Iraq

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• Iraq: Kurdish Leader Barzani May Step Down
  27 October 2017, by siawi3

  Longtime Iraqi Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani has been president of the northern autonomous region since 2005 and has seen his family-dominated Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) only grow in influence since. Last month, he led a controversial vote that, at least nominally, achieved the long-sought independence for Iraqi Kurds. This week, however, he’s offered to freeze the historic referendum’s results and reports indicate he may announce he’s stepping down at any moment.

• Iraqi PM presses case for Baghdad to receive Kurdistan oil revenue
  30 September 2017, by siawi3

  Seeking to control the oil income from the autonomous Kurdish region is central to Abadi’s strategy after the Kurdish referendum on independence held on Monday.

• Why Mosul?
  26 October 2016, by siawi3

  For more than two years it has been the ISIS stronghold in Iraq and is now at the center of a global coalition to evict the militants from what is Iraq’s second-largest city. Economic analysts estimate the city’s natural resources to be abundant, rich in sulfur, cement factories, oil, gas and wheat. Even those who oppose each other are fighting together to liberate Mosul. Turkey and Iran and Peshmerga, aided by the US, are fighting in this war to crush ISIS. However, each party has its own aims.

• 15 Years After the Iraq Invasion, What Are the Costs?
  24 March 2018, by siawi3

  Are these astounding costs worth it? Is the U.S. accomplishing anything close to its goal of diminishing the global terrorist threat? The answer is, resoundingly, no. The war continues to spread, no longer limited to Afghanistan, Iraq, or Syria, as many Americans think. Indeed, the U.S. military is escalating a shadowy network of anti-terror operations all across the world — in at least 76 nations, or 40 percent of countries on the planet.

• Iran Sent Arms to Iraq to Fight ISIS, U.S. Says
  17 March 2015, by siawi3

  Iran has deployed advanced rockets and missiles to Iraq to help fight the Islamic State in Tikrit, a significant escalation of firepower and another sign of Iran’s growing influence in Iraq.

• Iraq: Growing fundamentalism, backlash on women
  29 November 2010, by siawi2
  ‘… the “new, fundamentalist thinking”, which emerged after the 2003 invasion of Iraq that has been aggressively imposed by the militias, armed private groups purporting to uphold religious law….’  (...)" class='spip_url spip_out auto' rel='nofollow external'>http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=91218  (...)
• Les forces kurdes en Irak : d’un rôle sécuritaire au combat anti-jihadiste
  21 août 2014, par siawi3

  Devant la menace des jihadistes de prendre plus de territoires et la crise humanitaire provoquée par leur progression, les Occidentaux ont cherché à renforcer les forces kurdes ; plusieurs pays occidentaux ont livré des armes et les Etats-Unis ont aussi mené des frappes aériennes.

• Irak : les Etats-Unis frappent l’EI après la décapitation d’un Américain
  21 août 2014, par siawi3

  La décapitation d’un journaliste américain par les jihadistes de l’Etat islamique (EI) a suscité mercredi l’indignation de la communauté internationale, les Etats-Unis procédant à de nouvelles frappes en Irak et d’autres pays promettant de soutenir la lutte contre ces extrémistes en Syrie et en Irak. L’EL a menacé de tuer également le journaliste américain Steven Sotloff, en représailles aux frappes aériennes américaines en Irak depuis une dizaine de jours.

• Iraq : Menaces sur les féministes anti intégristes
  28 août 2014, par siawi3

  Alors qu’à Mossoul, les milices fanatiques de l’Etat Islamique sèment la
  terreur, à Bagdad on assiste au renforcement de milices réactionnaires
  chiites. Soupçonnée d’avoir commis le massacre de 31 personnes dans le
  quartier de Zayouna, la milice Asaib Ahl al Haq menace désormais
  directement nos camarades de l’Organisation pour la Liberté des Femmes
  en Irak (OLFI).

• Iraq: Information Scarce, Warnings Mount as US Expands War
  24 August 2014, by siawi3

  The crisis in today’s Iraq is not a result of a natural disaster — it is a direct consequence of earlier U.S. military interventions. Much of the destruction in Iraq’s infrastructure, state legitimacy and national identity was either caused directly by the United States or happened under its watch. The United States also played a lead role in installing the current ethno-sectarian political system that continues to be one of the most corrupt and dysfunctional in the world.

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