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Peace-building suffers during pandemic obsession
Mar 17, 2021 10:45Evidence suggests that committed foreign aid being redirected from peace-building programs into efforts to deal with COVID-19 is likely to have even more of an impact on the ground than a decrease in foreign aid. A further reduction in funding and troops for UN peacekeeping missions is also likely.
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Emirati security team hatching conspiracy in Iraq, Asa’ib leader warns
Mar 15, 2021 03:51Qais Khazali, the Leader of the Iraqi anti-terror movement Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq, has warned of a conspiracy against Iraq hatched by an Emirati security team which has reportedly arrived in the Arab country to manage the Iraqi intelligence service.
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Iran denies involvement in Iraq attacks in letter to UN chief
Mar 15, 2021 02:39Iran has denied any involvement in the recent attacks against the US-occupied military bases in Iraq, but at the same time denounced the American airstrikes against Iraqi forces as a violation of international law.
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PA President Abbas thanks Iraq's Ayat. Sistani for supporting Palestinian cause during Pope visit
Mar 14, 2021 05:07The Palestinian Authority's President Mahmoud Abbas has expressed his gratitude towards Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Ali al-Sistani over the senior Iraqi Shia cleric’s expression of support for Palestinians during a recent historic meeting with Pope Francis.
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Iran, Turkey slam controversial Kurdish stamp marking Pope’s visit to Iraq
Mar 11, 2021 10:28Iran and Turkey have strongly censured the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) for its reported plans to print a contentious postage stamp commemorating Pope Francis’ recent trip to the Iraqi semi-autonomous region.
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‘Ayatollah Sistani’s wise remarks in meeting with Pope showed dignity of Islam’
Mar 11, 2021 10:19An senior official at the office of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says "wise" remarks by Iraq’s prominent Shia Cleric Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Ali al-Sistani during his recent meeting with the Pope showed "the dignity of Islam."
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Iran launching major trade office in Iraq’s Kurdistan
Mar 11, 2021 01:28Iran is launching a major trade office in Iraq’s Kurdistan to boost exports of farming products and manufactured goods to the semi-autonomous region.
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‘Is this who Americans are?’: Gitmo is US’ enduring shame
Mar 10, 2021 07:00Even if US President Joe Biden is able to overcome pressure from the military, from the CIA, and from Congress to shut Guantánamo down, justice will still be absent, not only because of the numerous lives that are forever shattered but because America still refuses to learn from its mistakes.
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US war machine doesn’t want Americans to take war personally
Mar 10, 2021 06:45The United States has bombed Syria more than 20,000 times over the past eight years. The United States began bombing these ancient lands 30 years ago. The U.S. has continued bombing Iraq and neighboring countries on and off ever since.
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Hezbollah: US, Daesh terrorism two flip sides of same coin in Iraq
Mar 09, 2021 04:26Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement says the United States’ military presence and Daesh terrorism are two flip sides of the same coin in Iraq.