The election begins today for certain military and service sectors. Double suicide attack to election polls in Baghdad. The Shiites are divided into two camps, even the Kurds. The novelty of the secular party of Allawi. The game play is between a unitary and centralized state and a federal state.
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قال مدير شرطة محافظة اربيل، السبت، إن المحكمة أصدرت أوامر القاء قبض بحق عشرة مسلحين هاجموا مقرا لحركة التغيير في وسط المدينة، فيما ذكر ناشط في الحركة أن المسلحين قاموا برفع الصور الخاصة بالحركة واستبدالها بصور لزعيم الاتحاد الوطني جلال الطالباني. واوضح عبد الخالق طلعت لوكالة (أصوات العراق) أن “مسلحين هاجموا...
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Political tensions escalate sharply as parliament and police investigate series of attacks on opposition figures.
Attacks on members of Iraqi Kurdistan’s main opposition group have raised fears in Sulaimaniyah that political tensions could spill over into further violence ahead of March elections.
The Change Movement claims that at least seven attacks on its members...
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قالت منظمة مراسلون بلا حدود إن “الانتهاكات” ضد الصحفيين المستقلين في اقليم كردستان العراق ازدادت منذ منتصف عام 2009، محملا الحزبين الرئيسين في الاقليم مسؤولية ذلك، حسب بيان للمنظمة. وقال البيان “منذ انعقاد الانتخابات المحلية في إقليم كردستان العراق في 25 تموز/ يوليو 2009، تلاحظ مراسلون بلا حدود ازدياداً في الانتهاكات...
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Hundreds take to the streets in violent protest against poor standard of public services.
By Charles McDermid and Tiare Rath in Pirmagrun (ICR No. 317, 23-Dec-09) Charles McDermid and Tiare Rath are IWPR editors in Sulaimaniyah. IWPR reporters Hemin H Lihony, Mariwan Hama-Saeed and Rahman Gharib contributed to this report from Pirmagrun and Sulaimaniyah....
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تحالف شركات عالمي تقوده إيني الايطالية يقبل شروط العراق لاستغلال حقل الزبير
أعلن وزير النفط العراقي حسين الشهرستاني الثلاثاء ان كونسورسيوم دولي تقوده شركة إيني الايطالية وافق على شروط العراق لاستغلال حقل الزبير جنوب البلاد بعد ان رفضتها في جولة التراخيص الاولى اواخر حزيران/يونيو الماضي. وقال الشهرستاني للصحافيين ان شركات...
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After fighting a three-year long civil war in the northern Iraq, Jalal Talabani’s Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and Maossud Barzani’s Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) came together as a united front to participate in the collapse of Saddam Hussein’s regime and in the politics of the new Iraq in 2003.
Editor’s note: The Kurdish...
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Defying fierce opposition from fellow Kurds and Arabs, Iraqi Kurdistan’s leaders forge ahead with referendum plans.
Kurdish officials are planning a January referendum on a controversial draft constitution for the region, despite protests that it flouts Iraqi law, could heighten tensions with Baghdad and even lead to a dictatorship.
The proposed constitution, which was...
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تنشر الاندبندنت في عددها ليوم الاثنين مقالا عن مستقبل علاقات اكراد العراق بعربه، تقول فيه ان الشيء الوحيد الذي يمنع الجانبين من الاقتتال هو الاحتلال الامريكي.
ويقول كاتب المقال باتريك كوكبرن من الموصل ان الخط الفاصل بين كردستان العراق وبقية البلاد، وطوله 300 ميل، يسمى "الفتيل"، ويمكنه ان يتحول في اية لحظة الى ساحة معركة...
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The only thing keeping Arabs and Kurds from fighting is the glue of US occupation
It is called the "trigger line", a 300-mile long swathe of disputed territory in northern Iraq where Arab and Kurdish soldiers confront each other, and which risks turning into a battlefield. As the world has focused on the US troop...
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