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اصوات العراق - الإيزدية يحيون طقسا دينيا في ظل إجراءات أمنية مشددة

الإيزدية يحيون طقسا دينيا في ظل إجراءات أمنية مشددة نينوى - اصوات العراق احتفل أبناء الطائفة الإيزدية في معبد لالش المقدس شمال الموصل، ليل الثلاثاء، بعيد (الليلة المباركة، البرات) في ظل إجراءات أمنية مشددة وطقوس دينية مختصرة، بعد موجة التفجيرات التي تعرضت لها مناطقهم في قضاء سنجار منتصف ...

IRAQ: Aid agencies unable to gain access to violence-afflicted Karbala

We have been informed that many pilgrim families are camped in the outskirts of the city and in… central areas but police have prevented us from going in as clashes are still continuing in some locations. KARBALA, 29 August 2007 (IRIN) - Local aid agencies are ...

IRAQ: Translators forced to quit jobs after being targeted by insurgents

BAGHDAD, 29 August 2007 (IRIN) - Translators are being targeted by militants who accuse them of espionage and of working for the US military, says a local translation association. Hundreds of translators have been killed or injured in Iraq since the US-led invasion in 2003 but their ...

Mahdi Army To Be Suspended For 6 months

Hazim Al-Araji is on television saying that Muqtada Al Sadr has ordered the JAM to stand down for 6 months and that the JAM will be reorganised to protect its ideological purity. He is saying that Muqtada Al Sadr statement standing them down is for a period not exceeding six ...

Karbala Late Night Update 4

Updates 1 -3 are here Update 4:  Casualty toll now is 54 dead 210 wounded and rising  Fighting is still going on in Karbala, Baghdad, Hilla.

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Karbala Late Night Update

Karbala is surrounded by green zone government army and police forces who besieging the city, the siege tightened with the arrival of more troops coming from Baghdad and other governorates. They are being backed by American forces. A spokesman for the Ministry of the Interior said that they will arrest or kill ...

Video Report: TV3 > News > International News > Story > The lost generation of Iraqi children

Editor's Note: As we and others have reported the Jordanians are now permitting Iraki refugee children to go to their schools free of charge. This is very generous and is imposing a huge strain on their resources - we are grateful Click the "video" to see the report. Suheila ...

Update: Americans Detain Iranian Delegation - مراسل "راديو سوا": قوة أميركية تعتقل ستة من أعضاء وفد إيراني رسمي في بغداد

Update:  The siege by the Americans of the Sheraton hotel in which the delegation of officials from Iran who had come to meet Electricity ministry officials has resulted in the Americans detaining the Iranian officials. They have taken away six people who were among Iranian official delegation that arrived in Irak on Monday ...

Fighting Between JAM and SCIRI (SIIC) in Baghdad

Fighting has broken out in Sadr city between JAM fighters and gunmen "believed to be from"  SIIC (SCIRI) at Hamzah square. Fighting is still going on. The casualties on either side are not known. Witnesses say a SIIC (SCIRI) office near the square has been attacked with RPGs and light weaponry and been set ...