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China.org.cn
April 2, 2018
The Kurdish cause is somewhat of a traditional policy for France since the 1980s when Iraqi Kurds were the target of repression stemming from the Bagdad ... adding "We hope France will not come to us for help when the terrorists from Syria and Iraq fill their country after being encouraged by their policy.".
The New Arab
April 2, 2018
Comment: Since, 9/11, the Iraq War and the Arab Spring, Washington has failed to reset its relations with the Middle East, writes Emile Nakhleh. ... The continued usurpation of power by America's supposed allies through repression and corruption is detrimental to American ideals and interests. If allowed toÃâà...
LobeLog
April 2, 2018
The continued usurpation of power by America's supposed allies through repression and corruption is detrimental to American ideals and interests. ... I frequently briefed senior policy makers on the eve of the Iraq war on the need to learn more about Iraqi society and its deeply embedded religious andÃâà...
The Atlantic
March 29, 2018
“There might have been some Iraqi Shia who decided to assassinate Saddam for all that he had done to repress the Shia and Iraq would have descended into chaos," Bolton mused. In other words: There was nothing wrong with blowing up the building because it might have collapsed on its own. ImagineÃâà...
The Real News Network
March 27, 2018
And the other thing we're like, he was against the Kurdish referendum in South Kurdistan, too, which is part of Iraq. And we, as a Kurd I want to say Erdogan has to stop. It's just not Kurds in Turkey has a problem, other Democrat, other activists, and academics, they have all a problem. He put a lot of peopleÃâà...
Slate Magazine
March 27, 2018
President George W. Bush and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld had sent a small invasion force to Iraq—enough troops to crush the Iraqi army and oust Saddam from power but way too few to restore stability ... “And that means that Saddam's instruments of repression have no role in that new nation.
Task & Purpose
March 26, 2018
1, calling for de-Baathification, had been approved at the highest levels of government well before he signed it, and that it sent a crucial message to the Iraqi people that one of the Saddam's most effective tools of repression was truly history. “It was the single most popular thing we did while I was in Iraq,” heÃâà...
Socialist Worker Online
March 20, 2018
But this was only a sideshow to the U.S. war on the multiple and fractured Iraqi resistance movements. Bush's colonial viceroy in Iraq, Paul Bremer, carried out a campaign of terror and repression. Yet the resistance managed to bog the U.S. down in a brutal counter-insurgency campaign, preventing BushÃâà...
Al-Monitor
March 18, 2018
Iraqi demonstrations against Hussein Shirazi's arrest broke out in front of the Iranian Consulate in Karbala, the Iranian Embassy in Baghdad and near the border with Iran in Basra. The protesters shouted slogans against the Iranian regime's ongoing repression of their religious leaders in Iran, andÃâà...
Eyewitness News
March 13, 2018
The rise of Isis in Iraq may be attributable to the initially American sponsored Saddam Hussein regime. We could continue to travel down the annals of time and the same pattern seems to emerge where people have been subjected to organised extremism and repression. Are there lessons for South AfricaÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
March 7, 2018
Iraq under Saddam, where people didn't even dare whisper about the regime in their homes, was far more repressive than Syria under the elder Assad, ... And that is why I am uncertain that the Iraqi Baathists would have survived the Arab spring of 2011 unscathed had the United States left Saddam inÃâà...
IFEX
March 5, 2018
In Iraqi Kurdistan, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) denounced multiple media freedom violations in the region documented in a new report by IFJ affiliate the Kurdistan Journalists Syndicate. These included blocking media outlets from covering the independence referendum as well as theÃâà...
Middle East Eye
February 28, 2018
As Iraq prepares for its first post-Islamic State elections, the Communists have thrown their lot in with the Shia conservatives of Muqtada al-Sadr and the result, ... However, the coming to power of the Baath Party, and later Saddam Hussein as president in 1979, led to the repression of the party, often withÃâà...
rabble.ca
February 22, 2018
Lost within any of this self-congratulatory coverage will be the people of Iraq themselves, for whom 2018 marks 38 years of almost non-stop warfare and repression, during which they have endured hardships that are incomprehensible to most of us. The blood of the Iraqi people -- millions of them killed,Ãâà...
Al-Monitor
February 18, 2018
Zaman writes, “Erdogan's threats to move against the YPG in Manbij and expand the campaign all the way to the Iraqi border may well embolden some Arabs to switch sides. The shift, in turn, would disrupt the coalition's ongoing efforts to flush out IS remnants in the Middle Euphrates Valley and stabilize theÃâà...
Human Rights Watch
February 15, 2018
While these families may not be the most sympathetic constituency, it is a critical group to refranchise if the Iraqi government wants to prevent future sectarian strife. But there is already mounting evidence that security forces and area residents in Mosul are preventing international aid organizations fromÃâà...
New York Times
February 12, 2018
The conciliatory tone was in keeping with the broad theme of Mr. Tillerson's trip to the Middle East, which is focused on stabilizing the region after the expected defeat of the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. Mr. Sisi launched a sweeping military operation against the Islamic State last Friday, spurred by aÃâà...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
February 12, 2018
The conciliatory tone was in keeping with the broad theme of Tillerson's trip to the Middle East, which is focused on stabilizing the region after the expected defeat of the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. El-Sissi launched a sweeping military operation against the Islamic State last Friday, spurred by aÃâà...
LobeLog
February 1, 2018
This past year in Bahrain, much like those preceding it since the popular uprisings of 2011, was one of unending repression and persecution of human .... 2018, Amnesty International reported that the Bahraini government expelled four Bahrainis who were stripped of their nationality to Iraq two days earlier.
Middle East Eye
December 31, 1999
In total the UK has approved $42,776,315 in spy equipment exports to the Middle East since 2015, amid fears from campaigners that the surveillance equipment is allowing "repressive regimes" to crush dissent. The figures also show millions of dollars of exports to Algeria, Iraq, Lebanon, Morocco, OmanÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
December 31, 1999
Iraq under Saddam, where people didn't even dare whisper about the regime in their homes, was far more repressive than Syria under the elder Assad, ... And that is why I am uncertain that the Iraqi Baathists would have survived the Arab spring of 2011 unscathed had the United States left Saddam inÃâà...
Buffalo News
December 31, 1999
A friendly Iraqi family hid her and her children until they could flee to a refugee camp in Duhok, Iraq, about 100 miles to the northeast. ... The repression started under the Ottoman sultans, and it flared up again after the 1991 Gulf War and the 2003 Iraq War disturbed the fragile peace in northern Iraq.
Independent.ie
December 31, 1999
"The feeble response to crimes against humanity and war crimes from Myanmar to Iraq, South Sudan, Syria and Yemen underscored the lack of leadership on human rights. Governments are shamelessly turning the clock back on decades of hard-won protections." Mr Trump's willingness to tout "fake news"Ãâà...
The Hill
December 31, 1999
The fundamental pillars upon which the theocracy is established are export of terrorism and domestic repression. Since the Iran-Iraq War, the West has pursued a failed policy of appeasement toward Iran in order to mitigate the threat from the regime. This includes a series of mistakes such as theÃâà...
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