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Kurdistan Autonomy

Christian Security Forces Growing Stronger In Iraq

A new phenomenon is spreading through the Christian towns and villages of northern Iraq: Christian security forces, organized through their local churches, are manning checkpoints and working with the Iraqi police.

Village Guards on the Frontline of Turkey_s War on Terrorism

By Emrullah Uslu The Village Guard system is one of the key aspects of Turkish security polices in the nation’s ethnic-Kurdish southeast. The carrot that the state offered was the Gecici Koy Koruculugu (GKK) system, i.e., the...

Help Iraqi workers win a labour law!

According to US Labor Against the War and the Iraqi Freedom Congress, a flurry of strikes and demonstrations has scored one of the most important victories for Iraqi workers since 2003, and put the question of a proper...

DANIEL McGROARTY: It's (still) foreign policy, stupid

With Wall Street in meltdown and Main Street bracing for the bailout bill, pundits have hammered out a new conventional wisdom: the 2008 race for the White House will be all about the economy. That decision, announced...

Iraq Moving Toward Biden's Controversial Vision?

WASHINGTON -- In May 2006, at the height of the violence in Iraq, Senator Joe Biden floated a controversial proposal: carve out autonomous regions for the three main ethnic and religious groups - Kurds, Sunni Arabs, and...

Iraqi Kurds Broaden Reach, Anger Arabs

JALAWLA, Iraq -- Kurdish leaders have expanded their authority over a roughly 300-mile-long swath of territory beyond the borders of their autonomous region in northern Iraq, stationing thousands of soldiers in ethnically...

Strip of Iraq 'on the Verge of Exploding'

Kurdish leaders have expanded their authority over a roughly 300-mile-long swath of territory beyond the borders of their autonomous region in northern Iraq, stationing thousands of soldiers in ethnically mixed areas in...

Strip of Iraq 'on the Verge of Exploding'

JALAWLA, Iraq -- Kurdish leaders have expanded their authority over a roughly 300-mile-long swath of territory beyond the borders of their autonomous region in northern Iraq, stationing thousands of soldiers in ethnically...

Modest Kolerov: The New Big Caucasus. Mutual containment without aliens. What exists no more and...

Read it in Russian The USA advised quite roughly to Syria not even to speak about the war in South Ossetia and responsibility of Georgia for its outcomes, but to occupy itself with “regional” problems instead. However, the USA...

Iran kills 3 Kurdish separatists in clash

Iranian state radio says three Kurdish separatists and one Iranian soldier were killed in a shootout in the northwest of the country. The report says the shootout happened Wednesday night in a mountainous region near the Iraqi...

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