"As the United States works toward a drawdown of combat forces in Iraq by this August, and a withdrawal of all troops by 2011, military commanders and diplomats are scrambling to make sure that the Iraqi government will be ready to take over.

"Kurdish separatist rebels carried out two attacks on troops in southeast Turkey, killing one soldier in a gun battle and separately wounding 14 by detonating a roadside bomb, military officials said on Friday.

Hey there all you starry eyed humanitarians, do gooders, peace activists, liberal religious, anti Israel, anti Jewish haters and other useful idiots! Do you want to help a small beleaguered minority group of Muslims in the Mideast fighting for a state of its own against a larger, …

"The Free Kurdistan Movement, human rights group, says it is planning the first international flotilla and motor convoy to reach Turkish-occupied Kurdistan-

SADDAM Hussein's look-alike cousin Iraq's former Defense Minister Ali Hassan Al-Majid - better known as 'Chemical Ali' - has been sentenced to death for "crimes against humanity" that he was found to have committed in 1988 against residents of the Iraqi-Kurdish town o …

"A senior Kurdish official confirms Iran's start on the building of a wall separating the Islamic Republic with Iraq's Kurdistan Region, meant to prevent separatists from crossing the mountainous border"

Success stories of state-building in the Middle East have been few. The United Arab Emirates has certainly been one. Qatar, and to an extent Bahrain and Jordan, are now featuring high on good governance indexes. Yet the most impressive of all has been Iraqi Kurdistan.