Archives for April, 2013

Kurdish President Massoud Barzani (R) and Iraqi President Jalal Talabani talk during an event to mark the official start of oil exports from the autonomous region of Kurdistan, in the northern Kurdish city of Arbil June 1, 2009. Iraq's Kurdistan region said on Monday it hoped to be producing 1 million barrels per day of oil within the next 2-3 years, despite discord with the Arab-led government in Baghdad over Iraq's oil wealth. REUTERS/Safin Hamed/Pool (IRAQ CONFLICT ENERGY BUSINESS POLITICS) - RTR245LU

خمسة شهور على غياب طالباني .. العراق من دون رئيس

Members from peace groups gather around a peace sign formed by lighted candles, remembering the tenth anniversary of the Iraq War at Plaza de Catalunya, central Barcelona March 20, 2013. REUTERS/Gustau Nacarino (SPAIN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST) - RTR3F8PV

العراق: غياب قوانين التأسيس يطعن التعايش

Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani (C) Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (L) and Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal attend a ceremony in Doha, on February 6, 2012. Abbas will head an interim national consensus government under a deal signed in Qatar between Abbas and Meshaal , ending a long-running disagreement that had stalled Palestinian reconciliation.
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قراءة هادئة في علاقة حماس وقطر

A man works at a construction site in Iraq's northern province of Arbil September 25, 2010. While most Iraqis struggle under the detritus of a seven-year war, the people of Arbil in Iraqi Kurdistan can frolic in a public pool, ride an elevated cable car over freshly planted parkland or escape stifling heat in a new ice skating hall. The new luxuries of Iraq's northern Kurdish region seem a world apart from the dust and grit of Baghdad, where suicide bombers are an everyday fear, dirt-gray blast walls domina

الاستثمار والتجارة يعززان علاقات اقليم كردستان العراق مع الدول العربية

A client counts his money at Al-Rafidain bank in BaghdadJune 21, 2009. Total bank deposits in February -- the latest figures available -- jumped by half to 36.6 trillion Iraqi dinars ($31 billion) from a year before, and loans surged 65 percent to 5.1 trillion dinars over the same period, central bank data show.
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العراق: الشبهات مازالت تحيط بمزاد البنك المركزي للعملات الصعبة

Shi'ite, Sunni Muslim and Druze Lebanese clerics listen to Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah addressing his supporters during a rally to commemorate Martyrs' Day in Beirut, February 16, 2013. REUTERS/Sharif Karim (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR3DVC0

المعلومات تتضارب عن حجم تدخل "حزب الله" في سوريا

The train schedule board shows train service to Boston canceled at New York's Penn Station April 19, 2013. All mass transit, including subways, buses, commuter rail and Amtrak trains, travelling to and from Boston have been shut down as the manhunt continues for Dzhokar Tsarnaev, the remaining suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings. Police killed one suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, Tamerlan Tsarneav, in a shootout and mounted house-to-house searches for the second man, his brother Dzhokar Tsarnaev,

ناشط إسلامي لموقعنا: "ملهم" مفجر بوسطن في الإمارات لا في لبنان

A border officer stamps the passport of a Palestinian passenger on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing over to Gaza at Rafah city, some 350 km (217 miles) northeast of Cairo August 10, 2012. Egyptian military forces have captured six "terrorists" in the Sinai region after an attack on a police station earlier this week that killed 16 border guards, state television quoted a military source on Friday as saying. Egypt opened the Rafah border on Friday to allow the return of pilgrims from Saudi Arab

اللاجئون الفلسطينيون في مصر

Abdullah Yaseen, a freelance web programmer, works on his laptop at al-Najah University campus in the West Bank city of Nablus April 8, 2013. Fledgling Palestinian high-tech firms hope they can now help revitalise the economy, making the West Bank more resistant to Israeli controls on land and the movement of goods and people and less dependent on fickle foreign aid flows, which are blighting the public sector. Picture taken April 8, 2013. To match Feature PALESTINIANS-HITECH/ REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman (

تضاؤل الفرص لنجاح خطة السلام الاقتصادي

Iraqi security forces wait in line to vote, outside a polling station in Basra, 420 km (261 miles) southeast of Baghdad April 13, 2013. Members of the Iraqi security forces head to polling stations on Saturday in Baghdad and other Iraqi provinces to cast their ballot in the 2013 provincial council election. REUTERS/Atef Hassan (IRAQ - Tags: ELECTIONS POLITICS MILITARY) - RTXYK1F

نسب المشاركة في الانتخابات العراقية غير محسومة

Protesters light candles in front of a Palestinian flag during a rally to show solidarity with Palestinian prisoners inside Israeli jails, in Gaza City April 15, 2013. According to a Palestinian prisoners' association, at least 4900 Palestinians remain in Israeli jails. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTXYMTT

ما يتفق عليه الأميركيون والعرب في عملية السلام

Iraqi Sunni Muslims take part in an anti-government demonstration in Falluja, 50 km (31 miles) west of Baghdad April 12, 2013. Thousands of Sunni Muslims protested after Friday prayers in huge rallies against Shi'ite Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, demanding that he steps down. The poster (L) reads "Fallujah is spark of the resistance and spark of the revolution". REUTERS/Mohanned Faisal (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST RELIGION POLITICS) - RTXYIVR

ماذا يمتلك المالكي ضد خصومه؟

Lebanon's Hezbollah members carry the coffin of a Hezbollah member during his funeral in Ansar village near Baalbek city October 8, 2012. Hezbollah gave no details about their deaths but sources in Baalbek said they and another Hezbollah man were killed near a Syrian border town where rebels are fighting Assad's forces. REUTERS/Ahmed Shalha (LEBANON - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS) - RTR38X93

حرب بين جبهة النصرة وحزب الله

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مُعبدو كنيسة المهد.. 11 عامًا وأجراس العودة لم تُقرع بعد

A member of Hamas security forces gives instructions to Palestinian students during a military-style exercise at the courtyard of a high school in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip March 6, 2013. The military-style exercise in the 138 Hamas-run high schools in Gaza was part of a program sanctioned by the Hamas Islamist government to teach students how to use guns. Education officials in Gaza say some 6,000 students have joined the training initiative where only boys can sign up for the voluntary progra

تدريب "عسكري" للفتية في مدارس قطاع غزة

Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad sits at the head of a Palestinian cabinet meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah April 16, 2013. Abbas accepted Fayyad's resignation on Saturday, but is likely to keep him in office for the next few weeks while the U.S. tries to revive Middle East peace talks, officials said on Monday. REUTERS/ Mohamed Torokman (WEST BANK - Tags: POLITICS) - RTXYNV1

استقالة حكومة فياض لن تحقق المصالحة الفلسطينية

الفصائل الفلسطينية والشارع الفلسطيني في غزة لا يبدي اهتماماً كبيراً لاستقالة حكومة سلام فياض في الضفة الغربية، ولا يرى فيها افقاً لتحقيق المصالحة، حازم بعلوشة يكتب.