في الساعات الأولى من صباح 18 يونيو، اقتحم مسلحون منزل فيصل حسن في غرب بغداد وقتلوه وزوجته وطفليهما الصغيرين. ولكن لم يكن الدافع وراء هذه الجريمة طائفياً أو سياسياً أو حتى اقتصادياً، بل كان مرتبطاً بالمياه. فقد كان حسن البالغ من العمر أربعين عاماً موظفاً في دائرة الري المحلية...
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بغداد: استفحلت ظواهر الغش في الصناعة بالعراق اعلنت وزارة الصحة عن قيامها باجراءات قانونية مشددة بحق (93) معمل مياه معبأة توزعت مابين الاغلاق والغرامات المادية بسبب مخالفتها الشروط الصحية.وذكر مصدر في وزارة الصحة في تصريح صحفي “ان العديد من معامل تعبئة المياه تعمل وفقاً لشروط غير صحية،واخرى غير مجازة”.
مشيراً الى انه “تم اغلاق (79)...
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BAGHDAD, 23 June 2010 (IRIN) – In the early hours of 18 June, gunmen broke into Faisal Hassan’s west Baghdad home killing him, his wife and their two young children. The motive was not sectarian, political or even economic – but water-related. Forty-year-old Hasan was an employee of a local...
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كانت رسالة الشيخ هـ. م. إلى المراهقين المتجمعين حوله بعد صلاة الجمعة في أحد مساجد بغداد صريحة ومباشرة مفادها أن "الإسلام بسيط وغير معقد. إذ يجب أن يكون المسلم معتدلاً وغير متطرف ليكسب محبة الله". وأوضح رجل الدين هذا، الذي اكتفى بذكر الحروف الأولى من اسمه خوفاً من تعرضه...
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Millions of people in Iraq cannot get clean water or water in sufficient quantity. The ICRC is doing its best to improve access to safe water. This is an update on ICRC activities carried out in Iraq in March and April.
The Tigris and the Euphrates, which supply the bulk of Iraq’s water, are slowly...
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MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) – U.S. officials are hoping joint patrols between Iraq’s largely Arab army and Kurdish troops will build trust in tense disputed northern areas, dampening the tinder that many fear could ignite Iraq’s next war.
The troops themselves aren’t so sure.
"We don’t need the Iraqi army here," said Kurdish Peshmerga soldier Shamok Haydi,...
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WASHINGTON, Jul 6 (IPS) – Relations between Iraq’s various Kurdish, Arab and Turkoman ethnicities are going through a new round of complications since a provision in the draft constitution of the country’s northern Kurdistan region declared a range of disputed areas part of the historical Kurdish homeland, infuriating non-Kurds in the country.
All this...
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“What the Americans never explain in Afghanistan or Iraq is why they are using weapons designed for world war three against villages that have not left the Middle Ages – which makes heavy civilian casualties inevitable.”
Letter from Herat: Whatever the truth about the latest Afghan atrocity, in Bala Baluk, it will be slow to...
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