Posts Tagged ‘ german press agency ’

Human Rights France, Germany top EU asylum table as requests rise to 260,000 < French news | Expatica France: Germany received the second largest amount of asylum claims in Europe, with more than 31,000, over 7,000 of whom were Iraqis. However it topped the table of positive decisions on those aslum applications, allowing in 9,765...
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"All the ingredients that led to the creation of Hezbollah in Lebanon in 1982 exist in Iraq today. There are Shi’ites, plenty of arms available for everyone, political and security chaos, a weak central government and occupation to justify the carrying of arms." Source: Sami Moubayed on Muqtada al-Sadr...
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There are a variety of reports in English language media that Izzat al-Dourri who was vice-president under Saddam Hussein and who, nominally at least, heads the Ba’ath resistance, has been captured. These reports are not correct. All of these reports seem to be based on this report by the German press agency Deutcsche Presse Agentur...
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Turkey and Iran in talks on post-election Iraq : Today’s Zaman,: Turkey and Iran, two major powerhouses in the region with significant clout over Iraqi domestic politics, have been trying to reconcile their differences to bolster post-election Iraqi unity, diplomatic sources have told Today’s Zaman. It may very well have been overshadowed by Iran’s...
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Baghdad – Campaigning in Iraq’s second set of parliamentary polls since the 2003 invasion is set to begin next week – but this time, many Iraqis complain they expect little from the vote. The electoral commission’s decision this week to reverse its ban on some 500 candidates in the March 7 election, due to...
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Kirkuk, Iraq – Arab and Turkmen politicians on Sunday demanded the inclusion of international observers in the disputed Iraqi city of Kirkuk during next month’s parliamentary election. ‘We demand the active and strong participation of international organizations, particularly the United Nations and the European Union and the Arab League … especially in (ethnically) mixed...
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  Baghdad – When political decision-making in Baghdad is deadlocked, American diplomats lean on Iraqi party leaders. When an Iraqi military unit is in trouble on a counterterrorism raid, it calls on the US Army for help. The US Army builds schools, trains criminal investigators and guards borders in Iraq. In other words, the superpower...
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Mosul – Members of Iraq’s Christian and Shiite Muslim Shabak minorities on Friday clashed near a church in the northern Iraqi town of Bartala, 40 kilometres north of Mosul, witnesses said. Witnesses told the German Press Agency dpa said that fighting broke out between Shabak residents, who are Shiite Muslims, and Christians near...
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حذر حازم جرجيس الشماس في كنيسة مار إفرام بمدينة الموصل أن تكرار استهداف المسيحيين في هذه المدينة هو محاولة لإبعادهم عن إخوانهم في العراق وهذا أمر خطير للغاية. وقال جرجيس لوكالة الأنباء الألمانية على خلفية العثور على جثتي شقيقين مسيحيين وزيادة استهداف الكنائس في مدينة الموصل إن الهدف من وراء هذه...
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Mosul – Hazim Jarjis, the priest at the Mar Afram church in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, is a worried man. Armed groups have repeatedly targeted his flock, he said, ‘in an attempt to distance them from their Iraqi brothers.’ ‘It’s very dangerous,’ he told the German Press Agency dpa. Police in the...
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