Saddam's fall.

In Turkey, New Fears That Peace Has Passed – Army Takes Offensive As Kurdish Rebels Return From Iraq

PERVARI, Turkey, 10/5 2005 -- Residents of this town nestled in the cliffs of southeastern Turkey counted 86 military vehicles lurching deeper into the mountains one day last month, with foot soldiers peering out. Overhead, Cobra attack helicopters stuttered across an epic blue sky laced by the contrails of F-16 warplanes.

Jaafari's cabinet pledges allegiance to 'federal Iraq'

BAGHDAD, May 9 (AFP) - 11h56 - The Iraqi cabinet was sworn in for the second time in a week Monday after Kurdish leaders insisted a reference to federalism that had been removed from the original text be reinserted.

Blast Kills at Least 50 at Police Recruiting Center in Iraq

IRBIL, Iraq (AP), 4/5 2005 -- A suicide attacker slipped into line at a police recruitment center in this usually tranquil northern Kurdish city and blew himself up Wednesday, leaving the streets slick with blood in the deadliest insurgent attack in more than two months, police said. Sixty Iraqis were killed and 150 wounded.

Suicide bomber kills at least 60 in northern Iraq

ARBIL, Iraq (Reuters), 4/5 2005 - A suicide bomber killed at least 60 people and wounded 150 more when he blew himself up at the office of a Kurdish party in the northern Iraqi city of Arbil on Wednesday, a health official said.

25 killed as suicide car bomb rips through Kurdish funeral in Iraq

MOSUL, Iraq, May 1 (AFP) - 20h22 - Twenty-five people were killed and 30 wounded Sunday when a suicide car bomb ripped through the funeral of a Kurdish official in the northern Iraqi city of Tall Afar, an official at the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) told AFP.