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يعاني آلاف الشباب في مدينة الفلوجة، 50 كم غرب العاصمة بغداد، من البطالة ووقت الفراغ الطويل، خاصة مع بدء العطلة الصيفية التي تستمر لأكثر من ثلاثة أشهر، فيما عجز شباب آخرون من الحصول على وظيفة حكومية، رغم دوران عجلة الإعمار في الفلوجة.
فعلى ضفاف نهر الفرات غرب المدينة، حيث يقع كورنيش الفلوجة بحي الرصافي، […]

Posted on August 5th, 2008 under Iraq, Society And Economy. Tags: Al Anbar (Governorate), Fallujah, Poverty. Comments: None

Hakky said many Fallujah police force leaders arrived to check whether Col. Issawi was safe. In the ensuing chaos he saw two policemen grappling with one another.
“One of them was warning his colleagues that the other was a suicide attacker, and asking them to take cover. Then another policeman fired towards both of […]

Posted on August 1st, 2008 under Iraq, Politics and Security. Tags: Al Anbar (Governorate), Awakening Councils, Bombings, Corruption, Fallujah, Human Rights, IPS, IPS Reports, Militia, Militias. Comments: None

BAGHDAD, Jul 23 (IPS) - Welcomed at first after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, most NGOs have run into scepticism and mistrust. Few remain to help.
Hundreds of local and foreign NGOs became active in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, after decades of restrictions under the regime of former dictator Saddam Hussein. […]

Posted on July 25th, 2008 under Features, Iraq, Society And Economy. Tags: Children, Corruption, Dawa Party, Fallujah, Human Rights, IPS, IPS Reports, No More Victims, Red Crescent/Red Cross, WHO. Comments: None

 FALLUJAH, Jul 21 (IPS) - U.S. and Iraqi forces are preparing another siege of Fallujah under the pretext of combating “terror”, residents and officials say.
Located 69 km west of Baghdad, the city that suffered two devastating U.S. attacks in 2004 has watched security degrade over recent months.
“Ruling powers in the city fighting […]

Posted on July 22nd, 2008 under Early Warning, Iraq, Politics and Security. Tags: Al Anbar (Governorate), Early Warning, Fallujah, IPS, IPS Reports. Comments: None

FALLUJAH, Jul 16 (IPS) - Security has collapsed again in Fallujah, despite U.S. military claims.
Local militias supported by U.S. forces claim to have “cleansed” the city, 70 km to the west of Baghdad, of all insurgency. But the sudden resignation of the city’s chief of police, Colonel Fayssal al-Zoba’i, has appeared as one recent sign […]

Posted on July 17th, 2008 under Iraq, Politics and Security. Tags: Assassinations, Attacks on Awakening leaders, awakenening councils as political party, awakenening councils dissolution of., Awakening - threats and intimidation by, Awakening Councils, Awakening councils negotiation with Americans, Barwana, Bombings, drought, Electricity Crisis (Irak), Fallujah, Haditha, Haqlawiya, Hit, Human Rights, IPS, IPS Reports, Ramadi, Water Crisis (Iraq). Comments: None

أفادت مصادر امنية، ان شخصا قتل واصيب جندي امريكي، فضلا عن اعتقال 39 شخصا في إطار أعمال عنف وقعت في مناطق متفرقة من العراق، من الساعة الثانية ظهرا وحتى الساعة التاسعة من مساء اليوم الخميس، لترتفع بذلك حصيلة اعمال العنف الى خمسة قتلى وثمانية جرحى خلال الـ24 ساعة الماضية في عموم ارجاء العراق.

أفادت مصادر أمنية، […]

Posted on July 10th, 2008 under Iraq, Politics and Security. Tags: Al Anbar (Governorate), al Baraidi - Mohammed, al Mansour, Arbil (Erbil), Attacks on American Invaders, Attacks on convoys, Attacks on green zone government forces, Aziziyah, Babil (Governorate), Baquba, Baqubah, Basrah, Bombings, Civilian casualties, Daily Summary, Dalouiya, Death Penalty, Dhi Qar (Governorate), Diyala, drought, Erdogan, Euphrates river,, Fallujah, Forgery, Hilla, Karada Asharqia, Karbala, Karrada, Khanaqin, Kidnappings, Kut, Mosul, Nasiriyah, Ninawa (Governorate), Refugees, Salah ad Din (Governorate), Samarra, Tigris River, Turkey, Wasit, Water, Yarmouk Hospital. Comments: None

مقتل عشرة واصابة 24 من افراد الصحوة في ديالى
قال رئيس صحوة ناحية العظيم في محافظة ديالى، ان عشرة من عناصر الصحوة قتلوا مساء الاحد، واصيب 24 اخرون بجروح، إثر سقوط عدد من قذائف الهاون على نقطة تفتيش تابعة لعناصر الصحوة للناحية.
واضاف الشيخ عامر خزعل العبيدي، للوكالة المستقلة للانباء (اصوات العراق) أن عشرة […]

Posted on June 22nd, 2008 under Iraq, Politics and Security. Tags: Al Anbar (Governorate), al-Rubaie Muwaffaq, Amarah, American attempts to get permanent bases, Arbil (Erbil), Article 140, Assassination attempts, Attacks on Awakening council fighers, Attacks on green zone government officials, Awakening Councils, Babil (Governorate), Baqubah, Barzani, Basrah, Bombings, Camp Ashraf, Corpse Findings, De Mistura, Detention without trial, Disputed Areas, Diyala, Fallujah, Iran, Karbala, Khalis, Kidnappings, Kirkuk, Kirkuk (At-Ta'mim) Governorate, Mahdi Army, Maysan (Governorate), MKO, Monafiqeen-e-Khalq (MKO), Mosul, Ninawa (Governorate), PJAK, PKK, Sadrist leaders - detention campaign by GZG/Badr, Salah ad Din (Governorate), Samarra, Zebari - Hoshyar. Comments: None

منظمات دولية تدعو الى إجراء دراسة للتشوهات الخلقية عند الاطفال في الفلوجة
الفلوجة – لندن - النور
بدأتْ آثار الحرب على العراق وتحديداً العمليات العسكرية التي دارت في الفلوجة تطفو على السطح وخصوصاً بين صفوف الأطفال حديثي الولادة، حيث طالبت العوائل في المدينة بإجراء تحقيق مستقل بشأن زيادة عدد الأطفال حديثي الولادة الذين يعانون […]

Posted on June 16th, 2008 under Health, Iraq, War Crimes. Tags: Al Anbar (Governorate), American War Crimes, American War Criminals (Richard Meyers), Cancers, Children, congenital malformation, Depleted Uranium, DU, Fallujah, Fallujah General Hospital, Foetal Deformation, Health, medical funding shortages, medical personnel shortages, medical supplies shortages, Opthalmologic abnormalities, Opthalmologic deformation, Pediatric Ocncology, Pediatrics, Premature Births, walter rodgers cnn. Comments: None

Tens of thousands of detained Iraqis have never been found on any U.S. military records. Their families still do not know whether they are dead or alive.

“All Iraqi poetry under occupation is now about death and separation.”

IRAQ: The Love Stories Are Gone By Ali al-Fadhily. by Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail. Ahmed Ali, is […]

Posted on June 14th, 2008 under Features, Iraq. Tags: Baghdad, Children, Civilian casualties, Death Squads, Egypt, Fallujah, IPS, IPS Reports, Jordan, Samarra, Widows. Comments: None