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[Iraq Updates]

A documentary about the life of displaced Christian Iraqis after the 2003 invasion has been shot in Ninewa province, the Lebanese director of the film said on Thursday.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43994/refid/RSS-kurdistan-24-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Kurds suspiciously gaze at new army belt in between Kirkuk and Kurdistan provinces The Iraqi army's 12th division intends for deployments around Kirkuk, creating a military belt and tightening contact with the Kurdistan provinces of Suleimaniya...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43951/refid/RSS-kurdistan-24-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Kurdistan President and Mosul tribal leaders agree to establish a closer partnership in the name of security.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43950/refid/RSS-kurdistan-24-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Visitors to Kurdistan and readers of independent media inside and outside Kurdistan observe a new phenomenon: increasing calls for reform to fix the political and governing system in Kurdistan. Within each political party, the younger leaders are pushing...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43946/refid/RSS-kurdistan-24-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Iraq's Kurdish regional president, Massud Barzani, insisted on Monday that he was committed to Iraqi unity but warned against viewing his people as the enemy.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43826/refid/RSS-kurdistan-24-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

President of Iraq’s Kurdistan region Massoud al-Barzani said that Kurds have no aspirations in Mosul city, adding that they seek peaceful coexistence in the multi-ethnic city.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43756/refid/RSS-kurdistan-24-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

The head of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region spoke out on Monday against tribal councils backed by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, a sign of worsening tensions between the Kurds and the central government.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43698/refid/RSS-kurdistan-24-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Seven suspected Kurdish rebels arrested in the Mediterranean city of Marseille last week have been charged in France with terrorism financing, a judicial official said.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43688/refid/RSS-kurdistan-24-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

A recently installed command team faces many military, civil and economic challenges in trying to further stabilize and provide security for upcoming elections in the ethnically mixed northern half of Iraq.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43680/refid/RSS-kurdistan-24-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Old argument about Kurdistan and Shiite crescent raised by writer Sami Shorsh. The evidence we found tells a different story.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43678/refid/RSS-kurdistan-24-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

MP from the Iraqi National List (INL) Osama al-Nujaifi on Monday called on the government to provide neutral forces to protect Mosul and its districts during the elections because of what he described as the “terrorism of Kurdish militias.”

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43665/refid/RSS-kurdistan-24-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

An estimated 858 local observers from civil society organizations and 177 political bloc agents will monitor the provincial council elections in Duhuk province, due to take place later this month across the country.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43660/refid/RSS-kurdistan-24-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Abd al-Latif, the chief protagonist of the campaign to transform Basra into a standalone federal region, has told Iraqi radio that his project has failed. While Abd al-Latif did not know the exact numbers of signatures collected since the legally fixed...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43624/refid/RSS-kurdistan-24-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

The ancient town of Sinjar may be on Mosul’s doorstep, but the road connection to Iraq’s third-largest city is so treacherous that it has to get its supplies from Dohuk in Iraqi Kurdistan, more than four hours’ drive away.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43269/refid/RSS-kurdistan-24-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

In Sunday's paper, The Times interviewed Kurdistan region's President Massoud Barzani about the growing rift between the Kurds and Prime Minister Nouri Maliki. Below is a transcript of most of the interview.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43256/refid/RSS-kurdistan-24-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

The president of Iraq's Kurdish region charged Saturday that Prime Minister Nouri Maliki was drifting toward authoritarian rule, in the latest sign of the dangerous rift that has emerged between the Iraqi leader and his partners in the country's ruling...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43255/refid/RSS-kurdistan-24-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

I recently managed to finish one of the books on my reading schedule, ‘The Secret History of the Iraq War’ written by Yossef Bodansky, the New York Times number one bestselling author, and published by Regan Books. I was surprised by the importance...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43139/refid/RSS-kurdistan-24-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Masrour Barzani, the Director of the Kurdistan Intelligence (Parastin) and one of the key figures participating in the negotiations that led to the establishment of Iraq's constitution, told his hosts in the US Defense Department that Kurds defy any...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43067/refid/RSS-kurdistan-24-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Iraqi police say gunmen have killed a member of President Jalal Talabani's political party in a drive-by shooting in the northern city of Kirkuk.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/42942/refid/RSS-kurdistan-24-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Turkish warplanes and Iranian artillery bombarded Kurdish rebel hideouts in northern Iraq on Monday, a Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) spokesman said.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/42886/refid/RSS-kurdistan-24-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

A documentary about the life of displaced Christian Iraqis after the 2003 invasion has been shot in Ninewa province, the Lebanese director of the film said on Thursday.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43994/refid/RSS-kurdistan-25-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Kurds suspiciously gaze at new army belt in between Kirkuk and Kurdistan provincesThe Iraqi army's 12th division intends for deployments around Kirkuk, creating a military belt and tightening contact with the Kurdistan provinces of Suleimaniya...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43951/refid/RSS-kurdistan-25-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Kurdistan President and Mosul tribal leaders agree to establish a closer partnership in the name of security.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43950/refid/RSS-kurdistan-25-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Visitors to Kurdistan and readers of independent media inside and outside Kurdistan observe a new phenomenon: increasing calls for reform to fix the political and governing system in Kurdistan. Within each political party, the younger leaders are pushing...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43946/refid/RSS-kurdistan-25-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Iraq's Kurdish regional president, Massud Barzani, insisted on Monday that he was committed to Iraqi unity but warned against viewing his people as the enemy.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43826/refid/RSS-kurdistan-25-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

President of Iraq’s Kurdistan region Massoud al-Barzani said that Kurds have no aspirations in Mosul city, adding that they seek peaceful coexistence in the multi-ethnic city.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43756/refid/RSS-kurdistan-25-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

The head of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region spoke out on Monday against tribal councils backed by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, a sign of worsening tensions between the Kurds and the central government.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43698/refid/RSS-kurdistan-25-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Seven suspected Kurdish rebels arrested in the Mediterranean city of Marseille last week have been charged in France with terrorism financing, a judicial official said.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43688/refid/RSS-kurdistan-25-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

A recently installed command team faces many military, civil and economic challenges in trying to further stabilize and provide security for upcoming elections in the ethnically mixed northern half of Iraq.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43680/refid/RSS-kurdistan-25-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Old argument about Kurdistan and Shiite crescent raised by writer Sami Shorsh. The evidence we found tells a different story.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43678/refid/RSS-kurdistan-25-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

MP from the Iraqi National List (INL) Osama al-Nujaifi on Monday called on the government to provide neutral forces to protect Mosul and its districts during the elections because of what he described as the “terrorism of Kurdish militias.”

