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Kurdistan24
April 3, 2018
She noted that the Kurdistani parties had decided to participate in the elections and she expressed the hope that afterward, “We will be able to be part of the discussion on forming a new government,” which will reflect Iraq's ethnic and religious diversity. “It rings alarm bells for many of us in Iraq,” however,Ãâà...
Firstpost
April 1, 2018
True, India had forgotten them but now that the final chapter is being written, does it not make sense to send a message that contrary to general opinion, Indian lives are not cheap and that our diplomatic missions do more than party and be officious and unhelpful? Let the government, be it the Centre or theÃâà...
Firstpost
March 29, 2018
Leader of Opposition in the Punjab Assembly, Sukhpal Singh Khaira of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), said the government should pay Rs 1 crore each to the families of those killed in Iraq. Khaira raised the issue during Zero Hour in the state Assembly, and added that the district administration officials shouldÃâà...
Times Now
March 27, 2018
The Congress party had later said that it would move a Privilege Motion against the minister in Parliament for misleading the families of Indians killed in Iraq by the Islamic State. The victims, most of whom hailed from Punjab, were working on projects near Mosul when they were kidnapped. The governmentÃâà...
KIRO Seattle
March 25, 2018
Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday said "operations" have begun in Sinjar to clear the mountainous area of Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, fighters. Erdogan later said that if the PKK does not vacate Sinjar and Qandil, where it has its headquarters, "it would be inevitable for us to do so personally.".
Firstpost
March 25, 2018
Politicians from the left and right called Beltrame a "hero" on Twitter, including Opposition leader Laurent Wauquiez, far-right National Rally party leader Marine Le Pen and Olivier Faure, set to become the next Socialist party head. #ArnaudBeltrame was a trending topic on the social network where peopleÃâà...
New Straits Times Online
March 20, 2018
Shashi Tharoor, a lawmaker from the main opposition Congress party, told journalists the government had not done right by the families. “If the government didn't have any details, why did they keep telling everyone they are alive? The government cheated the people (families) by giving them false hope forÃâà...
Times Now
March 20, 2018
His party colleague Partap Singh Bajwa and Aam Aadmi Party's Kanwar Sandhu also expressed their grief and targeted External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj for misleading the families of those who had died. Sandhu also asked for the minister's resignation. Swaraj today said 39 Indians, who wereÃâà...
Iran News Update
February 23, 2018
... axis forces would not allow US and NATO forces to establish regional bases in the eastern region of the Syrian Euphrates. Ali Akbar Velayati made these comments after a meeting with Nouri al-Maliki, vice president of Iraq's Islamic Dawa Party, and it is likely that most Iraqis didn't give it too much thought.
Al-Arabiya
February 22, 2018
The aforementioned statements by Velayati were made after his meeting with vice president of Iraq's Islamic Dawa Party Nouri al-Maliki recently, when he vowed that the Iran-led 'axis of resistance' would not allow the US and NATO to establish regional bases and called for preventing US forces fromÃâà...
LobeLog
February 20, 2018
Real power was exercised by the party that took advantage of the administrative and security vacuum, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). The KDP co-opted local elites to perform the routine tasks of rule. Yet it won little popularity. It treated the Yazidis, a distinct ethno-religious minority group, as Kurds,Ãâà...
Kurdistan24
February 14, 2018
Members of a US-led coalition fighting against the Islamic State (IS) pose for a group photograph in Kuwait City, Kuwait, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018. (Photo: Associated Press/Jon Gambrell). Kuwait Conference Iraq Islamic State. A+ A A-. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – Several countries continued to pledge billions ofÃâà...
The New Arab
February 7, 2018
This is the second time the Iraqi government published a most wanted list this week – the first list was made up of Islamic State, al-Qaeda and Ba'ath Party members. "They are more dangerous than those who appeared on the first list published Sunday and they are wanted internationally whereas theÃâà...
Kurdistan24
February 4, 2018
Iraq Islamic State Saddam Hussein. A+ A A-. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – Iraqi authorities on Sunday released a list of names of 60 most-wanted people who allegedly belong to the Islamic State (IS), al-Qaeda, or the former Iraqi regime's Ba'ath Party. The list also includes the name of formerÃâà...
The Intercept
January 21, 2018
Koestler was a Hungarian communist intellectual who had been passionately committed to the cause, but later rebelled against the party over Joseph Stalin's abuses. His essay was part of a collection of writings called “The God that Failed,” published by disaffected communists who had been forced toÃâà...
Asharq Al-awsat English
November 20, 2017
Up until recently, there was speculation on whether the party will split into two competing wings in the upcoming general elections. Yet, as the sources indicated, these theories have now been realized with both Maliki and Abadi's unwillingness to head to the elections within a unified coalition.
Long War Journal
November 8, 2017
[See FDD's Long War Journal reports, Turkistan Islamic Party leader criticizes the Islamic State's 'illegitimate' caliphate and Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan faction emerges after group's collapse.] Not long after joining Wilayat Khorasan, Tatari made his way to Islamic State-held territory in Syria with hisÃâà...
Free Malaysia Today
December 31, 1999
SAMARRA: At least 16 people died in a bomb attack Thursday during funerals in a northern Iraqi village for fighters killed by the Islamic State group, the village's mayor said. “Two bombs exploded as the funeral procession was entering the cemetery” near the town of Al-Shirqat, Salaheddin Shaalan said.
Middle East Monitor
December 31, 1999
The Iraqi Islamic Party announced yesterday that it will not run in the upcoming parliamentary elections scheduled for May in order to “avoid further divisions within the Sunni forces”. The decision came after the dissolution of the coalition of national forces which included a majority of Sunni parties in theÃâà...
