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DAHUK, Iraq, Feb. 22 — After months of sporadic shelling targeting the mountain hideouts of Kurdish guerrilla fighters, Turkey sent tanks and ground troops into northern Iraq on Thursday afternoon in an incursion that escalated the tension between the neighboring countries.
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BAGHDAD, Feb. 22 — Anti-American Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr ordered his Mahdi Army militia on Friday to extend a cease-fire for six months, a decision designed to bolster his stature and power but one that U.S. and Iraqi officials hope will also increase stability in Iraq.
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PRISTINA (Reuters) - The European Union’s envoy in Kosovo appealed to Serbs for cooperation on the sixth day of protests against the declaration of independence by Serbia’s former province.
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CINCINNATI (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton slammed rival Barack Obama on Saturday for campaign leaflets on her health-care plan that she called “blatantly false” and accused him of using Republican tactics in their contest for the Democratic U.S. presidential nomination.
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TURKEY-IRAQ CRISIS
KEY STORIES
Iraq warning over incursion
Turkish troops enter north Iraq
Turkish jets in fresh Iraq raids
Iraq Kurds warn Turkey on raids
Turkey defends incursions in Iraq
BACKGROUND
Border tensions fuel confusion
News of military action is often blown out of proportion
Pin-point tactics
Cold welcome
US pressure bears fruit
Turkish incursion or invasion?
Mountain meeting with the PKK
Kurds show coded support
Sympathy for rebels in Iraq
Threat […]
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Turkish forces pressed ahead with ground operations against Kurdish rebels in Iraq that began earlier this week. It is Turkey’s first major ground incursion against Kurdish rebel bases in nearly a decade.
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Hillary Clinton’s faltering White House campaign spent €3.32m on consultants, €66,400 on party food in Iowa and €16,400 on rooms at a luxury hotel last month, according to an internal financial report.
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Vesna Peric Zimonjic in Belgrade
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MEXICO CITY (Feb. 22) - Runaway brides — and grooms — in Mexico City
could get stuck paying for the limo and flowers under a bill
proposed by a local lawmaker Friday.
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The operation is the first involving troops in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion to topple Saddam Hussein nearly five years ago and raised immediate concerns it could trigger a wider conflict with the American-backed Iraqi Kurds.
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Hundreds of angry farmers are holding 29 policemen hostage in a remote Guatemala village, demanding the release of a Mayan leader arrested for invading land, officials said on Friday.
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This list, though hardly exhaustive, provides an overview of some of Africa’s major contemporary civil conflicts.
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Raul Castro, Fidel Castro’s younger brother, is currently Cuba’s First Vice President of the Council of State (i.e., Cuba’s second-in-charge) and Fidel’s constitutional successor. The question of whether Raul Castro will succeed his brother, Fidel, after his death, and exactly what kind of leader he will be has been subject to widespread speculation and […]
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By Bridget Johnson, your guide to Journalism
Further fanning fears of instability in northern Iraq, Turkish forces pushed across the border in a long-anticipated offensive against Kurdish separatists, the Marxist-oriented Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
There’s no love lost in the U.S. for the Kurdish rebels — the PKK is branded a terrorist organization by the U.S. and […]
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I signed up for a free account at the social networking site Facebook a little more than four months ago for the same reason a lot of middle-aged adults have been signing up: To see what all the fuss was about and get a sense of how risky it might be for kids to […]
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Sky.Com News, news with the web’s agenda, is on-air and online from 7.30pm tonight.
Today’s most-clicked stories on Sky News Online:
Ipswich Killer Will Spend Life In Prison
Plane Crash Wreckage Found In Mountains
Mark Dixie Guilty Of Murdering Sally Anne Bowman
Football Stars Rally Behind Paul Gascoigne
Hillary Clinton Accuses Barack Obama Of Copying Ideas
The stories moving up […]
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But in the debate the night before, the generous tribute she paid to her rival was seen by some commentators as an admission that her quest to be the first woman president could fall short.
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The government today said halting piracy would help the “creative industries” - and that could mean better video on demand, or ad supported free music, for all of us. But internet service providers, who have been ordered to sort it out or face new laws, disagree.
“Let me make it absolutely clear: this is a change […]
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To call it a massive upset is to ignore the opinion polls, which for months had been recording the growing unpopularity of Pakistan’s president, Pervez Musharraf. Yet it is still a surprise — and a credit to both the army and its former chief, Musharraf — that the opposition has been allowed so thoroughly to […]
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February 22, 2008 — BELGRADE, Serbia - Serb rioters broke into the US Embassy and set fire to an office yesterday, and police clashed with protesters outside after a large demonstration against Kosovo’s declaration of independence.
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