Archives for March, 2013

A view of an upscale housing project under construction in Arbil, 310 km (190 miles) north of Baghdad August 27, 2008. Iraqi Kurdistan has been priming for a wave of foreign investments for years, but the grand goals of this relatively peaceful northern enclave are frustrated by violence plaguing the rest of Iraq, officials say. To match feature IRAQ/INVESTMENT REUTERS/Azad Lashkari (IRAQ) - RTX896Q

العراق: موازنة 2013 توجه ضربة كبيرة لجهود احتواء أزمة السكن

Palestinian women attend a rally in Gaza City to show solidarity with prisoners held in Israeli jails May 3, 2012. A hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners against Israel's jail policies has swollen in weeks from a protest by a handful to a national movement with around 1,400 participants. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTR31JO6

يدفنون الضحية ملفوفة بالعار، والقاتل ينال العذر المخفف

Palestinian former women prisoners pose with Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal after they were released and deported from Israeli jails and arrived in Cairo, October 18, 2011. Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit and hundreds of Palestinians crossed Israel's borders in opposite directions on Tuesday as a thousand-for-one prisoner exchange brought joy to families but did little to ease decades of conflict. REUTERS/Jamal Saidi (EGYPT - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS) - RTR2ST34

مسيرة... أسيرات محررات يوثقن تجاربهن ويبحثن عن دور فاعل في المجتمع رغم الصعوبات

A supporter of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr takes part in a rally, which the participants said was against sectarianism and injustice, in Kut, 150 km (93 miles) southeast of Baghdad, March 16, 2013. REUTERS/Wissm al-Okili (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTR3F2NB

العراق: يفشل رجال السياسة .. فيتصدى رجال الدين

Lebanon's President Michel Suleiman talks during a news conference with Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara at the presidential palace in Abidjan March 15, 2013. Suleiman visits the Ivory Coast as part of his official West Africa trip. REUTERS/Luc Gnago (IVORY COAST - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR3F1EZ

بيروت: أسبوع كل الاستحقاقات الخطرة

Sunni Muslims shout slogans during an anti-government demonstration in Falluja, 50 km (31 miles) west of Baghdad, March 15, 2013. Thousands of Sunni Muslims protested after Friday prayers in huge rallies against Shi'ite Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, demanding that he step down. The signs read, "We are coming, Baghdad". REUTERS/Mohanned Faisal (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTR3F11P

المالكي يستعد لمعركة "الولاية الثالثة" بتجديد رئاسته لحزبه السياسي

Palestinian labourers work at a construction site in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip January 2, 2013. Israel eased its blockade of Gaza on Sunday, allowing a shipment of gravel for private construction into the Palestinian territory for the first time since Hamas seized control in 2007. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS CONSTRUCTION) - RTR3C1PZ

التمويل والمنظمات غير الحكومية..هل هناك شفافية؟

Sunni Muslim protesters set garbage bins on fire, blocking Beirut's Corniche al-Mazraa road, to protest the attacks on Sunni Muslim scholars, March 18, 2013. Four Sunni Muslim scholars were beaten up in two separate attacks in Beirut on Sunday night, testing a fragile peace between the sects and factions that fought Lebanon's 15-year civil war. REUTERS/Hussam Shebaro (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTR3F5Q3

لبنان ينزلق نحو فتنة مذهبية

People cross the Lebanese-Syrian border by foot after residents blocked the road in protest against what they said were the sending of diesel to the Syrian goverment, in northern Lebanon February 13, 2013. REUTERS/Omar Ibrahim (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTR3DQO6

شمال لبنان: السوريون يفككون الألغام، ومسؤول "إخواني" زار دمشق

A general view shows a shipping container area at the port of Beirut November 20, 2012. Civil war in Syria is taking its toll on several sectors of the economy of neighbouring Lebanon, where exports have tumbled 12 percent, Lebanon's economy minister said on Monday. The IMF said in September that the main risk to the economy was poor policymaking, not Syria. To match Reuters Summit MIDEAST-SUMMIT/LEBANON-SYRIA REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir (LEBANON- Tags: BUSINESS) - RTR3ANO6

النزاع المسلح في سوريا ينعكس بقوة على الإقتصاد اللبناني

BAGHDAD, IRAQ - JULY 21: An Iraqi girl begs drivers for money at an intersection on July 21, 2011 in Baghdad, Iraq. While a recent United Nations report saw a significant potential for economic growth in Iraq, the current poverty rate is around 23% of the population. As the deadline for the departure of the remaining American forces in Iraq approaches, Iraqi politicians have been increasingly pressured to give a final decision about extending the mandate for a small U.S. military presence beyond the end of

الطفلة سماح .. اغتصاب جماعي وآخر اجتماعي

An Iraqi Red Crescent ambulance, transporting people injured in a bomb attack, travels to a hospital at Alawi district in Baghdad March 14, 2013. Co-ordinated blasts in the heart of the Iraqi capital Baghdad killed at least 21 people on Thursday, near the heavily fortified Green Zone, where several Western embassies are located, police and medics said. The explosions, which also wounded at least 50, took place in the Alawi district, close to the ministries of justice, foreign affairs and other government of

هجوم انتحاري يستهدف "رمز العدالة" في العراق

A vendor displays items showing former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein at the Bab al-Sharji market in central Baghdad March 15, 2013. REUTERS/Saad Shalash (IRAQ - Tags: CONFLICT SOCIETY POLITICS) - RTR3F0ZJ

عشر سنوات على رحيل نظام صدام حسين .. هل مازال العراقيون مجبرون على عقد المقارنات؟

Israelis use binoculars to see the fighting in the Syrian village of al-Jamlah, from the Israeli occupied Golan Heights, close to the ceasefire line between Israel and Syria March 7, 2013. Israel voiced confidence on Thursday that the United Nations could secure the release of U.N. peacekeepers seized by Syrian rebels near the Golan Heights, signalling it would not intervene in the crisis. Israel captured the Golan Heights in the 1967 Middle East war and annexed it in 1981 in a move not recognized internati

تطورات الميدان السوري يهدد بانهيار " خط وقف النار" مع اسرائيل

Sunni Muslims take part in an anti-government demonstration in Falluja, 50 km (31 miles) west of Baghdad, March 8, 2013. Thousands of Sunni Muslims protested after Friday prayers in huge rallies against Shi'ite Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, demanding that he step down. REUTERS/Mohanned Faisal (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS RELIGION) - RTR3EQ85

السنة والكرد يحرجون المالكي .. ويلوحون من جديد باسقاطه

Men count wads of Iraqi dinars using money counting machines at a currency exchange shop in Baghdad October 1, 2012. Many Iraqis have lost faith in their dinar currency but to some foreign speculators, it promises big profits. The contrast underlines the uncertainties of investing in Iraq as the country recovers from years of war and economic sanctions. Picture taken October 1, 2012. To match IRAQ-ECONOMY/DINAR REUTERS/Saad Shalash (IRAQ - Tags: BUSINESS POLITICS) - RTR38QU4

إيران متهمة بالتسبب في انخفاض سعر صرف الدينار العراقي