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43665/refid/RSS-kurdistan-25-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

An estimated 858 local observers from civil society organizations and 177 political bloc agents will monitor the provincial council elections in Duhuk province, due to take place later this month across the country.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43660/refid/RSS-kurdistan-25-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Abd al-Latif, the chief protagonist of the campaign to transform Basra into a standalone federal region, has told Iraqi radio that his project has failed. While Abd al-Latif did not know the exact numbers of signatures collected since the legally fixed...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43624/refid/RSS-kurdistan-25-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

The ancient town of Sinjar may be on Mosul’s doorstep, but the road connection to Iraq’s third-largest city is so treacherous that it has to get its supplies from Dohuk in Iraqi Kurdistan, more than four hours’ drive away.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43269/refid/RSS-kurdistan-25-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

In Sunday's paper, The Times interviewed Kurdistan region's President Massoud Barzani about the growing rift between the Kurds and Prime Minister Nouri Maliki. Below is a transcript of most of the interview.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43256/refid/RSS-kurdistan-25-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

The president of Iraq's Kurdish region charged Saturday that Prime Minister Nouri Maliki was drifting toward authoritarian rule, in the latest sign of the dangerous rift that has emerged between the Iraqi leader and his partners in the country's ruling...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43255/refid/RSS-kurdistan-25-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

I recently managed to finish one of the books on my reading schedule, ‘The Secret History of the Iraq War’ written by Yossef Bodansky, the New York Times number one bestselling author, and published by Regan Books. I was surprised by the importance...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43139/refid/RSS-kurdistan-25-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Masrour Barzani, the Director of the Kurdistan Intelligence (Parastin) and one of the key figures participating in the negotiations that led to the establishment of Iraq's constitution, told his hosts in the US Defense Department that Kurds defy any...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43067/refid/RSS-kurdistan-25-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Iraqi police say gunmen have killed a member of President Jalal Talabani's political party in a drive-by shooting in the northern city of Kirkuk.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/42942/refid/RSS-kurdistan-25-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Turkish warplanes and Iranian artillery bombarded Kurdish rebel hideouts in northern Iraq on Monday, a Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) spokesman said.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/42886/refid/RSS-kurdistan-25-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

A documentary about the life of displaced Christian Iraqis after the 2003 invasion has been shot in Ninewa province, the Lebanese director of the film said on Thursday.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43994/refid/RSS-kurdistan-26-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Kurds suspiciously gaze at new army belt in between Kirkuk and Kurdistan provincesThe Iraqi army's 12th division intends for deployments around Kirkuk, creating a military belt and tightening contact with the Kurdistan provinces of Suleimaniya...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43951/refid/RSS-kurdistan-26-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Kurdistan President and Mosul tribal leaders agree to establish a closer partnership in the name of security.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43950/refid/RSS-kurdistan-26-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Visitors to Kurdistan and readers of independent media inside and outside Kurdistan observe a new phenomenon: increasing calls for reform to fix the political and governing system in Kurdistan. Within each political party, the younger leaders are pushing...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43946/refid/RSS-kurdistan-26-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Iraq's Kurdish regional president, Massud Barzani, insisted on Monday that he was committed to Iraqi unity but warned against viewing his people as the enemy.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43826/refid/RSS-kurdistan-26-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

President of Iraq’s Kurdistan region Massoud al-Barzani said that Kurds have no aspirations in Mosul city, adding that they seek peaceful coexistence in the multi-ethnic city.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43756/refid/RSS-kurdistan-26-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

The head of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region spoke out on Monday against tribal councils backed by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, a sign of worsening tensions between the Kurds and the central government.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43698/refid/RSS-kurdistan-26-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Seven suspected Kurdish rebels arrested in the Mediterranean city of Marseille last week have been charged in France with terrorism financing, a judicial official said.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43688/refid/RSS-kurdistan-26-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

A recently installed command team faces many military, civil and economic challenges in trying to further stabilize and provide security for upcoming elections in the ethnically mixed northern half of Iraq.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43680/refid/RSS-kurdistan-26-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Old argument about Kurdistan and Shiite crescent raised by writer Sami Shorsh. The evidence we found tells a different story.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43678/refid/RSS-kurdistan-26-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

MP from the Iraqi National List (INL) Osama al-Nujaifi on Monday called on the government to provide neutral forces to protect Mosul and its districts during the elections because of what he described as the “terrorism of Kurdish militias.”

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43665/refid/RSS-kurdistan-26-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

An estimated 858 local observers from civil society organizations and 177 political bloc agents will monitor the provincial council elections in Duhuk province, due to take place later this month across the country.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43660/refid/RSS-kurdistan-26-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Abd al-Latif, the chief protagonist of the campaign to transform Basra into a standalone federal region, has told Iraqi radio that his project has failed. While Abd al-Latif did not know the exact numbers of signatures collected since the legally fixed...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43624/refid/RSS-kurdistan-26-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

The ancient town of Sinjar may be on Mosul’s doorstep, but the road connection to Iraq’s third-largest city is so treacherous that it has to get its supplies from Dohuk in Iraqi Kurdistan, more than four hours’ drive away.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43269/refid/RSS-kurdistan-26-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

In Sunday's paper, The Times interviewed Kurdistan region's President Massoud Barzani about the growing rift between the Kurds and Prime Minister Nouri Maliki. Below is a transcript of most of the interview.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43256/refid/RSS-kurdistan-26-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

The president of Iraq's Kurdish region charged Saturday that Prime Minister Nouri Maliki was drifting toward authoritarian rule, in the latest sign of the dangerous rift that has emerged between the Iraqi leader and his partners in the country's ruling...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43255/refid/RSS-kurdistan-26-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

I recently managed to finish one of the books on my reading schedule, ‘The Secret History of the Iraq War’ written by Yossef Bodansky, the New York Times number one bestselling author, and published by Regan Books. I was surprised by the importance...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43139/refid/RSS-kurdistan-26-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Masrour Barzani, the Director of the Kurdistan Intelligence (Parastin) and one of the key figures participating in the negotiations that led to the establishment of Iraq's constitution, told his hosts in the US Defense Department that Kurds defy any...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43067/refid/RSS-kurdistan-26-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Iraqi police say gunmen have killed a member of President Jalal Talabani's political party in a drive-by shooting in the northern city of Kirkuk.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/42942/refid/RSS-kurdistan-26-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Turkish warplanes and Iranian artillery bombarded Kurdish rebel hideouts in northern Iraq on Monday, a Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) spokesman said.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/42886/refid/RSS-kurdistan-26-01-2009)

[INRI]

Congragulations on 60 consecutive posts...

Record......

Thanks for the info, much appreciated.

