Schlagwort: Irak

„In Halabdscha betreiben nun Flüchtlinge ihr eigenes Radioprogramm. Das Team besteht nur aus Frauen. Es ist ein Pilotprojekt in der Region. Das Programm ‚Flüchtlinge für Flüchtlinge‘ begann am 1. Februar 2016 und erfreut sich seitdem großer Beliebtheit. Weil es Radios fast überall gibt, kann man auf diesem Wege auch Menschen…

Von Thomas von der Osten-SackenEine Nachricht, bei der sich Saddam Hussein wutentbrannt im Grabe umdrehen dürfte: Ausgerechnet im Irak, genauer in Irakisch-Kurdistan, wurde erstmalig seit Jahrzehnten in einem Mitgliedsland der Arabischen Liga ganz offiziell der Holocautsgedenktag begangen.„In a historic ceremony in the Kurdistan capital Erbil, Kurds with Jewish roots together…

Von Thomas von der Osten-Sacken „Die subventionierte Aufrüstung des Irak ist ein besonders schmutziges Kapitel deutscher Wirtschafts- und Nahostpolitik, über dessen Beteiligte in den Ministerien und Diensten der BRD nach wie vor nicht vollständig aufgeklärt wurde. … Noch schäbiger als das damalige Irakgeschäft ist nur der Umgang der Bundesrepublik mit…

„After the Shi’ite militia Hashd al-Shaabi militants attacked Peshmerga in Tuz Khurmatu last night at 11:00 pm, heavy clashes broke out between the two sides in the city which resulted in the death of a Kurdish commander and a civilian. On April 23, a militant group linked to Hashd al-Shaabi,…

„The Islamic State, notorious for its brutality, has reportedly executed 250 girls in northern Iraq for refusing to become sex slaves, according to a media report. The girls had been ordered to accept temporary marriages to the terrorists and were murdered, sometimes alongside their families, for their refusal to be…

„‚In 20, 30 Jahren wird es in Europa eine muslimische Mehrheit geben. Die Hälfte der europäischen Frauen wird dann einen Hijab tragen.‘ Der dies prophezeit, ist nicht Michel Houellebecq oder Thilo Sarrazin, sondern Dionysos Isa Gürbüz, der syrisch-orthodoxe Bischof in der Schweiz. Er residiert im idyllisch am Zugersee gelegenen Kapuziner­kloster…

„Getting from Turkey to Europe was a cakewalk compared to escaping the Islamic State-run city of Fallujah, says one Iraqi. Fleeing families must cross a reservoir, in a ten-passenger boat, on an active battlefield.“ (Spannende Reportage, hier)

„Although the eruption of popular protest, regime violence, and civil war created conditions under which jihadist militancy could thrive, Syria had already been fertile ground for Sunni extremism. For many years prior to 2011, the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had maintained a consistently flirtatious relationship with Sunni jihadists.…

„Hezbollah Brigades fighters in Iraq have threatened to attack the American soldiers stationed in the country, following the decision by the US army to send reinforcements to Iraq to support the international coalition in its fights against ISIS. In a statement released Sunday, the Iranian-backed organization active in Iraq and…

„IS is in many respects a project of Saddam Hussein’s now-outlawed Baath Party, but with a different ideology. Former agents or officers of the former Iraqi president’s regime dominate its leadership. … The ex-Baathists shape the group’s jihadist ideology, handle its security (weeding out infiltrators or possible putschists) and military…

„The group now known as ISIS was founded in early 2000 with Al-Qaeda seed money at a camp in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. ISIS’ founder, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, did not formally swear allegiance to Osama bin Laden until 2004, but the two pooled resources, notably on the Millennium Plot, which was meant…

„The Romans had a word for it: principiis obsta, meaning ‚resist the beginnings‘ to avoid an unpleasant end. Syria is a perfect case study. Obama drew his vaunted ‚red line‘ over the use of chemical weapons in Syria before Bashar al-Assad massacred civilians with sarin, a nerve gas, in 2013.…

„The northern city of Kirkuk and its surrounds are well known for their oil producing abilities. And locals know that thousands of barrels of oil are being extracted and exported from their area. But nobody seems to be seeing any kind of revenues from that oil. The Kirkuk authorities say they…

„A combination of war fatigue, the financial crisis, energy self-sufficiency, and a desire to shift focus to Asia contributed to a scaling-back of American strategic engagement in the region. This was demonstrated most concretely by what regional allies saw as a precipitous U.S. withdrawal from Iraq in 2011 and by…

„According to Kurdish media reports, the jihadist group that has captured wide swaths of Syria and Iraq beheaded a 15-year-old boy in Mosul for the crime of listening to Western pop music. Reports cite officials in the northern Iraqi city as saying that the boy, Ayham Hussein, was discovered by…