U.S. brands anti-Iran Kurdish group terrorist

The group is a front for the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, which has been fighting the Turkish government for 25 years, said Stuart Levey, U.S. Treasury undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence."With today’s action, we are exposing...

Iraq’s Provincial Elections: The Stakes

EXECUTIVE SUMMARYOn 31 January, Iraqis will head to the polls in fourteen of eighteen governorates to elect new provincial councils. The stakes are considerable. Whereas the January 2005 elections helped put Iraq on the path to all-out civil war, these polls could...

A Litmus Test for Iraq, Reidar Visser

Former Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari arrived in Basra on January 24. His mission in the southern oil port was to stump for his Reformist Front, a breakaway faction of the Da’wa Party of the current premier, Nouri al-Maliki, ahead of Iraq’s...
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