3 hours ago by Joel Wing

The Pre-War Situation As recent events have shown, Kirkuk remains one of the outstanding issues in Iraqi politics. Not only does it have a national dynamic between the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and Baghdad, but a local one between Kurds, Arabs, Turkmen, and Christians who live there and ar ...

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1 day ago by M.A.M

Mavi Boncuk Seyyit Rıza (Dersim, 1862? - 1937) (in Zazaki: Sey Rıza, in Kurmanji: "Seyîd Riza") was a member of the Abbasan branch of the Sheikh Hasanan [1][2] tribe in Dersim [3]. He was the son of Seyid Ibrahim Agha, from an Alevi sacred family descended from Sheikh Ahmed Dede. Despite being his y ...

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2 days ago by akkadia

Kurdiska styret i Assyrien (Norra Irak) ockuperar mer och mer mark och hävdar det tillhöra deras så kallade “Kurdistan”. Vi assyrier har försökt att få svensk media att öppna ögonen på vad som görs i vårt område, att kurdernas representanter inte är de offer våra svenska naiva ögon ser, att de är ma ...

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2 days ago by Josh

Talking Points Memo reports: A good government group is calling on the State Department to investigate the role of former ambassador Peter Galbraith in drafting Iraq’s constitution in 2005 while he held a lucrative stake in a Kurdish oil field. The letter from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics ...

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2 days ago by Editor

Field Report —- A longstanding territorial conflict in northern Iraq between the Arab-dominated central government in Baghdad and the Kurdistan Regional Government, mostly invisible to the outside world, threatens to erupt again. It risks creating another full-blown human rights catastrophe for the ...

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2 days ago by Joel Wing

Iraq’s 2010 parliamentary election law was finally passed by the legislature on November 8, 2009. It was then sent to the Presidential Council that consists of President Jalal Talabani, Vice President Adel Abdul Mahdi and Vice President Tarqi al-Hashemi for ratification. It was expected that they wo ...

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4 days ago by LadyBird

Just when everybody started to celebrate (especially the Americans) the approval of the election law, the Kurds opposed the law once again to take the discussion back to the start point. Barazani threatened to boycott the election if the Kurds demands are not met, which are: - corrects number of the ...

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4 days ago by Copywriting Tips

One of Iraq’s two vice-presidents has vetoed part of the country’s new election law, putting the parliamentary polls scheduled for January in doubt. Tariq al-Hashemi, a Sunni Arab, revoked Article 1 of the law and called for the representation in parliament of displaced people to increase to 15%. Mo ...

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4 days ago by lscisco

1. Has the UN food summit been a failure? 2. Does the status of Franco-German relations dictate the direction and power of the EU? 3. Should Brown back Blair for EU president? 4. Does Uribe need to do more to protect labor unions? 5. How likely are Kurds to boycott the Iraqi elections? 6. Does Latin ...

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4 days ago by Joel Wing

In the days after parliament finally passed the 2010 parliamentary election bill, both President Jalal Talabani of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi, formerly of the Iraqi Sunni Party, and now part of the new Iraqi National Movement, have called for it to be ...

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