Statements regarding the Kurdish betrayers whom involved directly in Al-Anfal campaign in Southern Kurdistan

  • CHAK
  • 27/08/2008 00:00:00
At the beginning of trail process of Baathist, for the crime they committed against the humanity, particularly crimes which committed by Saddam and his followers in Southern Kurdistan. View Article

12 killed in clashes with Kurdish rebels in Turkey

  • AP
  • 27/08/2008 00:00:00
Authorities say nine Kurdish rebels and three pro-government village guards have been killed in clashes in Turkey's southeast. View Article

Khaniqin needs services, not the Iraqi army, protesters

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 26/08/2008 00:00:00
The situation developed to a point where some media outlets and observers described it as “explosive”. View Article

Iraq: U.S. military releases APTN cameraman

  • CPJ
  • 25/08/2008 00:00:00
Ahmed Nouri Raziak, 38, who has worked for APTN since 2003, was detained at his home in Tikrit on June 4. Later that month, a U.S. military review board ordered Raziak held for at least six more months View Article

Democracy in the Middle East especially in the Kurdish regions

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Dana Berzinjy
  • 22/08/2008 00:00:00
Democracy in the Middle East Especially in the Kurdish Regions of Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey, and the way that Governments Run, with Comparison to Australian Democratic System. View Article

Family members allege that PUK tortured a detainee, Awene

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Mohammed Ali
  • 22/08/2008 00:00:00
Ahmed Samad was arrested on 04 December 2005 without any trial and his family members allege that their Samad has been tortured. View Article

Citizen detained for four years incommunicado by PUK, Hawlati

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Mohammed Ali
  • 22/08/2008 00:00:00
Hidayet Abdulwahab Salih was arrested on 18 November 2008 in a checkpoint around Sulemani. View Article

Picture of teenager shot by KDP in Khalifan published

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 21/08/2008 00:00:00
The villagers protested in front of the governor’s office in Khalifan while the KDP police shot at them, killing at least one person and wounding another five. View Article

Turkey uses internationally forbidden booby-trap weapons against Kurdish people, CHAK

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 21/08/2008 00:00:00
A Kurdish citizen, known as Shawkat Sadr Hamad, has picked up one of these explosive toys and was killed as a result, CHAK reported. View Article

A lesson from Kosovars and Palestinians for Atlasians…

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Gerald A. Honigman
  • 21/08/2008 00:00:00
In a post-Holocaust age, however, in the struggle to win over hearts and minds from abroad, how could Arabs demand twenty-two states while denying Jews their one? View Article

Choices of swing voters

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 21/08/2008 00:00:00
Instead of a single choice of the old world, as American we often have two options. We have different cuisines, but we choose a Big Mac or a Whopper with a Coke or a Pepsi. View Article

Educational reform in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

  • Relief web - By Randa Jamal
  • 20/08/2008 00:00:00
The Northern Iraqi Kurdistan Region has taken significant steps to improve regional education standards. Accordingly, English language classes in early grades and promoting creative thinking in classrooms were incorporated into school curricula. View Article

Kurdish Control of Kirkuk Creates a Powder Keg in Iraq

  • New York Times - By Richard A. Oppel Jr.
  • 19/08/2008 00:00:00
Of all the political problems facing Iraq today, perhaps none is so intractable as the fate of Kirkuk, a city of 900,000 that Kurds View Article

Kurdish man burned to death

  • Hull Daily Mail
  • 19/08/2008 00:00:00
A MAN who burned to death after being involved in a car fire in Hessle was in a "substantial amount of debt", an inquest has heard. View Article

Iranians bomb PKK strongholds

  • UPI
  • 18/08/2008 00:00:00
Iranian forces bombed several strongholds of the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party in northern Iraq Monday following a weekend attack by Turkish war planes. View Article

$5.3-million deal between Kurdistan, Jordanian company

  • Voices of Iraq
  • 18/08/2008 00:00:00
The government of Kurdistan province signed a $5.3-million agreement with Jordanian Price WaterHouse Coopers to develop the Information Technology strategy in the province within a 2-year contract, the stat-run al-Raay newspaper said. View Article

Shaqlawa…enchanting nature in jeopardy!

