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>   Iraq's Turkomans Feel New Political Strength - April 01, 2010    The Turkomans themselves express it best. Outside of Iraq, they say, people know about Sunnis, Shi'a, and Kurds...

>   Iraqi Shi'ite blocs inch toward power-sharing deal - April 14, 2010    Talks on an alliance between Iraq's two main Shi'ite Muslim blocs to form the next government appear to be nearing...

>   Hogs Of The Forsaken - April 15, 2010    April 15, 2010: In northern Iraq, near the city of Kirkuk, farmers are being driven off...

>   In this war, pigs are besting Iraqi farmers - Aril 13, 2010    Of all the calamities war has loosed upon Iraq, pigs are not among the most obvious...

>   Iraq PM's bloc says fraud may have cost it 750,000 votes - April 11, 2010    The coalition of Iraq's incumbent prime minister, which came second in inconclusive March elections, said Sunday up to 750,000 votes...

>    Iraq stability hinges on fate of oil city - April 09, 2010    As Iraq's political barons scramble for power in the messy aftermath of March elections...

>   Kirkuk vehicle maintainers keep mission going at Mosul - April 07, 2010    For two vehicle maintainers attached to Kirkuk Regional Air Base, their job responsibilities...

>    Kurdish options narrowing - April 07, 2010    The results of Iraq’s parliamentary elections show one thing very clearly: the composition of the government that takes...

>   Mounting obstacles block efforts to form new Iraq government - March 31, 2010    Charges of Iranian meddling, constitutional conflicts and bad blood between bitter rivals: obstacles blocking the...

>    Iraq PM appeals poll results, Sadr plans referendum - March 31, 2010    Iraq's prime minister said on Wednesday that his party had formally appealed the results from the country's tight...

>    What the Iraqis are building - March 30, 2010    IN THE three weeks since Iraq held elections, many news stories have focused on the negative or the uncertain...

>   Iraq PM will follow law on election: US envoy - March 30, 2010    The US ambassador to Iraq voiced confidence Tuesday that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki would abide by the law...

>    Iraqi PM fights to hold power, risks sectarian war - March 30, 2010    Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's postelection strategy suggests he is prepared for a long and bitter fight to hold on to power,...

>   Iraq PM slams UN over inaction on vote fraud charge - March 28, 2010    Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki sharply criticised the UN on Sunday over its inaction on his vote fraud allegations...

>   Who Is Iyad Allawi? - March 29, 2010    The perpetual reinvention of reality proceeds apace, as neocons who once gave expression to...

>   Muqtada's star on the rise again - March 27, 2010    The movement led by anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is poised to make a dramatic return to the forefront of...

>   Al-Maliki's bloc to challenge Iraq poll results in court - March 27, 2010    Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's coalition will ask a court to order a manual recount of ...

>   Allawi wins Iraqi election; Maliki rejects results - March 26, 2010    A strong showing by Iraq's Sunni Muslim minority gave secular Shiite politician Ayad Allawi the narrow lead that he needed to...

>   Maliki, Trailing in Iraq Vote, Contests the Result - March 27, 2010    Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki’s party lost the Iraqi election, but a day after the results were announced...

>   Testing Iraq's Democratic Will - March 27, 2010    Three weeks after the election, the Iraqi High Election Commission (IHEC) announced the final vote...

>   The Official Results of the Iraq Elections - March 27, 2010    The Iraqi High Electoral Commission (IHEC) issued today the official results of Iraq's March 7 Parliamentary elections...

>   Allawi narrowly wins Iraq election, Maliki rejects result - March 26, 2010    Former premier Iyad Allawi's secular bloc won the most seats in Iraq's March 7 parliamentary election, edging incumbent...

>   Secular challenger claims victory in Iraq election - March 26, 2010    A jubilant Ayad Allawi claimed victory for his secular, anti-Iranian coalition as final parliamentary returns Friday showed him...

>   Iraq Election Results Inconclusive as Both Sides Claim Victory - March 26, 2010    The results of the Iraqi election are in, more or less, but exactly what happened and who won depends on who is speaking...

>   Iraq's tight race prompts warnings of violence - March 25, 2010    Iraqi election results Friday will likely show a virtual tie between the two top vote-getting blocs led by the prime minister and...

>   Iraq nervously awaits election results - March 25, 2010    Iraqis nervously awaited results from the country's March 7 election, set to be released on Friday, amid a tight battle...

>   Razor thin margin to separate Iraq election blocs - March 25, 2010    The leading blocs in Iraq's March 7 parliamentary election are separated by a slim margin of one or two seats, the head of the country's...

>   Iraqi premier won't recognize election results without a recount - March 23, 2010    Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's coalition has said it will not recognize election results without a recount and warned of unrest, the...

>    Bid for Iraq Vote Recount Intensifies - March 23, 2010    Senior politicians from Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's ruling coalition warned Tuesday that Shiite Muslim-dominated...

>   Iraq's divided vote may deepen Kirkuk dispute - March 23, 2010    A dispute between Kurds and Arabs over Iraq's oil producing city of Kirkuk may deepen after a strong election...

>   Maliki call for a recount in Iraq is rejected - March 21, 2010    Iraq's electoral commission on Sunday rejected demands from Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki and President Jalal...

>   U.S. Officials Meet Iraqi Leader After Recount Call - March 22, 2010    The two top American officials in Iraq met Monday with Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki...

>   Prime minister warns of violence, but election board rejects call for recount - March 22, 2010    As new results from this month's election continued to show a neck-and-neck race, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Sunday issued a strongly...

>   Iraq's Kurds Lose Political Dominance In Kirkuk - March 19, 2010    Before the March 7 parliamentary elections in Iraq, there was no question of who dominated politics in mixed-population Kirkuk...

>   Rice admits Iraq regrets, says US eventually 'got it right' - March 19, 2010    Former top US diplomat Condoleezza Rice voiced regret on Friday at the bloody aftermath of the 2003 invasion of...

>   Iraq PM, ex-premier in tight race for parliament - March 18, 2010    Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and rival Iyad Allawi were locked in a close election race,...

