Monthly Archives: May 2018

Baxtiyar Goran Baxtiyar Goran | Iraqi Parliament Speaker Salim al-Jabouri. (Photo: Archive) ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Iraqi Parliament Speaker Salim al-Jabouri on Saturday said the Parliament would submit an official letter to the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) to ensure transparency in the recent elections process.…

By Terence P. Jeffrey Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr casting his ballot in the Iraqi election. (Screen Capture) The 2017 State Department report on human rights in Iraq, which was released last month, begins by unambiguously declaring: “Iraq is a constitutional parliamentary republic.”…

By Stoyan Zaimov , Christian Post Reporter (Photo: AP Images / Alexandre Meneghini)In this photo taken May 31, 2010, people sit in the Corail-Cesselesse camp for earthquake displaced people on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, Haiti.…

By John Pontifex HUNDREDS of displaced people in Syria will soon be going back to their homes as work is set to begin on a long-awaited building repair project in an ancient city devastated by bomb damage.…

KOCHI, The Patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church Ignatius Aphrem II will visit India from May 22 on an invitation from the Jacobite Syrian Christian Church. Jacobite church trustee Thampu George Thukalan said here on Tuesday that the visit of the Patriarch was to meet the faithful against the “special circumstances” existing in the…

Political coalition of influential Shia religious leader Muqtada al-Sadr is still in the lead in Iraq’s national elections of May 12, with votes of 16 out of 18 provinces (91%) counted as of Tuesday morning. His bloc Al-Sairun (Alliance of Revolutionaries for Reforms) is so far in the lead of the other two alliances –Hadi…

By Rudaw 20 hours ago Iraq’s Independent High Electoral Commission announces preliminary unofficial parliamentary election results for Kirkuk and Duhok provinces on May 15, 2018. Photo: Iraqi state TV…

Pope Lamborghini Servizio Fotografico L’Osservatore Romano A luxury Lamborghini Huracan donated to Pope Francis last autumn has fetched nearly $1 million at a Sotheby’s auction May 12 in Monaco.…

The tomb of Father Ragheed Ganni in Karemlash, Northern Iraq. (Edward Pentin) The Iraqi priest martyred by Islamist fighters in Mosul in 2007 remains an inspiration for many Christian victims of persecution and those defending them.…

Iraq Mardaman identified (Peter Pfalzner, University of Tübingen) TÜBINGEN, GERMANY—Live Science reports that a site in northern Iraq has been identified as containing the ruins of the lost city of Mardaman. Philologist Betina Faist of the University of Heidelberg found the city’s name in the texts of 92 cuneiform tablets…

Tensions resurface between ethnic, religious groups KIRKUK, Iraq: Electoral campaign posters are seen in the multi-ethnic city of Kirkuk. —AFP KIRKUK: The streets of Kirkuk, which has violently changed hands several times since…

Pre-poll violence and voter apathy have left their mark on Iraq’s election. However, a young, female candidate could be a galvanizing force, especially for young Iraqis. Angela Boskovitch reports from Basra. Iraqi election candidate Evan Faek Yacoub with supporters (E. F. Yacoub)…

John Davison KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) – An intersection in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk paints a vivid picture of the Kurds’ rapid turn of fortune. The towering statue of a fighter who used to brandish a Kurdish sunburst flag now holds the red, white and black of Iraq’s Baghdad government.…

There was brotherhood in Iraq but after 2003, everything changed, says Luna, of Iraq’s only Anglican church In parliamentary elections tomorrow, Saturday 12 May, Iraq will decide on a new prime minister and president. Mike Simpson, chief executive of the Foundation for Relief and…

Adnan Abu Zeed Iraqi security members show their ink-stained fingers after casting their votes at a polling station two days before polls open to the public in a parliamentary election, in Najaf, Iraq, May 10, 2018.…

Abigail Frymann Rouch | World Watch Monitor #Iraq #elections #top headlines #christian persecution Iraqis go the polls on Saturday (12 May) for the first time since the military defeat of Islamic State, whose campaign of terror against non-Muslims pushed thousands of the…

BBC Newsnight / Ayman Oghanna How influential is Iran in the politics of Iraq? Ahead of the Iraqi general election, 15 years since Saddam Hussein was toppled, reporter Ayman Oghanna, producer Warwick Harrington and cameraman Jack Garland went on a road-trip across the…

Kosar Nawzad Kosar Nawzad | Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. (Photo: AFP/Haidar Hamdani) Sadr Iraq Kurdistan Iraqi Elections ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Influential Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has called on Kurds to participate in the Iraqi parliamentary election with “strength and determination.”…

by Renad Mansour People cast their ballots at a voting station on Sept. 25 in Kirkuk, Iraq. (Chris McGrath/Getty Images) Iraqis head to the polls on May 12 to vote for their next federal government. This will be the first time they vote since the territorial rise and fall of the Islamic State. It is…

Image copyright AFP/Getty Image caption Women voting in Batroun, to the north of Beirut Lebanon has held parliamentary elections for the first time in almost a decade. The last elections in the country were in 2009, for what was supposed to be a four-year term.…