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Newsweek
January 24, 2018
Between smoking cigars, decorating his extravagant palaces and ruling Iraq with an iron fist, it seems that the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein also found time to publish at least one work of romantic fiction. ... The capture came nine months after the toppling of Hussein and his Baath party. He wasÃÂ ...
Rudaw
January 23, 2018
“No force and no one can evict the people of these two neighborhoods and they will stay in their homes,” said Mohammed Othman, MP in the Iraqi ... notice was based on a ruling issued under the Baath regime giving the then-security apparatus authorization to evict Kurds and confiscate their lands.
The National Interest Online
January 23, 2018
Equally dangerous to Iraq's stability were Maliki's policies targeting the Sunni minority that had previously held power under Saddam Hussein. Under the guise of “de-Baathification” Maliki sought not only to remove the vestiges of Hussein's Baath Party from positions of power, but also to purge theÃÂ ...
NRT
January 22, 2018
The Baath regime expelled nearly 40,000 Feyli Kurds to Iran in the beginning of 1970. Later, the Iraqi Baath regime stripped them of their citizenship. In May 1980, Saddam Hussein signed decree number 666, which legalized and ordered the confiscation, forced deportation, exile and detention of FeyliÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
January 22, 2018
The black-and-white photograph is part of a treasure trove of ancient pieces of Judaica retrieved from the headquarters of Saddam Hussein's General Intelligence Service during the United States' 2003 invasion of Iraq. The heirlooms include documents dating from the mid-16th century to the 1970s andÃÂ ...
Ahram Online
January 12, 2018
Nearly 15 years after the ouster of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, his loyalists are showing signs that they are abandoning their endeavours to ... Instead of trumpeting “national resistance to liberate” Iraq, the party's declared goal since the US-led invasion in 2003, Baath Party officials have now beenÃÂ ...
AMN Al-Masdar News
January 8, 2018
“We have access to certain intelligence which proves that the delegation is pursuing Baath party's return to power in Iraq under a new name,” Dulaimi ... While the Iraqi Ba'ath Party, the Arab supremacist organisation headed by Saddam Hussein until 2003 and not to be confused with the Syrian Ba'ath PartyÃÂ ...
Rudaw
December 31, 1999
Mansur Bank for Investment is an Iraq-Qatar bank with seven branches in Iraqi cities with branches being opened in Erbil and Sulaimani in 2006. ... between people and banks and said: “Following the collapse of the Baath regime, substantial sums of money from Iraq came to the Kurdistan Region, and itÃÂ ...
NPR
September 23, 2017
After Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990, the U.S. ... by Saddam's Arab Socialist Baath party to "Arabize" northern Iraq.
Aljazeera.com
September 19, 2017
A historic independence vote later this month in Iraqi Kurdistan could accelerate the Kurdish path towards sovereignty and finally gift Iraq's Kurds with a ... including Turkey, Iran and Syria, alongside the Baath regime, beganÃÂ ...
Center for Research on Globalization
September 18, 2017
Kurdistan and the Unity of Iraq: A Referendum in a Powder Keg ... On Tuesday, the Iraqi parliament has refused to accept the referendum on ... after [the fall of the Baath regime in] April 2003, establishing and funding manyÃÂ ...
Vox
September 18, 2017
In July, as the Iraqi army stormed the ISIS stronghold of Mosul some 60 miles ... repressed by Saddam Hussein's predominantly Sunni BaathistÃÂ ...
HuffPost
September 17, 2017
The subsequent weakening of the power of the ruling Baath party will ... in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen is lip service meant to appease Arab ears.
gulfnews.com
September 13, 2017
Iraqi Kurdistan, an oil-rich enclave in northern Iraq, may be their best .... who were battling the Iraq government then led by the Baath Party,ÃÂ ...
New York Times
September 9, 2017
... of Kurdish tribesmen massacred by Saddam Hussein's henchmen, ... Iraqi Kurdistan, an oil-rich enclave in northern Iraq, may be their best hope yet. .... Iraq government then led by the Baath Party, to buy shoes and shirts.
