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AMN Al-Masdar News
February 13, 2018
Disgruntlement is rising over the presence of the US military in Iraq. The US not only stayed in Iraq after defeating Daesh but is expanding its military presence there, with more than 5,000 of American military men in Iraq and military bases in cities like Baghdad, Dahuk, Mosul, Kirkuk, Sulaymaniyah and ...
Borgen Project
February 12, 2018
Given the scale of the problem, the plight of the Yazidis remains serious. A majority of them are scattered across the Syrian-Iraqi border. The Iraq-Syria border and the cities of Dohuk and Sinjar are at the forefront of the Yazidi problem. Given its proximity to the Iraqi city of Mosul, Sinjar was left defenseless ...
ReliefWeb
February 11, 2018
Sporadic human influenza cases were reported from all over the country this season with confirmation of avian influenza A(H5N8) among the poultry in Baghdad, Diyala, and Babil governorates. No human case of avian influenza was recoded in Iraq as of 31 January 2018. WHO is monitoring the situation ...
Kuwait News Agency
February 10, 2018
In June 2015, Kuwait announced a USD-200-million donation to lessen suffering of the Iraqi people, a step warmly welcomed by the UN, as well as Iraqi ... In January 2017 KRCS announced building five schools and another three medical centers in Irbil and Dohuk for displaced Iraqis' camps in Kurdistan, ...
ReliefWeb
February 6, 2018
On 2, 6, 9, 12 of January, (1,195) Iraqis returned from Azaz, Syria to Iraq via Turkey through the Ibrahim Khalil land border crossing point in Dohuk Governorate. The convoys were organized by the Ministry of Migration and Displacement (MoMD) with the support of the Iraqi Ministry for Transport after families ...
The Business of Fashion
January 22, 2018
DOHUK, Iraq — The persecution of the Yazidi religious minority from Iraq's Sinjar region has been deemed a “genocide” by the United Nations and world governments. As of May ... But she successfully fled and returned to Dohuk, an Iraqi city that is home to dozens of camps for internally displaced people.
CBS News
January 22, 2018
NEAR DOHUK, Iraq -- Ayham Elias is an 8-year-old Iraqi boy who made it back from territory held by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in November, more than three years after he was kidnapped by the extremists. But when the little boy arrived in a muddy refugee village near Dohuk in northern Iraq, ...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) International
January 18, 2018
MSF completed the project in Domiz Refugee Camp in November 2017 and has handed over the maternity unit to the Dohuk Directorate of Health. We will continue to work across Iraq and currently have projects in the governorates of Erbil, Diyala, Ninawa, Kirkuk, Salaheddin, Anbar and Baghdad.
Al-Monitor
January 17, 2018
Iraqi Yazidis light candles and paraffin torches during a ceremony to celebrate the Yazidi New Year at Lalish Temple in Shikhan in Dahuk province, Iraq, April 18 ... The Yazidis, who speak Kurdish and most of whom live in northern Iraq, have faced genocide in the past, including during the Ottoman Empire.
ReliefWeb
January 17, 2018
In Dohuk, as part of social cohesion and harmony promotion efforts, DOLSA child protection unit in Akree has launched a Kurdish language training course for children in order to enhance communication with the local community. DOLSA has also launched vocational training and life skill programs for ...
Foreign Policy
January 16, 2018
Masoud Barzani, the president of the Iraqi Kurdistan region, extended the vote to areas known as the disputed territories — borderlands between Kurdish and Arab Iraq that are claimed by both sides and prized for their oil. The Baghdad government of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi objected in particular to ...
CBC.ca
January 16, 2018
Iraq's aviation authority imposed the flight ban on Sept. 29, acting on orders from the Iraqi government against the Kurdish Regional Government after a vote in favour of independence. The three-month ban was subsequently extended, but reports this past weekend suggested a deal might be in the works.
Kurdistan24
January 16, 2018
The Kurdistan Region and Iraq flag at the Ibrahim Khalil border crossing in Zakho, Dohuk Province, Kurdistan Region. (Photo: ... (KRG) and the Federal Government of Iraq have reached an agreement on several points, and both sides will continue meetings at the technical level, an Iraqi government official said on Monday.
PV-Tech
January 10, 2018
Autarsys to develop PV-plus-energy storage for Iraq refugee camp ... Iraqi refugees pictured in north-eastern Syria. ... Autarsys GmbH is planning to develop an energy storage system and PV project in Mam Rashan, a refugee camp in the Dohuk district of northern Iraq near the Syrian and Turkish borders.
