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China.org.cn
April 2, 2018
The Kurdish cause is somewhat of a traditional policy for France since the 1980s when Iraqi Kurds were the target of repression stemming from the Bagdad ... adding "We hope France will not come to us for help when the terrorists from Syria and Iraq fill their country after being encouraged by their policy.".
The New Arab
April 2, 2018
Comment: Since, 9/11, the Iraq War and the Arab Spring, Washington has failed to reset its relations with the Middle East, writes Emile Nakhleh. ... The continued usurpation of power by America's supposed allies through repression and corruption is detrimental to American ideals and interests. If allowed toÃÂ ...
LobeLog
April 2, 2018
The continued usurpation of power by America's supposed allies through repression and corruption is detrimental to American ideals and interests. ... I frequently briefed senior policy makers on the eve of the Iraq war on the need to learn more about Iraqi society and its deeply embedded religious andÃÂ ...
The Atlantic
March 29, 2018
“There might have been some Iraqi Shia who decided to assassinate Saddam for all that he had done to repress the Shia and Iraq would have descended into chaos," Bolton mused. In other words: There was nothing wrong with blowing up the building because it might have collapsed on its own. ImagineÃÂ ...
The Real News Network
March 27, 2018
And the other thing we're like, he was against the Kurdish referendum in South Kurdistan, too, which is part of Iraq. And we, as a Kurd I want to say Erdogan has to stop. It's just not Kurds in Turkey has a problem, other Democrat, other activists, and academics, they have all a problem. He put a lot of peopleÃÂ ...
Slate Magazine
March 27, 2018
President George W. Bush and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld had sent a small invasion force to Iraq—enough troops to crush the Iraqi army and oust Saddam from power but way too few to restore stability ... “And that means that Saddam's instruments of repression have no role in that new nation.
Task & Purpose
March 26, 2018
1, calling for de-Baathification, had been approved at the highest levels of government well before he signed it, and that it sent a crucial message to the Iraqi people that one of the Saddam's most effective tools of repression was truly history. “It was the single most popular thing we did while I was in Iraq,” heÃÂ ...
Socialist Worker Online
March 20, 2018
But this was only a sideshow to the U.S. war on the multiple and fractured Iraqi resistance movements. Bush's colonial viceroy in Iraq, Paul Bremer, carried out a campaign of terror and repression. Yet the resistance managed to bog the U.S. down in a brutal counter-insurgency campaign, preventing BushÃÂ ...
Al-Monitor
March 18, 2018
Iraqi demonstrations against Hussein Shirazi's arrest broke out in front of the Iranian Consulate in Karbala, the Iranian Embassy in Baghdad and near the border with Iran in Basra. The protesters shouted slogans against the Iranian regime's ongoing repression of their religious leaders in Iran, andÃÂ ...
Eyewitness News
March 13, 2018
The rise of Isis in Iraq may be attributable to the initially American sponsored Saddam Hussein regime. We could continue to travel down the annals of time and the same pattern seems to emerge where people have been subjected to organised extremism and repression. Are there lessons for South AfricaÃÂ ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
March 7, 2018
Iraq under Saddam, where people didn't even dare whisper about the regime in their homes, was far more repressive than Syria under the elder Assad, ... 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 inÃÂ ...
IFEX
March 5, 2018
In Iraqi Kurdistan, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) denounced multiple media freedom violations in the region documented in a new report by IFJ affiliate the Kurdistan Journalists Syndicate. These included blocking media outlets from covering the independence referendum as well as theÃÂ ...
Middle East Eye
February 28, 2018
As Iraq prepares for its first post-Islamic State elections, the Communists have thrown their lot in with the Shia conservatives of Muqtada al-Sadr and the result, ... However, the coming to power of the Baath Party, and later Saddam Hussein as president in 1979, led to the repression of the party, often withÃÂ ...
rabble.ca
February 22, 2018
Lost within any of this self-congratulatory coverage will be the people of Iraq themselves, for whom 2018 marks 38 years of almost non-stop warfare and repression, during which they have endured hardships that are incomprehensible to most of us. The blood of the Iraqi people -- millions of them killed,ÃÂ ...
Al-Monitor
February 18, 2018
Zaman writes, “Erdogan's threats to move against the YPG in Manbij and expand the campaign all the way to the Iraqi border may well embolden some Arabs to switch sides. The shift, in turn, would disrupt the coalition's ongoing efforts to flush out IS remnants in the Middle Euphrates Valley and stabilize theÃÂ ...
Human Rights Watch
February 15, 2018
While these families may not be the most sympathetic constituency, it is a critical group to refranchise if the Iraqi government wants to prevent future sectarian strife. But there is already mounting evidence that security forces and area residents in Mosul are preventing international aid organizations fromÃÂ ...
