TRUMP / US backs Iraqi progress on budget deal with Kurdistan Region
The Trump administration says it supports Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi’s progress so far in working out a budget agreement with the Kurdistan Region. – Ali Mamouri – AL MONITOR – Aug 21, 2020
The Trump administration is backing Iraqi Prime MInister Mustafa al-Kadhimi’s efforts to urgently conclude a budget deal with Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : ERDOGAN’S CRIMES IN SOUTH KURDISTAN (IRAQ)
Turkish airstrikes hit Duhok province’s rural areas: sources
Halgurd Sherwani | 19 August 2020 – The aftermath of a Turkish airstrike in Baze village of Duhok province, Aug. 19, 2020.
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – On Wednesday, Turkish airstrikes targeted rural areas in the Kurdistan Region’s Duhok province, targeting alleged positions of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the area, according to sources. The Turkish air raid intensely targeted Kani Mazne and Baze villages in Duhok province’s Amedi area, local sources told Kurdistan 24. Baze village was attacked six times in less than an hour, the source added.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : MORE GREAT SUCCESS BY TRUMP/POMPEO ON IRAQ
KADHIMI VISITS WASHINGTON: BROADENING THE U.S.-IRAQ RELATIONSHIP
by Dana Stroul and Bilal Wahab – PolicyWatch 3363 August 17, 2020
The visit and follow-on meetings present an opportunity to not only reaffirm the strategic partnership, but also move beyond outdated paradigms that view Iraq solely as an arena for countering terrorism and pushing back against Iran.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS Intel: Unpaid salaries fuel protests in Iraqi Kurdistan
Iraqi Kurds take part in a mass demonstration in the city of Sulaimaniyah to demand payment of their salaries and an end to corruption, Iraqi Kurdistan, Sept. 27, 2016.
Joe Snell AL MONITOR – Aug 17, 2020 – Outraged after months of not receiving salaries, regular electricity outages and a failure to provide local business bailouts, protests erupted last week in northern Iraq against the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS PKK CHEF KARAYILAN – VON FEINDEN UMGEBEN – DIE SCHLACHT UM HAFTANIN
Karayilan: Wie lange wollen sich die Kurden noch benutzen lassen?
Der Guerillakommandant Murat Karayilan hat sich im TV-Interview zur aktuellen Situation in Heftanîn, den Problemen der türkischen Armee und der Rekrutierung von Dorfbewohnern aus Südkurdistan als Vorhut bei der Invasion geäußert.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS TODAYS CALL ! : Justice For Assyrians: A Kurdish Perspective
By Recep Maraşlı BERLIN – Posted 2020-08-07 18:29 GMT Sprache auswählen▼
Two young Assyrians sit next to the fence of a huge statue of the Holy Virgin Mary in Koysinjaq, Iraqi Kurdistan, in 2015. – August 7th marks Assyrian Martyrs Day, a time when we Kurds should focus on how we can help secure justice for the victims of the crimes committed against this persecuted community.
Assyrians, also known as Syriacs and Chaldeans, are an indigenous people of the Middle East, and heirs of the oldest civilization of the region. They are the first converts to Christianity. Their society has nurtured the Christian faith with its own cultural roots, and created original denominations.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : WADI BARZANIA KURDISTAN = GOING RED CHINA !
Navigating a Growing Chinese Influence in Iraqi Kurdistan
Sardar Aziz – Sardar Aziz is a senior adviser in the Kurdish parliament as well as a researcher and writer. His areas of interest include civil-military relations, Middle East regional politics, and governing. He has a Ph.D. in Government from the University College Cork.
Also available in العربية July 27, 2020 FIKRA FORUM
When I moved into new accommodations in the centre of Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq, the lift announcements in the apartment tower were in Chinese, followed by Kurdish, Arabic and English.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : THE CHRISTIANS IN IRAQ ARE THE VICTIMS
Remembering the 1933 Massacre of Assyrians in Iraq
By Abdulmesih BarAbraham -Posted 2020-08-05 22:59 GMT – (AINA) — On the 87th anniversary of the massacre of Simmele, where the Iraqi Army systematically massacred the inhabitants of more than one hundred Assyrian villages in north Iraq, Joseph Yacoub, honorary Professor of political science at the Catholic University of Lyon, published an article in French titled Le drame des Assyro-Chaldéens ne commence pas aujourd’hui (the Drama of the Assyro-Chaldeans Does Not Begin Today). The article appeared in the online edition of the French Newspaper Le Figaro, reminding of the less-known massacre of Simmele in the year 1933 in Iraq. According to various sources, as many as 6,000 innocent Assyrians were killed, and tens of thousands displaced.
Nineveh Plains Transitional Justice Report: July
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : SOLIDARITY WITH CHRISTIANS IN KURDISTAN / IRAQ
By Claire Evans International Christian Concern – Posted 2020-08-03 21:42 GMT
COVID-19 continues exacerbating the challenges already faced by the Nineveh Governorate. Lockdown restrictions have increased expenses and worsened living conditions. Militias continue as an unwelcome presence, and concern was raised that ISIS is using lockdown for recruitment purposes. Residents continue asking the question of whether immigration or returning home is preferable. From an investigative point of view, some argued that returning is necessary for holding those who committed genocide accountable.
MESOPOTAMI NEWS HISTORY TO REMEMBER : On the 6th anniversary of the ISIS genocide of Yazidis: A personal look backBy SETH J. FRANTZMAN – 3. August 2020
My first memories of ISIS crimes were in the summer of 2014 when the group first began to flood social media of images of mass murder. It was a chaotic summer because I was in Jerusalem at the time and there was a conflict beginning with Hamas in Gaza. It was only later that I understood the genocide that was unfolding. It was clear after the massacre at Camp Speicher and the expulsion of Christians from Mosul, that this group was going beyond what similarIslamic groups had done.
The genocide of Yazidis hit me hard.
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