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Architects Journal
March 21, 2018
Open to multidisciplinary teams of architects, students, engineers and designers, the anonymous competition seeks ambitious proposals to convert the historic Al-Rusafa district landmark which was reduced to ruins amid looting and vandalism following the 2003 US invasion of Iraq. The call for ideasÃâà...
Raddington Report (blog)
December 7, 2017
Last December, Christmas decorations were displayed prominently in bustling shops lining the Mansour district. Elsewhere, Iraqi biker groups ride ... Water is another struggle. In August 2016, the Baghdad Municipality launched the Rusafa water project for the city's northern Bab al-Sham neighborhood.
The American Conservative
November 8, 2017
There was, no doubt, much valor displayed on the streets of Baghdad and Anbar in 2007. I saw it first-hand. But it was temporary, fleeting, and momentary. American troops, guns, money, and blood bought us time and a seemingly graceful exit. That's about all. Iraq's government never gained legitimacy inÃâà...
Kurdistan24
October 23, 2017
The move comes after Iraq's Rusafa Court in Baghdad on Thursday issued an arrest warrant for the Kurdistan Regional Government's (KRG) Vice President Kosrat Rasool for his remarks about Iraqi and Shia armed forces which assailed the Kurdish-held province of Kirkuk last week. “The Court issued an arrest warrant forÃâà...
Kurdistan24
October 20, 2017
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – President of the Kurdistan Region Masoud Barzani on Thursday accused the Federal Government of Iraq of arresting whoever expresses their opinion openly. Iraq's Rusafa court on Thursday issued an arrest warrant for the Vice-President of the Kurdistan Region and the deputyÃâà...
BBC News
October 11, 2017
An Iraqi federal court has ordered the arrest of Kurdistan officials involved in overseeing a referendum last month on the region's independence. The arrest warrants, issued by Baghdad's Rusafa investigation court, apply to members of the Kurdistan Region's electoral commission. Iraqi Prime MinisterÃâà...
Rudaw
May 30, 2017
He added that the explosion is believed to have been triggered by a suicide attacker in a bomb-laden vehicle. Official causality figures or estimates have not been released. The bridge spans the Tigris and connects the western Karkh neighborhood, where the Green Zone is located, with the eastern RusafaÃâà...
Iraqi News
January 25, 2017
Shafaaq News quoted security sources as saying that a booby-trapped car exploded in al-Rusafa, near al-Shawraja, the biggest commercial center in ... One person was killed and three others injured when a roadside bomb went off at al-Nahrawan district, southeast of Baghdad, a security source said in aÃâà...
Iraqi News
August 13, 2016
According to information shared by an informed source, it was stated, “Mayor of Baghdad Zekra Alwach this morning inaugurated the Rusafa water project at Bub al-Sham in northern Baghdad, which was also attended by the Secretary General of the Council of Ministers Mahdi al-Alaq, Governor ofÃâà...
