Iraqi Kurds vow region will fight if attacked
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Iraq's Kurdish region vowed Friday to fight off any attack as Washington said it was willing to help Baghdad crack down on rebels there to stave off a threatened Turkish incursion.
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The leading candidate in a Shi'ite  alliance expected to dominate Iraq's Jan. 30 elections said on  Saturday that majority Shi'ites would not be dragged into a  civil war despite a series of bloody attacks on them.
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Iraq's most feared terror leader called on his followers Thursday to show patience and prepare for a long struggle against the Americans, promising in an audiotape posted on the Internet that "ferocious wars ... take their time" but victory was assured.
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Iraq promised on Tuesday to close the offices of Kurdish rebels and work to prevent them launching attacks on Turkey, hoping to head off a threatened invasion to crush them by Turkish troops massed on the border.
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Islamist groups, including one led by  al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, vowed in a video obtained  on Saturday to take their battle in the rebel city of Falluja  to all corners of Iraq.
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Insurgent groups have vowed to unleash a wave of bloody attacks in seven provinces, including Baghdad, if US forces enter their stronghold in
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LONDON - The violence in Iraq will not stop the country&#39;s elections from going ahead, as planned, next January, Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said on Sunday.
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Iraq has vowed to do all it can to disrupt the PKK fighters sheltering in its border region with Turkey.
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SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq -- With violence bloodying Iraq, Kurds in the peaceful north have been showing signs of breaking with Iraq, raising their own flag, and even hinting they could secede in a dispute over oil wealth -- moves that have alarmed Shi'ites and Sunnis.
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Turkey's leaders vow to "pay any price" to defeat terrorism after the latest attack by Kurdish rebels.
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The Kurdish region of Iraq is hoping to challenge Dubai as the Middle Eastâs main transportation and business hub.
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Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi has insisted that elections should be conducted in Iraq on schedule although violence could prevent the polls going ahead in the country&#39;s
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ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey's top military commander promised yesterday to make Iraq-based Kurdish rebels "grieve with an intensity that they cannot imagine," while the prime minister said his nation would fight "when needed," regardless of international pressure.
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CAIRO - The leader of an al-Qaeda-linked group blamed for a series of violent attacks in Iraq is purportedly encouraging his supporters to fight on in Fallujah, claiming that signs of &quot;victory are on the horizon.
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Exclusive: Leaders of Iraqi groups say attacks will go on until Americans leave.
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KIRKUK, Iraq  - U.S. troops were braced for  violence in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk Monday after a  strong showing by Kurds in provincial elections threatened to  upset the city's delicate ethnic balance.
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Kurdish guerrilla group PKK said Tuesday it would not stage attacks on Turkish targets but would continue to defend itself when attacked, a Belgium-based Kurdish news agency reported.