The Iraqi Ba’ath party was formed in 1954 by anti-communist and reactionary nationalist Shiite and Sunni Arabs.
From the beginning, the party was anti-democratic and soon after its formation it turned into a fascist organisation, with an Arab nationalist ideology that believed in attaining political power through non-democratic means,...
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اعتقال مسؤول صحوة الكاطون بمحافظة ديالى
قال قائد صحوة ديالى حسام المجمعي الاثنين، إن قوات الشرطة اعتقلت احد قيادي الصحوة في المحافظة، فيما اشار مصدر امني الى ان عملية الاعتقال تمت وفق اوامر قضائية. واضاف المجمعي إن"“قوات تابعة الى شرطة ديالى اعتقلت يوم الاثنين، ابو عذاب الزيدي وهو مسؤول...
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التطورات الامنية في العراق.
شهدت العاصمة بغداد وبعض المحافظات الاخرى اليوم السبت 31/10/2009 احداثا امنية راح ضحيتها عدد من الشهداء والجرحى كما شهدت عمليات عسكرية شنتها القوات العراقية على اوكار الارهابيين والخارجين عن القانون ومخازن الاعتدة والذخائر والعبوات الناسفة في مناطق متفرقة نبدأها من العاصمة بغداد حيث ذكر مصدر امني ان عبوة لاصقة انفجرت صباح...
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لتورط عناصرها باعمال اجرامية … واشنطن بوست: قوات الشرطة العراقية تشكل قلقا امنيا جديدا
رأت صحيفة واشنطن بوست The Washington Post، ان قوات الشرطة العراقية باتت تشكل قلقا امنيا جديدا اثر تورط أفراد منها بعمليات إجرامية واختراق احزاب سياسية من كل الطوائف لصفوفها. وقالت الصحيفة ان بعد...
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Life is returning to the streets of Iraq as improved security has meant theater openings, packed restaurants and an emerging middle class. But violence is still an element of daily life and corruption threatens to become debilitating.
Mohammed al-Rahhal wears sideburns, a white suit and a red shirt open to his chest. On stage at...
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IRBIL – The Qandil Mountains in Iraqi Kurdistan have maintained a reputation for relative tranquility and stability in a diagonal belt across northern Iraq while much of the rest of the country has burned with sectarian nihilism and anti-occupation insurgency.
Three years ago, the California public relations firm Russo Marsh & Rogers launched an...
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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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In response to massive blasts that shook the country in August, resulting in hundreds of casualties in Baghdad and elsewhere, the ICRC rushed emergency supplies to medical facilities. This is an update on these and other ICRC activities carried out in Iraq in August 2009.
Overview
Help the victims of war: make a donation to the...
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The ICRC delegation in Iraq seize the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions to stress that the basic rules of the law of armed conflict remain as important as ever and that Iraqi civilians must be spared the effects of hostilities. Through the testimonies presented in this newsletter Iraqi men and...
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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...
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