>    Iraq's PM leads again in tight election race - March 17, 2010    Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki reclaimed the lead on Wednesday over secularist challenger...

>    Another Targeted Execution of an Assyrian in Mosul - March 18, 2010    Another targeted execution of an Iraqi Christians in Mosul, northern Iraq. This morning, an armed commando...

>    Iraq PM and main rival locked in tight election battle - March 17, 2010    Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and his main rival Iyad Allawi were locked in a tight election battle Wednesday, with...

>    Iraq's Nouri al-Maliki already wooing allies to try to form governing coalition - March 15, 2010    Buoyed by preliminary results from last week's parliamentary elections, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is courting allies in hopes of...

>   EU's Ashton to be urged to lodge formal Iraq vote protest - March 12, 2010    European Union foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton will next week be urged to lodge a formal...

>   Partial count in all Iraq provinces has PM in lead - March 14, 2010    Partial counts from all of Iraq's 18 provinces show the prime minister's bloc leading in the country's...

>   Iraq PM bolsters chances of retaining post - March 14, 2010    Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's chances of retaining his post appeared strong on Monday...

>   Iraq Election May Leave Kirkuk Status Uncertain - March 12, 2010    Early election results appear to reflect a hardening of divisions between Kurds, Arabs and Turkmens...

>    Iraqi Vote Results Signal Inconclusive Contest as Shiites Split - March 12, 2010    Preliminary results in Iraq’s parliamentary election signal a tight race that is unlikely to...

>    Early Iraq results: PM battling secular challenger - March 11, 2010    First results from Iraq's parliamentary election showed the prime minister and his secular rival locked in an extremely...

>   Are Kurds’ Days of Kingmaking Over? - March 03, 2010    In the run-up to Iraq’s parliamentary elections next week, the once-united Kurds are...

>    Kurds no closer to taking Kirkuk after Iraqi elections - March 08, 2010    At 9 p.m., some four hours after polls closed in Kirkuk on March 7, the sky outside my window starts to echo with...

>    Awaiting election tally, Iraqi rivals boast wins - March 07, 2010    The Iraqi prime minister's coalition and its main rival both claimed to be ahead in the count in Sunday's parliamentary...

>    KDP’S false ballots were seized - March 09, 2010    Before the approaching general elections in Iraq, all the irregularities by the KDP are coming to...

>    Kirkuk Hopes Election Will Take the City Past Old Strife - March 07, 2010    the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk will vote in a national poll for the first time since the 2003 US-led invasion...

>    Iraq’s Uncertain Future: Elections and Beyond - Frbruary 25, 2010    As a rule, Iraq’s post-Saddam elections have tended to magnify pre-existing negative trends. The parliamentary polls...

>    Rival groups see Iraqi vote as way to claim Kirkuk - March 1, 2010    Young men hurtle down dusty streets in cars, waving flags and blaring campaign slogans in a fervor that highlights...

>    Women Take Prominent Role in Iraqi Vote - March 3, 2010    The minute Friday prayers are over, a crowd of women worshippers clothed in long black cloaks...

>    Key to Iraqi Stability Lies in Resolution of the Conflicting Interests of Kurds and Arabs - February 26, 2010    In his February 2, 2010 “Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community,” U.S. Director of National...

>    Rival groups see Iraqi vote as way to claim Kirkuk - March 1, 2010    Young men hurtle down dusty streets in cars, waving flags and blaring campaign slogans in a fervor that highlights...

>    Women Take Prominent Role in Iraqi Vote - March 3, 2010    The minute Friday prayers are over, a crowd of women worshippers clothed in long black cloaks...

>    Key to Iraqi Stability Lies in Resolution of the Conflicting Interests of Kurds and Arabs - February 26, 2010    In his February 2, 2010 “Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community,” U.S. Director of National...

>    KDP-PUK tension on the eve of the election - March 01, 2010    Before the Iraqi general elections, the tension among the Kurdish parties is observed to...

>    Minorities and Iraq’s Parliamentary elections 2010, and Kurdish irregularities in disputed areas - March 01, 2010    This 2010 elections is the third elections that the Iraqis will have, during the 2005 and 2009 Iraq’s parliamentary...

>    Sweden and Iraqi Refugees - February 26, 2010    On the Run Again is a series of reports broadcast on national Swedish radio in the fall of 2009, uncovering Sweden's...

>    Five Dead, Including Three Assyrians, in Iraq Attacks - February 25, 2010    Five people were killed, including three Christian men and a policeman, in the restive northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Tuesday...

>    Housing amnesty request of the Kurds in Iraq - February 22, 2010    Kurdish groups in the Iraqi parliament carry out activities aimed at recognition of housing amnesty...

>   New Force Emerges in Kirkuk - February 20, 2010    Arabs, Turkmen and Assyrian Christians claim widespread abuse from Kurdish authorities in Kirkuk...

>    Fifth Assyrian Killed in a Week in North Iraq - February 20, 2010    Iraqi police said they found a Christian shopkeeper shot to death in the restive northern city of Mosul on Saturday,...

>    Kurdish militia tighten grip on non-Kurdish districts in Iraq’s Mosul - February 18, 2010    A senior official in the Province of Nineveh of which Mosul is the capital has denounced the presence of...

>   Three Christians Killed in North Iraq - February 17, 2010    A Christian was killed in the restive city of Mosul on Tuesday, the third in as many days, as community leaders warned of rising violence against...

>   Conflict and international migration: Iraqi Turkmen in Turkey - July 18, 2005    This paper addresses a known issue with a particular focus on an unknown population. Iraqi Turkmen, as a minority...

>    FORTHCOMING ELECTIONS IN IRAQ AND THE ELECTION IRREGULARITIES OF THE KURDS    Iraqi Parliament decided to hold general elections on March 7th, 2010 after prolonged discussions...

>    TV BROADCAST OF GORAN MOVEMENT IS BEING OBSTRUCTED    are power cuts in Irbil during the speech of Newshirvan Mostafa, who is the leader...

>    Assassination attacks have risen in Iraq    It has been stated that the assassination attacks have risen in Iraq recently, as a result of increase...

