Your Search Returned 65 tagged news reports
President Barack Obama told congressional leaders Tuesday he remains undecided on a U.S. troop increase in Afghanistan , people who were at the meeting said. Obama said he does not plan to cut U.S. forces or change the mission to focus entirely on al-Qaida,...
Tags: obama, Barack Obama met Obama, Mr. Obama, Afghanistan, U.S, president barack, Iraqi, congressional leaders, White House, Jalal Talabani
World June 1, 2009, Monday Iraqi workers at Tawke oil field in the town of Zakho, northern Iraq on 01 June 2009. The Kurds in Northern Iraq have started to export oil from the first time in their history...Initially, Iraqi Kurdistan is going to export...
Tags: Iraqi Kurdistan, Northern Iraq, exported oil, kurdish region, Turkey, Northern Region of Kurdistan, voter registration, Taq Taq, Jalal Talabani, oil field
An Iraqi government spokesman says Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has arrived in Baghdad for talks, in what's thought to be the first visit by a Palestinian leader since the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Spokesman Ali al-Dabagh says the U.S.-backed Abbas...
Tags: Iraqi, Iraq Media Development, Mahmoud Abbas, palestinian president, Jalal Talabani, Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian, Baghdad, palestinian leaders, abbas arrived
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says. "It is enough that the members of the separatist Kurdish organization put down their weapons. Our wish is that," Erdogan said in a live broadcast on Turkey's ATV. The Turkish prime minister's remarks come as Iraqi...
Tags: Turkey, Iraqi, PKK, prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, president jalal, Ankara, Jalal Talabani, foreign policy
The future of vital water resources "does not only rest on technological progress, but also and mostly on political commitments", World Water Council president Loic Fauchon said during the opening ceremony. He called all policy makers and international...
Tags: water forum, Iraqi, world water, Turkey, Jalal Talabani, independence kurdish, 5th world, crown prince, president jalal, Istanbul
A rebel spokesman says four Kurdish rebels were killed by Turkish air strikes last week in northern Iraq. Dozan Tikeen says four fighters with the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, were killed in strikes on Wednesday through Friday in the Zakros and Zap...
Tags: Iraqi, Jalal Talabani, PKK-Turkey, presidency jalal, iraqis presidency, office confirmed, U.S, kurdish rebels, stray bullet
Speaking to foreign policy experts in London, Masoud Barzani, the president of the Kurdish regional government, said Kurds were better off in partnership with Iraq as a whole, even if independence would always remain their ultimate aspiration. "Kurds...
Tags: Iraqi, Jalal Talabani, Masoud Barzani, presidency jalal, Baghdad
Iran and Iraq touted their renewed relations as officials reached a variety of bilateral measures during a visit to Tehran by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani. "After many years of oppression and dictatorship by the former Iraqi regime, it is high time...
Tags: Iraqi, Rafsanjani Visits Iraq, People's Mujahedin of Iran, Islamic Republic of Iran, Baghdad, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Jalal Talabani, Tehran Times, U.S, president jalal
Talabani, a Kurd, will hold talks with his Iranian counterpart, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the head of Iran's Expediency Council Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and others. Other media reports said Talabani is also expected to meet Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah...
Tags: Iran, Jalal Talabani, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Tehran, Iraqi
The meeting, which took place at Barzani's residence in the Salahaddin resort town of the regional capital of Arbil, was closed to the press. Sources later said the talks between the two focused on relations between Iraq's Kurdish region and Turkey and...
Tags: Iraqi, Aswat al-Iraq, Support Iraq, Jalal Talabani, South Korean