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RT
April 24, 2018
A report from Denmark's National Board of Health has found that women with backgrounds in Muslim countries get almost twice as many abortions as women with ethnic Danish roots. Statistics reveal that women with family backgrounds in Iran, Lebanon, Iraq and Pakistan are among those who receive theÃâà...
Military Times
April 24, 2018
The Islamic State is almost “completely defeated” on the east side of the Middle Euphrates River Valley, extending into Iraq, Army Col. ... Earlier this year, SDF fighters went north to fight Turkish forces attempting to take Afrin, Syria, from Kurdish militia, an ethnic group which makes up a large part of the SDF.
Asharq Al-awsat English
April 24, 2018
It's a union that seeks to move beyond Iraq's Shi'ite-Sunni ethnic cleavage -- a major pull for the ex-footballer. The NA's list of candidates is liberal and ... "There are no athletes in parliament and so there are no laws or institutions to structure Iraqi sport," he laments. Other contenders include Taleb Faysal,Ãâà...
Jordan Times
April 23, 2018
The Iraqi military has also pushed back the Kurds in the north's oil-rich Kirkuk province, bolstering Abadi's status as frontrunner going into the election. "He has a popular base which transcends confessional and ethnic lines. He offers a narrative as a statesman and he is not tarnished by corruption," saidÃâà...
The New Arab
April 23, 2018
Sunni extremist groups have long targeted Shias, a majority in Iraq. Jihadist groups in Iraq have targeted every election since the 2003 US-led invasion that deposed Saddam Hussein and paved the way for Shias to dominate every government since. The legislative elections are due to take place on 12Ãâà...
ReliefWeb
April 18, 2018
In the final weeks of the election campaign the Iraqi government must not only protect the physical security of candidates and voters, but should also intensify efforts to bridge sectarian, ethnic and political divisions that continue to plague sections of Iraqi society. The next government should ensure that allÃâà...
Brookings Institution (blog)
April 18, 2018
With this complex ethnic and sectarian mix, one of the defining characteristics of the war has been charges of ethnic cleansing against almost all sides. Sunnis have been forcibly ... Various Arabization efforts, especially in Iraq but also in Syria, had previously targeted Kurds. More recently, Kurds have beenÃâà...
Asharq Al-awsat English
April 17, 2018
The Secretary-General of the Iraqi National Congress, Aras Habib Kareem, said that the political class that has been ruling Iraq after the fall of ... noting that the balances of power during the last three sessions were based on ethnic and sectarian dimensions, as “political blocs were built on that basis.”
Kurdistan24
April 13, 2018
“Iraqi society still seems to be marked by deep divisions of tribal, ethnic, religious or cultural origin,” Sako added. He explained that it is necessary to adapt to reality as it is and to take into consideration the diversity and pluralism that characterize Iraq's society. According to the bishop, unified citizenship is the only way toÃâà...
New York Times
April 2, 2018
Rubin returned to Iraq in 2014 to cover the rise of the Islamic State and was severely injured in a helicopter crash on Mount Sinjar while reporting on ... Driving from east to west, the groups governing the roads morphed from the Peshmerga into the Iraqi Army into a variety of Shiite-connected militias andÃâà...
BuzzFeed News
April 1, 2018
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared ISIS defeated last December, a call likely timed to give his coalition's reelection prospects a boost ahead of the .... He hails from Kifri, a region of northern Iraq claimed by both ethnic Kurds and Turkmens, which has violently changed hands over the decades.
The Arab Weekly
March 31, 2018
Iranian President Hassan Rohani (R) meets with Nechirvan Barzani, prime minister of Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Tehran, ... In what is seen as a move to lock in votes from a broad spectrum of Iraqi ethnic groups opposed to Kurdish separatism, Baghdad's latest budget saw theÃâà...
TRT World
March 23, 2018
(March 23, 2018) (TRTWorld). It has been 15 years since the US invaded Iraq. During the rule of Saddam Hussein, the Baath party expelled hundreds of thousands of non-Arabs from their traditional lands. In Kirkuk, Kurds, Turkmens and Assyrians came under constant pressure to renounce their ethnicityÃâà...
Newsweek
March 22, 2018
In addition, thanks to George W. Bush administration's rapid push for “democracy” in Iraq, the Shiites, who constitute the largest Iraqi ethnic/religious group, now control the country and have assured that Iraq remains closely aligned with Iran. Furthermore, partly as a result of the American failures in Iraq,Ãâà...
