12 July 2009 | Uncategorized | Gareth Porter
The release Friday of five Iranians held by the U.S. military in Iraq for
two and a half years highlights the long-simmering conflict between the U.S.
and Iraqi views of Iranian policy in Iraq and of the role of its Islamic Revolutionary
Guard Corps (IRGC) there.
For the Barack Obama administration, as [...]
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06 July 2009 | Uncategorized | Mohammed Salih
Relations between Iraq’s various Kurdish, Arab, and Turkmen ethnicities are
going through a new round of complications since a provision in the draft constitution
of the country’s northern Kurdistan region declared a range of disputed areas
part of the historical Kurdish homeland, infuriating non-Kurds in the country.
All this comes against a [...]
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