>   Kirkuk's Political Parties Staking Future on Coalitions - January 25, 2010    Kirkuk was deprived of participation in last year's provincial elections but it is already gearing up for the national...

>   Christians in the north of Iraq complain about pressures    The security situation in Mosul and in its neighborhoods deteriorates more and more day by day...

>   Mandaean Human Rights Annual Report - 2009    Will October 17th 2007 - the date that the cross border operation authorization was...

>   Northern Iraq: From Deadlock to Dialogue    Will October 17th 2007 - the date that the cross border operation authorization was...

>   Heavy turnover expected in Iraqi elections - January 06, 2010    Iraq in late 2009 passed amendments to a national election law, paving the way to a March 7 vote where Iraqis pick their next government....

>   Gorran (Change) Fraction to direct a memo to the relevant entities on escalating the security disorder and organized political crimes in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq    The credibility of the security companies of US origin is in the agenda of the Iraqi public ...

>   In iraq, the credibility of the US security companies is questioned - January 02, 2010    On escalating the security disorder and organized political crimes in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Gorran (Change) Fraction has directed...

>   Attack against a member of the Goran movement! - December 27, 2009    In Northern Iraq an official of the Goran movement, the leader of which is the former...

>    Suspicious attacks in northern Iraq - December 25, 2009    The attacks against prominent figures of various groups in Northern Iraq have been increasing...

>   Forced Islamization of Christian Girls Supported By Egyptian State - December 23, 2009    The phenomenon of abduction, rape and forced Islamization of Christian girls in Egypt was shown for the first time...

>    Mosul Attacks on Two Christian Churches, Three Dead and Several Injured - December 23, 2009    Two separate bombs struck this morning in Mosul, the Chaldean church of St. George and Syriac Orthodox Church of...

>   Poor conditions in Iraq drive returned refugees back to Syria - December 22, 2009    Omar Salman's* Syrian visa expired two weeks ago. A refugee from neighbouring Iraq, he believes his family's...

>   U.N. warns against unrealistic expectations in Iraq - December 22, 2009    Iraq is making strides in strengthening its fledgling democracy despite violence and political feuds...

>   Iraqi vice president warns Iran to respect Iraq's borders - December 22, 2009    Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi on Tuesday protested Iranian troops' moves to...

>   Maliki makes his move on Kirkuk issue - December 22, 2009    Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki will soon visit the northern district of Kurdistan, aiming to sign a deal with Kurdish...

>   Report of United Nations General assembly on Iraq - December 01, 2009    The present report is a summary of 50 stakeholders’ submissions to the universal periodic review...

>   Growing Power of Iraqi Kurdistan Could Backfire on Tehran - December 20, 2009    Iran’s strategy to break Iraq into three component territories, and to dominate those territories in order to...

>   Iraq, the Kurds and the Americans - December 17, 2009    Four months ago, with little fanfare, the State Department sent a full-time senior diplomat, Alan Misenheimer,...

>    Iraqi elections: messy, factionalized, and ultimately democratic - November 27, 2009    In the second parliamentary elections of Iraq’s new constitutional order, slated for January 2010, the stakes are high...

>   Along Baghdad street, a debate over limits of free expression - November 13, 2009    Yaser Adnan , who owns a bookstore on Baghdad's Mutanabi Street , got new regulations from Iraq's Ministry of Culture last July...

>   Accustomed to danger, Iraqi journalists now face legal attacks - November 13, 2009    Warid Badr Salim's front-page satire in last Saturday's edition of the newspaper al Mada compared Iraq's parliament to wolves stalking sheep...

>   Iraqi Arabs and Kurds Pursue a Common Ground - November 10, 2009    Arab and Kurdish military commanders here are making efforts at cooperation despite their bitter political differences...

>   Iraq election law delays decision on flash points - November 09, 2009    After weeks of hard-nosed negotiations, analysts say the election law passed by Iraq's parliament allowing national polls...

>   Iraq MPs approve election reform - November 08, 2009    The Iraqi parliament has approved a crucial election law ahead of national polls due in January 2010...

>   Iraqi parliament passes key voting law - November 08, 2009    Iraq's parliament on Sunday passed a long-awaited election law that the government said will allow national...

>   Iraqi lawmakers pass election law - November 08, 2009    Iraq's parliament Sunday passed a long-delayed election law paving the way for a national vote in January after...

>   IRAQ: Food insecurity on the rise, says official - November 08, 2009    More and more people in Iraq are being affected by food insecurity; a senior official has said...

>   Iraqi parliament fails to reach deal on election law - November 07, 2009    Iraqi parliament members adjourned on Saturday without reaching an accord on a controversial new elections law, and the lawmakers could make...

>   Iraqi MP expenses scandal triggers religious outrage - November 06, 2009    An expenses scandal erupted in Iraq on Friday after religious leaders hit out at how MPs secured themselves...

>   Sunni concerns see Iraq MPs fail to agree 2010 election law - November 07, 2009    Concerns from Iraq's Sunni bloc on Saturday saw MPs fail again to agree a law for next year's general election,...

>   Iraqis Again Fail to Approve Election Law - November 05, 2009    The Iraqi Parliament failed again on Thursday to approve a law to regulate a national election in January, deepening...

>   Iraqis at the brink: Election law delayed again - November 05, 2009    Iraqi lawmakers blew another deadline Thursday as they continued haggling over an election law that's crucial...

>   Iraq lawmakers can't agree on election law _ again - November 05, 2009    Iraqi lawmakers failed Thursday to agree on an election law for the country's January vote, raising concerns the balloting may be delayed...

>   U.S. keeps a low profile ahead of Iraq elections - November 05, 2009    Amid a deadlock over creating an election law so the vote can proceed, some Iraqi lawmakers say America isn't doing enough to resolve the disputes...

>   Iraq vote may be delayed, election head warns - November 04, 2009    The official charged with carrying out Iraq's crucial January polls warned Wednesday that they will be delayed if parliament doesn't approve a key electoral bill....

>    Iraq Fails to Agree on Election Law - November 04, 2009    Iraqi lawmakers failed again to agree on national-election legislation on Wednesday, and the country's election commission warned the vote...

