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U.S. to finance, build orphanage in Kurdish city

stripes.com     Apr 30, 2008    Send to a friend

The United States is building a combined orphanage and senior center in Irbil, the capital of Iraq's Kurdistan region, for $3.7 million. The building is expected to house 165 boys, 180 gi... ... Stars and Stripes Mideast edition, Wednesday, April 30, 2008 The United...

Kurdish father-to-be set for deportation to Iraq

guardian.co.uk     Apr 25, 2008    Send to a friend

Asylum seeker who has been living in Britain for eight years and whose wife is expecting their first baby is due to be deported today ... . Mouriad Yousef, 25, who has been held at Colnbrook immigration detention centre, in west London, despite being on medication for...

A dream come home: 'Ahlaam' finally screens in Iraq

dailystar.com.lb     Apr 16, 2008    Send to a friend

Four years after filming his searing account of the fall of Saddam Hussein, Iraqi filmmaker Mohammed al-Daradji has finally seen his award-winning movie screened in his homeland. "Ahlaam" ("Dreams") was screened to a select audience in Baghdad before being given three showings last week in Irbil.

Television series deals with problems of the 'Arab House'

dailystar.com.lb     Apr 10, 2008    Send to a friend

The Lebanese village of Tanoura in the Bekaa Valley shares a common concern with the Jordanian town of Irbil: a lack of reliable water supply. In Tanoura, just one well provides the entire village with water, and people are forced to walk long distances in order to access it. In Irbil, the water...

Iraq: Notes From the Field

thisfuckingwar.blogspot.com     Mar 18, 2008    Send to a friend

There were checkpoints, police stops and at least one shootout. The people of the town were saying that the government forgets about them for a long time," reported one interviewer in Irbil province. At a village in southern Basra province, "fighting started between some...

Timeline

guardian.co.uk     Mar 17, 2008    Send to a friend

Key dates in the unfolding of the conflict and its bitter, divisive aftermath ... 1 February Suicide bomber kills at least 100 people during the Eid celebrations at the offices of Kurdish political parties in Irbil. 31 March Four civilian contractors working for the US...

Investors quick to grab slice of oil-rich region

zawya.com     Mar 18, 2008    1 related    Send to a friend

Be the first to comment on this article The Khanzad American Village rises on a hillside north of the northern Iraqi town of Irbil, a series of two-storey luxury homes which true to its name are virtually indistinguishable from a suburban planned community in California...