New York Times
February 12, 2018
The conciliatory tone was in keeping with the broad theme of Mr. Tillerson's trip to the Middle East, which is focused on stabilizing the region after the expected defeat of the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. Mr. Sisi launched a sweeping military operation against the Islamic State last Friday, spurred by aÃÂ ...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
February 12, 2018
The conciliatory tone was in keeping with the broad theme of Tillerson's trip to the Middle East, which is focused on stabilizing the region after the expected defeat of the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. El-Sissi launched a sweeping military operation against the Islamic State last Friday, spurred by aÃÂ ...
LobeLog
February 1, 2018
This past year in Bahrain, much like those preceding it since the popular uprisings of 2011, was one of unending repression and persecution of human .... 2018, Amnesty International reported that the Bahraini government expelled four Bahrainis who were stripped of their nationality to Iraq two days earlier.
Middle East Eye
December 31, 1999
In total the UK has approved $42,776,315 in spy equipment exports to the Middle East since 2015, amid fears from campaigners that the surveillance equipment is allowing "repressive regimes" to crush dissent. The figures also show millions of dollars of exports to Algeria, Iraq, Lebanon, Morocco, OmanÃÂ ...
Chicago Tribune
December 31, 1999
Iraq under Saddam, where people didn't even dare whisper about the regime in their homes, was far more repressive than Syria under the elder Assad, ... 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 inÃÂ ...
Buffalo News
December 31, 1999
A friendly Iraqi family hid her and her children until they could flee to a refugee camp in Duhok, Iraq, about 100 miles to the northeast. ... The repression started under the Ottoman sultans, and it flared up again after the 1991 Gulf War and the 2003 Iraq War disturbed the fragile peace in northern Iraq.
Independent.ie
December 31, 1999
"The feeble response to crimes against humanity and war crimes from Myanmar to Iraq, South Sudan, Syria and Yemen underscored the lack of leadership on human rights. Governments are shamelessly turning the clock back on decades of hard-won protections." Mr Trump's willingness to tout "fake news"ÃÂ ...
The Hill
December 31, 1999
The fundamental pillars upon which the theocracy is established are export of terrorism and domestic repression. Since the Iran-Iraq War, the West has pursued a failed policy of appeasement toward Iran in order to mitigate the threat from the regime. This includes a series of mistakes such as theÃÂ ...
ThePrint
February 7, 2018
“The wave of repression has prompted demonstrations among Mr. Odinga's supporters in the Luo community. It risks reigniting ethnic violence that ... Colin Powell championed an American intervention in Iraq, which, as the last few years have shown us, led to detrimental results. “That effort led to a war ofÃÂ ...
Daily Sabah
January 29, 2018
It is also a fact that in the region where they lived, Kurds had to oppose, most of the time violently, very repressive regimes, be it the Shah's Iran or Saddam's Iraq. In Turkey, the stubbornness of respective Turkish governments prevented recognition of basic cultural rights to Turkish citizens of Kurdish origin,ÃÂ ...
The Militant
January 27, 2018
Kurds — the largest nationality in the world without their own country — have faced repression from the capitalist rulers in Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey, who keep them divided and without a homeland. Washington was complicit with the Iraqi rulers' assaults after Kurds there voted overwhelmingly forÃÂ ...
On Tap Magazine
January 27, 2018
When feelings of repression and frustration bubble to the surface, artists and writers often create – if not to find answers than to express their complex ... In 2014, Mosul – the Iraqi city where Raffo's father was born – was seized by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and panic caused the city'sÃÂ ...
MassLive.com
January 24, 2018
Abbdalla is an Iraqi Kurd who fled his native country in the 1970s after his family experienced religious and political repression, overstayed his student visa ... Donald Trump struck a deal with Iraq to remove the country from the administration's travel ban in exchange for Iraq agreeing to accept deportees.
World Politics Review
January 19, 2018
Yet I would argue that this is more a result of apathy among the people than repression from the Kurdistan Regional Government, or KRG. Today's Iraqi Kurdistan is a place of utter hopelessness and complete despair. While political corruption is rampant, as in any rentier state, people put up with it in timesÃÂ ...
The National Interest Online
January 18, 2018
The demonstrations clearly arose as the direct result of the regime's repressive and misguided policies, not because of some foreign power's interference or meddling. The regime knows this—and so do the ... Iran is also involved in the turmoil in Iraq, Lebanon and Afghanistan. Indeed, there are reports ofÃÂ ...
Open Democracy
January 18, 2018
The United States-led coalition's aerial pounding inflicted huge damage on Iraqi urban centres, with hardly any sign of reconstruction so far. That risks the further ... On the ground in Iraq and Syria, brutality and repression were justified as necessary to maintain the caliphate's purity of purpose. But from theÃÂ ...
