Iraq

Counting for the Iraq elections may be more exciting than expected. In the present case only 20,000 votes Prime Minister Al-Maliki and the secular Allawi. Iraq’s former prime minister Iyad Allawi, who heads a bipartisan secular coalition, has greater support than the Shi’ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, according to the latest figures from the Iraqi [...]

22 years ago today, the former Iraqi regime ordered its air force to bombard the Kurdish town of Halabja with chemical weapons, instantly poisoning to death 5000 men, women and children. I went to Halabja for the first time in the spring of 2006 to pay my respects to the dead. I [...]

Today marks the 22nd anniversary of the Halabja poison gas attack which was carried out as part of the Al-Anfal genocide campaign to terrorize the Kurdish population and peshmerga rebels in northern Iraq. The attack, which was executed by airplanes on March 16th and 17th in a heavily populated area, away from the area of [...]

On March 16th, supporters of Kurdish and human rights will come together to commemorate the anniversary of the Halabja poison gas attack, which was carried out by Iraqi forces against Kurdish civilians in the Iraqi town of Halabja in March 16-17, 1988. This act of genocide ended the lives of up to 15,000 innocent men, [...]

Sunday’s election for a new National Assembly has been a bloody start. At least 24 people have died in various attacks. Several rockets, grenades and bombs hit Baghdad as early as the morning hours on election day. The death toll is rising steadily.
Most attacks were directed against Baghdad, but there have been reports of violence [...]

Many Iraqi people today who had been living in European countries since they war in Iraq and went to vote in the Iraqi elections of 2010 where face with the fact they can not vote ,as the employs of the Iraqi election commission explain to them that they had no enough papers to prove they [...]

Since the morning and polling operations started for displaced Iraqis located outside of Iraq, after the first phase of the elections ended Thursday, Which included the employees of the security services, army and police, prisoners, the sick and continue for three days.
The early voting for [...]

As a rule, Iraq’s post-Saddam elections have tended to magnify pre-existing negative trends. The parliamentary polls to be held on 7 March are no exception. The focus on electoral politics is good, no doubt, but the run-up has highlighted deep-seated problems that threaten the fragile recovery: recurring election-related violence; ethnic tensions over Kirkuk; the re-emergence [...]

Salahadin, Erbil – Reports from Mosul indicate that hundreds of Christian families are fleeing the city after a series of terrorist attacks directed at them. The local government of Mosul has never, not even once, not even for a little bit failed to disappoint their constituents.
One of my earliest memories of interacting with [...]

The fear is increasing ahead of elections in Iraq next month which could result in political vacuum and chaos, as many analysts fear. A major Sunni group boycotted the election last week, to return after few days to enter again after preventing their candidates from running.
Five years have passed since Iraqis last time Iraq [...]