Kurdish ticket gains; violence escalates
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BAGHDAD -- A Kurdish ticket pulled into second place ahead of the slate supported backed by US-backed Prime Minister Iyad Allawi in the race for National Assembly seats, after a surge of votes released yesterday from the Kurdish-governed area of the north.
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At Iraq's polls, once persecuted Kurds won prominence in new assembly.
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The war drums are getting louder in Turkey, and they can be heard next door in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, and across the globe in Washington as well.
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CIZRE, Turkey  - Turkish warplanes and troops have attacked Kurdish rebels inside Iraq and forces were being built up on the border, but Ankara was holding back from any major strike for now, military sources said on Wednesday.
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Hitting Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq carries political risks for Turkey.
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Dozens of military vehicles headed toward the Iraq border and protesters demanded tough action against Kurdish rebels on Monday, a day after 12 soldiers were killed in an ambush. The attack has pushed Turkey closer to a possible incursion into Iraq to target insurgents hiding there.
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Clergy-backed Shiites and independence-minded Kurds swept to victory in Iraq's landmark elections, propelling to power the groups that suffered the most under Saddam Hussein and forcing Sunni Arabs to the margins for the first time in modern history, according to final results released Sunday.
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BAGHDAD - The Turkish military said it continued attacks yesterday against Kurdish separatists in mountainous areas along the Turkish-Iraqi border, as officials of the two countries and the United States gathered to attempt to diffuse the crisis.
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With elections just days away, an increase of violence is casting doubt on the whether voters will show up at all.
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Competing constituencies in Iraq have a greater stake in continuing chaos than in compromise, experts say.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq, Nov. 20 - Violence surged through central and northern Iraq on Saturday as a tenacious insurgency led by Sunni Arabs kept up relentless assaults in several major cities, including Baghdad, Ramadi
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NEARLY 50 people have been killed in just two days of violence in Iraq as insurgents ramp up their attacks in the lead-up to next month&#39;s landmark elections.
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BAGHDAD -- From south and north, Iraq's Kurdish region felt pressure from two sides yesterday, as saboteurs bombed a vital bridge link to Baghdad, and Turkish troops across the border massed for a possible strike.
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Both parties appeared to be maneuvering to gain political advantage from a relatively peaceful vote in Iraq.
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Key developments in Palestinian factional fighting on Thursday:
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Iraqi civilian deaths in political violence reached a new high in January, data from an interior ministry official showed on Thursday.
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TUNCELI, Turkey  - Two Kurdish militants rammed an oil-filled truck into a Turkish police station on Saturday in a suicide attack, army sources said, marking a sharp escalation of separatist violence.