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Friday Feb 3 | The Daily Star

Hashemi says ball in Maliki's court after Iraqiya bloc's return

Iraq's Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi speaks at a news conference in in Arbil, about 350 km north of Baghdad, December 20, 2011.

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Related Topix: Iraq, World News, Middle East, Jalal Talabani, Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Thu Feb 02, 2012

The Daily Star

Middle East turmoil draws Turkey, Iraqi Kurds into unlikely friendship

IRBIL, Iraq: Upheaval in the Middle East and mutual economic interests are drawing together two unlikely partners; rising powerhouse Turkey and an entity whose name Turkish leaders hardly dare mention Kurdistan, the semi-autonomous region of northern Iraq.

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Related Topix: Turkey, Middle East, Iraq, Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Mon Jan 30, 2012

WIBW-TV Topeka

Iraqi VP Predicts Sectarian Violence

He accuses al-Maliki of "pushing my country to reach a turning point." The violence could require the return of U.S. forces, he says.

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Related Topix: Prison, Iraq, World News, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama,

Sun Jan 22, 2012

The State

With U.S. troops hardly gone, Iraq's government is coming apart

Faster than anyone expected, barely a month after the last U.S. troops left, Iraq's government appears to be coming apart, prompting fears that the country is headed for another round of sectarian strife.

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Related Topix: Iraq, World News, Middle East,

Fri Jan 20, 2012

The State

Iraq's Maliki accused of detaining hundreds of political opponents

Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki's security services have locked up more than 1,000 members of other political parties over the past several months, detaining many of them in secret locations with no access to legal counsel and using "brutal torture" to extract confessions, his chief political rival has charged.

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Related Topix: Iraq, World News, Middle East, Jalal Talabani,

The Daily Star

Syrian Kurds seek to unite against Assad

Lebanese security officers look on as Syrian Kurds protest outside the Arab League offices in an eastern neighborhood of the Lebanese capital Beirut.

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Related Topix: World News, Middle East, Lebanon, Iraq, Turkey

 

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