Jalal Talabani News

With the tenth anniversary of the Iraq War and a UN report warning that April was the highest month of Iraqi casualties since 2008, one important storyline might have been missed: Iraqi Kurdistan President Massoud Barzani has been quietly building his power base within the region and has risen to become one of the most influential players in Iraqi ... (more)

The semiautonomous Kurdish region of Iraq, which has largely escaped most of the recent revival of sectarian bloodshed, was hit hard Wednesday, according to Iraqi authorities.

KIRKUK, Iraq , May 8 -- Two suicide car bombers and a car bomb struck Kurdish security forces in Iraq's northern city of Kirkuk on Wednesday, killing at least two and wounding more than 29, a local police source said.

Tehran, May 7 - Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has come out of coma after suffering a stroke in December, Iran's Fars news agency reported.

Violence continued today in Iraq with a rocket attack on a Falluja military base , 2 different roadside bombings left 1 Iraqi soldier and National Alliance Office guard dead and seven other people injured , and 1 person was shot dead in Kirkuk .

"Ten years after the March 19, 2003 U.S. military intervention to oust Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq, increasingly violent sectarian divisions are undermining the fragile stability left in place after the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq will collapse.