Shon Meckfessel, The Nation. August 7, 2009. "I hope that people understand my friends' presence in the area for what it was: a simple and very regrettable mistake."
Najeeba Mohammed, Institute for War and Peace Reporting. May 16, 2009. Will there be a breakthrough to end the fighting between Turkey, Iran, and Iraqi Kurds?
Patrick Cockburn, Independent UK. April 30, 2009. A unique civilization that has existed in Iraq for thousands of years, the marsh Arabs survived Saddam but now are losing a battle against nature.
Mohammed A. Salih, IPS News. November 29, 2008. 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.
Iraq Oil ReportOctober 29, 2008. The goal is to de-escalate tensions between Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government and the central government in Baghdad.
Patrick Cockburn, Independent UK. July 7, 2008. With covert operations against Iran poised to be carried out from Iraqi territory, Iranian retaliation would target the already embattled country.
Patrick Cockburn, CounterPunch. July 23, 2007. 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.
Peter Galbraith, The New York Review of Books and TomDispatch. July 19, 2007. Neither the President nor the war's intellectual architects are prepared to admit this. Nonetheless, the specter of defeat shapes their thinking in telling ways.
