IRAQ. Autonomous Region in Northern Iraq controlled by Kurdish parties. PUK controlled territory. March, 2003. At a shootout on a PUK checkpoint near Suleymania 5 memebers of the ( more ) moderate Islamist party KOMAR have been killed by PUK Peshmerga who say that they misstook them for members of the radical Islamist group al-Ansar which is fighting the PUK near Halabja, at the Iranian border. In the morgue, mosque and funeral in KOMAR controlled villages.