>   Flying Over Oil Fields, Watching Iraqi Money Burn - November 03, 2009    This week WCCO-TV Don Shelby and photographer Tom Aviles are reporting from southern Iraq...

>   Iraqi lawmakers deadlocked over election law - November 21, 2009    Iraqi lawmakers failed to agree on key changes to the election law on Wednesday, throwing January's crucial parliamentary...

>   Iraqi Christians demand inquiry into killings, intimidation - November 03, 2009    An Iraqi Christian member of parliament on Tuesday asked the speaker to request an international inquiry into the...

>   The New National Alliance And Other Political Maneuverings - August 24, 2009    Today, August 24, 2009 the new Iraqi National Alliance was announced. This was the long-awaited revised version of the United...

>   Iraqi election head warns parliament of vote delay - November 04, 2009    Iraq's election commission chairman said Wednesday that he has warned lawmakers that if they do not have an agreement in place...

>   Baghdad reborn: Iraqi capital remaking itself - October 30, 2009    If Martha Stewart decorated war zones, these weirdly cheerful Baghdad checkpoints might have been the result....

>   Crucial Iraq election deadline looms - October 31, 2009    The poll is seen as crucial to the stability of the country, and any delay would likely impact on the US plan for withdrawal....

>   Northern Iraq stuck in Bribery and corruption    There are numerous allegations of corruption against the senior officials of the Regional Kurdish Government...

>   More Iraqis trying to move beyond sectarian divide - October 31, 2009    After years of relative calm, many voters are keen to put divisions behind them. Political leaders oblige with several Sunni-Shiite blocs. But in north Iraq...

>   West Sets Example for Female Equality - October 31, 2009    The recent story of a local Iraqi man suspected of deliberately attempting to kill his daughter to restore honor to his family has consumed my thoughts....

>   Kurds snub parliament vote on Iraqi election law - October 29, 2009    Kurdish lawmakers pushing for control of a northern oil-rich city boycotted a parliament session on Thursday that was to...

>   Iraqi elections facing possible delay - October 29, 2009    The fate of Iraq's national elections hung in the balance Thursday as the nation's lawmakers failed to...

>   Kurdish Leader Demands Control of Oil-rich Kirkuk - October 28, 2009    The president of Iraq's Kurdish region demanded Wednesday that oil-rich Kirkuk be incorporated into his autonomous...

>   Iraqi Kurdish bloc to boycott vote - October 29, 2009    The Kurdish bloc in the Iraqi parliament intends to boycott the vote on a proposed election law if...

>   Iraqi parliament to vote on election law: MP - October 28, 2009    Iraq's parliament will vote on a key election law on Thursday, an MP told reporters, raising the prospect of polls scheduled...

>   Iraqi parliament to vote on election law: MP - October 28, 2009    Iraq's parliament will vote on a key election law on Thursday, an MP told reporters, raising the prospect of polls scheduled...

>    Legislators in Iraq Block a Deal on Election Law - October 27, 2009    The country’s political parties failed to agree on election laws on Tuesday, despite a proposed deal put together...

>   Iraq's Election Law Goes To Parliament For Approval - October 27, 2009    Iraq's political leaders have sent what they say is a compromise version of the country's controversial election law to parliament...

>    Iraqi MPs to discuss election law - October 27, 2009    Iraqi lawmakers are due to meet to try to break the deadlock over legislation covering next month's general election....

>   Iraqi searches for brothers in ancient cemetery - October 26, 2009    Nobody knows just how many Iraqis went missing during the sectarian warfare that tore the country apart. But at least 17,477 unidentified bodies...

>   Horrific suicide blasts spur Iraqi parliament to act - October 26, 2009    Iraqi officials reached a tentative agreement on a new election law on Monday, even as workers continued to recover more bodies from the wreckage of Sunday's bomb...

>   U.S. urges Iraq to pass election law - October 23, 2009    Washington is encouraging the Iraqi government to break its impasse on deliberations over amendments to its election laws as the debate in Baghdad...

>   Nineveh ethnic divide fuels tension - October 23, 2009    Tensions between ruling Sunni Arab and Kurdish politicians in the northern Iraqi province of Nineveh are threatening to...

>    Mossad-CIA cooperation in northern Iraq    Ali Bapir, Secretary General of the Iraqi Kurdistan Islamic Group, reacted against the Missionary activities in Northern Iraq...

>   Christians Fleeing Kirkuk, Iraq - October 22, 2009    With the deteriorating situation and unstable conditions in Kirkuk, Christians are considering fleeing the northern city where they have lived for decades...

>   Election law stalls in Iraqi parliament - October 20, 2009    The Iraqi parliament failed for a second time Monday to vote on an election law crucial for organizing...

>   Stalemate in Parliament Could Delay Iraq Elections - October 21, 2009    The Iraqi Parliament announced Wednesday that it had reached a stalemate over drafting an election law....

>   Impasse over Iraqi election law may slow U.S. withdrawal - October 21, 2009    After three days of long sessions and continuous delays, the Iraqi parliament failed Wednesday to reach agreement on a new...

>   British MPs Call for Investigation of Kurdish Militia in Assyrian Assassinations - October 14, 2009    A motion in the British parliament was put forth today calling for an investigation of the targeted assassinations of Assyrians in Iraq's Kurdish north...

>   kurds face political infighting in kirkuk - October 12, 2009    With parliamentary elections scheduled for January 2010 drawing near, Kurdish parties are preparing to launch the race from Kirkuk province....

>   Kurdish-Arab Conflict Threatens Iraq - October 10, 2009    A report for Defense Secretary Robert Gates has determined that Iraq's stability was being threatened from an Arab-Kurdish war...

>   Kurdish oil drama reaches breaking point - October 7, 2009    Enough was enough this week for DNO, the small Norwegian oil company much-watched as a gauge of whether...

>   Was Rochester Hills woman convicted of selling tech to Saddam Hussein a victim of CIA plot? - October 8, 2009    A jury in March convicted Dawn Hanna for selling telecommunications equipment to Iraq...

