Political Parties of Iraq

Kurds to participate in elections on four different lists

Kurdistan Alliance list is only Kurdish alliance for elections. In Kurdistan Region, four different lists are to separately participate in the elections that are Kurdistan Alliance List, Kurdistan Islamic Union List, the Change...

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Baroness Ashton: EU couldn’t make it up

After a byzantine Brussels stitch-up, the appointment to one of the grandest jobs in the European Union was settled by text message. Early on Thursday evening Baroness Ashton, an obscure Labour quangocrat, received a text...

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Interview: Conflict In Yemen Widens Amid Charges Of Iran Involvement

A decades-old conflict in Yemen between the government and northern rebels from the country's Shi'ite minority is heating up. As it does, Yemeni officials are charging Iran with supporting the rebels in a conflict that is also...

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Three Key Lessons from Obama's China Tour

President Obama's trip to China yielded precious little Chinese cooperation on the Administration's key concerns, ranging from currency issues to Iran. "I underlined to President Obama that given our differences in national...

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North of the "border"

Flew up from Baghdad to the northern Iraqi city of Suleimaniyah this afternoon, crossing the "border" between Arab Iraq and Kurdish Iraq. There is of course, no border there - Iraqi Kurdistan is part of Iraq, de jure if not...

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Obama in Asia - building block or bow?

Barack Obama's first presidential trip to Asia was also his first big step in recasting U.S. ties with a region in flux, and showed this will demand patience and compromise from a superpower used to pushing its weight around.

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Obama learns hurdles of an Asia in a state of flux

By Chris Buckley/Beijing Barack Obama’s first presidential trip to Asia was also his first big step in recasting US ties with a region in flux, and showed this will demand patience and compromise from a superpower used to...

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'The devil's pipe ruins the soul of prayer'

Politicians in the days of Saddam Hussein tried to harness the music of Nasiriya. Nowadays, militiamen harass the musicians who live in the southern Iraqi city famed for its singers. Where once they strutted their stuff on the...

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Iraq and its neighbours: A regional cockpit

As Americans prepare to leave, Iraq’s biggest neighbours vie for influence OF ALL the foreign officials an American general or ambassador would least want to be seen with, General Qassem Suleimani would—you may think—be high on...

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Anybody-But-Blair Resonates as EU Nears Vote on First President - Bloomberg

Telegraph.co.uk Anybody-But-Blair Resonates as EU Nears Vote on First President Bloomberg The focus on these figures -- and opposition to former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair -- may undercut the 27-nation EU's goal of using the...

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