[orfannkyl]

let's hope the kurds make it

[Iraq Updates]

Iraqi Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barazani accused some “parties” of seeking to impose dictatorship on Iraq by controlling the army and police and hindering an article in the constitution that regulates solutions to disputed areas.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44085/refid/RSS-kurdistan-26-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

A Yazidi parliamentarian has accused Kurds of “illegitimate campaigning,” a charge denied by a Kurdish lawmaker who threatened to file lawsuits against those who make such “groundless” accusations.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44076/refid/RSS-kurdistan-26-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Few have as much to gain or lose from the provincial elections on Saturday as Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, whose party is battling rivals across Iraq.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44094/refid/RSS-kurdistan-26-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

This week, Assyrians, Armenians, Syriacs, other Iraqi Christians, Mandaeans and Fylee Kurds took part in two days of intense lobbying of Members of the UK Parliament, coinciding with Hrant Dink Day in London.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44143/refid/RSS-kurdistan-26-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Turkey, the United States and Iraq will set up a joint centre in Kurdistan region in Iraq's north to curb Turkish Kurd PKK rebels taking refuge in the region, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said on Friday.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44146/refid/RSS-kurdistan-26-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Turkey, the United States and Iraq will set up a joint centre in Kurdistan region in Iraq's north to curb Turkish Kurd PKK rebels taking refuge in the region, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said on Friday.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44146/refid/RSS-kurdistan-27-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Few have as much to gain or lose from the provincial elections on Saturday as Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, whose party is battling rivals across Iraq.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44094/refid/RSS-kurdistan-27-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Iraqi Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barazani accused some “parties” of seeking to impose dictatorship on Iraq by controlling the army and police and hindering an article in the constitution that regulates solutions to disputed areas.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44085/refid/RSS-kurdistan-27-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

A Yazidi parliamentarian has accused Kurds of “illegitimate campaigning,” a charge denied by a Kurdish lawmaker who threatened to file lawsuits against those who make such “groundless” accusations.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44076/refid/RSS-kurdistan-27-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

This week, Assyrians, Armenians, Syriacs, other Iraqi Christians, Mandaeans and Fylee Kurds took part in two days of intense lobbying of Members of the UK Parliament, coinciding with Hrant Dink Day in London.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44143/refid/RSS-kurdistan-27-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

A documentary about the life of displaced Christian Iraqis after the 2003 invasion has been shot in Ninewa province, the Lebanese director of the film said on Thursday.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43994/refid/RSS-kurdistan-27-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Kurds suspiciously gaze at new army belt in between Kirkuk and Kurdistan provincesThe Iraqi army's 12th division intends for deployments around Kirkuk, creating a military belt and tightening contact with the Kurdistan provinces of Suleimaniya...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43951/refid/RSS-kurdistan-27-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Kurdistan President and Mosul tribal leaders agree to establish a closer partnership in the name of security.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43950/refid/RSS-kurdistan-27-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Visitors to Kurdistan and readers of independent media inside and outside Kurdistan observe a new phenomenon: increasing calls for reform to fix the political and governing system in Kurdistan. Within each political party, the younger leaders are pushing...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43946/refid/RSS-kurdistan-27-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Iraq's Kurdish regional president, Massud Barzani, insisted on Monday that he was committed to Iraqi unity but warned against viewing his people as the enemy.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43826/refid/RSS-kurdistan-27-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

President of Iraq’s Kurdistan region Massoud al-Barzani said that Kurds have no aspirations in Mosul city, adding that they seek peaceful coexistence in the multi-ethnic city.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43756/refid/RSS-kurdistan-27-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

The head of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region spoke out on Monday against tribal councils backed by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, a sign of worsening tensions between the Kurds and the central government.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43698/refid/RSS-kurdistan-27-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Seven suspected Kurdish rebels arrested in the Mediterranean city of Marseille last week have been charged in France with terrorism financing, a judicial official said.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43688/refid/RSS-kurdistan-27-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

A recently installed command team faces many military, civil and economic challenges in trying to further stabilize and provide security for upcoming elections in the ethnically mixed northern half of Iraq.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43680/refid/RSS-kurdistan-27-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Old argument about Kurdistan and Shiite crescent raised by writer Sami Shorsh. The evidence we found tells a different story.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43678/refid/RSS-kurdistan-27-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

MP from the Iraqi National List (INL) Osama al-Nujaifi on Monday called on the government to provide neutral forces to protect Mosul and its districts during the elections because of what he described as the “terrorism of Kurdish militias.”

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43665/refid/RSS-kurdistan-27-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

An estimated 858 local observers from civil society organizations and 177 political bloc agents will monitor the provincial council elections in Duhuk province, due to take place later this month across the country.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43660/refid/RSS-kurdistan-27-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Abd al-Latif, the chief protagonist of the campaign to transform Basra into a standalone federal region, has told Iraqi radio that his project has failed. While Abd al-Latif did not know the exact numbers of signatures collected since the legally fixed...

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The ancient town of Sinjar may be on Mosul’s doorstep, but the road connection to Iraq’s third-largest city is so treacherous that it has to get its supplies from Dohuk in Iraqi Kurdistan, more than four hours’ drive away.

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[Iraq Updates]

In Sunday's paper, The Times interviewed Kurdistan region's President Massoud Barzani about the growing rift between the Kurds and Prime Minister Nouri Maliki. Below is a transcript of most of the interview.

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[Iraq Updates]

The initiative to form a federal region in Basra has failed. Article 119, section five of the Iraqi constitution sets two conditions for any governorate to be able to sustain a legal federal status: (i) the federal project must get the approval of...

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[Iraq Updates]

The Los Angeles Times predicts Mosul city to become a battlefield for struggle between Arab and Kurdish residents during the upcoming provincial council elections.

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[Iraq Updates]

Yazidi lawmaker Ameen Farhan Jijo on Monday said that elements of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) attacked his family in Shikhan after he accused the party of violating the elections law, calling on the premier to send troops to the province.

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[Iraq Updates]

Yazidi lawmaker Ameen Farhan Jijo on Monday said that elements of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) attacked his family in Shikhan after he accused the party of violating the elections law, calling on the premier to send troops to the province.

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[Iraq Updates]

The Los Angeles Times predicts Mosul city to become a battlefield for struggle between Arab and Kurdish residents during the upcoming provincial council elections.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44213/refid/RSS-kurdistan-28-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

The initiative to form a federal region in Basra has failed. Article 119, section five of the Iraqi constitution sets two conditions for any governorate to be able to sustain a legal federal status: (i) the federal project must get the approval of...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44203/refid/RSS-kurdistan-28-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Turkey, the United States and Iraq will set up a joint centre in Kurdistan region in Iraq's north to curb Turkish Kurd PKK rebels taking refuge in the region, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said on Friday.

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[Iraq Updates]

Few have as much to gain or lose from the provincial elections on Saturday as Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, whose party is battling rivals across Iraq.

