Tag: Iraq
Contrasting Eid-ul-Fitr celebrations in the Middle East
In Lebanon, Egypt and Iraq, Muslims have begun to celebrate Eid-el-Fitr, the holiday that marks the end of Ramadan, Friday 21 for Sunnis, Saturday 22 for the majority of Shiites.…
Iraq presents Isis terrorists on television, and these wild TV programs maintain the cycle of violence, says a Finnish researcher
The Iraqi state is trying hard to get rid of the memory of a few years ago, when the terrorist organization Isis controlled almost half of the northern part of…
a government official guilty of corruption escapes from a police station
The Iraqi authorities have for several months been carrying out a campaign of arrests of officials and businessmen implicated in large-scale corruption in the country and in particular arrested Saad…
Iraq: Government closes Jeddah 5 IDP camp
The Iraqi government announced on Tuesday, April 18, the closure of a camp in the province of Nineveh. A decision which is part of a program of the authorities to…
At least two dead in Iraqi Kurdistan in new strike attributed to Turkey
At least two people were killed and two injured in a strike that took place on Saturday evening April 15 in Iraqi Kurdistan. The operation is attributed to Turkey, Ankara…
“Iraq beyond all wars”, by Myriam Benraad
It will be twenty years tomorrow: on April 9, 2003, the imposing statue of Saddam Hussein in the center of Baghdad was pulled down, a symbol of the fall of…
oil agreement signed between Baghdad and Erbil
Exports of Kurdish crude, stopped for ten days, will resume. The arbitral tribunal of the International Chamber of Commerce had affirmed Baghdad’s sovereignty over the resources of Iraqi Kurdistan, thus…
a refinery starts its fuel production in order to reduce the country’s imports
In Iraq, a new refinery was inaugurated this Saturday, April 2, in Kerbala, south-west of Baghdad. A project launched to reduce Iraq’s dependence on fuel imports. With our correspondent in…
Eyes out of sight in the sandstorm that hit Iraq
The Ministry of Health was alarmed as the sandstorm, which started in Anbar province in the west of Iraq, moved to the central parts of the country. The sandstorm that…
demonstration against the new electoral law near the Parliament
In Baghdad, more than a hundred demonstrators gathered Friday evening near the Iraqi Parliament to protest against the new electoral law, which must be voted on this Saturday, March 25…