Rudaw
January 8, 2018
DUHOK, Kurdistan Region — After nearly four years of closure, a strategic road that directly connects Mosul to Duhok called the “Mosul Dam Road” has been reopened for personal travel. In the coming days the road will open to commercial trucks, allowing goods to flow more easily from the Kurdistan Region and into the ...
Los Angeles Times
December 29, 2017
In September, as the militants were being driven from their last strongholds in Iraq and Syria, she was freed and reunited with four daughters and a son. ... the Iraqi parliament, he used his extensive contacts to set up one of several Yazidi rescue networks that operate out of the northern Iraqi city of Dahuk.
Rudaw
December 24, 2017
... Syria Pilgrims visit ancient church named for Christian convert. More from Rudaw. Islamic party boycotting Iraqi election because of Kurdish disunity Two activists tortured to death in Iran prisons: reports Turkey deploys more artillery to its borders with Syria KIU to run in Iraq elections on independent list ...
ReliefWeb
December 31, 1999
Washington, February 6, 2018 – A US$300 million World Bank project will improve the living conditions of over 1.5 million poor households in Iraq by ... in 2014 and is in line with the Iraq Poverty Reduction Strategy which aims to alleviate poverty, promote equity, and foster opportunities for the Iraqi people.
Kuwait News Agency
December 31, 1999
Consul General of Kuwait to Irbil Omar Al-Kanderi, in previous statements to Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) had said that the Consulate General supervised the signing of two agreements between KRCS and a construction company in Iraqi Kurdistan region for building the schools and medical centers to ...
The National
December 31, 1999
Taqa's Atrush central processing facility, near Dohuk, about 85 kilometres north of Erbil, Iraq.The Abu Dhabi ... The Abu Dhabi-headquartered firm has oil-producing assets in Canada and a majority stake in the Atrush field in the northern Kurdistan region of Iraq, from where it started oil production last July.
ReliefWeb
December 4, 2017
WFP is working with UNHCR to finalise the livelihoods component of the Joint Vulnerability assessment of Syrian refugees in Iraq. Food Security Outcome Monitoring for the third quarter of 2017 was completed at the end of September as planned. A total of 170 beneficiaries and 170 non-beneficiaries were ...
ReliefWeb
December 4, 2017
Baghdad, 29 November 2017 - during a ceremony hosted by the Iraqi Communications and Media Committee (CMC), H. Exc. Mr. Bruno Aubert, Ambassador of France to Iraq and Mrs. Louise Haxthausen, UNESCO Director and Representative to Iraq, signed the project “Voices of Peace: Promoting ...
Aljazeera.com
December 2, 2017
Telskof, northern Iraq - Linda Adib Younis' house in the Iraqi town of Telskof has high ceilings, with shelves all the way to the top stacked with trinkets - cuddly toys, ornate ... But eventually, as their neighbours all began to move, Kyriakos and her husband packed their belongings and fled to Dohuk.
M
November 30, 2017
Clashes between Iraqi forces and Peshmerga forces have taken place in several areas, causing displacement and road closures. A 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck several regions near the Iraq-Iran border on 12 November. There were six reported fatalities and more than 500 people injured in Iraq.
Anadolu Agency
November 30, 2017
Iraqi authorities on Thursday reopened the highway linking the city of Dohuk in Iraq's northern Kurdish region to Mosul, regional capital of Nineveh province, according to a local official. “The highway has been tentatively reopened for local officials," Hossam al-Din al-Abbar, a member of Nineveh's ...
Doctors Without Borders
November 29, 2017
Months after Mosul was retaken from the Islamic State group, the Iraqi city's health system remains decimated. ... Elsewhere in Iraq, MSF works in Dohuk, Erbil, Sulaymaniyah, Diyala, Ninawa, Kirkuk, Salaheddin, Anbar, Baghdad, and Babylon governorates, providing basic health care, nutrition programs, ...
ReliefWeb
November 29, 2017
Close to 8,200 Iraqi refugees in Syria returned to Iraq between 21 and ... in Anbar, Kirkuk, Mosul, Erbil, Dohuk, and Sulaymaniah Governorates.
ReliefWeb
November 29, 2017
The project was handed over to the Iraqi Department of Health in ... Elsewhere in Iraq, MSF works in Dohuk, Erbil, Sulaymaniyah, Diyala, ...