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[Iraq Updates]

Iraqi Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barazani accused some “parties” of seeking to impose dictatorship on Iraq by controlling the army and police and hindering an article in the constitution that regulates solutions to disputed areas.

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[Iraq Updates]

A Yazidi parliamentarian has accused Kurds of “illegitimate campaigning,” a charge denied by a Kurdish lawmaker who threatened to file lawsuits against those who make such “groundless” accusations.

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[Iraq Updates]

This week, Assyrians, Armenians, Syriacs, other Iraqi Christians, Mandaeans and Fylee Kurds took part in two days of intense lobbying of Members of the UK Parliament, coinciding with Hrant Dink Day in London.

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[Iraq Updates]

A documentary about the life of displaced Christian Iraqis after the 2003 invasion has been shot in Ninewa province, the Lebanese director of the film said on Thursday.

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[Iraq Updates]

Kurds suspiciously gaze at new army belt in between Kirkuk and Kurdistan provincesThe Iraqi army's 12th division intends for deployments around Kirkuk, creating a military belt and tightening contact with the Kurdistan provinces of Suleimaniya...

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[Iraq Updates]

Kurdistan President and Mosul tribal leaders agree to establish a closer partnership in the name of security.

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[Iraq Updates]

Visitors to Kurdistan and readers of independent media inside and outside Kurdistan observe a new phenomenon: increasing calls for reform to fix the political and governing system in Kurdistan. Within each political party, the younger leaders are pushing...

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[Iraq Updates]

Iraq's Kurdish regional president, Massud Barzani, insisted on Monday that he was committed to Iraqi unity but warned against viewing his people as the enemy.

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[Iraq Updates]

President of Iraq’s Kurdistan region Massoud al-Barzani said that Kurds have no aspirations in Mosul city, adding that they seek peaceful coexistence in the multi-ethnic city.

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[Iraq Updates]

The head of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region spoke out on Monday against tribal councils backed by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, a sign of worsening tensions between the Kurds and the central government.

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[Iraq Updates]

Seven suspected Kurdish rebels arrested in the Mediterranean city of Marseille last week have been charged in France with terrorism financing, a judicial official said.

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[Iraq Updates]

A recently installed command team faces many military, civil and economic challenges in trying to further stabilize and provide security for upcoming elections in the ethnically mixed northern half of Iraq.

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[Iraq Updates]

Old argument about Kurdistan and Shiite crescent raised by writer Sami Shorsh. The evidence we found tells a different story.

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[Iraq Updates]

MP from the Iraqi National List (INL) Osama al-Nujaifi on Monday called on the government to provide neutral forces to protect Mosul and its districts during the elections because of what he described as the “terrorism of Kurdish militias.”

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[Iraq Updates]

An estimated 858 local observers from civil society organizations and 177 political bloc agents will monitor the provincial council elections in Duhuk province, due to take place later this month across the country.

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[Iraq Updates]

Iraq's upcoming provincial elections have exacerbated tensions along the ethnically mixed frontier between the traditionally Arab parts of the country and its Kurdish autonomous region in the north.

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[Iraq Updates]

Today’s Zaman reported that a new joint command centre is going to be established in the capital of regional Kurdistan administration. Both America, Iraq and Turkey are involved in the new centre in Hawler (Erbil). The move comes after a visit of...

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[Iraq Updates]

Today’s Zaman reported that a new joint command centre is going to be established in the capital of regional Kurdistan administration. Both America, Iraq and Turkey are involved in the new centre in Hawler (Erbil). The move comes after a visit of...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44264/refid/RSS-kurdistan-29-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Iraq's upcoming provincial elections have exacerbated tensions along the ethnically mixed frontier between the traditionally Arab parts of the country and its Kurdish autonomous region in the north.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44259/refid/RSS-kurdistan-29-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Yazidi lawmaker Ameen Farhan Jijo on Monday said that elements of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) attacked his family in Shikhan after he accused the party of violating the elections law, calling on the premier to send troops to the province.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44218/refid/RSS-kurdistan-29-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

The Los Angeles Times predicts Mosul city to become a battlefield for struggle between Arab and Kurdish residents during the upcoming provincial council elections.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44213/refid/RSS-kurdistan-29-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

The initiative to form a federal region in Basra has failed. Article 119, section five of the Iraqi constitution sets two conditions for any governorate to be able to sustain a legal federal status: (i) the federal project must get the approval of...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44203/refid/RSS-kurdistan-29-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Turkey, the United States and Iraq will set up a joint centre in Kurdistan region in Iraq's north to curb Turkish Kurd PKK rebels taking refuge in the region, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said on Friday.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44146/refid/RSS-kurdistan-29-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Few have as much to gain or lose from the provincial elections on Saturday as Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, whose party is battling rivals across Iraq.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44094/refid/RSS-kurdistan-29-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Iraqi Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barazani accused some “parties” of seeking to impose dictatorship on Iraq by controlling the army and police and hindering an article in the constitution that regulates solutions to disputed areas.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44085/refid/RSS-kurdistan-29-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

A Yazidi parliamentarian has accused Kurds of “illegitimate campaigning,” a charge denied by a Kurdish lawmaker who threatened to file lawsuits against those who make such “groundless” accusations.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44076/refid/RSS-kurdistan-29-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

This week, Assyrians, Armenians, Syriacs, other Iraqi Christians, Mandaeans and Fylee Kurds took part in two days of intense lobbying of Members of the UK Parliament, coinciding with Hrant Dink Day in London.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44143/refid/RSS-kurdistan-29-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

A documentary about the life of displaced Christian Iraqis after the 2003 invasion has been shot in Ninewa province, the Lebanese director of the film said on Thursday.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43994/refid/RSS-kurdistan-29-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Kurds suspiciously gaze at new army belt in between Kirkuk and Kurdistan provinces The Iraqi army's 12th division intends for deployments around Kirkuk, creating a military belt and tightening contact with the Kurdistan provinces of Suleimaniya...

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[Iraq Updates]

Kurdistan President and Mosul tribal leaders agree to establish a closer partnership in the name of security.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43950/refid/RSS-kurdistan-29-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Visitors to Kurdistan and readers of independent media inside and outside Kurdistan observe a new phenomenon: increasing calls for reform to fix the political and governing system in Kurdistan. Within each political party, the younger leaders are pushing...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43946/refid/RSS-kurdistan-29-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Iraq's Kurdish regional president, Massud Barzani, insisted on Monday that he was committed to Iraqi unity but warned against viewing his people as the enemy.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43826/refid/RSS-kurdistan-29-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

President of Iraq’s Kurdistan region Massoud al-Barzani said that Kurds have no aspirations in Mosul city, adding that they seek peaceful coexistence in the multi-ethnic city.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43756/refid/RSS-kurdistan-29-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

The head of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region spoke out on Monday against tribal councils backed by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, a sign of worsening tensions between the Kurds and the central government.

