Archives for February, 2013

Members of a Syrian refugees family, who fled the violence back home, are seen at the Domiz refugee camp in the northern Iraqi of province Dohuk July 25, 2012. The number of refugees that have fled to Iraq's Kurdistan region is in excess of 11,000 refugees, and they are settled in the region's three provinces: Arbil, Dohuk and Sulaimaniya. As for the Domiz refugee camp, the number of refugee families reached 696 families, equivalent to 2,800 people, but on the other side of the camp, where young refugees ar

نزوح كردي سوري جماعي باتجاه اقليم كردستان العراق يفوق توقعات الادارة الكردية

Syrian military vehicles are seen from Aboudiyeh village near the Syrian border, in northern Lebanon, October 9, 2012. REUTERS/Omar Ibrahim (LEBANON - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS MILITARY) - RTR38Y91

مخاوف من انتقال الاحتراب المذهبي السوري الى لبنان

Smoke trails are seen as a rocket is launched from the northern Gaza Strip towards Israel November 17, 2012. Palestinian militants fired a rocket at Tel Aviv on Saturday but it was intercepted in mid-air by a newly deployed Israeli anti-missile battery and caused no casualties or damage, police said. REUTERS/Majdi Fathi (GAZA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST MILITARY POLITICS) - RTR3AJ3H

إسرائيل تسابق الزمن لوقف تهريب الأسلحة إلى حماس

A man selling petrol and gas waits for clients in Ain Tarma neighbourhood, Damascus January 23, 2013. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic (SYRIA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT ENERGY) - RTR3CUPA

سوريا تواجه ازمة نفط

The clock tower of Qushla is seen at noon in central Baghdad April 2, 2012. Qushla, or the Ottoman government headquarters on the bank of the Tigris River in Baghdad's Rusafa side is one of the city's important archaeological sites and tourist attractions. REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani (IRAQ - Tags: SOCIETY) - RTR308PW

الحكومة العراقية تعيد ترميم دار الوالي العثماني

Palestinian blacksmith Hussam Haweyla works in the northern Gaza Strip February 14, 2013. Egypt's campaign to shut down smuggling tunnels running under its border into the Gaza Strip threatens to throw thousands of Palestinians out of work in the Hamas-run enclave. Haweyla remembers the day, three years ago, when the tunnel he was digging became a death trap. Workers heard the sound of an explosion before dirty water poured in. According to Haweyla, a colleague died in the incident, and he has stopped worki

شد الحبل بين حكومة حماس والمؤسسات الدولية في قطاع غزة

Lebanon's Hezbollah supporters wave flags during a rally to commemorate Martyrs' Day in Beirut, February 16, 2013. REUTERS/Sharif Karim (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR3DVBY

حزب الله من جيل التأسيس الى مرحلة التوسع الاجتماعي والسياسي والاقتصادي

Kurdish Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani speaks during the first International Energy Arena in Arbil, about 350 km (217 miles) north of Baghdad, May 20, 2012. Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region expects to start exporting oil from its fields along a new pipeline to the Turkish border when the line is complete in August 2013, the region's natural resources minister Ashti Hawrami said on Sunday. REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani (IRAQ - Tags : - Tags: ENERGY POLITICS) - RTR32CEM

اقليم كردستان العراق .. كلمة السر المفقودة

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad heads a cabinet meeting in Damascus, in this handout photograph distributed by Syria's national news agency SANA on February 12, 2013. REUTERS/SANA/Handout (SYRIA - Tags: POLITICS CONFLICT CIVIL UNREST) ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR
ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS - RTR3DOUK

مسؤول سوري يؤكد: مرتاحون جداً جداً

Iraq's Supreme Court chief judge Midhat al-Mahmoud holds a news conference in Baghdad June 1, 2010. Iraq's Supreme Court certified the final results of a March 7 parliamentary election on Tuesday, an important step toward the formation of a new government. REUTERS/Saad Shalash (IRAQ - Tags: ELECTIONS POLITICS) - RTR2EMDW

العراق : رئيس السلطة القضائية يخسر منصبه بسبب قانون جديد للمحاكم

A pressman keeps watch on the print run of the first Baghdad edition of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan's newspaper April 22, 2003. The printing press in the Bab al-Muadham district used to print the official al-Iraq newspaper, and also issued the last editions of Iraq's three other main official newspapers because other presses were out of action. But it has been taken over by a Kurdish group, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), and will now produce a newspaper called Al-Ittihad. - RTXLWW2

اقليم كردستان العراق يواجه اتهامات بالتضييق على حرية الصحافة

Debris from a bus that was damaged in a bomb blast on Wednesday is seen outside Burgas Airport, about 400km (248miles) east of Sofia July 19, 2012. A suicide bomber carried out an attack that killed seven people in a bus transporting Israeli tourists in Bulgaria, the country's interior minister said on Thursday, and Israel said Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants were to blame. Video surveillance footage showed the bomber was similar in appearance to tourists arriving at the airport, Interior Minister Tsveta

حزب الله – واشنطن: حرب جواسيس ومال ومحاكمات

Palestinian sisters Dunia, 10, and Dana, 5, sort out their school books after finding them among the debris of their parents' destroyed home in the southern part of Gaza City January 20, 2009. Voicing shock at stark scenes of destruction, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, and Israel was poised to withdraw its troops before the U.S. presidential inauguration later in the day. REUTERS/Anja Niedringhaus/Pool (GAZA) - RTR23N6B

الحصار على قطاع غزة: حصار بطون أم حصار عقول؟

The car of U.S. ambassador to Syria Robert Ford (L) travels on the Damascus airport highway January 16, 2011. Ford arrived in Damascus on Sunday to take up his post after more than a five-year break in top U.S. diplomatic representation in Syria. REUTERS/Khaled al-Hariri (SYRIA - Tags: POLITICS) - RTXWMYK

مقتل نويس وضابط إيراني يرافقه

The Jewish settlement of Halamish is seen in the background as a stone-throwing Palestinian protester stands on a garbage bin during clashes with Israeli security officers at a weekly protest against the settlements, in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, near Ramallah February 1, 2013. U.N. human rights investigators called on Israel on Thursday to halt settlement expansion and withdraw all half a million Jewish settlers from the occupied West Bank, saying that its practices could be subject to prosecutio

الضفة الغربية تتحول إلى "مواقع رماية" ضد المستوطنين

Massud Barzani, the president of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region (C-bottom) sits amidst Kurdish peshmerga security forces during a visit to the disputed north Iraq province of Kirkuk on December 10, 2012 on the outskirts of the Kirkuk. The visit may increase already-high tension with Baghdad, which has seen both sides deploy military reinforcements to areas in north Iraq. The dispute over territory in northern Iraq is the biggest threat to the country's long-term stability, diplomats and officials say. T

بارزاني يتحرك لسد فراغ طالباني في ضبط صراعات الفرقاء العراقيين