Iraq

Over the past few weeks, the media reports coming out of Iraq have focused extensively on the insurgents' escalating attacks against US military and Iraqi police forces. Overshadowed by the coverage of this series of suicide bomb attacks has been the dramatic and ominous development of unrest along the Iraq-Turkey border. For the first time since US President George Bush launched his military intervention to topple Saddam Hussein in March 2003, the violent anarchy which ensued throughout Iraq is now spilling over into neighbouring countries.

Iraq instability threatens Turkey
By Scott Taylor
Aljazeera