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[Iraq Updates]

Seven suspected Kurdish rebels arrested in the Mediterranean city of Marseille last week have been charged in France with terrorism financing, a judicial official said.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43688/refid/RSS-kurdistan-29-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

A recently installed command team faces many military, civil and economic challenges in trying to further stabilize and provide security for upcoming elections in the ethnically mixed northern half of Iraq.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43680/refid/RSS-kurdistan-29-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Old argument about Kurdistan and Shiite crescent raised by writer Sami Shorsh. The evidence we found tells a different story.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43678/refid/RSS-kurdistan-29-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

The director of the Independent High Electoral Commission’s office in Duhuk on Wednesday agreed to open a new electoral center in the northern province.

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[Iraq Updates]

Kurdistan Region's President urges peace and tolerance among the leaders of all ethnicities as the country prepares for elections.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44410/refid/RSS-kurdistan-29-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Kurds will lose a number of seats in the provincial councils of Mosul, Diyala, and Salahaddin as Sunnis extensively participate in the election, the Dawa Party and the Islamic Supreme Council compete for power, and Awakening Councils seek to win in...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44404/refid/RSS-kurdistan-29-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Kurdistan Region's President urges peace and tolerance among the leaders of all ethnicities as the country prepares for elections.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44410/refid/RSS-kurdistan-30-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Kurds will lose a number of seats in the provincial councils of Mosul, Diyala, and Salahaddin as Sunnis extensively participate in the election, the Dawa Party and the Islamic Supreme Council compete for power, and Awakening Councils seek to win in...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44404/refid/RSS-kurdistan-30-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

The director of the Independent High Electoral Commission’s office in Duhuk on Wednesday agreed to open a new electoral center in the northern province.

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[Iraq Updates]

Today’s Zaman reported that a new joint command centre is going to be established in the capital of regional Kurdistan administration. Both America, Iraq and Turkey are involved in the new centre in Hawler (Erbil). The move comes after a visit of...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44264/refid/RSS-kurdistan-30-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Iraq's upcoming provincial elections have exacerbated tensions along the ethnically mixed frontier between the traditionally Arab parts of the country and its Kurdish autonomous region in the north.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44259/refid/RSS-kurdistan-30-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Yazidi lawmaker Ameen Farhan Jijo on Monday said that elements of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) attacked his family in Shikhan after he accused the party of violating the elections law, calling on the premier to send troops to the province.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44218/refid/RSS-kurdistan-30-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

The Los Angeles Times predicts Mosul city to become a battlefield for struggle between Arab and Kurdish residents during the upcoming provincial council elections.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44213/refid/RSS-kurdistan-30-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

The initiative to form a federal region in Basra has failed. Article 119, section five of the Iraqi constitution sets two conditions for any governorate to be able to sustain a legal federal status: (i) the federal project must get the approval of...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44203/refid/RSS-kurdistan-30-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Turkey, the United States and Iraq will set up a joint centre in Kurdistan region in Iraq's north to curb Turkish Kurd PKK rebels taking refuge in the region, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said on Friday.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44146/refid/RSS-kurdistan-30-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Few have as much to gain or lose from the provincial elections on Saturday as Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, whose party is battling rivals across Iraq.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44094/refid/RSS-kurdistan-30-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Iraqi Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barazani accused some “parties” of seeking to impose dictatorship on Iraq by controlling the army and police and hindering an article in the constitution that regulates solutions to disputed areas.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44085/refid/RSS-kurdistan-30-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

A Yazidi parliamentarian has accused Kurds of “illegitimate campaigning,” a charge denied by a Kurdish lawmaker who threatened to file lawsuits against those who make such “groundless” accusations.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44076/refid/RSS-kurdistan-30-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

This week, Assyrians, Armenians, Syriacs, other Iraqi Christians, Mandaeans and Fylee Kurds took part in two days of intense lobbying of Members of the UK Parliament, coinciding with Hrant Dink Day in London.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44143/refid/RSS-kurdistan-30-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

A documentary about the life of displaced Christian Iraqis after the 2003 invasion has been shot in Ninewa province, the Lebanese director of the film said on Thursday.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43994/refid/RSS-kurdistan-30-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Kurds suspiciously gaze at new army belt in between Kirkuk and Kurdistan provincesThe Iraqi army's 12th division intends for deployments around Kirkuk, creating a military belt and tightening contact with the Kurdistan provinces of Suleimaniya...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43951/refid/RSS-kurdistan-30-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Kurdistan President and Mosul tribal leaders agree to establish a closer partnership in the name of security.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43950/refid/RSS-kurdistan-30-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Visitors to Kurdistan and readers of independent media inside and outside Kurdistan observe a new phenomenon: increasing calls for reform to fix the political and governing system in Kurdistan. Within each political party, the younger leaders are pushing...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43946/refid/RSS-kurdistan-30-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Iraq's Kurdish regional president, Massud Barzani, insisted on Monday that he was committed to Iraqi unity but warned against viewing his people as the enemy.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43826/refid/RSS-kurdistan-30-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

President of Iraq’s Kurdistan region Massoud al-Barzani said that Kurds have no aspirations in Mosul city, adding that they seek peaceful coexistence in the multi-ethnic city.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43756/refid/RSS-kurdistan-30-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

The head of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region spoke out on Monday against tribal councils backed by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, a sign of worsening tensions between the Kurds and the central government.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43698/refid/RSS-kurdistan-30-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

The trip from Baghdad to Diyala province, a land of mostly farmers and shepherds that connects the mountains of northern Iraq to the fields, crosses a landscape of dust and devastation. Driving into the province's capital city, once synonymous with...

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[Iraq Updates]

Athil al-Nujeifi, a leading candidate in the largely Sunni Arab province of Nineveh, has the simplest of campaign slogans for Saturday's Iraqi provincial elections: reverse the Kurdish takeover.