Eurasia Review
September 6, 2017
... profound when the ideology of Daesh was strongly tied to the ideology of Iraq's defunct Baath party. Iraq's former dictator, Saddam Hussein,ÃÂ ...
Independent Online
September 5, 2017
... al-Duri, the fugitive deputy of Iraq's late dictator Saddam Hussein, ... to his banned Baath party, which had ruled out talks proposed by IraqiÃÂ ...
Newsweek
September 5, 2017
U.S. Returns Antique Chess Set Owned by Saddam Hussein, Stolen During ... “A stolen Iraqi artifact was returned to the Government of Iraq, ... The capture came nine months after the toppling of Hussein and his Baath party.
Rising Kashmir
September 1, 2017
A majority of five million Iraqi Kurds voting for independence is widely expected. ... land they belonged to was divided into Turkey, Iran, Syria and Iraq. ... happened especially during the reign of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party.
Daily Sabah
August 28, 2017
When Iraq was invaded in 2003 there was not much resistance in Fallujah, ... Sunni Arabs who were removed from the Iraqi military, the BaathÃÂ ...
Lawfare (blog)
August 23, 2017
These militias have secured Iran unparalleled influence in Iraq. ... base during the 1990s, when Iraq's Shiites suffered from repression by the Baath regime ... His message of defiance against Saddam Hussein led to al-Sadr's 1999 ... with the exiled Shiite opposition that now dominates the Iraqi government.
Lawfare (blog)
August 23, 2017
These militias have secured Iran unparalleled influence in Iraq. ... base during the 1990s, when Iraq's Shiites suffered from repression by the Baath regime ... His message of defiance against Saddam Hussein led to al-Sadr's 1999 ... with the exiled Shiite opposition that now dominates the Iraqi government.
Kurdistan24
August 20, 2017
After the fall of the Baath regime in Iraq in 2003, Barzani was elected as President, and his term was later extended following the emergence of the Islamic StateÃÂ ...
Al-Monitor
August 14, 2017
Iraq's Turkmen areas become battlefield in Kurdish referendum ... The Iraqi Turkmen Front, the largest political party representing the ... in 1959 and one in Altun Kupri in 1991 by Saddam Hussein's regime. Turkmens were also subjected to an Arabization campaign during the Baath regime and a policy ofÃÂ ...
IFP News
August 9, 2017
An Iraqi commander says there are evidence that Saudi Arabia and the ... to revive the former dictator Saddam Hussein's Baath party in Iraq.
Frontline
August 2, 2017
The Iraqi Army reclaims Mosul from the Daesh after a protracted battle. ... than nine months for the Iraqi Army to finally liberate Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, ... people there were strong supporters of the Baath Party and Saddam Hussein.
Pravda
August 2, 2017
During the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein and his Baath party, the ... The leader of Iraqi Shiites, Muqtada al-Sadr, has recently paid a visit toÃÂ ...
The Atlantic
December 10, 2013
As it was codified by the Baath Party, it required that Syria be considered .... the Syrian city of Hama looked like the Iraqi city of Fallujah after the American ... Already in 1980, Hafez al-Assad sided with Iran in the Iran-Iraq war.
The Conversation AU
December 31, 1999
Saddam Hussein's statue falls in 2003. Wikimedia, CC BY ... Symbolically, it marked the end of Iraq's Baath dictatorship. This event, staged byÃÂ ...
Kurdistan24
December 31, 1999
Official: Iraqi court decision against hoisting Kurdistan flag in Kirkuk unconstitutional ... in 2005 with the approval of 80 percent of the people of Iraq. ... Talabani added that the Baath and Saddam Hussein regime, during theirÃÂ ...
Middle East Eye
December 31, 1999
"We hope Daesh will be uprooted from Iraq, but we are afraid of a new ... in the south still hate all members of [Saddam Hussein's] Baath party.
Arab News
February 27, 2017
Today much of the world is witnessing rejection, anger and accusations, very often the result of the political mood at a particular time.
The Times
February 25, 2017
Australia wanted the United Nations to play a bigger role in the reconstruction of Iraq after the 2003 invasion but was rebuffed by the Bush administration, a declassified report reveals.
