Via the Assyrian International News Agency (AINA), Nov. 4: The Iraqi parliament voted on Monday, November 3rd on the issue of reserved seats for the Assyrians, Yezidies, Shabaks and Mandeans. The final vote of the Iraqi parliament is a huge… Read moreIraq: minorities denounce new election law quotas
From the Iraq Freedom Congress (IFC), Nov. 6: A letter to Mr. Barack Obama on his election as President of the United States of America Greetings… On behalf of the Iraq Freedom Congress, I would like to congratulate you on… Read moreIraq’s civil resistance to Obama: end the occupation
Two Iraqi insurgent groups called on president-elect Barack Obama to withdraw US forces from Iraq, an Internet monitoring service reported Nov. 7. Abu Omar al-Baghdadi of the Islamic State of Iraq said it would be better “for you and us”… Read moreIraq: al-Qaeda offers Obama truce?
A statement from the General Federation of Workers Councils and Unions in Iraq (GFWCUI), Oct. 27: In Basra Thousands of Workers Take to the Street Against the Government Anti-Workers Policy In a coordination effort with the Labor Unifying Bureau, thousands… Read moreIraq: Basra workers march against austerity
A statement from the Iraq Freedom Congress, Oct. 19: Thousands of Workers Took To the Street against the Minister of Finance US Troops and National Guards Surround the Event While the Labor Leaders Deliver Their Speeches In a series of… Read moreIraq: workers protest IMF policies
Blasts struck a double-decker bus and a taxi in eastern Baghdad Oct. 20, killing four. Iraqi police said the bus was carrying employees of Iraq’s Housing Ministry through the Shi’ite neighborhood of Mashtal when it was hit by a roadside… Read moreIraq: terror continues, SOFA advances
The number of Christian families who have fled the northern Iraqi city of Mosul in the past week has reached 1,350, Nineveh provincial authorities said Oct. 15. Fourteen Christians have been slain in the past two weeks in the city…. Read moreIraq: attacks on Christians continue in Mosul
The Turkish military said that its warplanes hit targets of the PKK guerillas in the Zap region of northern Iraq Oct. 12. The Turkish General Staff said in a statement that this was the seventh time that Turkey’s warplanes have… Read moreTurkey bombs Iraq —yet again!
Attacks in the Iraqi city of Mosul have forced nearly 1,000 Christians, or some 500 families, to flee their homes over the past week, the governor of the northern Ninawa (Nineveh) province reports. Duraid Mohammed Kashmoula Oct. 11 said most… Read moreIraq: Christians flee sectarian terror in Mosul
Suicide bombers targeting Shi’ite worshippers killed at least 20 people and injured dozens more at two Baghdad mosques Oct. 2. They attacks came as Shi’ites marked the first day of Eid, a three-day celebration that follows Ramadan, Islam’s holy month…. Read moreIraq: more mosque attacks
A car bomb detonated Sept. 30 near a crowded restaurant at lunchtime in central Baghdad’s Karrada district, killing at least four civilians and wounding nine others. Most of the victims were eating lunch on the first day of the five-day… Read moreEid al-Fitr terror in Baghdad
Royal Dutch Shell formally signed a joint venture with an Iraq’s state-owned South Oil Company to recapture gas that now goes to waste during oil extraction in the Basra fields. The deal is estimated to be worth $4 billion. Under… Read moreShell Oil back in Iraq
