"A fragile stability on Iraq's northern border
Kurdish rebels threaten to draw regional players into Iraq
By Liz Sly | Tribune foreign correspondent
July 30, 2007
MT. QANDIL, Iraq - The paved road runs out about 10 miles from the Iranian border, and so does the authority of the Iraqi government. High in the jagged peaks above lies territory controlled by a radical band of Kurdish leftists that has emerged as the latest threat to the region's imperiled stability."
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