It is the last city in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 21, 2003] Reference

I think four opposition groups met in Kurdish-controlled territory.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 28, 2003] Reference

After attacks, the members ran back into Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iraq Plans To Disallow Further PKK Activity] Reference

On Monday, Iraq launched at least two missiles into Kurdish-controlled territory.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 2, 2003] Reference

Mosul never was, nor is currently "Kurdish-controlled," but under U.S occupation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tuesday, August 03, 2004] Reference

That's in the northern area of the country, Kurdish-controlled area of the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 12, 2007] Reference

Some people can get that perspective within the Kurdish-controlled regions in Iraq.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 12, 2002] Reference

What makes it a little bit confusing is this group is based in Kurdish-controlled Northern Iraq.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 22, 2003] Reference

You mentioned the town of Tikrit, not quite up in that area of Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 21, 2003] Reference

Are we talking about Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq or the part of Iraq that Saddam Hussein.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 24, 2002] Reference

The reports right now in Northern Iraq of more shelling in and around the Kurdish-controlled area.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 23, 2003] Reference

CNN's international correspondent Brent Sadler is in the Kurdish-controlled northern part of Iraq.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 1, 2002] Reference

Aircraft have now struck a suspected chemical weapons compound in Kurdish-controlled Northern Iraq.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 22, 2003] Reference

Brent Sadler is one of the few Western journalists to report live from the Kurdish-controlled area.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 11, 2002] Reference

Irbil is located in Iraq's Kurdish-controlled north about 217 miles (350 kilometers) north of Baghdad.    From Wordnik.com.  [Al-Qaida Confirms Death Of 2 Top Figures] Reference

CNN's Brent Sadler is one of the few Western journalists to report live from the Kurdish-controlled area.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 11, 2002] Reference

COOPER: OK, Ben Wedeman is in -- near the city of Kalak in northern Iraq, in Kurdish-controlled territory.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 3, 2003] Reference

He cannot travel in Kurdish-controlled areas and has no authority over federal forces that report to Baghdad.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mosul struggles with ethnic divides, insurgency] Reference

We're talking about Kurdish-controlled country which is a little patch of Iraq up in the northeastern corner.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 26, 2003] Reference

And, as you know, the Kurdish-controlled region is probably one of the most stable regions in Iraq at the moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 26, 2007] Reference

We assess that 100 to 200 al-Qaida members and associates have relocated to Kurdish-controlled northeastern Iraq.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Bush Now Says What He Wouldn’t Say Before War: Iraq Had ‘Nothing’ To Do With 9/11] Reference

U.S. warplanes also seem to be targeting Iraqi bunkers on the ridge separating Iraqi from Kurdish-controlled territory.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 2, 2003] Reference

U.S. war planes also seem to be targeting Iraqi bunkers on the ridge separating Iraqi from Kurdish-controlled territory.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 2, 2003] Reference

And one of its offices is located in the city of Erbil, a city of nearly 700,000 people in the Kurdish-controlled region.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 12, 2002] Reference

On 21 September 11 people were executed by hanging in the city of Arbil, in the Kurdish-controlled area of Northern Iraq.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saturday, September 30, 2006] Reference

Do you currently believe they're in Baghdad or are you only talking about al Qaeda in the north in Kurdish-controlled areas?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 26, 2002] Reference

We were there early this morning, at the checkpoint that divides Iraqi-controlled territory with Kurdish-controlled territory.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 19, 2003] Reference

The former vice president apparently has been apprehended in Kurdish-controlled territory in the northern part of the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 19, 2003] Reference

ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: We've been talking a lot about what's going on in northern Iraq in Kurdish-controlled territories.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 27, 2003] Reference

Right now, 1,000 paratroopers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade are in control of an airfield in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 26, 2003] Reference

CNN's Kevin Sites is in the Kurdish-controlled area and reports seeing at least six air strikes on the Iraqi positions this morning.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 26, 2003] Reference

They still consider this hostile territory, even though they are working in Kurdish-controlled territory, which couldn't be more welcoming.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 29, 2003] Reference

In addition to that, they want to avert the Kurdish-controlled northern territory from gaining independence, to becoming an independent state.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 22, 2003] Reference

That, of course, a city in -- there you go, there you see it on the right hand side of your screen -- oil rich city in the north of Iraq near Kurdish-controlled territory.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 2, 2003] Reference

HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR: While patience with America's presence in Iraq may be growing thin in some parts of that country, you wouldn't know it in the Kurdish-controlled north.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 23, 2003] Reference