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In the safe haven of Iraqi Kurdistan, the Jews and Israel are remembered fondly,if increasingly vaguely. "THEY CALL That lack of restraint?" the former Iraqi army officer exclaimed, while watching the BBC’s coverage of the Al-Aqsa Intifada on satellite TV last winter. "If this demonstration were held in Baghdad, there’d be 10,000 bodies in the street," said the Arab from Baghdad who now teaches in Iraqi Kurdistan. Almost 4 million people live in the safe haven of northern Iraq. A de facto autonomous region, it has been administered by the Kurds since 1991 when Saddam Hussein withdrew his administration in ...

FOB WARRIOR, Iraq (Army News Service, Aug. 29, 2005) — Governors from the Iraqi provinces of Kirkuk, Sulaymaniyah, Diyala and Saladin met Aug. 24 at the Iraqi Army’s K-1 military installation near Kirkuk to discuss issues affecting north-central Iraq. Top coalition leaders from the region were also present at the event, including 42nd Infantry Division Commander Maj. Gen. Joseph Taluto and 116th Brigade Combat Team Commander Brig. Gen. Alan Gayhart, as well as the commanders of sister units in the 42nd division. Governors Mustafa Abdulrahman of Kirkuk, Dana Ahmed Majid of Sulaymaniyah, Raad Rashid Mullah Jowad of Diyala and Deputy...

FOB WARRIOR, Iraq— Governors from the Iraqi provinces of Kirkuk, Sulaymaniyah, Diyala and Saladin met August 24 at the Iraqi Army’s K-1 military installation near Kirkuk to discuss issues affecting north-central Iraq. Governors Mustafa Abdulrahman of Kirkuk, Dana Ahmed Majid of Sulaymaniyah, Raad Rashid Mullah Jowad of Diyala and Deputy Governor Abdulla Hasan Jobara of Saladin represented their provinces at the meeting. Top coalition leaders from the region were also present at the event, including 42nd Infantry Division Commander Maj. Gen. Joseph Taluto and 116th Brigade Combat Team Commander Brig. Gen. Alan Gayhart, as well as the commanders of sister...

SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq, Aug. 25, 2005 — While the slogan officially may be retired from the Army's public relations program, it is obvious that Staff Sgt. Anthony “Scott” Longar believes in being all he can be. The 36-year-old, currently serving as the non-commissioned officer in charge for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sulaymaniyah Resident Office, also happens to be the only service member assigned there. As a result, his extensive list of responsibilities ranges from mundane to most significant. Assigned to the Missouri Army National Guard, Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, Engineer Brigade, 35th Infantry Division, Longar answered the military's call...

SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq - The contrast between Iraq's Kurdish provinces and the insurgency-wracked cities to the south is evident in the 100 or so laborers gathered at the main square of this Kurdish town, looking for work. They are among many Iraqi Arabs who have come from unemployment-stricken Baghdad and other cities to earn $10 for eight hours of work in a relatively safe environment. That they are Arabs among historically hostile Kurds suggests that ethnic coexistence is not dead in the new Iraq. What draws the laborers, some as young as 14, as well as legions of investors, is a...

05 Jul 2003 09:34:15 GMTTurkey says U.S. detains its troops in Iraq By Ayla Yackley ANKARA, July 5 (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that U.S. troops had detained Turkish special forces in northern Iraq in what he called an "ugly incident", and demanded their immediate release. A government source said 11 or more Turkish soldiers stationed in northern Iraq had been held by U.S. forces on Friday afternoon. Ankara had made "forceful representations" to Washington. "Our foreign minister has spoken with the U.S. secretary of state...We demanded their immediate release, they said they are safe,"...

The retired US general charged with forming an interim administration in Iraq has arrived in the north of the country on the second day of a tour around the country. Jay Garner received a rapturous welcome from crowds in Sulaymaniyah - in contrast to a lukewarm reception in Baghdad on Monday. He was sprinkled with flower petals and some people's eyes filled with tears of emotion as he walked through the streets, reports our correspondent in the city, Clare Marshall. Mr Garner is remembered in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq as the man who, 12 years ago, set up a safe haven...

Coalition Planes Hit Northern Iraqi Sites By BORZOU DARAGAHI .c The Associated Press SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq (AP) - Coalition warplanes struck Iraqi positions in northern Iraq on Monday and pounded Baghdad-controlled military targets on southern routes toward the capital, officials and witnesses said. U.S. soldiers and Kurdish fighters took the town of Dibagah, near the site of a U.S. friendly fire incident that killed 17 Kurdish fighters and a translator, on Sunday. But nearby, a strategic crossroads between the cities of Mosul and Kirkuk remained a no-man's land. Iraqi soldiers held higher positions above the crossroads and the Kurds were holding...

U.S. Forces Reported Building in N. Iraq By BORZOU DARAGAHI .c The Associated Press SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq (AP) - The U.S. military's northern front against Iraq appears to be building, with American planes landing in the Kurdish north and more airstrikes pounding positions of a militant Islamic group with alleged al-Qaida and Baghdad ties. Four U.S. planes carrying ``scores'' of American military personnel landed at the Bakrajo airstrip, 10 miles west of Sulaymaniyah, late Saturday night, a high-level Kurdish official said on condition of anonymity. They joined Special Operations troops already in the region. Additional U.S. aerial attacks began Friday night...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 12/14/02 - Arak, Bushehr, Baghdad, Brussels, Gaza, Sulaymaniyah, Syria BREAKING: Arak, Irans' nuclear facility. BREAKING: Bushehr, Irans' nuclear facility. BREAKING: Natanz, Irans' nuclear facility. BREAKING: Refusal of Entry at Center for the Control of Communicable Diseases. BREAKING: Baghdad, Iraq, missile factory BREAKING: Sulaymaniyah - Iraqi Perp caught BREAKING: Damascus, Syria, - George Habash celebrates three decades of murder ========= Baghdad ========= In Baghdad, Iraq, the Center for the Control of Communicable Diseases. Iraqis refused entry to two rooms for two hours. In Baghdad, Iraq,at the al-Nida'a metal works factory. In Baghdad, Iraq,...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 10/18/02 - Kandahar, Tarnak Farm, Garmawak, Sulaymaniyah, Seyed Sadeq BREAKING: Kandahar, Tarnak Farm and Garmawak update BREAKING: Ramallah, justice as a joke Sulaymaniyah, Seyed Sadeq Damascus, Linnebank ========= Kandahar ========= In Kandahar, at Tarnak Farm, near Kandahar airport, previously an al Qaeda HQ and the office of Osama bin Laden, which the US now controls. In Kandahar, at Garmawak, west of Kandahar, previously an al Qaeda base and cave system of al Qaeda. ========= Tit, Afghanistan ========= In Iit, US soldiers conducted search and seizure missions along the Paktika province. ========= Kabul...