Pointing to Stability, Kurds in Iraq Lure Investors
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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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By OMAR SINAN  SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq - Kurds bought sheep to slaughter in celebration and stockpiled generator fuel to keep televisions working for Sunday's verdict against Saddam Hussein's cousin, known as Chemical Ali, and others accused in a 1980s crackdown against them.
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Kurds are on the move again in northern Iraq &#151; but this time they're not fleeing.
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The Iraq war, which for years has drawn militants from around the world, is beginning to export fighters to neighboring countries and beyond.
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A correspondent who often visits the popular Mutanabi market finds it to be a useful gauge of hope in the Iraqi capital.
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Iraq's stagnant economy and lack of employment opportunities are feeding instability in the violence-torn country, hindering prospects for prosperity, Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said on Monday.
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SALAHUDDIN, Iraq -- Flush with the strong second-place finish of a Kurdish coalition in national elections, the Kurdish leadership yesterday issued a set of demands including a top government post and an expanded autonomous area for Kurds, Iraq's largest minority group.
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With violence bloodying Iraq, Kurds in the peaceful north have been showing signs of going their own way, raising their own flag and even hinting they could secede in a dispute over oil wealth &#151; moves that have alarmed Shiites and Sunnis.
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Turkey's incursions into Iraqi Kurdistan may not defeat the guerrillas based there, but it does remind the Iraqi Kurds that they have few friends except the U.S.
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More than a year after Saddam's ouster, a website hawking real estate in Iraq is seeing something of a mini-bubble. Asking prices in the swankier neighborhoods of Baghdad and Najaf are surging against a backdrop of civil unrest. By Joanna Glasner.
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The sharp drop in violence that has accompanied the U.S. troop buildup in Iraq has given the war-torn country a rare opportunity for stability, analysts said on Wednesday.
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MOSUL, Iraq -- After Saddam Hussein was ousted and his security apparatus collapsed, many Iraqis predicted ethnic war. They feared ethnic militias like the Kurdish Peshmerga would fill the security vacuum and engage in a bloody power struggle.
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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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Business surges for online merchants selling Iraq's newly minted currency, as speculators' optimism about the country's future trumps the steady stream of bad news coming out of Baghdad. By Joanna Glasner.
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Many CAPS investors agree: These have a lot of potential.
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Iraqis loyal to deposed leader Saddam Hussein, as well as Islamic extremists, are still slipping into the country from neighboring Syria and Iran to bolster the insurgency, the national security adviser to interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi said Thursday.
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Despite insurgent attacks, initial reports of strong turnout in Iraq's landmark vote lend air of legitimacy.