>    Muslim group calls for burka ban in Canada - October 7, 2009    A Canadian Muslim group is calling on Ottawa to ban the wearing of the burka in public, saying the argument that the right...

>   Teenage girl 'murdered by father' - October 8, 2009    A girl who disappeared a decade ago was murdered by her father in a so-called "honour killing", a court has heard. ...

>    Joint Patrols and Power-Sharing in Mosul: Unbalanced Proposals from the International Crisis Group - September 5, 2009    In the one corner, a steadily increasing group of Iraqi politicians of all sectarian backgrounds who reject the idea of joint patrols between...

>   Kurdistan rocked by oil revelation - September 5, 2009    Embarrassing claims highlight the Kurdish government's lack of transparency and slow progress in combating corruption...

>   Iraqi Christian prelate seeks government protection after Kirkuk kidnappings - September 5, 2009    The body of a Christian health worker turned up in a field two days after he was kidnapped — prompting several more Christian...

>   Army continues criminal probes into Iraq electrocutions - September 4, 2009    It was near 100 degrees on May 8, 2004, when Spc. Chase Whitham and a few other soldiers decided to cool...

>   Israel interest in Kurds of north of Iraq surfaced - October 1, 2009    Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki on Thursday unveiled his alliance for parliamentary elections in January, billing the ticket as...

>   Maliki unveils new national, nonsectarian Iraqi party - October 1, 2009    Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki on Thursday unveiled his alliance for parliamentary elections in January, billing the ticket as...

>   Iraqi widows yearn for new lives - September 30, 2009    Nearly three decades of war, brutal totalitarianism, invasion, occupation and insurgency in Iraq have left behind at least a...

>   Iraqi journalists fear for safety as U.S. exit nears - September 30, 2009    Muhammad Khalil looks warily to the quickly approaching day when U.S. Strykers rumble...

>   Iraqi oil contract system needs grease - September 28, 2009    Suitors keep knocking on the door of Iraq's oil ministry but the people inside are still...

>    Where does this come from?    Al-Mushahid, a journal published weekly in London gave the title “Where Does This Come From?” to an...

>   Iraq's marshes are dying a second death - September 24, 2009    Vast lakes have shriveled. River beds have run dry. The animals are sick, the birds have flown elsewhere and an ancient way...

>   30,000 families displaced from Iraq's Nineveh since 2003 war: official - September 24, 2009    A total of 30,000 families have been displaced from northern Iraq's Nineveh province since the U.S.-led war in 2003, deputy...

>   Baha Mousa's death was revenge, father tells inquiry - September 23, 2009    Baha Mousa, the Iraqi man who died after being beaten and abused in British military custody in Basra in 2003, was...

>   Iraqi widows defy social taboos to join lonely hearts club - September 21, 2009    Baghdad's sole lonely hearts club bustles with children and shy widows in black burkhas hoping...

>   Kurds are taking over Iraq’s water resources    The Kurdish administration in Northern Iraq has recently taken action to build dams. While the Water Resources...

>   Statement of Pax Christi delegation to Iraq - September 22, 2009    An international Pax Christi delegation visited Iraq last week. They went to Kirkuk, Mosul, Erbil and Dohuk from 10 September...

>   Iraq's Kurds suspend Norwegian oil operations - September 22, 2009    Iraq's self-governing Kurdish region has suspended all of Norwegian company DNO International ASA's oil operations after a...

>   After years of war, Iraqis hit by frenzy of crime - September 21, 2009    The kidnappers holding an Iraqi auto mechanic's 11-year-old son gave him just two days to come up with $100,000 in...

>   Iraq to press for dropping debt at UN meeting - September 22, 2009    Iraq's president said Tuesday he will press his government's case before the United Nations this week to...

>   Iraq’s marshlands in peril again - September 21, 2009    Farmers and fisherman in Iraq’s southern marshlands have had mixed fortunes in the past couple of decades, but livelihood...

>   Iraqi predicts fraud in election - September 18, 2009    A leading Iraqi Sunni legislator said Thursday that parliamentary elections scheduled for January will likely...

>   Biden pushes Iraqi leaders for reconciliation - September 16, 2009    Vice President Joe Biden sought to smooth political differences among Iraq’s fractious political officials on his first full day in...

>   Iraq arrests 3 on antiquities charges - September 19, 2009    Authorities in northern Iraq have arrested three men on charges they were trying to...

>   Largest of America's two prisons in Iraq to shut - September 16, 2009    The largest of America's two prisons in Iraq, Camp Bucca, will close by the weekend as the US military...

>   Iraqi shoe-thrower claims he suffered torture in jail - September 15, 2009    Missing a tooth and draped in an Iraqi flag, Muntazer al-Zaidi used his first hours of freedom since hurling his shoes...

>   British soldiers accused of raping Iraqi man - September 14, 2009    The Royal Military police have launched a criminal investigation into allegations that British soldiers repeatedly...

>   UN seeks close Gaza scrutiny - September 16, 2009    A UN investigation has recommended a process that could land Israel in the International Criminal Court (ICC)...

>   Backstage of the bomb attacks in Iraq    Bomb attacks which took place in various neighborhoods of Kirkuk, Mosul and Baghdad and Babil after the US military forces started...

>   UA to join with Iraqi university on rebuilding agriculture - September 13, 2009    The University of Arizona and a university in northern Iraq are partnering to help rebuild Iraq's agricultural industry...

>   Iranian exiles in Iraq vow to continue hunger strike - September 13, 2009    Iranian exiles in Iraq vowed on Saturday to continue a six-week-old hunger strike until 36 of them arrested during a riot in July are freed...

>   Driven out of farming by a salty waterway - September 3, 2009    High levels of salinity in Iraq's Shat al-Arab waterway, formed by the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates in the southern...

>    Melkert lauds Iraqi voting efforts - - September 11, 2009    Assistance Mission in Iraq congratulated the Iraqi election body for registration of more than 250,000 voters for parliamentary...

>   Iraq cabinet approves draft elections law - September 12, 2009    Iraq's cabinet has approved a draft law paving the way for national elections in January, including a shift to an open...

