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Lebanon has long been mired in conflict and setback due to sectarian antagonism in the country. Despite a brief between 1958-1964, successive governments have been in effect run by tribal chiefs dressed in suits. Such a system of politics encourages...
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Iraq’s parliament ended weeks of debate Sunday and passed a long-delayed law paving the way for the planned January election to go forward, sidestepping a crisis...
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Iraq’s Green Zone has been an Oasis for Western officials in the city since the advent of the war. Secured behind myriad checkpoints and high concrete walls, the...
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It is not known who is responsible for such attacks, as no one is claiming responsibility for them; which doesn’t really make sense as terrorist organizations...
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A new wave of attacks has been wavering around Iraqi cities these days. Massive bombings were reported during the last couple of weeks causing deaths, casualties and...
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Violence in Iraq has been reduced, as Western generals and politicians are keen to point out, but it has not gone away. If anything, it has become more deeply...
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Nearly half of all Iraqis who died in October perished in a single coordinated attack against government offices in Baghdad, a tally by The Associated Press showed...
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A new poll conducted by the Pew Research Center revels an alarming belligerency in the American public. Apparently, several years of agonizing war in Iraq (and...
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Iraqi politicians have been turning up their rhetoric over Kirkuk, the oil-rich city that both Kurds in the north and Arabs in the south want to control.
The dispute...
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Iraq has called for more support from the international community to help it combat insurgent suicide bombings.
Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Sunday’s...
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Many people around the world have been cursed with cringe-inducing names (as this BBC story proves). Some, however, are more unfortunate than others.
On last...
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132 Iraqis are dead, more than 500 are injured… Suicide bombers on Sunday caused this huge number of deaths and casualties.
Why and who would do something like this?...
made popular Oct 27 2009
Suicide bombers driving two large vehicle bombs again penetrated the heart of Baghdad today, killing 147 people and wounding more than 700, less than three months...
made popular Oct 26 2009
After fleeing their bloodied homeland, where violence and increasing conservatism confine their compatriots’ lives, some Iraqis in exile are taking the...
made popular Oct 22 2009
President Obama’s pledge to withdraw US troops from Iraq and end combat operations there by September 2010 is under threat because of increased levels of violence and...
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Around 8 months after banning smoking in public places in Jordan, Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad issues a decree banning smoking in public places and public...
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Iraq says 85,694 people have lost their lives in the country’s violence from 2004-2008, in the first official report by the government on the Iraqi death toll...
made popular Oct 14 2009
A car packed with explosives rammed into a concrete wall at the provincial police headquarters. It was followed by a motorcycle bomb that was detonated among the crowd...
made popular Oct 12 2009
A Sunni cleric known for denouncing insurgents in Iraq was killed Friday by a bomb that ripped apart his car, a police official said, in the second targeted attack on a...
made popular Oct 10 2009
Reporting from Baghdad and Ramadi, Iraq - A car bomb exploded Tuesday in a crowded residential area in the western Iraqi town of Amiriya, killing at least 11 people and...
made popular Oct 7 2009
By the third day of negotiating with his son’s kidnappers, Rasul Amoore had sold his car, withdrawn his bank savings and borrowed money from his siblings and friends...
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Blessed as the only Middle Eastern nation without a desert, Lebanon nonetheless is a Sahara of sectarian feuds. The nation’s political system is a delicate...
made popular Aug 27 2009
People love to place blame on the U.S. and allied forces, claiming that all the violence in Iraq is a direct result of “occupation”. One would assume the...
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The sectarian violence which broke out in several parts of northern Nigeria at the end of July has more to do with popular anger and frustration with prevailing...
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We’re talking about a church smack in the middle of quite a densely Christian populated area..Al Zaytoon.
A church that is down in Egyptian History as one that...
made popular May 12 2009
When I saw this headline this morning, I was lost for words and felt for the poor kid who consoled his weeping mother that they would buy a new dad after the other...
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It is a sad and cold day in the Central province of Kenya. Over 27 young men were hacked to death last night allegedly by members of an outlawed sect called Mungiki....
made popular Apr 21 2009
Is this the promised Iraqi democracy?
The Iraqi military put local journalists on notice on Monday that their organizations could be shut down for misquoting...
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When an NGO founder together with his colleague were murdered in cold blood recently just a few metres to the president’s residence, a lot of questions were...
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The Islamic month of Moharram, the first month of the Islamic year, is just days ahead and the government has started with various measures to prevent sectarian...
made popular Dec 23 2008
Two days ago I posted a news link about a Muslim Fight over the Building of a Coptic Christian Church.
Thinking it was another one of those small sectarian clashes...
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Iraq faced the deadliest day when Sunnis murdered at least 160 people injuring 250 in a sectarian violence yesterday through well-planned car bombing and mortar attacks...
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