Iran

Kurd Demos Spark Ethnic Conflict Concerns

Rallies provoke fears of unrest in the ethnically-mixed city of Kirkuk.

22 Feb 05

Dismissed politician may never face trial for “illegal” Israeli trip after the judge who charged him is dismissed.

22 Feb 05

Cross-border trade and holes in security wall make Kuwait’s frontier an easy option for militants.

22 Feb 05

As violence engulfs the Sunni triangle, Iraq's northern Kurdish zone is going from strength to strength.

22 Feb 05

The former dictator may have swapped his palaces for a prison cell, but he still divides opinion amongst those he once governed.

22 Feb 05

Many people in southern city believe Iran is carrying out assassinations as part of a strategy to extend influence.

22 Feb 05

Principal publisher of children's literature jettisons Saddam-era propaganda.

22 Feb 05

Handicapped volunteers have started to help out Baghdad’s traffic police with growing jams.

22 Feb 05

Kurdish students from Iran and Syria are escaping the troubles by studying in northern Iraq.

22 Feb 05

Sixteen years after the Kurdish town was hit by a poison gas attack, a man alleged to have supplied the chemicals could be brought to justice.

22 Feb 05

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