>    Marines take risks with deadly trust-building game - September 11, 2009    Lance Cpl. Patrick Malone was relaxing on his bunk at an Iraqi combat base when a direct superior interrupted his...

>   Comment on Draft Journalists Protection Law of Iraq    In this Comment, ARTICLE 19 sets out its concerns about the draft “Journalists Protection Law” [sic] (hereinafter the “Draft Law”) that has recently...

>   Kurdish, once banned, to be taught in Turkey - September 9, 2009    Turkey's higher education authority on Thursday approved a proposal to teach Kurdish, which was once banned...

>   Truck bomb kills 20, inflames ethnic tensions in northern Iraq - September 10, 2009    The village grocer and his son were the first to spot the two big trucks struggling early Thursday to cross a narrow...

>    Iraqis turn to private schools amid charges of corruption - September 10, 2009    Iraqi parents who're fed up with corrupt teachers and neglected public schools are sending their kids to a place that...

>   Comment on Draft Journalists Protection Law of Iraq    In this Comment, ARTICLE 19 sets out its concerns about the draft “Journalists Protection Law” [sic] (hereinafter the “Draft Law”) that has recently...

>   Kurdish, once banned, to be taught in Turkey - September 9, 2009    Turkey's higher education authority on Thursday approved a proposal to teach Kurdish, which was once banned...

>   Truck bomb kills 20, inflames ethnic tensions in northern Iraq - September 10, 2009    The village grocer and his son were the first to spot the two big trucks struggling early Thursday to cross a narrow...

>    Iraqis turn to private schools amid charges of corruption - September 10, 2009    Iraqi parents who're fed up with corrupt teachers and neglected public schools are sending their kids to a place that...

>   Arabs and Turkmen ask Iraqi forces to be deployed in Kirkuk - September 8, 2009    Arab and Turkmen leaders have rejected a call to deploy a joint force comprising U.S., Iraqi and Kurdish troops in the northern city of Kirkuk...

>   Ninawah's Arabs, Kurds Start US-Sponsored Negotiations - September 7, 2009    The US Embassy sponsored yesterday the first session of direct negotiations between Al-Hadba bloc that has...

>   Iraqi Turkmen groups agree on joint action - September 7, 2009    Representatives of more than 20 Iraqi Turkmen groups who gathered in Ankara last week released...

>   Stability in Iraqi Kurdistan: Reality or Mirage?    Despite the mixed report card on Iraqi progress, one consistent theme is that Iraqi Kurdistan has been a quiet success story....

>   Arab bloc in Kirkuk threatens to boycott council - September 4, 2009    The Arab bloc at the Kirkuk Provincial Council threatened Thursday to boycott if an Iraqi-peshmarga-U.S. protection force is formed...

>   Iraqi Arabs protest US plan for Kurdish patrols - September 5, 2009    Hundreds of Sunni Arabs opposed to the presence of Kurdish troops in disputed areas of northern Iraq demonstrated...

>   Reporter reflects on Iraq: Fixing what we broke - September 5, 2009    Those are the two conclusions I've reached in my four months in Iraq in the past year. I know they're not...

>   Statement by Ms. Rebiya Kadeer, Uyghur democracy leader    Before we begin, I would like to thank the organizers. I would also like to thank everyone...

>   Christian Soldiers - September 4, 2009    In a country thoroughly shattered, there is a particular hopelessness here in the Christian towns...

>   Iraq PM asks for U.N. inquiry into Baghdad bombings - September 3, 2009    Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has formally asked the U.N. Security Council to launch an inquiry into a...

>   Maliki says Syrian secret services met Iraqi extremists - September 3, 2009    Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Thursday accused Syrian secret services of having hosted a meeting attended...

>   Iraqi deputy minister arrested in corruption sting - September 3, 2009    Iraqi police arrested the deputy transport minister after he was allegedly filmed taking a bribe in a sting operation,...

>   Drought Withers Iraqi Farms, Food Supplies - September 3, 2009    Iraq has one of the largest oil reserves in the world, but it's running out of another valuable commodity: water...

>   In Bank Killings, Highs and Lows of Iraq Justice - September 2, 2009    The gang of robbers did not have to worry about the police because, in that neighborhood, they were the police, many...

>   Iraq delays divisive census until Oct 2010 - August 31, 2009    Iraq has delayed by a year a plan to hold its first nationwide census in two decades, the government spokesman said on...

>   Iraqi planes found in Serbia, but in pieces - August 31, 2009    The Iraqi Defense ministry says it discovered during a search of its files that the 19 planes — Soviet-built MiG-21s and MiG-23s...

>   US military: Number of Iraqi detainees below 9,000 - August 30, 2009    The U.S. military says the number of Iraqi detainees has dropped below 9,000 from a high of 27,000 in 2007...

>   IRAQ: Drought hits rice, wheat staples - August 31, 2009    Jabir Mohan Abdullah used to hire hundreds of workers during the rice harvest season. This year, however, with more than...

>   Amid Shifting Iraqi Politics, Maliki Takes A Gamble - August 29, 2009    In Iraq this past week, a major religious and political leader died, and the prime minister took a gamble with his political life...

>   Kurds divide but hope to unite in Baghdad - August 29, 2009    Kurdish ruling parties are keeping open the possibility of forming a large alliance including...

>   Gen. Casey ‘Unsure’ If Rising Iraq Violence Will Imperil Pullout Plan - August 28, 2009    The massive death toll in some recent high profile bombings in Iraq has long been dismissed by US commanders...

>   Red Cross to Get Data on Prisoners Held in Secret at US Camps - August 23, 2009    Dozens of suspected foreign fighters captured in Iraq and Afghanistan are being held at so-called...

>   Corruption undermines Iraqi security - August 28, 2009    There was the businessman who says he bribes police checkpoints to get his trucks through without a time-consuming...

>   Protecting journalists in Iraq - August 28, 2009    A new draft law pays lip service to addressing the precarious position of media workers. But it may actually make things worse...

>   Conflicts over water set to increase - August 28, 2009    The UK shares some responsibility for the "natural" and man-made factors behind the drought in southern Iraq...

