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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
Sunni members of the Iraqi Parliament called on the president to step in to the row over the vetting of the speaker of Parliament. The Iraqi Parliament has been without a speaker since December, when Mahmoud Mashhadani stepped down following a bitter...
Tags: Iraqi Parliament, Aswat al-Iraq news agency, Jalal Talabani, Talabani Informs, presidency jalal, Baghdad, Jalal al-Talabani, kurdish parties, South Korean Presidential Office, presidential statement
Iraq parliament passes provincial elections Bill Baghdad, 23 July 2008 (Reuters) Iraq's parliament passed a provincial elections Bill on Tuesday but a walkout by Kurdish lawmakers over the disputed oil city of Kirkuk could mean the law may not be ratified...
Tags: Iraqi Parliament, provincial elections, elections law, Jalal Talabani, Adel Abdel Mahdi, presidency jalal, vice presidency, parliament passed, presidency adel, elections scheduled
The Iraqi president has denounced a draft law that would pave the way for U.S.-backed provincial elections. President Jalal Talabani says he's "confident that the presidential council won't approve it." Talabani, who is a Kurd, said in a statement Wednesday...
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