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First up this Thursday, the nation of Turkey. It's often characterized as a bridge between East and West, or Asia and Europe. It's home to more than 80 million people and Turkey is a nation on edge. Since July, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been
Thousands of Monitors Prepare for Turkish Election ISTANBUL More than 55,000 election monitors are preparing for Sundays parliamentary elections in Turkey. Tensions are high, with Turkish Kurds bracing for possible violence as the party of President
President Bush is calling for Turkey to end its military operation against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq as soon as possible. Mr. Bush talked about the Turkish offensive during a nationally broadcast White House news conference. 美国总统布什呼
By Jim Randle Irbil, Iraq 28 September 2006 The surge in sectarian violence in Iraq that followed last February's bombing of a Shit'ite shrine in Samaara is forcing tens of thousands of people to flee their homes in southern and central Iraq. Many a
State prosecutors in Turkey have ordered the excavation of several sites around Turkey that they say may hold Kurdish victims of state death squads from the 1980s and 1990s, a step ahead in efforts to force the country's security establishment to co
After 19 years of experimenting - and some help from his local government - a Kurdish man has realized his childhood dream. Nareeman Anwar Saleh has flown his home-built airplane over his home town of Irbil. On a dusty, windswept runway, a small yell
The recent massacre of a wedding party in southeast Turkey has cast the spotlight on the region's local militia known as Village Guards. Some of the weapons used in the wedding attack are believed to belong to the militia. The militia was created by
Hope For Peace Fades in Turkey Over PKK Attack The Turkish government has vowed strong retaliation against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), after Kurdish rebels launched a deadly attack on Turkish soldiers in Hakkari province near Turkey's border w
Iraq's Sunni Arab Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi says he may veto a proposed electoral law, which was amended Monday by parliament. The head of Iraq's electoral commission says failure to pass the law will delay elections by at least a month from t
Kurdish Peshmerga Force Secures Kirkuk, Its Oil KIRKUK, IRAQI KURDISTAN The Kurdistan regional government has sent its Peshmerga troops into the adjacent province of Kirkuk to drive out insurgents, and to secure the area's rich oil fields. By doing t
ISIS Takeover in Mosul Displaces Thousands 极端组织伊希斯取得摩苏尔的控制权 NORTHERN IRAQ The extremist group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) seized control of the western half of Mosul, Iraq's second largest
Iraq's new government has been sworn in as the country seeks to tackle Islamic State militants. The parliament approved the new government headed by Haider al-Abadi, a moderate Shiite, as prime minister. Abadi has included members of Iraq's Shia majo
By Dorian Jones Diyarbakir 16 July 2007 As Turkish voters get ready to head to the polls for general elections July 22, tension is rising among the Kurds in Turkey's southeast. Although the Kurdish nationalist party has been gaining support in the re
By David Gollust State Department 22 February 2008 The United States Friday called on Turkey to limit the scope of its ground incursion in northern Iraq and bring it to an early conclusion. The operation is apparently the biggest of several recent Tu
By Dorian Jones Istanbul 22 February 2008 Turkish ground troops have entered northern Iraq in a drive against Kurdish separatists of the Kurdish Workers Party which Ankara accuses of using bases in Iraq to launch attacks against its forces in southea
By Dorian Jones Istanbul 19 November 2007 Turkey is still massing tens of thousands soldiers on the Iraqi border, a response to a series of attacks by Kurdish militants that have claimed the lives of more than 50 soldiers and civilians. Rebels of the
By Barry Newhouse Irbil 16 March 2007 Friday March 16 marks the 19th anniversary of Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons attack on the Kurdish village of Halabja. For the first time, Iraq's central government has marked the occasion by calling for a min
By Deborah Block Irbil 06 November 2007 Turkey's president says his country has decided on how to proceed against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq and has informed the United States. The comments by President Abdullah Gul Tuesday came a day after U.S.
By Paula Wolfson White House 17 October 2007 President Bush is urging Turkey to refrain from launching a cross-border offensive against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports Mr. Bush spoke at the White House as the Turkish parl
Iraqi officials say a truck bomb has killed at least 20 people and wounded 27 others in a Kurdish village in northern Iraq. An Iraqi man sits in the ruins of a Kurdish village after a predawn suicide truck bombing in Wardek, southeast of Mosul in no