>   Maliki makes a bold move - August 26, 2009    The Iraqi leader has left the Shia bloc in parliament – and may be about to lead the nation's first credible and truly national coalition...

>   Iraqi PM steps up pressure on Syria over militants - August 26, 2009    Iraq's prime minister on Wednesday stepped up pressure on Syria to hand over two suspects wanted in recent suicide attacks...

>   Red Cross to Get Data on Prisoners Held in Secret at U.S. Camps - August 23, 2009    The U.S. military has agreed for the first time to provide information to the International Committee of the Red...

>   Analysis: Iraq's Shiite power base shifts - August 20, 2009    Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim held together Iraq's biggest Shiite political party as the ultimate middleman:...

>   Northern Iraq seen as next front in war    American officials, regional leaders and residents are increasingly worried that this northern oil-rich city could develop into...

>    The Iraqi Kurdish Question    but Yaphe says a campaign of intimidation—or what she calls ethnic cleansing, at the hands of the Kurds—has preceded these relocation efforts. “You can be shot or you can go,” she says. An estimated 350,000 Kurds have transplanted...

>   Radioactive wreckage, landmines blight Iraq - August 24, 2009    RADIOACTIVE wreckage and tens of millions of landmines still blight Iraq after decades of war and the deadly violence that...

>   Shiite groups form new alliance excluding Iraqi PM - August 24, 2009    The Iranian-backed Shiite parties that helped propel Iraq's prime minister into power three years ago dumped him Monday...

>   'Even when we do talk, we often lie' - August 23, 2009    We overestimate words," says Sadie Jones. As a screenwriter turned novelist, an Orange Prize nominee whose debut was a bestseller...

>   Can Iraqis move past sectarian divides? - August 23, 2009    Amid rising levels of violence and political uncertainty, is it realistic for US President Barack Obama to go ahead with his planned withdrawal from Iraq?...

>   Baghdad bombings possible inside job - August 22, 2009    Iraq's foreign minister said Saturday that those who carried out bombings that targeted government buildings in the Iraqi...

>   Outbursts disrupt Baghdad bank robbery trial - August 23, 2009    Five members of Iraq's security forces charged in a deadly bank robbery went on trial Sunday, as relatives of those killed in the...

>   Iraqi suspect: It cost $10,000 to pass checkpoints - August 23, 2009    Attackers paid $10,000 to get a bomb-laden truck past checkpoints and next to the Iraqi Finance Ministry...

>   Death of private in Iraq led to cruelty probe - August 23, 2009    The investigation into the death of a soldier in Iraq revealed cruelty and maltreatment by other soldiers...

>   Iraqis begin restoring concrete walls in Baghdad - August 22, 2009    Workers used giant cranes to raise concrete walls around the blast-scarred Foreign...

>   The reality behind the TV images: Meeting Iraqi family in Baghdad for first time - August 22, 2009    The last time my aunt saw me, I was 6 and sitting on a bed, curiously watching her change her son's diaper...

>   CIA Hired Firm for Assassin Program - August 20, 2009    A secret CIA program to kill top al-Qaeda leaders with assassination teams was outsourced in 2004...

>   Iraqi bishops express concern for people after blasts target Baghdad - August 20, 2009    Two Catholic bishops in Baghdad, Iraq, expressed shock and concern for their people following a series of targeted blasts that...

>    Iraqi PM blames Sunni insurgents for Baghdad bombs - August 19, 2009    Iraq's prime minister has blamed Sunni insurgents for a wave of deadly bombings in Baghdad and says the Iraqi government...

>   Baghdad's sole traffic lights: struggle for normality - August 17, 2009    Hemmed in by blast walls, bunkers and concertina wire, the Iraqi capital's only fully functioning traffic lights stand as lonely sentinels for order in...

>    Remote control aid - August 18, 2009    “Like a thief, I work in the dark," said GS, a humanitarian aid coordinator for a foreign NGO which is assisting orphans. "I live in fear for offering help - what an irony.” ...

>    Iraq's proposed assault on NGOs - August 18, 2009    A new law is taking shape in Iraq aimed at regulating non-governmental organisations (NGOs)....

>    Threats to judges leave Iraqi legal system fragile and flawed - August 11, 2009    Anyone arrested in Iraq on suspicion of murder must either be brought before a judge within 15 days, or the police can ask to hold him or her for another 15 days...

>    Ninewa local official wounded in IED blast - August 16, 2009    The representative of the ethnic Iraqi Shabaks in the Ninewa local council survived an assassination attempt with an...

>    U.S. military proposes tripartite forces for N.Iraq - August 17, 2009    The U.S. military commander in Iraq said on Monday he had proposed setting up security teams formed of Iraqi, Kurdish and U.S....

>    More Troops Are Sought for Iraq’s Restive North - August 17, 2009    The commanding general of American forces in Iraq said Monday that he had proposed putting United States...

>    Iraq delays first census in two decades - August 17, 2009    Iraq will delay indefinitely its first census in two decades because of political wrangling over disputed areas...

>   Iraq: Politics, Elections, and Benchmarks - June 2, 2009    Iraq’s political system, the result of a U.S.-supported election process, is increasingly characterized by peaceful...

>    Arab, Kurdish leaders trade barbs over Iraq unrest - August 17, 2009    Arab and Kurdish politicians in northern Iraq traded accusations of responsibility on Sunday over a series of bloody...

>    Kurdish Government in Iraq to Eliminate Ministries Run By Opposition Parties - August 16, 2009    The ruling Kurdish parties in north Iraq, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK),...

>    Qaeda stronger as blasts feed Iraqi Kurd-Arab feud - August 16, 2009    A series of huge bombings in northern Iraq have triggered fiery accusations of blame between Arabs and Kurds,...

>    Iraq abandons nationwide census - August 17, 2009    The population count in October would have settled arguments over the relative size of Iraq's religious and ethnic communities...

>    Minorities Trapped in Northern Iraq’s Maelstrom - August 15, 2009    Kamal Ahmed woke up before the crack of dawn and went to the village mosque where he serves as the muezzin...

