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By Yasin Aziz: Former Iraq premier Ayad Allawi has suggested (in an interview with The Times on 21st August) that at least one of Saddam’s old henchmen be given a place in the new Iraqi government as a gesture of reconciliation and an attempt to restore the discredited unity of a state torn apart by…
By Payraw Anwar: Nothing worth speaking of was achieved during the past ten years of Maliki’s rule. Nothing changed politically except for increased tensions and crises. Maliki was clever at causing crises and creating dilemmas for all sides in Iraq. Throughout his tenure there have always been bad relations between the Kurds and Arabs, and…
By Arian Mufid: This week Haider Abadi was endorsed by the Iraqi parliament as the new prime minister of Iraq. Mr Abadi is a Shia from the Dawa Party, the same party as the former premier, Nuri Maliki. He has an educated background and did most of his postgraduate studies in the UK. Kurds have…
KT News: The ‘Islamic State’ group (IS, also known as ISIS) has been accused by senior United Nations (UN) representatives of systematic sexual violence and child abuse, among its other barbaric acts, in Iraq and Kurdistan.“We are gravely concerned by continued reports of acts of violence, including sexual violence against women and teenage girls and boys…
By Freeyad Ibrahim: The terror organization , so-called ISIS, undeniably has multifunctional missions and tasks to achieve in the Middle East. It began first in Iraq. First: to be involved in Iraqi interior affairs and to impose a government to their liking, and that is what has happened recently. Second: to put pressure on the…
By Amy L. Beam, Ed.D: ‘Islamic State’ Invades Another Kurdish Town On August 7, 2014, at 6 PM, the town of Mahmur Camp, established 20 years ago by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for Kurds fleeing Turkey, was invaded by the organisation now calling itself ‘Islamic State’, known as ISID in Turkey (or…
By Aras Ahmed Mhamad: The first thought that comes to mind when mentioning America for a typical Iraqi Arab, be they Sunni or Shia, is that Americans are occupiers, liars, or even Kufar (disbelievers). This should not be seen as an accusation but rather based on personal experiences with Iraqi Arab acquaintances and Kurdish relatives…
By Mufid Abdulla: In this year’s Iraq parliamentary elections, the PUK won 21 seats and this kept them in a position to take the post of presidency of Iraq, like last time. We don’t know exactly why the PUK did well in the elections to the Iraqi parliament but not to the Kurdistan parliament and I…
By Mufid Abdulla: On 10th June 2014 the world awoke to news of a huge disaster in the troubled area of Iraq. The criminals and thugs who call themselves ISIL (or IS, for ‘Islamic State’) had taken over Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, and also Tikrit. It was a tragedy and everyone asked: how could…
By Payraw Anwar: There has been no stability in the Middle East from the First World War until now; nothing has happened to remedy this. The Middle East, and the Arabian countries in particular, were divided and designed according to the 1916 Sykes-Picot agreement by which three states (Britain, French and Russia) planned the division…
KT News: The head of UNHCR, the UN’s refugee agency, has praised the Kurdistan Region for welcoming hundreds of thousands of displaced people from Iraq. On a visit to the Al-Khazar refugee camp yesterday, Antonio Guterres told reporters that he was “humbled by the generosity and the solidarity of the government and of the people…
By Shakhawan Shorash: As I have pointed out in several articles, the rebuilding process of the Iraqi state has failed because it did not address critical questions and key problems, and because the reconstruction program was imposed on the Iraqis without including the right to choose alternatives. The element of imposition, and the arrogance of…
By Junaid Aman (from Balochistan): No entity, group, nation or state whatever the basis for its creation or existence can have priority over the intrinsic rights of the people it integrates to itself for supposedly higher and noble aims. Impositions of languages, culture, ethics and values, however lofty in the eyes of the imposer, cannot…
By Ala Jaff: As the Iraqi military self-destructed over the last weeks, like cream rising to the top Kurdish Peshmerga forces assumed the role and responsibilities of protecting the lives of civilians of all ethnicities across the Kurdistan region. But in doing so the Peshmergas’ lives have been jeopardized, not by the obvious fact of…
By Evin Cheikosman: All the evidence is on the table and powerful countries like Israel and Turkey are pretty much making revealing bouts of support for an independent Kurdistan with loud speakers and bell horns! According to numerous reports by Reuters, Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal, the tanker ‘SCF Altai’ transferred a cargo of…
