Massoud Barzani

                   

Shifting Alliances In Iraq May Create New Conflicts

theimpudentobserver.com
12 hrs ago 2 related
        

Most American attention has focused on relations between the United States and the Iraq government as they hammer out the last pieces of the security pact, but trouble may well be arising in other areas of Iraq that have...

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Ergenekon critics use Güney as ploy

todayszaman.com
21 hrs ago
        

Some newspapers in Turkey that initially ignored Ergenekon have recently exaggerated the connection a mysterious rabbi who now resides in Canada has to the illegal organization, observers say, in order to downplay the trial.

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Recent survey shows nation yearns for ‘old Erdoğan’

todayszaman.com
Nov 30, 2008 5 related
        

A considerable segment of the Turkish nation prefers the old version of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has recently been criticized for deviating from his pro-freedom, democratic and reformist line, to the new...

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Does the Status of Forces Agreement Spell Doom for Kurds?

alternet.org
Nov 29, 2008 5 related
        

Is the SOFA takes effect, Kurds could find themselves not only on the opposite side of the trench against the Iraqi army, but U.S. troops as well. Kurds are divided over a security pact between Iraq and the U.S., approved by a...

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nwsource.com: Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki drove a hard bargain, a U.S. military official said. nwsource.com

Tough Iraqi leader pushed through pact

nwsource.com
Nov 28, 2008 27 related
        

In a country where agreements are hard to reach, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki built a broad political coalition to muscle through a divisive U.S.-Iraq security pact that could set his place in his nation's history as the man...

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US-IRAQ: Kurds Anxious Over Security Pact

ipsnews.net
Nov 27, 2008 6 related
        

COLUMBIA, Missouri, Nov 27 (IPS) - Kurds are divided over a security pact between Iraq and the U.S., approved by a large majority in the Iraqi Parliament Thursday, in what appears to be a potential heavy blow to their major...

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Iraq: Is it really coming right?

economist.com
Nov 27, 2008 1 related
        

In most of Iraq, violence has plummeted and the Americans under a new president look set gradually to withdraw. But will the battered country hold together?IT SHOULD be momentous. In Baghdad in the middle of this week, after...

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Northern Iraq knows it needs Turkey, says AK Party deputy

todayszaman.com
Nov 25, 2008 5 related
        

The Kurdish leaders and administrators of northern Iraq believe they need to get along well with Turkey to survive, a Justice and Development Party (AK Party) deputy has said. AK Party Ankara deputy Burhan Kayatürk shared his...

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Disputed Oil Contractes Discussed by Iraqi Government and Kurds

neftegaz.ru
Nov 25, 2008 33 related
        

Iraq's oil minister met with senior Kurdish officials Monday to discuss an oil contract dispute that has stoked tensions between the Shiite-dominated central government and the Kurdish self-rule regional government in the north

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Assyrian Police in North Iraq Protest Against Marginalization

aina.org
Nov 25, 2008
        

Northern Iraq (AINA) -- Nearly 300 Assyrian policemen in the Nineveh plain in northern Iraq protested on the 21 November outside the office of the local governor, in the city of Baghdede, against what they see as attempts to...

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