It is the American air protection, which safeguards the freedom enjoyed by the Kurdish region. It guarantees the cultural, health and civilizational progress made in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim.

My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy.

It is the American air protection, which safeguards the freedom enjoyed by the Kurdish region. It guarantees the cultural, health and civilizational progress made in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples.

We must acknowledge that for scores of years the Iraqis have offered martyrs and victims but have not been able to change the regime.

Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.