Archives for March, 2013

Security personnel and residents gather around a crater caused by a suicide car bomb attack in Debis, west of Kirkuk March 11, 2013. Three civilians were killed and some 70 others were wounded when a suicide car bomb went off on Monday, west of the ethnically mixed northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, police and hospital sources said. A large number of school pupils were wounded in the attack, which reduced a number of houses to rubble and damaged about ten cars. REUTERS/Ako Rasheed (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST P

لعنة الحدود الادارية تطارد العرب والاكراد في العراق

Women are seen through a broken window after clashes at Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp near the port city of Sidon in south Lebanon March 12, 2013. Ten people were wounded and one killed during clashes between the Fatah movement and radical Islamists that started on Monday. REUTERS/Ali Hashisho (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTR3EW46

معركة مرتقبة بين فتح ومجموعات القاعدة في مخيم عين الحلوة

Sunni Muslims chant "Allahu Akbar", meaning God is great, during an anti-government demonstration in Ramadi, 100 km (62 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/Ali al-Mashhadani (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS RELIGION) - RTR3EQ8A

بغداد تخشى ان تتحول الى ساحة معركة من جديد

Lebanese leaders and members of the "14 March Alliance", politicians and supporters of former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri stand during a ceremony commemorating the eighth anniversary of the assassination of his father, former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri, in Beirut February 14, 2013. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS ANNIVERSARY) - RTR3DSMS

مثقفون وناشطون يُطلقون حركة سياسية جديدة هذا الشهر

Protesters chant anti-government slogans during a demonstration calling for Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's resignation in Falluja, a main city in the western desert province of Anbar, 50 km (30 miles) west of Baghdad December 21, 2012. Sunni leaders in Iraq accused Shi'ite Prime Minister Maliki of a crackdown on Friday after troops detained a Sunni minister's bodyguards, setting off protests in one province and threatening to reignite a political crisis. Several thousand demonstrators took to the str

السنة لن يشاركوا في الانتخابات المحلية بانتظار ان تحقق مظاهراتهم الفوز

Pigeons fly in front of the parliament square in downtown Beirut October 25, 2012. The party capital of the Arab world, Beirut is a freewheeling city where Gulf Arabs, expatriates and Lebanese emigres fly in to enjoy its luxury hotels. But under the veneer of modernity lie sectarian demons coiled to strike. The car-bomb assassination last Friday of intelligence chief Wissam al-Hassan - an attack almost universally blamed on Syria and its local allies - brought the merry-go-round to a juddering halt. Gunmen

لبنان: حسابات شيعية سنية مسيحية قد تعطل انتخاباته التشريعية

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Members of the revolutionary guard attend the anniversary ceremony of Iran's Islamic Revolution at the Khomeini shrine in the Behesht Zahra cemetery, south of Tehran, February 1, 2012. REUTERS/Raheb Homavandi (IRAN - Tags: POLITICS ANNIVERSARY MILITARY) - RTR2X5DT

سليماني" العراق مختلف عن "سليماني" سوريا"

A Palestinian woman makes a withdrawal at the Housing Bank for Trade & Finance in the West Bank city of Ramallah January 22, 2013. A central bank in the making, the Palestine Monetary Authority (PMA) is a rare bright spot as the economy of the Palestinian territories struggles with Israeli sanctions. Enforcing on Palestinian banks a regimen of conservative lending that has kept bad loans minimal and guaranteed liquidity, the PMA's technocratic prowess is the pinnacle of a Palestinian drive to build institut

إصدرا عملة فلسطينية حلم ينتظر المصالحة الوطنية و الاستقلال السياسي

Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr (C) takes part in Friday prayers participated by Sunni and Shi'ite Muslim worshippers in a gesture of unity at the Abdul Qadir Gilani Mosque in Baghdad January 4, 2013. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani (IRAQ - Tags: RELIGION) - RTR3C3I0

الصدر الجديد والمشهد العراقي

Gaza runner Bahaa al-Farra stretches during a training session as children mimic him while posing for the camera in Shati refugee camp in Gaza City March 25, 2012. The 19-year-old trains for three hours a day in Gaza's Yarmouk soccer stadium, along the dusty streets and on the beach in well worn trainers that were donated to the Palestine Olympic Committee by wealthy Gulf state, Qatar, as he prepares to race at the London Olympics. Picture taken March 25, 2012. REUTERS/ Mohammed Salem (GAZA - Tags: SPORT

يرزح الرياضيون في غزة تحت وطأة الحصار

Lebanon's Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour attends an Arab League meeting in Cairo March 6, 2013. Mansour called on Wednesday for Syria's suspension from the Arab League to be lifted in order to help find a political solution to the conflict in the country. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany (EGYPT - Tags: POLITICS CONFLICT) - RTR3EN63

موقف وزير خارجية لبنان من الأزمة السورية أربك حكومته عاصفة من الإنتقادات انتهت برسالة وتوجيه رئاسي

Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki (R) speaks with Egypt's Prime Minister Hisham Qandil during his visit to Baghdad, in this March 4, 2013 picture provided by Iraqi Prime Minister Media Office. REUTERS/Iraqi Prime Minister Media Office/Handout (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS) ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS PICTURE IS DISTRIBUTED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS - RTR3EK1P

العراق يقترب من إنهاء تصاميم أنبوب ينقل النفط إلى الأردن ومصر

Lebanon's Maronite Patriarch Beshara Rai attends a memorial ceremony for victims killed in a militant attack on the Our Lady of Salvation Church in 2010, at the Church in Baghdad October 31, 2011. Fifty-two hostages and police were killed during an attack on the church on October 31, 2010. REUTERS/Saad Shalash (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY RELIGION CRIME LAW ANNIVERSARY) - RTR2TGJO

وسط الأزمات اللبنانية الكثيرة بيروت تحلم ببابا لبناني

Sunni tribal leader Sheikh Ahmed Abu Risha attends an anti-government demonstration in Ramadi, 100 km (62 miles) west of Baghdad, February 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. REUTERS/Mohammed Al-Kubaisi (IRAQ - Tags - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTR3DUGT

اتهامات بدعم زعماء سنة بدعم"القاعدة" ترفع مستوى المخاوف

A Greek Orthodox priest attends Christmas services at the Saint Porfirios church in Gaza City January 7, 2012. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem (GAZA - Tags: RELIGION) - RTR2VZBO

الكنيسة الأرثوذكسية في غزة تحتفل بعيد ميلادها الألف وستمائة وستة

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki (L) speaks next to Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Hussain al-Shahristani during a meeting of the Council of Ministers in Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad May 8, 2012. On top right hangs a picture of Iraq's President Jalal Talabani. REUTERS/Iraqi Prime Minister Media Office/Handout (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS) 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

المالكي يضع اكراد العراق امام خيارات صعبة