Helena Cobban, IPS News. October 19, 2009. For many years, U.S. diplomat Peter Galbraith had a secret financial interest in the political breakup of Iraq.
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?
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. February 3, 2009. The U.S. likes to cast elections as proof of the legitimacy of the occupation, but many Iraqis saw their votes as a way to end it.
Patrick Cockburn, Independent UK. February 1, 2009. The last regional poll, in 2005, triggered two years of civil war. This time, there was not a single major attack anywhere in the country.
Voices of IraqJanuary 14, 2009. Meeting with the new U.S. vice president, Tareq al-Hashemi urged the new administration to "intervene to force Israel to stop the aggression."
Jaclyn Belczyk, Jurist Legal News and Research AlterNet: War on Iraq. December 22, 2008. The Saddam-era official accused in a 1998 gas attack that killed 5,000 Kurds has been sentenced to death twice.
Karim Zaair, Azzaman AlterNet: War on Iraq. December 8, 2008. The central government has repeatedly declared that the 17 contracts the Kurds have signed with foreign oil firms are illegal.
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.
Bassel al-Khateeb, Azzaman. July 10, 2008. The rush to sign oil contracts with foreign companies is "anachronistic" and happening in a legal vacuum, argues Mahmoud Othman.
Sam Dagher, Christian Science Monitor. April 29, 2008. Tensions are rising between Kurdish, Arab, and Turkmen factions over the heart of northern Iraq's oil industry.
Yahya Ahmed, IWPR Online. April 22, 2008. "They are Kurds and demand their own rights": Villagers in northern Iraq continue to support rebels fighting Turkey and Iran.
Juan Cole, MIT Center for International Studies. March 6, 2008. There are three major conflicts in Iraq -- and the U.S. is virtually powerless to stop them.
Juan Cole, Informed Comment. August 8, 2007. Iraqi-Turkish relations are strained, and the Kurds pass an oil law before the national government in Baghdad.
Ben Lando, UPI. May 14, 2007. In Washington, the passage of a final oil law is a key benchmark for the Iraqis to achieve. But Iraq's factions aren't on the same page, and their differences could lead to even more conflict.
