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...another Kurdish radical group, the PKK, which is fighting its own insurgency against the Turkish state. The ruling Kurdish parties of northern Iraq say there is little they can do about these radical groups. Not only are the PKK and PEJAK hardened guerilla fighters in formidable terrain, but the Iraqi Kurds' own security forces are stretched pretty thin keeping their territory safe from Arab terrorists in the rest of the country. That threat is as real as ever. The official death toll from last week's suicide attacks against several towns near Iraqi Kurdistan has risen to over...
...Still, the diplomatic gesture - and improving atmosphere surrounding Franco-U.S. relations - will mean little, if anything, in terms of finding an end to the violence in Iraq. Though the French Foreign Ministry official says the visit "sends a message to the Iraqi leadership that France is ready to help find a resolution to the conflict." He reiterated French policy that "any eventual solution must be political, not military...
...first place; harder still to the myriad insurgent groups battling U.S.-led forces in Iraq, and prepared to use any means to advance their often mutually hostile extremist ideologies. Indeed, just hours after Kouchner's arrival signaled France's return to Iraq, a roadside bomb killed the second important Iraqi provincial official within a week, while a separate attack in a Shi'ite neighborhood of Baghdad claimed 12 lives...
...Iraqi Kurdish media are reporting that the Iranian military is massing at the main border crossing into northern Iraq, possibly for an incursion against PEJAK. Clashes between PEJAK and the Iranians have been increasing steadily, and Iraqi Kurdish officials say that about 40 Iranian soldiers were killed on Saturday...
...case for an American strike against Iran. In that light, yesterday's shelling is a reminder that Iran has the ability to confront the U.S. not just on the streets of Baghdad but also in the one part Iraq so safe that there are hardly any American soldiers: Iraqi Kurdistan...