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Female Kurdish deputies are pictured outside the Kurdistan parliament building in Erbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq on November 6, 2013. (AFP Photo/Safin Hamed)
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 10, 2013 | Middle East
Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—Sixteen Kurdish political blocs and parties from Kirkuk, 150 miles (235 kilometers) north of Baghdad, said they would stand for the forthcoming Iraqi parliamentary elections on the same electoral list, a Kurdish source told Asharq Al-Awsat. In...
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A U.S. Marine watches a statue of Saddam Hussein being toppled in Firdaus Square in downtown Baghdad on April 9, 2003 file photo. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)
by Hamza Mustafa | Mar 25, 2013 | Middle East
Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Hamid Majid Mousa, secretary-general of the Iraqi Communist Party and former member of the Iraqi Interim Governing Council, believes, “The changes that have come to Iraq ten years after regime change are not worth the sacrifices that the Iraqi...
