Iraqi Kurdistan

A Road Trip Through Northern Iraq

Gretchen Berg | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Iraqi Kurdistan, Middle East Travel, International Destinations, Middle East, Iraq Travel, Kurdistan, Destinations, Iraq, Slidepollajax, Travel Blogs, Travel News
Gretchen Berg

Karwan pointed at the prison and laughingly crowed: "Hotel five star! For terrorists! Ha ha ha! Eat, sleeping, hotel!"

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Iran/Turkey: Recent Attacks on Civilians in Iraqi Kurdistan

Human Rights Watch | Posted 02.19.2012

Read More: Turkey, Iran, Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraq, Human Rights, World News
Human Rights Watch

(Baghdad) – Iran and Turkey’s cross-border attacks in Iraqi Kurdistan killed more than a dozen civilians and displaced thousands betw...

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Iraqi Kurds: Displaced by Iranian and Turkish Operations, Ignored by the World

Ahmad Shuja | Posted 11.07.2011

Read More: Kurds, Idps, Iraqi Kurdistan, Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Pjak, Pkk, World News
Ahmad Shuja

Iran has been involved in skirmishes with PJAK rebels on-and-off in the past, but the current spate is unprecedented in its duration -- it is likely the longest lasting combat operation by the Revolutionary Guards since the Iran-Iraq war ended more than 20 years ago.

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Iran Seizes Kurdish Opposition Bases In Iraq

Posted 09.17.2011

Read More: Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraqi Kurds, Iran Revolutionary Guard, Iranian-Kurds, Pejak, Iran, Kurdistan, Iraq, World News

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces have taken control of three bases of an Iranian Kurdish opposition group in neighboring Iraq,...

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Rebuilding the House of Wisdom

Athanasios Moulakis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraqi Scholars, Iraqi Education, Education in Iraq, Iraqi Kurdistan, Institute of International Education, Women, Education, Kurds, Iraq, Women's Education, World News
Athanasios Moulakis

Iraq has ingrained traditions of learning, including the professional academic preparation of women. Whatever can be said for the American invasion, it devastated Iraqi higher education.

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Female Circumcision -- 90 Percent of Childbearing Women in Egypt?

Evelyn Leopold | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraqi Kurdistan, Suzanne Mubarak, Unfpa, Egyptian Women, Unicef, Female Genital Mutilation, Somalia, Africa, Waris Dirie, Ethiopia, Egypt Fgm, Egypt Female Circumcision, Female Circumcision, Egypt Female Genital Mutilation, Egypt Circumcision, Home News
Evelyn Leopold

Does that mean that most of the spirited young woman demonstrators and bloggers we have seen on TV have lost control over their bodies? Or do they belong to the lucky 10 percent?

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"A Success Story in the Middle East"

Janet Ritz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq, Iraqi Kurdistan, Jalal Talabani, Qubad Talabani, Kurdistan, Slidepollajax, Religion, Environment, Iran, Turkey, The Environmentalist, Politics, Kurds, World News
Janet Ritz

A recent conversation with Qubad Talabani, the Kurdish representative to the U.S., centered on what the son of Iraq's President Jalal Talabani called the U.S.'s success story in the Middle East.

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Turkey's "Zero Problem" With Iraqi Kurds Means Big Bucks

Alexander Sasha Suderow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Erdogan, Iraqi Kurdistan, Massoud Barzani, Kurdistan, Turkey, Iraq, Ahmet Davutoglu, Qubad Talabani, World News
Alexander Sasha Suderow

In a volatile region, an army of visionary merchants are reshaping geo-politics. And the Turkish government, in a policy U-turn, is capitalizing on the strategic framework charted by the private sector.

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"Quest for Honor: Stop The Killings Now!" -- A Documentary Examines Honor Killing

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rewan, Selling Girls, Runak Faraj, Iraqi Kurdistan, Saddam Hussein, Violence Against Women, Quest for Honor, Mary Ann Smothers Bruni, Kurds, Women?S Media Center of Sulaymaniyah, Trades for Blood, Iraq, Honor Killings, Runak Rauf, Domestic Violence, Arts News
Marcia G. Yerman

First-time filmmaker, 70-year-old Mary Ann Smothers Bruni, has made it her mission to bring visibil...

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Iraqi Kurdistan: Girls and Women Suffer the Consequences of Female Genital Mutilation

Human Rights Watch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women's Rights, Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraq, Female Genital Mutilation, World News
Human Rights Watch

by Nadya Khalife, Middle East women's rights researcher View Slideshow >> (Arbil) - A significant number of girls and women in Iraqi Kurdistan suf...

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