Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday (23/11) that the attacks in recent days in the border region with Syria and Iraq are “just the beginning” of a new, more aggressive stance against Kurdish groups that his government considers to be terrorists. According to the ANSA news agency, the …
Read More »High temperatures make the legendary Tigris agonize in Iraq – News
Its waters were celebrated in the Garden of Eden, Sumer, and Babylon. But in Iraq today, the Tiger is dying. Between human activities and climate change, the river’s agony threatens to end the life that has settled on its banks thousands of years ago. Since April, temperatures …
Read More »Sanctuary in Iraq collapses and kills five; see pictures – 08/21/2022 – World
Rescue services pulled five bodies of pilgrims from the rubble of a Shiite shrine in Karbala, central Iraq, on Sunday. Part of the mausoleum collapsed due to a landslide on Saturday. The Iraqi Civil Defense has spent the past 24 hours searching for survivors and victims’ bodies among rocks, wooden …
Read More »US military lived in the house where al-Zawahiri was killed
posted on 07/08/2022 06:00 The terrorist’s hideout: four floors, eight rooms and a balcony – (Credit: Twitter/Reproduction) On July 31, 48-year-old US war veteran Dan Smock received initial reports that a drone strike had been carried out in Kabul hours earlier. “I lived in the capital of Afghanistan between 2012 …
Read More »Hundreds of people occupy Iraqi parliament for second day in a row – News
Hundreds of supporters of influential Shiite political leader Moqtada Sadr occupied the Iraqi parliament on Sunday.for the second consecutive day, in protest against the corruption and inefficiency of the government in a country immersed in a deep institutional crisis. Despite tear gas, water cannons and high …
Read More »After parliament takeover, tension grows in protests in Iraq
posted on 07/31/2022 07:00 Crowd occupies legislative plenary, which had sessions suspended indefinitely: candidacies denounced – (credit: AFP) Three days after briefly occupying Iraq’s Parliament, thousands of supporters of Shiite leader Moqtada Sadr launched a new action yesterday, with no end date. For 10 months without a new appointed president …
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