  • Voices of Iraq
  • 17/08/2008 00:00:00
Shaqlawa is one the most beautiful tourist spots in the autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan region, being the mecca of tourists from the different Iraqi provinces, particularly during the summer, but it is now losing its bright face due to draught. View Article

Kurdish troops to withdraw from restive Iraq province

  • Reuters
  • 16/08/2008 00:00:00
Iraq's Kurdish autonomous region has agreed to withdraw troops from a neighboring Iraqi province and hand over security in the area to forces of the central government, a Kurdish official said. View Article

Foreign investors pour billions in Kurdish Iraq

  • Azzaman - By Bassel al-Khateeb
  • 15/08/2008 00:00:00
Foreign investors have pledged projects worth more than $16 billion dollars to be implemented in the autonomous Kurdish region of Iraq, according to a Kurdish official. View Article

Iran kills 3 Kurdish separatists in clash

  • AP
  • 15/08/2008 00:00:00
Iranian state radio says three Kurdish separatists and one Iranian soldier were killed in a shootout in the northwest of the country. View Article

Cucumber is safe

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 15/08/2008 00:00:00
While men might be careless with their diet and enjoy a doughnut or a bagel, women are more health conscious and rather enjoy a vegetable such as cucumber in this diet age. View Article

Kurdistan Regional Government – the impediment to real economic growth

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Rauf Naqishbendi
  • 15/08/2008 00:00:00
Sustainable economic growth supported by a well-thought out monetary policy and fiscal discipline is a necessary prerequisite for economic prosperity. View Article

Kurdish Community worker loses fight for life

  • Doncaster Today
  • 15/08/2008 00:00:00
A community worker fighting plans to deport him to his homeland has died of cancer at the age of 36. View Article

Iraq's Talabani had heart surgery, politicians say

  • AP
  • 14/08/2008 00:00:00
Two Iraqi Kurdish politicians say that Iraq's President Jalal Talabani has undergone heart surgery in a U.S. hospital. View Article

Kurdish forces refuse to quit Iraq battlefield province

  • AFP
  • 14/08/2008 00:00:00
Kurdish commanders Wednesday refused orders to pull their troops out of Kurdish-populated areas of ethnically divided Diyala province, challenging the authority of Baghdad. View Article

Dispatches From the Other Iraq

  • Washington Post - By Joshua Partlow
  • 13/08/2008 00:00:00
How the Kurds' Quest for Statehood Is Shaping Iraq and the Middle East View Article

Unacceptable death of Hussein Ali

  • UK Indymedia
  • 13/08/2008 00:00:00
Hussein Ali was arrested for working without permission (in London). He had been in the UK many years and his asylum application refused. After 50 days in detention he was forcibly returned to Kurdistan. Two days later he had shot himself. View Article

Will Talabani return to Iraq?

  • The corner - By Michael Rubin
  • 12/08/2008 00:00:00
Several Kurdish sources suggest that Iraq President Jalal Talabani is not well enough to return to Iraq. View Article

“Soran is not the only journalist who has been assassinated in Kirkuk”

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 12/08/2008 00:00:00
Niyaz Kikuki was born in Kirkuk in 1976. He was a close associate of the late Soran Mama Hama. He is an independent observer and leads the US chapter of the CHAK View Article

Roadside bombing in Turkey kills 9 soldiers

  • AP
  • 11/08/2008 00:00:00
A roadside bomb exploded in eastern Turkey on Monday, killing nine soldiers who were on their way back from an operation against Kurdish rebels, an official said. Two other soldiers were wounded. View Article

Agriculture: The Undermined and Mismanaged Sector of Kurdistan’s Economy

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Rauf Naqishbendi
  • 10/08/2008 00:00:00
Agriculture is a crucial sector of any economy, significantly important to the lifeline of any nation. Similarly, one of the oldest and noblest professions known to man is farming, the means by which food is created to sustain people and their livestock. View Article

Kirkuk 'city of Kurdistan': Iraqi Kurdish leader

  • AFP
  • 09/08/2008 00:00:00
Iraqi Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani on Friday emphasised the Kurdish nature of the disputed oil-rich city of Kirkuk, as he made his first visit since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003. View Article

In Iraq, fault lines run deep over Kirkuk's future

  • Reuters - By Sherko Raouf
  • 08/08/2008 00:00:00
The failure of Iraqi politicians to resolve competing ethnic claims for the oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk is storing up explosive problems for the country's future. View Article

Iran: Kurdish activists condemned to death

  • AKI
  • 07/08/2008 00:00:00
Two Kurdish activists have been condemned to death in a closed court hearing in the Iranian city of Sanandaj. View Article

