Turkish warplanes have again bombed alleged Kurdish guerrilla positions in northern Iraq.

Iraq's parliament has condemned Turkish air strikes on a Kurdish region in northern Iraq as a major violation of Iraq's sovereignty.

US embassy in Iraq said commanders had not approved the attacks, but had been informed before they took place. Turkish military earlier said the US had given tacit approval by opening Iraqi airspace for the operation.

U.S. policy in Iraq courting tribal leaders may be yielding positive results in combating al-Qaida and stabilizing the country, but may also be repeating British policy of the previous century which led to severe human rights abuses, particularly against women, says a researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Iraqi officials say a suicide bomber has blown up a car near the homes of two senior Iraqi politicians in Baghdad. The attack killed two security guards and wounded 12 other people.

Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the Turkish government has authorized the army to carry out a cross-border operation against Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq.

Kurdish rebels who had been fighting for autonomy in northern Iraq have returned to their homeland in two weeks and Iranian separatists have taken their place, according to words of the brother of the rebel group's jailed leader.

The nationally televised Republican You Tube Debate that aired last night felt more like a boxing match from all the verbal uppercuts that the candidates were throwing out to one another. In midst of all the chaos Sen. John McCain let three words slip out that luckily only a few people heard ,"Failure in Iraq".

Piece by priceless piece, artefact by ancient artefact, Iraq is slowly recovering its Mesopotamian treasures looted by bandits, militiamen and soldiers after Saddam Hussein was toppled in 2003.

Iraqi Parliament is widely concerned about the Kurdish regional government's oil deals with foreign companies, saying the contracts could harm future of Iraq's vast oil industry.

Hundreds of Iraqi refugees are returning to Iraq Wednesday from Syria, encouraged by reports of lessening violence in their home country.

Seven Iraqis, among them three women and a child, have been reported killed by the US military. The deaths come a day after the United States and Baghdad agreed to keep American forces in Iraq beyond 2008.