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[Iraq Updates]

Athil al-Nujeifi, a leading candidate in the largely Sunni Arab province of Nineveh, has the simplest of campaign slogans for Saturday's Iraqi provincial elections: reverse the Kurdish takeover.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44443/refid/RSS-kurdistan-31-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

The trip from Baghdad to Diyala province, a land of mostly farmers and shepherds that connects the mountains of northern Iraq to the fields, crosses a landscape of dust and devastation. Driving into the province's capital city, once synonymous with...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44437/refid/RSS-kurdistan-31-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Kurdistan Region's President urges peace and tolerance among the leaders of all ethnicities as the country prepares for elections.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44410/refid/RSS-kurdistan-31-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Kurds will lose a number of seats in the provincial councils of Mosul, Diyala, and Salahaddin as Sunnis extensively participate in the election, the Dawa Party and the Islamic Supreme Council compete for power, and Awakening Councils seek to win in...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44404/refid/RSS-kurdistan-31-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

The director of the Independent High Electoral Commission’s office in Duhuk on Wednesday agreed to open a new electoral center in the northern province.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44374/refid/RSS-kurdistan-31-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Today’s Zaman reported that a new joint command centre is going to be established in the capital of regional Kurdistan administration. Both America, Iraq and Turkey are involved in the new centre in Hawler (Erbil). The move comes after a visit of...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44264/refid/RSS-kurdistan-31-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Iraq's upcoming provincial elections have exacerbated tensions along the ethnically mixed frontier between the traditionally Arab parts of the country and its Kurdish autonomous region in the north.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44259/refid/RSS-kurdistan-31-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Yazidi lawmaker Ameen Farhan Jijo on Monday said that elements of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) attacked his family in Shikhan after he accused the party of violating the elections law, calling on the premier to send troops to the province.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44218/refid/RSS-kurdistan-31-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

The Los Angeles Times predicts Mosul city to become a battlefield for struggle between Arab and Kurdish residents during the upcoming provincial council elections.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44213/refid/RSS-kurdistan-31-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

The initiative to form a federal region in Basra has failed. Article 119, section five of the Iraqi constitution sets two conditions for any governorate to be able to sustain a legal federal status: (i) the federal project must get the approval of...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44203/refid/RSS-kurdistan-31-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Turkey, the United States and Iraq will set up a joint centre in Kurdistan region in Iraq's north to curb Turkish Kurd PKK rebels taking refuge in the region, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said on Friday.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44146/refid/RSS-kurdistan-31-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Few have as much to gain or lose from the provincial elections on Saturday as Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, whose party is battling rivals across Iraq.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44094/refid/RSS-kurdistan-31-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Iraqi Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barazani accused some “parties” of seeking to impose dictatorship on Iraq by controlling the army and police and hindering an article in the constitution that regulates solutions to disputed areas.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44085/refid/RSS-kurdistan-31-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

A Yazidi parliamentarian has accused Kurds of “illegitimate campaigning,” a charge denied by a Kurdish lawmaker who threatened to file lawsuits against those who make such “groundless” accusations.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44076/refid/RSS-kurdistan-31-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

This week, Assyrians, Armenians, Syriacs, other Iraqi Christians, Mandaeans and Fylee Kurds took part in two days of intense lobbying of Members of the UK Parliament, coinciding with Hrant Dink Day in London.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44143/refid/RSS-kurdistan-31-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

A documentary about the life of displaced Christian Iraqis after the 2003 invasion has been shot in Ninewa province, the Lebanese director of the film said on Thursday.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43994/refid/RSS-kurdistan-31-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Kurds suspiciously gaze at new army belt in between Kirkuk and Kurdistan provincesThe Iraqi army's 12th division intends for deployments around Kirkuk, creating a military belt and tightening contact with the Kurdistan provinces of Suleimaniya...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43951/refid/RSS-kurdistan-31-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Kurdistan President and Mosul tribal leaders agree to establish a closer partnership in the name of security.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43950/refid/RSS-kurdistan-31-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Visitors to Kurdistan and readers of independent media inside and outside Kurdistan observe a new phenomenon: increasing calls for reform to fix the political and governing system in Kurdistan. Within each political party, the younger leaders are pushing...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43946/refid/RSS-kurdistan-31-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Iraq's Kurdish regional president, Massud Barzani, insisted on Monday that he was committed to Iraqi unity but warned against viewing his people as the enemy.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43826/refid/RSS-kurdistan-31-01-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Athil al-Nujeifi, a leading candidate in the largely Sunni Arab province of Nineveh, has the simplest of campaign slogans for Saturday's Iraqi provincial elections: reverse the Kurdish takeover.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44443/refid/RSS-kurdistan-01-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

The trip from Baghdad to Diyala province, a land of mostly farmers and shepherds that connects the mountains of northern Iraq to the fields, crosses a landscape of dust and devastation. Driving into the province's capital city, once synonymous with...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44437/refid/RSS-kurdistan-01-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Kurdistan Region's President urges peace and tolerance among the leaders of all ethnicities as the country prepares for elections.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44410/refid/RSS-kurdistan-01-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Kurds will lose a number of seats in the provincial councils of Mosul, Diyala, and Salahaddin as Sunnis extensively participate in the election, the Dawa Party and the Islamic Supreme Council compete for power, and Awakening Councils seek to win in...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44404/refid/RSS-kurdistan-01-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

The director of the Independent High Electoral Commission’s office in Duhuk on Wednesday agreed to open a new electoral center in the northern province.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44374/refid/RSS-kurdistan-01-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Today’s Zaman reported that a new joint command centre is going to be established in the capital of regional Kurdistan administration. Both America, Iraq and Turkey are involved in the new centre in Hawler (Erbil). The move comes after a visit of...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44264/refid/RSS-kurdistan-01-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Iraq's upcoming provincial elections have exacerbated tensions along the ethnically mixed frontier between the traditionally Arab parts of the country and its Kurdish autonomous region in the north.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44259/refid/RSS-kurdistan-01-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Yazidi lawmaker Ameen Farhan Jijo on Monday said that elements of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) attacked his family in Shikhan after he accused the party of violating the elections law, calling on the premier to send troops to the province.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44218/refid/RSS-kurdistan-01-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

The Los Angeles Times predicts Mosul city to become a battlefield for struggle between Arab and Kurdish residents during the upcoming provincial council elections.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44213/refid/RSS-kurdistan-01-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

The initiative to form a federal region in Basra has failed. Article 119, section five of the Iraqi constitution sets two conditions for any governorate to be able to sustain a legal federal status: (i) the federal project must get the approval of...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44203/refid/RSS-kurdistan-01-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Turkey, the United States and Iraq will set up a joint centre in Kurdistan region in Iraq's north to curb Turkish Kurd PKK rebels taking refuge in the region, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said on Friday.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44146/refid/RSS-kurdistan-01-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Few have as much to gain or lose from the provincial elections on Saturday as Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, whose party is battling rivals across Iraq.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44094/refid/RSS-kurdistan-01-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Iraqi Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barazani accused some “parties” of seeking to impose dictatorship on Iraq by controlling the army and police and hindering an article in the constitution that regulates solutions to disputed areas.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44085/refid/RSS-kurdistan-01-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

A Yazidi parliamentarian has accused Kurds of “illegitimate campaigning,” a charge denied by a Kurdish lawmaker who threatened to file lawsuits against those who make such “groundless” accusations.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44076/refid/RSS-kurdistan-01-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