Consortium News
February 24, 2017
Their address on K Street in Washington DC suggests this is yet another Western-funded operation similar to the Iraqi National Congress that lobbied and lied on behalf of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. In the past few days, with perfect timing for the ...
Rudaw
February 21, 2017
The Baath regime handed down death sentence to Ahmed, who was later pardoned by the Iraqi government. He left Iraq upon release from jail, going to Syria first, then to Lebanon. He eventually ended up in Sudan in 1982, settling down in a village there.
gulfnews.com
February 20, 2017
2007 The new extension of Dubai Dry Docks is inaugurated. 2012 Saudi Arabia names first ambassador to Iraq since 1990. 2013 A powerful car bomb explodes near ruling Baath Party offices in Damascus, Syria, killing more than 50 people. 2014 Ukraine'sÃÂ ...
العربي الجديد
February 18, 2017
Al-Bab has been under IS control since 2014, when the group seized large swathes of territory in Syria and neighbouring Iraq, proclaiming its self-described "caliphate". Turkey began military operations in Syria in August, targeting ... The wider ...
Volkskrant
February 17, 2017
El Aissami komt uit een groot gezin met Syrische en Libanese roots. Zijn vader leidde de Venezolaanse tak van de Iraakse socialistische Baath-partij. Ook El Aissami's oudoom was actief bij de Baath-partij in Irak onder het bewind van Saddam Hussein.
Herald Sun
February 17, 2017
The figures include Syrians resettled in Australia as part of an additional intake of 12,000 people from the war-torn nation and neighbouring Iraq, announced in September 2015. As of early February, 9382 of those extra 12,000 from Syria and Iraq have ...
العربي الجديد
February 16, 2017
Trump issued a decree last month that denied entry to all refugees for 120 days, and travellers from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen for 90 days.
Saudi Gazette
February 15, 2017
The new vice president, though born in Venezuela comes from an Arab family of Lebanese-Syrian Druze. His father is alleged to have had political connections with Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussain and supposedly ran an office of the Baath party in Venezuela.
Roll Call
February 15, 2017
Baggage: During the Iraq War, he served as chief of staff for the Coalition Provisional Authority, which was responsible for setting up a government after the toppling of Saddam Hussein's regime. The Coalition Provisional Authority was responsible for ...
Middle East Online
February 13, 2017
One prominent example is in Iraq, where AI"corroborated"the false story that Iraqi soldiers were stealing incubators from Kuwait, leaving babies to die on the cold floor.
L'Intellettuale Dissidente
February 13, 2017
La grandezza di questi stati nati sulle ceneri dell'Impero Ottomano fu quella di riuscire con il passare degli anni a creare dei sistemi di governo laici (Egitto di Nasser, Siria degli Assad, Iraq di Saddam Hussein) o multiconfessionali (Libano), in ...
Consortium News
February 12, 2017
One prominent example is in Iraq, where AI "corroborated" the false story that Iraqi soldiers were stealing incubators from Kuwait, leaving babies to die on the cold floor.
Creators Syndicate
February 10, 2017
Not even Saddam Hussein at his worst as Iraq's dictator inflicted such a stunning toll of carnage against his own people, yet his abysmal human rights record helped justify the 2003 U.S.
Rudaw
February 9, 2017
When ISIS launched an attack on the Kurdistan Region in 2014, the pope, in his Sunday prayer service, called on Western countries to help out the Kurds and Christians of Iraq and Kurdistan. His call for support moved many Western capitals to come to ...
Al-Monitor
February 9, 2017
MADINAT AL-BAATH, Golan Heights - I traveled recently from Damascus to what used to be Quneitra via an alternative northern route instead of using the main road, which was under threat from multiple armed groups.
Tempi.it
February 8, 2017
La grandezza di questi stati nati sulle ceneri dell'Impero Ottomano fu quella di riuscire con il passare degli anni a creare dei sistemi di governo laici (Egitto di Nasser, Siria degli Assad, Iraq di Saddam Hussein) o multiconfessionali (Libano), in ...
STLtoday.com
February 8, 2017
Not even Saddam Hussein at his worst as Iraq's dictator inflicted such a stunning toll of carnage against his own people, yet his abysmal human rights record helped justify the 2003 U.S.
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