Articles tagged with: Iraq
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Friday, 24 May, 2013
Firyal’s husband, Firas, was stopped by the authorities to check his identity and place of residence. As soon as he said he was from Mahmoudiyah, a Sunni area in southern Baghdad, he was taken away. In her search for her missing husband, Firyal visited hospitals, morgues and even cemeteries. Because Firas’ body was never discovered, Firyal did not receive a widow’s pension, and her life took a turn for the worse. Her story is just one among many published in a 2008 survey conducted by Oxfa...
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Wednesday, 22 May, 2013
BAGHDAD, Asharq Al-Awsat—More than half of all Iraqi MPs boycotted an emergency parliamentary session held yesterday to discuss the deteriorating security situation in the country, further escalating the entrenched political crisis in Baghdad.
Just 140 out of a total of 325 Iraqi parliamentarians attended the special parliamentary session called for by Speaker Osama Al-Nujaifi at the behest of the Ahrar parliamentary bloc, affiliated to the Sadrist Movement. The State of Law coalition blo...
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Wednesday, 22 May, 2013
It has been over two years since a wave of protests and revolutions rocked the Arab world, and we have yet to see whether these initial openings will be consolidated into durable, ...
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Friday, 17 May, 2013
BAGHDAD, Asharq Al-Awsat— Leading Iraqi Sunni cleric, Abdul Malik Al-Saadi, has accused some parties of putting pressure on the demonstrators to return to their homes before ...
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Friday, 17 May, 2013
The two most populous Arab states after Egypt, Algeria and Iraq have been without a president: Algeria for a few weeks, and Iraq a few months. The two countries rank among the ...
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Tuesday, 14 May, 2013
The fight for Iraqi oil is a story smugly told. Countless observers have remarked on the irony of Western firms’ withdrawal from southern Iraqi oil fields and the flurry of new c...
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Tuesday, 30 Apr, 2013
Exactly a decade after the US invasion toppled Saddam Hussein, sectarian tensions are again threatening to turn back the clock in Iraq. The trigger this time was the storming o...
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Wednesday, 24 Apr, 2013
LONDON, Asharq Al-Awsat-A British businessman has been found guilty of fraud for selling thousands of fake bomb detection devices to Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and several other...
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Thursday, 18 Apr, 2013
Iraq’s eagerly anticipated provincial elections will take place this Saturday, April 20. While the elections for parliament and the post of prime minister will happen next year, ...
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Thursday, 18 Apr, 2013
I was visiting the Boston area, where I grew up, when two explosions went off on Monday at the world-renowned Boston Marathon, killing at least three people, including an eight-yea...
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