Iranian state al-Alam television confirmed on Saturday the arrest of three American tourists, saying their case will take its natural course. Shane Bauer and Sarah Shourd of California, and Joshua Fattal of...
A DC-based Baluch group, supported by Americans and oppressed nationalities from Iran and Pakistan, has urged the International Atomic Energy Association and the United Nations to take steps to denuclearize...
Visit May Signal Historic Shift In U.S. Middle East Policy
In spite of efforts to turn the clock and transform Turkey back to a an Islamic country that the West can live with, the fact...
opinion by steffanileman | 30 wks ago | updated 30 wks ago 268 views | 0 recommendations | 4 comments
My grandfather’s name is Jamal Fuad, but had he never left the Kurdish Babani Tribes of Northern Iraq, he would be known as Jamal Abdul Karim Mohammed Qadir Gafur, in the traditional way Kurdish men string...
opinion by Tracy Fuad | 31 wks ago | updated 29 wks ago 274 views | 4 recommendations | 2 comments
" The Turkish armed forces have killed nearly 700 members of the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) last year, military spokesman said on Friday. Military spokesman Brig. Gen. Metin Gurak told a weekly press briefing that 696 PKK members have...
" rySheelan's CircumcisionA seven-year-old girl is taken by her mother to be circumcised in Kurdish Iraq, where more than 60 percent of women have undergone the traditional and controversial procedure.»Sheelan...
Trying to resolve this could be a big test for Iraq. If it is done ina peaceful way that could leadto a more united Iraq. Dividingthe city could be an option. " Iraqi leaders and the United Nations are...
This is becoming routine. Itwill be interesting to see ifthere is as much of an uproarin the Arab world about this as there was about Israeli strikesin Gaza, for the same reasons. " Turkish warplanes bombed...
The Turkish military is claiming it has killed 35 Kuridish rebels in an attack on Friday. The rebels were allegedly trying to infiltrate Turkey from a base in Northern Iraq."Turkey's military intercepted...
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Five people are dead after a militant group ambushed Police officers in Turkey. 19 others were injured, some seriously. Four of the killed were police officers and one was an employee of a local precinct. Turkey's parliament extended their mandate to order strikes against...
In his latest book The War Within: A Secret White House History, 2006-2008, seasoned journalist Robert Woodward revealed the US has been spying on Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki. Such revelations...
Gunmen ambushed Shiite pilgrims in the a Sunni town south of Baghdad Monday. The pilgrims were marching to a major shrine there for a religious holiday.The area is a former stronghold of Al Qaeda in Iraq and was touted as one of the success stories of the US military surge,...
created by Dave Keating | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 203 views | 7 recommendations | 2 comments
On March 16, 1988 the largest scale chemical weapons attack against a civilian population in modern times occured in a town called Halabja, which is located about 150 miles northeast of Baghdad, and between 8...
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London (ANTARA News/AFP) - Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari warned Saturday that Turkey`s ground offensive in northern Iraq should end quickly before it destabilises the region, in an interview with the BBC.Zebari, quoted by the BBC website, said that Iraq did not...
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As this photo of a Typical Kurdish Family, certainly attests to Kurdish Bloodlust, you know they're just asking for a can of Turkish Whup Ass! These Kurds, so smug and smarmy living...