>    Pentagon ‘very nervous’ about Arab-Kurdish feud - August 12, 2009    The Pentagon said on Tuesday it was "very nervous" about ethnic tensions in Iraq between Arabs and Kurds despite initial talks between their leaders, and a top U.S...

>    Mercenaries and murder in Iraq - August14, 2009    It would be nice to celebrate the recent withdrawal of the remaining British troops from Iraq as the end of the UK's direct...

>   The Goran list cracked the government’s monopoly in northern!... - August 15, 2009    According to the official results announced by the Iraqi Independent Supreme Election Commission regarding the Kurdish...

>    Iraqi Journalists Protesting in Baghdad Say the Government Is Trying to Censor Them - August 14, 2009    Nearly 100 Iraqi journalists, news media workers and their supporters protested in Baghdad on Friday against what they said was a growing push by the...

>    Double Suicide Bombing Kills at Least 21 in Northern Iraq - August 14, 2009    Two suicide bombers killed at least 21 people in a cafe in northern Iraq on Thursday, Iraqi officials said, in...

>    Kurds turn up the heat on Baghdad - August 7, 2009    Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's recent visit to Iraqi Kurdistan was aimed to test the waters on how loudly and...

>    U.S. Presses Iraqi Kurds to Compromise on Issue of Autonomy - August 7, 2009    The Bush administration, increasingly fearful of Iraq's breaking up along ethnic lines after the American occupation ends, is urging...

>    Car bomb kills 5 in disputed Iraqi city - August 6, 2009    A car bomb tore through a crowded market in a Kurdish area in the disputed city of...

>    Iraqi Shiite-Sunni couples who wed get $2,000 - August 5, 2009    Muhanad Talib, a Sunni Muslim, married his Shiite bride because she was a...

>   Press TV's claim of irregularity in the elections - August 5, 2009    It was stated that the Iraqi Kurdish Regional Administration President Massoud Barzani’s KDP, which...

>    Alleged killer and rapist of Iraqi journalist 'confesses' - August 4, 2009    A member of an Iraqi militant group behind the first major attack after the US-led invasion of 2003 admitted...

>    A McClatchy reporter reflects on what war brought to Iraq - August 4, 2009    I picked up a daily habit in Iraq. Every morning, before I left the office, I'd savor that moment — the moment before....

>   Iraq Censorship Laws Move Ahead - August 3, 2009    The doors of the communications revolution were thrown open in Iraq after the American-led invasion in 2003...

>   Iraqi Group Renounces Violence - August 3, 2009 August 3, 2009    An extremist Shiite group that has boasted of killing five American soldiers and of kidnapping five British contractors has...

>   Can football save Iraq? - 2 August 2009    The success of Iraq's footballers in transcending ethnic-sectarian identity provides an example the government could follow...

>   Iraqi officer 'behind bank heist' - 1 August 2009    Tuesday's robbery, in which eight people were killed and millions of dollars stolen, was among the...

>   Challenges remain after Iraqi Kurdish vote - 31 July 2009    The elections in Iraqi Kurdistan have carried politics in the autonomous region into a new phase where the primacy ...

>   Troops accused of damaging Iraqi treasure - July 31, 2009    The U.S. military did major damage to the site of one of the wonders of the ancient world while turning it into...

>   Turkey's TPAO Invited To Nov Iraqi Oil Auction - Turkish Min - July 31, 2009    Iraq has said the state-run Turkish Petroleum Corporation, or TPAO, can take part in a second auction in November to...

>   Iraq in throes of environmental catastrophe, experts say - July 30, 2009    Now-frequent dust storms are just one sign of the man-made damage that has taken the country from Middle East breadbasket...

>   How Iraq inquiry will work: 'Oral witness testimony is crucial' - 30 July 2009    Sir John Chilcot said it would definitely take more than a year and "late 2010" was the earliest possible conclusion...

>   Many dead as Iraqi forces storm Iranian exiles' camp - 31 July 2009    Iraqi security forces have largely gained control of an Iranian exiles' camp in Iraq after fighting which left as many as...

>   The Kurds' Way    The results of the elections that just took place last weekend in Iraqi Kurdistan could affect the stability of Iraq and, indeed,...

>   Arab-Kurd impasse is US's biggest worry in Iraq    US Defence Secretary Robert Gates hailed improved security in Iraq yesterday in a visit that will touch on possible arms...

>   Kurdish Opposition Party Issues Statement on Election Rigging, Attacks on Offices foul    It was with great anticipation the people of Kurdistan awaited the day of 25/07/2009 so that they could vote in a free and fair...

>   Conflict looms in Kurdistan    Overshadowed by the war in Afghanistan, a new cauldron of potential violence is threatening to destabilise Barack Obama's...

>   Opposition in Iraqi Kurd elections cries foul    An opposition party on Sunday claimed there had been violations in the presidential and parliamenary elections in Iraq's.....

>   Worries About A Kurdish-Arab Conflict Move To Fore in Iraq    Louis Khno is a city councilman whose city is beyond his control. In his barricaded streets are militiamen -- in baseball caps...

>   Sorts of Democracy in Iraq    The report written within April 2009 by Michael Rubin, expert on the Middle East in the American Enterprise Institute and...

>   Election bribe from the KDP and PUK!    The bribery campaigns initiated by the KDP and PUK for the parliamentary and regional presidential ..

>   Reaction against Medal of Honor to Senior Peshmerga    Medal of Honor awarded to PUK’s senior peshmerga and the fact that they receive an extra 150 thousand Iraqi Dinar....

>    Turk-Kurd Blowup Imminent - July, 2005    he embattled Turkish Kurds had been waiting for a long time, and were crushed when their nationalism became violent in the 1930s...

>    Kurdish Official Denies Assyrian, Turkomen Land ClaimsFred Aprim - July, 2005    On October 22, 2007, al-Malaf Press posted an interview with Mulla Bakhtiyar, In Charge of Foreign Relations...

>    Shia Police Kill at Least 33 in Retaliation for Bombings    Shia police rampaged through a Sunni district in the north-western city of Tal Afar killing at least 33 people...