ReliefWeb
January 18, 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 toÃÂ ...
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 toÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
January 16, 2018
Monday's letter - also signed by the Bahrain Institute for Human Rights, Sheba for Democracy and Human Rights, Human Rights for Yemen, Iraqi Democrats, and Stop the War Coalition - accuses Saudi officials of having 'supported repression in other states' such as in Bahrain in 2011, during a militaryÃÂ ...
The Cipher Brief
January 10, 2018
Background: Now that Iraq has been liberated from ISIS' wrath, the Iraqi government can turn its attention towards resettling the vast number of refugees ... as corrupt, and heavy-handed military repression of the Sunni minority have been listed among the main causes that ultimately led to the rise of ISIS.
PRI
January 2, 2018
Muhammad says he fled Algeria because of political repression, but his claim for asylum was rejected. He has been on Lesbos for 18 ... The overcrowding means that asylum claims from people who aren't from refugee producing countries like Iraq and Syria are being pushed aside or rushed and rejected.
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
January 2, 2018
Protest movements in the Middle East face enormous repressive hurdles and rarely have happy endings. Even when protesters “succeed” in toppling an autocrat, they've rarely succeeded in ending autocracy. In Iran, the obstacles to success are daunting. Whereas most Middle Eastern countries are ruledÃÂ ...
Slate Magazine
January 1, 2018
In 2003, we removed the government of Iraq, and Iran has effectively filled that power vacuum. The 2011 uprising in the ... It's being fueled by the same type of anger and frustrations that fuel anti-government protests around the world: a combination of rising living costs, corruption, repression. But I think oneÃÂ ...
Rudaw
December 30, 2017
The removal of the Baathist regime in 2003 availed a historic opportunity to the Iraqi people to establish a democratic country governed by rule of law. Yet, successive Iraqi cabinets failed to lead the country through a transition from dictatorship to democracy and from violence and repression to societalÃÂ ...
Rudaw
December 28, 2017
The removal of the Baathist regime in 2003 availed a historic opportunity to the Iraqi people to establish a democratic country governed by rule of law. Yet, successive Iraqi cabinets failed to lead the country through a transition from dictatorship to democracy and from violence and repression to societalÃÂ ...
Open Democracy
December 21, 2017
It is followed by Pakistan, Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Ethiopia, according to AccessNow, an organisation fight for open and secure communications for all. At least eight other African countries including Cameroon, DRC, Mali, Morocco, Senegal, South Sudan, Somaliland and Togo have disrupted internet accessÃÂ ...
The Nation.
December 21, 2017
Ankara, unnerved by the possibility of Kurdish self-rule along Turkey's borders with Syria and Iraq, both of which have Kurdish populations, responded with a ferocious crackdown, imposing blanket curfews for months all across the region. Turkish security forces deployed tanks and heavy artillery againstÃÂ ...
Sputnik International
December 20, 2017
Iraqi Kurdistan Parliament Speaker Resigns Amid Protest in Region - Source ... BAGHDAD (Sputnik) - Yusuf Mohammed Sadiq, the speaker of Iraqi Kurdistan's parliament, has resigned, while the Gorran Movement party and the Kurdistan Islamic Group ... The average kurd has suffered enough repression.
The New Arab
December 11, 2017
The 2003 US invasion of Iraq led to a strengthening of religious power and new threats to the rights of Iraqi women. ... It is more specifically a demand for the recognition of Iraqi Shia identity, from a community and political faction that suffered discrimination and violent repression under the previous regime.
Rudaw
December 31, 1999
If a single Kurdish state existed, even in Alaska, there would have been an ally for the Kurds in Iraq following their September 25 referendum on independence. Now no one but the Kurds is questioning Iraqi Prime Minister Abadi as he punishes them with embargos, airport closures and unilateral fiatsÃÂ ...
LobeLog
December 31, 1999
This past year in Bahrain, much like those preceding it since the popular uprisings of 2011, was one of unending repression and persecution of human .... 2018, Amnesty International reported that the Bahraini government expelled four Bahrainis who were stripped of their nationality to Iraq two days earlier.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
December 31, 1999
Press repression doesn't just happen in nations such as China, which imprisoned 41 journalists last year, according to CPJ, but also within the borders of allies such as Turkey, ... The seemingly endless spirals of violence in the Mideast made Iraq and Syria the deadliest countries for journalists in 2017.
gulfnews.com
November 29, 2017
And political repression is not a power localised only in the sphere of ... not absolve, say, the Baathist regime in Iraq, led by former president ...
Oxford Research Group
November 29, 2017
... have been substantial casualties among Iraqi, Kurdish and other forces fighting ... Groups such as Airwars and Iraq Body Count have long provided data but ... The Sisi regime in Cairo sees repression and control, including ...
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