Just a week after concluding a security agreement with Iraq, Turkey has threatened to send its military across the border to pursue Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters holed up in the mountains.
(RFE/RL) October 4, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- The U.S. Senate's passage of a nonbinding resolution calling for a formal separation of Iraq's 18 governorates into three autonomous regions that would reflect the country's largest ethnicities has sparked a massive outcry both inside Iraq and across the Arab world, with critics suggesting the United States has overstepped its role in Iraq.
Sunni leader Tariq al-Hashimi's attempt to bring about the government's fall may be running out of steam (file photo) (epa) September 13, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- As the United States makes progress in talks with Sunni and Shi'ite tribal leaders toward ending the armed conflict in Iraq, Iraqi politicians who form the core of the opposition are facing defections from cabinet members who would rather return to work than support their boycott of the government.
Tariq al-Hashimi (left) and Nuri al-Maliki hope this agreement fares better than previous ones (file photo) (AFP) August 31, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- An agreement was forged this week between the Sunni Arab-led Iraqi Islamic Party and the country's Shi'ite and Kurdish leaderships calling for the revocation of the de-Ba'athification law and establishment of a higher national commission for accountability and justice which ostensibly paves the way for former Ba'athists to return to Iraq.
Four aides to Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani have been killed over the past two months. Are other factions threatening Iraq's supreme Shi'ite leader?
Iraq's government has convened several key meetings this week with neighboring states aimed at improving security. But will anything change?
With the current mandate set to expire on August 10, the UN Security Council is set to consider a draft resolution that calls for an expanded UN mandate in Iraq.
The main Sunni Arab bloc in the Iraqi cabinet followed through on its threat to quit the cabinet on August 1, in a move intended to destabilize the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
Iraqi journalists have been targeted for kidnappings and assassinations at an alarming rate in recent weeks.
June 13, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Sunni insurgents have once again attacked the Al-Askari (Golden) Mosque in an apparent attempt to goad Shi'a into launching retalitory actions.
Attempts to reorganize the Iraqi political landscape on a nonsectarian basis received a bitter response from the country's Shi'ite and Kurdish leaders this week.
Leaders of Iraq's Christian community estimate that over two-thirds of the country's Christian population has fled the country since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
Iraqi political parties and blocs are frustrated with the sectarianism and political stagnation plaguing Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's "national-unity" government.
The Kurdish north has been spared much of Iraq's violence, but recent threats from Al-Qaeda and other insurgent groups could change that.
Since taking over Al-Qaeda in Iraq last June, Abu Ayyub al-Masri has been in conflict with homegrown insurgents who see foreign fighters as pursuing different ends.
The Al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq has alienated other insurgent groups by its ruthless attempts to dominate the anticoalition effort.
With a bill that would allow former Ba'athists to be reinstated, the government took another step toward reconciliation.
Four years ago, few Iraqis could have imagined they would find themselves in the Iraq they see today.
Iyad Allawi (file photo) (AFP) March 16, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Former Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi is currently courting Iraqi political parties and blocs in an attempt to forge a new national-unity government.
While the foreign minister hailed the Baghdad meeting as "constructive and positive," others disagreed.
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