This week, Assyrians, Armenians, Syriacs, other Iraqi Christians, Mandaeans and Fylee Kurds took part in two days of intense lobbying of Members of the UK Parliament, coinciding with Hrant Dink Day in London.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44143/refid/RSS-kurdistan-01-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

A documentary about the life of displaced Christian Iraqis after the 2003 invasion has been shot in Ninewa province, the Lebanese director of the film said on Thursday.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43994/refid/RSS-kurdistan-01-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Kurds suspiciously gaze at new army belt in between Kirkuk and Kurdistan provinces The Iraqi army's 12th division intends for deployments around Kirkuk, creating a military belt and tightening contact with the Kurdistan provinces of Suleimaniya...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43951/refid/RSS-kurdistan-01-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Kurdistan President and Mosul tribal leaders agree to establish a closer partnership in the name of security.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43950/refid/RSS-kurdistan-01-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Visitors to Kurdistan and readers of independent media inside and outside Kurdistan observe a new phenomenon: increasing calls for reform to fix the political and governing system in Kurdistan. Within each political party, the younger leaders are pushing...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43946/refid/RSS-kurdistan-01-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Iraq's Kurdish regional president, Massud Barzani, insisted on Monday that he was committed to Iraqi unity but warned against viewing his people as the enemy.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43826/refid/RSS-kurdistan-01-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Athil al-Nujeifi, a leading candidate in the largely Sunni Arab province of Nineveh, has the simplest of campaign slogans for Saturday's Iraqi provincial elections: reverse the Kurdish takeover.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44443/refid/RSS-kurdistan-02-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

The trip from Baghdad to Diyala province, a land of mostly farmers and shepherds that connects the mountains of northern Iraq to the fields, crosses a landscape of dust and devastation. Driving into the province's capital city, once synonymous with...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44437/refid/RSS-kurdistan-02-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Kurdistan Region's President urges peace and tolerance among the leaders of all ethnicities as the country prepares for elections.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44410/refid/RSS-kurdistan-02-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Kurds will lose a number of seats in the provincial councils of Mosul, Diyala, and Salahaddin as Sunnis extensively participate in the election, the Dawa Party and the Islamic Supreme Council compete for power, and Awakening Councils seek to win in...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44404/refid/RSS-kurdistan-02-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

The director of the Independent High Electoral Commission’s office in Duhuk on Wednesday agreed to open a new electoral center in the northern province.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44374/refid/RSS-kurdistan-02-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Today’s Zaman reported that a new joint command centre is going to be established in the capital of regional Kurdistan administration. Both America, Iraq and Turkey are involved in the new centre in Hawler (Erbil). The move comes after a visit of...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44264/refid/RSS-kurdistan-02-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Iraq's upcoming provincial elections have exacerbated tensions along the ethnically mixed frontier between the traditionally Arab parts of the country and its Kurdish autonomous region in the north.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44259/refid/RSS-kurdistan-02-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Yazidi lawmaker Ameen Farhan Jijo on Monday said that elements of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) attacked his family in Shikhan after he accused the party of violating the elections law, calling on the premier to send troops to the province.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44218/refid/RSS-kurdistan-02-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

The Los Angeles Times predicts Mosul city to become a battlefield for struggle between Arab and Kurdish residents during the upcoming provincial council elections.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44213/refid/RSS-kurdistan-02-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

The initiative to form a federal region in Basra has failed. Article 119, section five of the Iraqi constitution sets two conditions for any governorate to be able to sustain a legal federal status: (i) the federal project must get the approval of...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44203/refid/RSS-kurdistan-02-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Turkey, the United States and Iraq will set up a joint centre in Kurdistan region in Iraq's north to curb Turkish Kurd PKK rebels taking refuge in the region, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said on Friday.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44146/refid/RSS-kurdistan-02-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Few have as much to gain or lose from the provincial elections on Saturday as Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, whose party is battling rivals across Iraq.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44094/refid/RSS-kurdistan-02-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Iraqi Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barazani accused some “parties” of seeking to impose dictatorship on Iraq by controlling the army and police and hindering an article in the constitution that regulates solutions to disputed areas.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44085/refid/RSS-kurdistan-02-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

A Yazidi parliamentarian has accused Kurds of “illegitimate campaigning,” a charge denied by a Kurdish lawmaker who threatened to file lawsuits against those who make such “groundless” accusations.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44076/refid/RSS-kurdistan-02-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

This week, Assyrians, Armenians, Syriacs, other Iraqi Christians, Mandaeans and Fylee Kurds took part in two days of intense lobbying of Members of the UK Parliament, coinciding with Hrant Dink Day in London.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44143/refid/RSS-kurdistan-02-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

A documentary about the life of displaced Christian Iraqis after the 2003 invasion has been shot in Ninewa province, the Lebanese director of the film said on Thursday.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43994/refid/RSS-kurdistan-02-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Kurds suspiciously gaze at new army belt in between Kirkuk and Kurdistan provincesThe Iraqi army's 12th division intends for deployments around Kirkuk, creating a military belt and tightening contact with the Kurdistan provinces of Suleimaniya...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43951/refid/RSS-kurdistan-02-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Kurdistan President and Mosul tribal leaders agree to establish a closer partnership in the name of security.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43950/refid/RSS-kurdistan-02-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Visitors to Kurdistan and readers of independent media inside and outside Kurdistan observe a new phenomenon: increasing calls for reform to fix the political and governing system in Kurdistan. Within each political party, the younger leaders are pushing...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43946/refid/RSS-kurdistan-02-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Iraq's Kurdish regional president, Massud Barzani, insisted on Monday that he was committed to Iraqi unity but warned against viewing his people as the enemy.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/43826/refid/RSS-kurdistan-02-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

For the northern provinces of Iraq, the outcome of elections held Saturday will provide the first snapshot in decades of demographics and loyalties in areas that have become the subject of a visceral dispute between Arabs and Kurds.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44534/refid/RSS-kurdistan-02-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

A few weeks ago, the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq was reminded how bad things can still be in Baghdad when a 240mm rocket slammed into our compound, ricocheted off a tree and exploded, killing two employees and wounding several others....

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44532/refid/RSS-kurdistan-02-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

The United States of America started its publicity for the war on Iraq six years ago in the name of freedom and transforming Iraq into a democratic country. The war won by the good guys and Iraq was on the road to become free from tyranny for the first...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44537/refid/RSS-kurdistan-02-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Provincial elections will be taking place in Iraq on 31st January and the Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV) has warned of an increase in terror attacks above all against members of the ethnic and religious minorities in the north-Iraqi provinces...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44539/refid/RSS-kurdistan-02-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Tomorrow, 31 January 2009, millions of Iraqis will vote in elections that will select governing councils in 14 of Iraq's 18 provinces and play a critical role in determining the next direction the country takes. The electoral atmosphere is electric....