USNI News
March 22, 2018
Iraq's neighbors and other outsiders continue to pursue their interests in the country, at times cooperatively and at times in competition. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al Abadi is seeking reelection in May, but rivals from other factions and movements are running as competitors. While Iraq's major ethnic andÃâà...
New York Times
March 19, 2018
I was one of about 500 Iraqis in the diaspora — of various ethnic and political backgrounds, many of whom were dissidents and victims of Saddam's regime — who signed a petition: “No to war on Iraq. No to dictatorship.” While condemning Saddam's reign of terror, we were against a “war that would causeÃâà...
malaysiandigest.com
March 14, 2018
The Iraqi military has denied reports about demarcating borders between the central government in Baghdad and northern Iraq's Kurdish region. Local media said Monday Baghdad and the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) had agreed to demarcate a border between the two sides, in an effort to solveÃâà...
UN News
March 14, 2018
As Iraq rebuilds after defeating a terrorist group, the country must draw on its religious diversity and protect minorities, including Yezidi and Christians, ... “Iraq needs all its components, all its ethnic and religious groups, to rebuild in the post-Da'esh period and prosper in the future as a stable and unitedÃâà...
The Sun Daily
March 14, 2018
In the final months of the eight-year Iraq-Iran war, ethnic Kurdish fighters who sided with Iran capture the large farming town of Halabja in Iraq on March 15. Home to more than 40,000 people, the town is in the Kurdistan region and just 11km from the Iran border, while 250 kilometres from the Iraqi capital.
The Independent
March 13, 2018
In the past such demands have preceded the mass killings of sectarian and ethnic minorities in both Syria and Iraq. In one video a militia fighter flanked by others describes the Kurds as “infidels” and issues a stark warning, saying "by Allah, if you repent and come back to Allah, then know that you are ourÃâà...
War on the Rocks
March 13, 2018
And Iraqi minorities have their own history of suppressing dissidents and rivals, which weakens their moral claims of oppression and makes it hard to build ... Despite these daunting challenges, there are ways for Iraq's long-abused religious and ethnic minorities to reclaim their rightful place in the country'sÃâà...
PRESSTV
March 10, 2018
Syrian Kurds in the country's northwestern Afrin region have accused Turkey of waging an ethnic cleansing campaign against the residents of the ... On Saturday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pledged to expand the offensive to key YPG-controlled border towns right up to the Iraqi frontier.
PRESSTV
March 9, 2018
Iranian First Vice President Es'haq Jahangiri, who is on a trip to Iraq, has assured Iraqi President Fuad Masum that Iran will help reconstruct Iraq just as it ... He also called on all of Iraq's ethnic, religious and political factions to remain united through the constitution because unity was their only key to victory.
Foreign Policy (blog)
March 7, 2018
And that is why I am uncertain that the Iraqi Baathists would have survived the Arab spring of 2011 unscathed had the United States left Saddam in power 15 years ago this month. Because sectarian and ethnic lines among Sunnis, Shiites, and Kurds were always more sharply drawn in Iraq than even inÃâà...
Rudaw
March 4, 2018
Another common talking point focuses on claims about the PYD's “ethnic cleansing” against non-Kurds in northern Syria and their establishment of a nightmare dictatorship ... Turkey even threatened the Iraqi Kurds when they held their referendum on independence from Iraq (from Iraq, not Turkey) in 2017.
Kurdistan24
March 4, 2018
Over the past three years, the Kurdistan Region has been a safe haven for 1.8 million refugees and IDPs, who fled from Syria and other parts of Iraq due to the threat of Islamic State (IS) attacks. There are various ethnic and religious groups in the Kurdistan Region, including Kurds, Turkmen, Arabs, Muslim, and Christians.
Shepparton News
March 3, 2018
''Shepparton Ethnic Council and District welcomes members of the community to participate in a day of discovery of Shepparton's unique multicultural community,'' the Ethnic Council's Sam Atukorala said. Departing from the Ethnic Council office at 9am, the tour will run until 4pm. The attendees will first getÃâà...
Daily Sabah
March 1, 2018
It was very clear that support to such a group meant a lack of respect for any ethnic, political or religious sensitivities in the region. Instead of winning the hearts and minds of the people in the region and taking a lesson from the surge it adopted during the Iraq War, the U.S. administration decided to moveÃâà...
Seattle Times
March 1, 2018
THE LAST TIME Avan Shwany of Maple Valley visited her family in Iraqi Kurdistan was in 2014. ... from Baghdad who lives in Tukwila, is as serious about building ties across religious and cultural lines in his new country as he was working in finance and business development in Iraq's ethnic regions.