ReliefWeb
November 29, 2017
Displacement Tracking Matrix - Iraq IDP Crisis - January 2014 to 30 October 2017: IDP ... Teams (RART), composed of 123 staff on the entire Iraqi territory. ... Dahuk governorate hosts the third largest IDP population (11% or ...
Channel NewsAsia
November 20, 2017
A file picture shows Iraqi Kurds waving flags during a demonstration on Oct ... limiting Iraqi Kurdistan to the three northern provinces of Dohuk, ...
ReliefWeb
November 20, 2017
Dohuk, Iraq, 19 November 2017 – The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) Human Rights Office launched a training course in ...
ReliefWeb
November 14, 2017
... component of the organization's services at their Centre in Dohuk. ... We provide post-trauma experts from outside Iraq so that the women ...
CTV News
November 14, 2017
Before ISIS began its violent push to establish a caliphate in Iraq ... Left: Adiba and her sister Hadiya at Bersive refugee camp in Dohuk, Iraq.
Norwegian Refugee Council
November 14, 2017
As the war against the Islamic State in Iraq is coming to an end and Iraq ... NRC works across Iraq from offices in Erbil, Dohuk, Kirkuk, Baghdad ...
Kurdistan24
November 13, 2017
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – The state-controlled Iraq Media ... in Erbil, Dohuk, and Sulaimani, which would coordinate directly with Baghdad.
Reliefweb
November 9, 2017
In Dohuk governorate, the employment rate for male refugees is 75%, ... Refugees do not have the benefit of access to elements of Iraqi state ...
The National
November 9, 2017
Taqa's Atrush central processing facility, near Dohuk, about 85 kilometres north of the Iraqi Kurdistan capital of Erbil. Courtesy Taqa. Shares in ...
Iraqi News
November 9, 2017
Dohuk (IraqiNews.com) The Kurdish Iraqi province of Dohuk has received nearly 3000 refugee families from regions that saw recently clashes ...
Crux: Covering all things Catholic
November 7, 2017
I'm fighting for all women and minority groups inside Iraq,” she said. ... to Nezar Ismet Taib Abdullah, regional director of health in Dohuk, Iraq.
Aljazeera.com
November 7, 2017
Khanke camp, northern Iraq - Wahda cannot sleep. ... Khider Domle, a Yazidi researcher, academic and activist based in Dohuk, told Al Jazeera that while ... There have been no initiatives from the Iraqi government to help the ...
IFEX
November 6, 2017
On 23 October, the Iraqi Communications and Media Commission ... in Erbil and Dohuk (another city in Iraqi Kurdistan) were ransacked the ...
New York Times
November 4, 2017
Across the border, the Iraqi army and allied Iranian-backed militias ... of the town of Qaim, Iraq, from the Islamic State, according to the Iraqi ...
BBC News
October 30, 2017
There have been reports of violence in Iraq's Kurdistan Region against ... (PUK) and the Movement for Change (Gorran) said offices in Dohuk ...
Al-Monitor
October 24, 2017
Iraqi Christians are divided over whether their areas in northern Iraq ... There are an estimated 450,000 Christians in Iraq, mainly in Dahuk and ...
Anadolu Agency
October 23, 2017
“Peshmerga fighters have reclosed the main road linking Iraq's Sinjar district [held by Iraqi forces] to the [Peshmerga-held] city of Dohuk,” ...
ChristianityToday.com
October 20, 2017
In Iraq and Syria, countries ravaged by years of war and the terror of the ... of Christians from the area,” said Ashty Bahro, a pastor in Dohuk, Iraq, and ... into the Trump administration's decision to round up the Iraqi Christians.
Egypttoday (blog)
October 20, 2017
The origins of the Iraqi Kurdistan conflict: Oil revenue autonomy ... Amid the defeat of IS in both Iraq and Syria, there have been demands by ... On the border with Turkey, both the Khurmala-Dohuk pipeline and the export ...
Council on Foreign Relations
October 20, 2017
Another fifth are in the Kurdish provinces of Erbil and Dohuk, In areas ... Members of the Iraqi Counterterrorism Service stand by the ruins of ...
ReliefWeb
October 20, 2017
In Dohuk in Iraq, camp management has launched a multi-functional team (MFT) to conduct a shelter rapid assessment situation in Domiz 1 ...
M
October 18, 2017
People are returning to their homes in Mosul, Iraq after years of ... between the so-called Islamic State group and Iraqi coalition forces earlier this year. ... Kirkuk, Dohuk, Tikrit, Sulaymaniyah, Diyala, Babylon, and in camps in ...
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