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44567/refid/RSS-kurdistan-02-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Former Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari arrived in Basra on January 24. His mission in the southern oil port was to stump for his Reformist Front, a breakaway faction of the Da‘wa Party of the current premier, Nouri al-Maliki, ahead of Iraq’s...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44577/refid/RSS-kurdistan-02-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

For the northern provinces of Iraq, the outcome of elections held Saturday will provide the first snapshot in decades of demographics and loyalties in areas that have become the subject of a visceral dispute between Arabs and Kurds.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44534/refid/RSS-kurdistan-03-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

A few weeks ago, the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq was reminded how bad things can still be in Baghdad when a 240mm rocket slammed into our compound, ricocheted off a tree and exploded, killing two employees and wounding several others....

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44532/refid/RSS-kurdistan-03-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

The United States of America started its publicity for the war on Iraq six years ago in the name of freedom and transforming Iraq into a democratic country. The war won by the good guys and Iraq was on the road to become free from tyranny for the first...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44537/refid/RSS-kurdistan-03-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Former Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari arrived in Basra on January 24. His mission in the southern oil port was to stump for his Reformist Front, a breakaway faction of the Da‘wa Party of the current premier, Nouri al-Maliki, ahead of Iraq’s...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44577/refid/RSS-kurdistan-03-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Tomorrow, 31 January 2009, millions of Iraqis will vote in elections that will select governing councils in 14 of Iraq's 18 provinces and play a critical role in determining the next direction the country takes. The electoral atmosphere is electric....

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44567/refid/RSS-kurdistan-03-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Provincial elections will be taking place in Iraq on 31st January and the Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV) has warned of an increase in terror attacks above all against members of the ethnic and religious minorities in the north-Iraqi provinces...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44539/refid/RSS-kurdistan-03-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Athil al-Nujeifi, a leading candidate in the largely Sunni Arab province of Nineveh, has the simplest of campaign slogans for Saturday's Iraqi provincial elections: reverse the Kurdish takeover.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44443/refid/RSS-kurdistan-03-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

The trip from Baghdad to Diyala province, a land of mostly farmers and shepherds that connects the mountains of northern Iraq to the fields, crosses a landscape of dust and devastation. Driving into the province's capital city, once synonymous with...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44437/refid/RSS-kurdistan-03-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Kurdistan Region's President urges peace and tolerance among the leaders of all ethnicities as the country prepares for elections.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44410/refid/RSS-kurdistan-03-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Kurds will lose a number of seats in the provincial councils of Mosul, Diyala, and Salahaddin as Sunnis extensively participate in the election, the Dawa Party and the Islamic Supreme Council compete for power, and Awakening Councils seek to win in...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44404/refid/RSS-kurdistan-03-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

The director of the Independent High Electoral Commission’s office in Duhuk on Wednesday agreed to open a new electoral center in the northern province.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44374/refid/RSS-kurdistan-03-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Today’s Zaman reported that a new joint command centre is going to be established in the capital of regional Kurdistan administration. Both America, Iraq and Turkey are involved in the new centre in Hawler (Erbil). The move comes after a visit of...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44264/refid/RSS-kurdistan-03-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Iraq's upcoming provincial elections have exacerbated tensions along the ethnically mixed frontier between the traditionally Arab parts of the country and its Kurdish autonomous region in the north.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44259/refid/RSS-kurdistan-03-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Yazidi lawmaker Ameen Farhan Jijo on Monday said that elements of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) attacked his family in Shikhan after he accused the party of violating the elections law, calling on the premier to send troops to the province.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44218/refid/RSS-kurdistan-03-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

The Los Angeles Times predicts Mosul city to become a battlefield for struggle between Arab and Kurdish residents during the upcoming provincial council elections.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44213/refid/RSS-kurdistan-03-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

The initiative to form a federal region in Basra has failed. Article 119, section five of the Iraqi constitution sets two conditions for any governorate to be able to sustain a legal federal status: (i) the federal project must get the approval of...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44203/refid/RSS-kurdistan-03-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Turkey, the United States and Iraq will set up a joint centre in Kurdistan region in Iraq's north to curb Turkish Kurd PKK rebels taking refuge in the region, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said on Friday.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44146/refid/RSS-kurdistan-03-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Few have as much to gain or lose from the provincial elections on Saturday as Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, whose party is battling rivals across Iraq.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44094/refid/RSS-kurdistan-03-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Iraqi Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barazani accused some “parties” of seeking to impose dictatorship on Iraq by controlling the army and police and hindering an article in the constitution that regulates solutions to disputed areas.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44085/refid/RSS-kurdistan-03-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

A Yazidi parliamentarian has accused Kurds of “illegitimate campaigning,” a charge denied by a Kurdish lawmaker who threatened to file lawsuits against those who make such “groundless” accusations.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44076/refid/RSS-kurdistan-03-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

For the northern provinces of Iraq, the outcome of elections held Saturday will provide the first snapshot in decades of demographics and loyalties in areas that have become the subject of a visceral dispute between Arabs and Kurds.

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44534/refid/RSS-kurdistan-04-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

A few weeks ago, the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq was reminded how bad things can still be in Baghdad when a 240mm rocket slammed into our compound, ricocheted off a tree and exploded, killing two employees and wounding several others....

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44532/refid/RSS-kurdistan-04-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

The United States of America started its publicity for the war on Iraq six years ago in the name of freedom and transforming Iraq into a democratic country. The war won by the good guys and Iraq was on the road to become free from tyranny for the first...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44537/refid/RSS-kurdistan-04-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Former Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari arrived in Basra on January 24. His mission in the southern oil port was to stump for his Reformist Front, a breakaway faction of the Da‘wa Party of the current premier, Nouri al-Maliki, ahead of Iraq’s...

Read the story here... (http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/44577/refid/RSS-kurdistan-04-02-2009)

[Iraq Updates]

Tomorrow, 31 January 2009, millions of Iraqis will vote in elections that will select governing councils in 14 of Iraq's 18 provinces and play a critical role in determining the next direction the country takes. The electoral atmosphere is electric....

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[Iraq Updates]

Provincial elections will be taking place in Iraq on 31st January and the Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV) has warned of an increase in terror attacks above all against members of the ethnic and religious minorities in the north-Iraqi provinces...

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[Iraq Updates]

Athil al-Nujeifi, a leading candidate in the largely Sunni Arab province of Nineveh, has the simplest of campaign slogans for Saturday's Iraqi provincial elections: reverse the Kurdish takeover.

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