Foreignpolicy.com | By Farhad Alaaldin, Kenneth M. Pollack
If the Iraqi government fails to pay state workers’ salaries in January, it could lead to widespread instability and violence. The United States and the international community must shore up Baghdad’s finances before it’s too late.
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A Turkish court has sentenced journalist Ayşegül Doğan to six years and three months in prison on bogus charges that are related to her journalistic activities. "Unfortunately, this ruling shows what the judiciary has come to. I hope the appeals court will overturn it," one of her lawyers said.
07/12/2002
Biden addresses Kurdistan parliament in Erbil on 7th December 2002
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Institute for the Study of Human Rights
Dr. Najmaldin O. Karim, the Governor of Kirkuk in Iraqi Kurdistan, founding president of the Washington Kurdish Institute (WKI), and a prominent neurosurgeon in the Washington area, died on October 30, 2020. He was surrounded by family and loved ones.
Washingtonpost.com | By Harrison Smith
Najmaldin Karim, a Kurdish neurosurgeon and political activist who served as a bridge between the United States and his native Iraq, promoting Kurdish interests on Capitol Hill before returning to his war-ravaged hometown as provincial governor of Kirkuk, died Oct. 30 at a hospital in Olney, Md. He was 71.
The Times | Anthony Loyd in Hasakah, Syria | Tuesday October 27 2020
Teenager’s screams still haunt Syria a year after raid that nearly killed him.
Under cloudless desert skies the burnt boy keeps to the shade of his basement home, hiding from the sun. Light and heat antagonise his wounds. He cannot go to school, nor even play with his friends after sunset, as sweat also irritates the scar tissue covering his ravaged body.
rudaw.net | 23-10-2020
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — Shafiq Qazzaz, intellectual and former government minister, died on Thursday night of the coronavirus. The president of the Kurdistan Region hailed Qazzaz as a man who "spent his entire life at the service of Kurdistan."