Archives for October, 2013

A weapons dealer checks AK-47 rifles before selling it to smugglers transferring it to Syria, at his house near the city of Mosul, 390km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, February 16, 2012. The weapons dealers sell a rifle for about $1000. REUTERS/Stringer (IRAQ - Tags: CONFLICT) - RTR2XY8B

الحدود بالنسبة للمهربين ..."خرافة"

Syrian refugees, who fled the violence in Syria, are seen at a school that functions as a shelter for Syrian Kurdish refugees at Qushtapa at the outskirts of the city of Arbil in Iraq's Kurdistan region, August 23, 2013. The number of Syrian children forced to flee their devastated homeland reached 1 million on August 23, 2013, half of all the refugees driven abroad by a conflict that shows no sign of ending, the United Nations said. Another two million Syrian minors are uprooted within their country where

"نساء عازبات".. جمعية كردية تسعى الى اعادة الاعتبار لغير المتزوجات

A fan wearing a Ghostface mask from Scream holds an Iraqi flag during Iraq's international friendly soccer match against Syria at Baghdad's Shaab stadium March 26, 2013. Iraq will be allowed to play friendly matches at home again following approval from soccer's world governing body FIFA on Thursday. Iraq were banned from playing all games at home for security reasons after losing a World Cup qualifier 2-0 to Jordan at the Franso Hariri Stadium in Arbil in September 2011. The reprieve does not apply to Worl

كرة القدم وعقدة الاضطهاد العراقية

A man looks at a car on fire at the site of a bomb attack in Baghdad October 7, 2013. Bombs exploded across the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 22 people, police said. Five of the six blasts were in mainly Shi'ite Muslim districts, but there was also an explosion in the predominantly Sunni Muslim neighborhood of Doura. REUTERS/Ahmed Saad (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTX142ZK

أزمة الإنحطاط الأخلاقي في المجتمع العراقي

A Palestinian refugee boy walks between the narrow alleys of Jabalya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip May 14, 2013. Palestinians will mark "Nakba" (Catastrophe) on May 15 to commemorate the expulsion or fleeing of some 700,000 Palestinians from their homes in the war that led to the founding of Israel in 1948. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem (GAZA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS) - RTXZM8H

الجيل الفلسطيني الحديث يتجه نحو تحديد الإنجاب

"ثلاجات الموتى" توثّق آلام العراقيّين

في خلال الأشهر القليلة الماضية، راحت "ثلاجات الموتى" في العراق تستعيد ذاكرتها من جديد، بعدما كانت "موجات الجثث" قد انحسرت بعض الشيء في السنتَين الماضيتَين من دون أن تغيب تماماً.

Iraqi security forces and people stand at the site of a car bomb attack in Basra, 420 km (261 miles) southeast of Baghdad, October 13, 2013. A series of bombs killed at least ten people in mostly Shi'ite Muslim provinces of Iraq on Sunday ahead of the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha, police and medical sources said. REUTERS/Essam Al-Sudani (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS CRIME LAW) - RTX149QD

عندما يتحوّل الأمن إلى ورقة اقتراع

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الإسلامّيون: همّنا مصر وهمومكم... لا تهمّنا!

Younes Makhyoun (2nd R), head of the Salafist al-Nour Party attends a news conference with Presidential Media Advisor and spokesman Ahmed al-Muslimani (2nd L) at the party's headquarters in Cairo August 28, 2013. During the conference, Makhyoun stated that the Egyptian armed forces are a red line and reiterated al-Nour's support of the army's roadmap back to democracy, according to local media. Picture taken August 28, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer (EGYPT - Tags: POLITICS MEDIA) - RTX12ZWG

رئيس حزب النور السلفي: لا نمانع مساندة مرشح بخلفية عسكرية للرئاسة

Newly released Abdulbasit Aslan (R), a Turkish national abducted by a Lebanese Shi'ite in Beirut, shakes hands with Abbas Ibrahim, head of the Lebanese General Security, as Turkish ambassador to Lebanon Inan Ozyildiz (C) looks on, at the Lebanese General Security headquarters in Beirut September 13, 2012. REUTERS/ Mohamed Azakir (LEBANON - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS) - RTR37XTM

الأسقفان ومخطوفو أعزاز ينتظرون هاتف الوزير ...

An Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim boy kisses a poster of the Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in the town of Karbala, some 110 km south from the Iraqi capital Baghdad, early February 6, 2004. Iraq's most powerful Shi'ite cleric, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, survived an assassination bid on Thursday when gunmen opened fire on his entourage in the sacred streets of Najaf, a security aide said. The assassination attempt comes days before a team of United Nations electoral experts is due to arrive in the country to assess the feasi

المتشددون ينفخون في تنور الطائفية .. والمعتدلون يسعون لاخمادها

Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi (L) looks past his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu (2nd R) during the opening of a ministerial meeting in the Saudi Red Sea city of Jeddah, by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on May 13, 2013. The OIC urged its member states to make generous contributions at this week's main donors conference on Mali to be held in Brussels, which aims to raise funds to repair the damage caused by the war against Islamists in the African country. AFP PHOTO/STR

لبنان بين انتظارَين واحتمال

A woman grieves at a cemetery in Baghdad's Adhamiya April 2, 2009. REUTERS/Ahmed Malik (IRAQ SOCIETY) - RTXDJ6S

غسل العار.. علاقة جدليّة بين الدم والشرف

A ferry sails on the river Nile as the sun sets in Cairo May 12, 2013. Most of Egypt's population live clustered around the Nile valley and delta, and the river is both a vital resource for the country's citizens, and a potent national symbol. In a recent dispute with Ethiopia over the construction of a dam upstream, Egypt's foreign minister Mohamed Kamel Amr underlined the country's reliance on the river's waters: "No Nile - no Egypt," he said. Picture taken May 12, 2013. REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih (EGYPT - Tags

"مبادرة السلام الأزرق" تستلهم التجربة الأوروبية في نهر الراين

Egyptian Christians enter the St. Simon monastery to attend an event to commemorate the second anniversary of the Maspero clashes, where the military cracked down on Christian protesters and killed 25, at the St. Simon monastery in Cairo, October 9, 2013. Picture taken October 9, 2013. REUTERS/ Mohamed Abd El Ghany (EGYPT - Tags: POLITICS RELIGION ANNIVERSARY) - RTX1468U

كيف نضمن حرياتنا في مواجهة الإسلاميين؟

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آثار إسلاميّة ومسيحيّة منتهكة في غزّة