Iraqi Kurdistan has achieved miracles since 1991, but it needs intellectuals, including journalists, to continue to move forward.

While debate has continued in recent months in Washington and Baghdad about the wisdom and need for U.S. forces to remain in Iraq, Obama's statement at the United Nations General Assembly appears to end the debate.

On July 14, 2011, Frédéric Tissot, France's consul-general in Iraqi Kurdistan, stood up at Bastille Day celebrations in Erbil and, in the presence of regional president Masud Barzani, spoke about the need for freedom and democracy in the region.

Rubin reviews Mike Tucker's Hell is Over, Voices of the Kurds after Saddam.

Independence for Kurdistan is not the way to go.

The Kurdish do not have an effective lobby in Washington. But there are ways the Kurdish government might become more effective in its American outreach.

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No: 1, January 2008

Kesin bir duygusal düzeyde Amerika'nın Irak Kürdistan'ına desteği birşeyler ifade edebilir.(1) Birinci dünya savaşı sonrasında diğer halklar bağımsızlıklarını kazanırken Kürtler bir eyalet,...

The George W. Bush administration did the right thing by disbanding the Iraqi army after the fall of Saddam.