Kurdish novel re-writes rules

  • BBC - By Kareem Abdulrahman
  • 06/08/2008 00:00:00
A leading novelist's latest work could mark a new era for Kurdish literature. The novel may signal the emergence of writers form the control of politicians View Article

Of Kurds and Arabs: beyond ignorance…The allegedly free press

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Gerald A. Honigman
  • 06/08/2008 00:00:00
The Arabists who wield too much say at foggy Bottom have played such games for well over a half century now. View Article

CPJ deeply concerned about the wave of threats against journalists

  • CPJ
  • 06/08/2008 00:00:00
CPJ has documented an alarming number of cases recently, ranging from the murder of a journalist to an attack on another by a mob to at least three death threats directed at journalists in less than a month. View Article

Call for protective measures after shooting attack on reporter in Kurdistan

  • Reporters Without Borders
  • 06/08/2008 00:00:00
Reporters Without Borders condemns a shooting attack on journalist Amanaj Khalil of the weekly Rudaw on 1 August in Kani Kardatt, a region to the west of Sulaymaniyah in Iraqi Kurdistan. View Article

Freedom of expression is in danger in south Kurdistan

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Kamal Mirawdeli
  • 05/08/2008 00:00:00
The murder of Soran Mama Hama, terrible physical attack against Ya'hia Barzinj and death threats Against a number of independent and active journalists and the murder of Dr Abd-al-Sattar Tahir Sharif before all these View Article

Iraqi Kurdish Press Highlights 4 Aug 08

  • iStcokAnalyst.com
  • 04/08/2008 00:00:00
Kurdistani Nuwe, Sulaymaniyah, daily newspaper in Sorani Kurdish published by Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, PUK View Article

Iraqi Kurdish Press Highlights 5 Aug 08

  • iStockAnalyst.com
  • 04/08/2008 00:00:00
Kurdistani Nuwe, Sulaymaniyah, daily newspaper in Sorani Kurdish published by Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, PUK View Article

Iraq’s return to the old Legacy under American tutelage

  • Kurdish National Congress - North America
  • 04/08/2008 00:00:00
After decades of suppression under Saddam’s tyrannical regime, the post-Saddam era brought new hope for Iraq’s multi-ethnic/religious society. View Article

Iraqi Kurdish Press Highlights 3 August 08

  • iStockAnalyst.com
  • 03/08/2008 00:00:00
Rozhnama, Sulaymaniyah, daily newspaper in Sorani Kurdish run by Wisha Company of former PUK deputy leader Nawshirwan Mustafa, 03 August. View Article

Iran: Human rights abuses against the Kurds

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 03/08/2008 00:00:00
This report follows other Amnesty International reports on human rights abuses against ethnic, religious and cultural minorities in Iran. View Article

Turkish army destroys the last forests in Kurdistan

  • Society for Threatened Peoples
  • 02/08/2008 00:00:00
The Turkish army is destroying the last forests in Kurdistan . In order to combat the rebels of the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) the few still existing forest and bush areas in northern Kurdistan. View Article

Kurdish political leaders lack of democracy, Kurdish intellect

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 02/08/2008 00:00:00
On the economic front, the entire budgeting system, equal employment opportunities and commerce, are all hijacked by Barzani and Talabany. In essence, economic injustice is prevalent under their reign. View Article

Prostitutes conquer Kirkuk: report written with blood!

  • KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Kamal Mirawdeli
  • 01/08/2008 00:00:00
This report, and the secrets revealed in it, is widely thought to be a main factor behind the assassination of his author at his own home in Kirkuk on 21 July 2008, just 36 days after the publication of his report. View Article

Nazand Begikhani in the “Poets at the Summit” festival in the Alps

  • KurdishMedia.com
  • 31/07/2008 00:00:00
Kurdish poet Nazand Begikhani participated in the “Poets at the Summit” festival which took place between the 19th and 25th of July 2008 in the French Alps. View Article

US Embassy closely watches investigation of Soran Mama Hama's case

  • Soran Solidarity Freedom Campaign
  • 31/07/2008 00:00:00
The Sulaymaniyah head of Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT) Daniel Macknikolas visited Lvin magazine office in Sulaymaniyah accompanied by a delegate. View Article

Amnesty International calls for action to protect Kurdish journalists

  • Amnesty International
  • 31/07/2008 00:00:00
Several journalists and writers from the Kurdistan region of Iraq have received death threats in recent days. One of those threatened, Souran ‘Omar, was named on a list of journalists at risk of being killed View Article