Rudaw
February 28, 2018
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — A delegation of Kurdish parties from the Kurdistan Region are set to visit the Iraqi city of Najaf on Thursday to participate in a ... According to Pira, instead of a sectarian approach to the military, government and politics in Iraq, a broad state that is representative of its componentsÃâà...
The Guardian
February 28, 2018
Even through Iraq's many conflicts, she notes, Iraqi Christians felt they had a home in its ancient melting pot of ethnic and religious minorities. But when the Islamic State militant group erupted in 2014, many Christians fled. Raffo had nearly a hundred family members in Iraq when George W Bush wagedÃâà...
Rudaw
February 27, 2018
If divisions among Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds persist they could lead to more protracted talks to form a new government, potentially delaying the colossal task of rebuilding Iraq after IS overran nearly a third of the country in 2014, mostly Sunni towns, and then hung on as a U.S.-led coalition surrounded andÃâà...
The News Tribune
February 24, 2018
Long beset by toxic divisions, Iraq seems to be growing even more fragmented ahead of national elections scheduled for May, with Iranian influence set to ... Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced he is seeking re-election with his recently formed Victory Alliance, running separately from rival NouriÃâà...
Xinhua
February 20, 2018
Many of Iraq's political forces decided to form cross-sectarian, cross-ethnic coalitions across the political spectrum, he said. ... Providing a security environment by the Iraqi security forces, which enables voters to exercise their right to vote in safety, free from terror, fear or intimidation, is an overriding concernÃâà...
CNBC
February 18, 2018
With elections just months away, Iraq's prime minister has called on the country's political system to reform itself and move away from its divided past. Haider al-Abadi, who belongs to the Islamic Dawa Party, said the country was previously lost with political parties built along "sectarian, ethnic or other lines.
USNI News
February 15, 2018
Iraq's neighbors and other outsiders continue to pursue their interests in the country, at times cooperatively and at times in competition. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al Abadi is seeking reelection in May, but rivals from other factions and movements are running as competitors. While Iraq's major ethnic andÃâà...
The New York Review of Books
February 9, 2018
Nowhere to Hide, directed by the Iraqi-Norwegian filmmaker Zaradasht Ahmed, is a documentary story of the victims of the Iraq war, from different backgrounds and walks of life, who struggle ... Located on the border with Iran, Diyala province has been known historically for its religious and ethnic diversity.
Newsweek
December 31, 1999
The Kurds are a Middle Eastern ethnic minority that claim parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey as their ancestral homeland and have alleged political oppression by the majority communities in all four countries. Iraqi and Syrian Kurds have since taken advantage of unrest in their home nations to challengeÃâà...
Mehr News Agency
December 31, 1999
13 (MNA) – Iranian Ambassador to Iraq Iraj Masjedi said Iran has a good relation with all Iraqi ethnic groups, including Kurds and Feylis. ... cruelty against Feyli Kurds, Masjedi in a meeting with a group of Iraqi Feyli Kurds at the Iranian embassy, said that the Feylis are one of the main tribes of Iraq who haveÃâà...
Handelsblatt Global Edition
December 31, 1999
Success will hinge in part on the outcome of Iraqi elections in May. German government sources said a victory of moderate Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi, who has been trying to maintain stable relations between ethnic and religious groups, would be good for Iraq. But if he is beaten by pro-Shiite rivalÃâà...
ABC News
December 31, 1999
Iraq's Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds have grown more fragmented and divided ahead of the national elections scheduled for May due to deep differences ... Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced he is seeking re-election with his recently formed Victory Alliance, running separately from rival NouriÃâà...
Gatestone Institute
December 31, 1999
According to the United Nations the fight against ISIS has produced some 2.8 million displaced persons whose electoral status cannot be determined before May 12, the date fixed by the Iraqi parliament last week. There is also the problem of the so-called "disputed areas" contested by ethnic Kurds,Ãâà...
Voice of America
December 31, 1999
Healing that divide is the goal of the Middle East Sustainable Peace Organization, which organized a program to promote coexistence and tolerance among different religions and ethnic groups in Iraqi society. As Rebaz Majeed reports, the program teaches young people from different religious and ethnicÃâà...
gulfnews.com
December 31, 1999
BAGHDAD — Long beset by toxic divisions, Iraq seems to be growing even more fragmented ahead of national elections scheduled for May, with ... Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi announced he is seeking re-election with his recently formed Victory Alliance, running separately from rival Nouri AlÃâà...
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