It’s not just the Jews, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists or other religious groups that feel the brunt of the intolerance voiced by extremist Muslim clerics,...

Turkey wants to join the E.U. but as progressive as it might seem in some areas, its secularism for one, it’s as oppressive as it gets in other areas. When his...

“democracies make elections, elections don’t make democracies” The counting of Millions of votes cast in Iraqis elections is going on to choose the right...

This past Sunday, Iraqis went to the polls and this election may either mark a new dawn in the country or spell a new burst of sectarian conflict. One, of course, hopes...

Recent history has been cruel to the Kurds. Unlike the Persians, another non-Arab people in the Arabian east, whom have their own great nation with borders and a means...

For years under Saddam Hussein, Iraqi Kurdistan’s two main political-quasi-tribal blocs for a bitter civil war. But since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, the...

Although relations seem to be improving between Turkey and the Kurds, relations between Arabs and Kurds in Iraq is soring . Previously Kurdish parties had dominated...

Iraqi Kurdistan is enjoying a properties boom due to extensive British investment in housing in the area. Northern Iraq has always been more stable that the rest of...

Bush’s excursion in Iraq has been a complete mess from the very start and this has been conceded in virtually every quarter (except of course, the Bush...