EKurd: 50% of Iraqi Kurdistan’s schools need reconstruction: official SULAIMANI, Iraq’s Kurdistan region,— Twenty five percent of schools in Iraq’s Kurdistan region need to be destroyed in order to rebuild them and 50 percent of others need to be heavily renovated, a member of the Kurdistan Teachers Union’s Secretariat said on Friday. Ahmed Karkuki told NRT that those schools should be reconstructed because they […] The post 50% of Iraqi Kurdistan’s schools need reconstruction: official appeared first on Kurd Net - Ekurd.net Daily News. 5 years ago

EKurd: Wassup With This Court? – It’s Vulgar Politics Deyan Ranko Brashich | Exclusive to Ekurd.net Larry Flynt, the legal scholar and publisher of Hustler magazine is one of my heroes, a staunch defender of civil rights and of the 1st, 5th and 14th Amendments to the Constitution of the United States. As party plaintiff and defendant, Larry played a prominent role in litigation reaching […] The post Wassup With This Court? – It’s Vulgar Politics appeared first on Kurd Net - Ekurd.net Daily News. 5 years ago

EKurd: Torture against prisoners common in Iraqi Kurdistan: survey SULAIMANI, Iraq’s Kurdistan region,— A 2018 survey conducted in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region by the Wchan Organization and Heartland Alliance International found that 427 prisoners surveyed claim to have been subjected to torture out of 786 prisoners. Commemorating the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the NGOs held a joint meeting in Sulaimani […] The post Torture against prisoners common in Iraqi Kurdistan: survey appeared first on Kurd Net - Ekurd.net Daily News. 5 years ago

EKurd: Turkey’s Erdogan wins presidential election: electoral board ANKARA,— Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has won more than half the votes in Sunday’s presidential election after 97.2 percent of votes have been counted, the head of Turkey’s High Electoral Board (YSK) said. Speaking at the YSK headquarters in Ankara after presidential and parliamentary elections, Sadi Guven also said the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) had […] The post Turkey’s Erdogan wins presidential election: electoral board appeared first on Kurd Net - Ekurd.net Daily News. 5 years ago

EKurd: Manafort, The Kids And Jails Deyan Ranko Brashich | Exclusive to Ekurd.net Paul Manafort’s violation of bail conditions while awaiting trial and his abrupt remand started me thinking about jails and such. The images of children being forcibly separated from their moms and being held in a former Walmart department store, now a detention center – I still calls it jail […] The post Manafort, The Kids And Jails appeared first on Kurd Net - Ekurd.net Daily News. 5 years ago

Maktoob: Saudi reopens Baghdad embassy after 25 years Saudi Arabia reopened its embassy in Baghdad Tuesday, a quarter of a century after relations were broken over Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, a foreign ministry official said. "The staff of the Saudi embassy arrived today in Baghdad," the official told AFP. A consulate is expected to open later in Arbil, capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region. 8 years ago

Maktoob: 15 IS suicide car bombs targetting Iraq forces 'repelled' A wave of 15 suicide car bomb attacks by the Islamic State group (IS) against Iraqi security forces was repelled east of the flashpoint city of Ramadi Tuesday with limited casualties, officials said. The onslaught was the latest in a series of attacks by jihadists defending positions in Ramadi, which Iraqi forces, backed by US-led coalition air strikes, are trying to retake. Dulaimi said Iraqi forces controlled the area attacked but that two members of the Anbar police died defending it. 8 years ago

Maktoob: Iraq says Turkey must pull out all its troops after partial withdrawal Turkey must pull all its forces out of a camp in northern Iraq, a spokesman for the Iraqi prime minister said on Tuesday after Turkey withdrew some troops from the area. The deployment of around 150 Turkish troops to a camp near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul earlier this month has strained relations between Ankara and Baghdad, which protested to the United Nations. Turkey said on Monday that some of its troops had begun leaving, but Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's spokesman said it was not enough. 8 years ago

Maktoob: U.S., allies stage eight air strikes in Iraq, six in Syria: U.S. military WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and its allies targeted Islamic State militants with a fresh round of 14 air strikes in Syria and Iraq on Monday, the U.S. military said in a statement. In Iraq, eight air strikes near three cities hit three Islamic State tactical units, an improvised explosive device factory and various fighting positions, among other targets, according to the statement released on Tuesday. Six strikes near three Syrian cities hit three of the group's tactical units, a building and wounded three militant fighters, the statement said. ... 8 years ago

Maktoob: Iraq demands 'complete withdrawal' of Turkish forces The Iraqi government on Tuesday demanded the "complete withdrawal" of Turkish forces from its territory, indicating Ankara's partial pullout the previous day was not enough. Turkey deployed soldiers and tanks to a military camp in northern Iraq earlier this month, a move it said was necessary to protect trainers at the site but which Baghdad condemned as an illegal incursion. Turkish and Iraqi officials said Turkish forces and equipment were withdrawn from the camp early on Monday, but the trainers apparently remained, and Ankara has other military sites within northern Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region. 8 years ago