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 of defense, the Kurds are settled throughout Turkey, the Levant and Iraq without a.

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 Kurdistan Patriotic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) have united in a...

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 northern Iraqi not due to their numbers, but, simply, due to the Sunni boycott of...

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 the country and has benefited from that in the past and even more so now.

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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 administration.) What started with lofty ideals of ‘War on terror’ has gradually descended into a...