Another war in Iraq looms as Turkey's 140,000 troops amassed on the border with Kurdish Iraq threatens to set off a new wave of violence and destabilization in the Middle East.
A historic vote in Iraq's northern territories could right past wrongs, but it might also spark a new front in the country's many-sided civil conflict.
Patrick Cockburn, The Telegraph (UK). March 28, 2007.
Oil-rich Kirkuk is at a melting-point. With most Western eyes focused on the sectarian violence that’s torn Baghdad apart, this Borthern city is spiraling out of control.