Epstein Secrets

toward forging a new government that would see the country's Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki step aside. "A united Iraq is a stronger Iraq," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters last week. But Iraq's parliament failed to reach an agreement this week on the government's top posts. Also in

rabs, Persians, and Turks. Kurds comprise anywhere from 18% to 25% of the population in Turkey, 15-20% in Iraq, 9% in Syria, 7% in Iran and 1.3% in Armenia. In all of these countries except Iran, Kurds form the second largest ethnic group. Roughly 55% of the world's Kurds live in Turkey, about 18% each

tist Group From List Of Terrorist Organizations. The Wall Street Journal (11/6, Hua, Subscription Publication, 7.57M) reports China criticized the State Department for removing a Uighur separatist group that is now largely defunct from the department's list of terrorist organizations. China has blamed the group

n heights about 10 kilometers (six miles) south of the region's capital of Stepanakert and lies along the main road connecting Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia." In addition, it is "significant as a onetime center of Azerbaijani culture, noted for music and poets." The New York Times (11/8, Kramer, 18.61M)

ugh the pursuit of a political settlement in Syria as well as an Israeli-Palestinian peace. Here lies another problem. Virtually no one outside the State Department — including the nominal parties to the talks — takes seriously the possibility that Kerry's plan for a Geneva conference to settle the Syrian war

ees itself as an independent great power, but its foreign policy is often contentious. Russia has invaded neighboring Georgia, and bullied Ukraine, Armenia and Moldova not to sign trade and association agreements with the European Union. Yet Putin lambasts Western intervention in other states. Support

tist Group From List Of Terrorist Organizations. The Wall Street Journal (11/6, Hua, Subscription Publication, 7.57M) reports China criticized the State Department for removing a Uighur separatist group that is now largely defunct from the department's list of terrorist organizations. China has blamed the group

n heights about 10 kilometers (six miles) south of the region's capital of Stepanakert and lies along the main road connecting Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia." In addition, it is "significant as a onetime center of Azerbaijani culture, noted for music and poets." The New York Times (11/8, Kramer, 18.61M)