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Prosecutor-General of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon: No decisions issued in September	Read more
Wednesday, September 1st 2010 6:26 PM

Beirut, Sept.1 (AKnews) - The international Prosecutor-General of the International Tribunal for Lebanon, Daniel Bellemare, said the court won't issue a decision in September, and denied in an interview with the "Lebanon Now" site,  any preliminary report during September, stressing that the indictment will be issued as soon as...

	Building a nation: Nechirvan Barzani the statesman	Read more
Wednesday, September 1st 2010 8:13 AM

Building a nation: Nechirvan Barzani the statesman* By Badran Ahmed Habeeb  My fellow Kurds do not accept it when I say Kurds have no history. And my foreign friends look at me with astonishment when I say so! But I have proof for this view of mine. Kurds do not have history, because history means civilization and civilization is created by...

	Kurdish politician calls for federation between Iraqi-Kurdistan and Turkey	Read more
Tuesday, August 31st 2010 1:29 PM

Ankara, Aug. 31(AKnews) – A former Turkish political party leader believes that the PKK ceasefire and the Sept. 12 referendum are positive steps, but only the creation of a federation between Erbil and Ankara can bring about a lasting solution to Turkey’s Kurdish issue.The former chairman of The People’s Democracy Party (HADEP), Murat...

	Lebanese MP: US withdrawal from Iraq is a proof of failure	Read more
Monday, August 30th 2010 7:15 PM

Beirut, Aug. 30 (AKnews) – A deputy from the Syrian Social Nationalist Party in the Lebanese parliament considered that the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq proved the failure of Washington's project in this country and in the Middle East as a whole. Marwan Faris told AKnews on Monday, "The Iraqi government will be formed after the withdrawal of...

	Economist: The population census will boost Iraqi economy	Read more
Friday, August 27th 2010 5:38 PM

Baghdad, Aug. 27 (Aknews) - An Iraqi economist considers that the census will contribute to the stability of the Iraqi market and thereby enhance the economic situation in the country.Taher al-Dawkhi told AKnews on Friday, "Doing the census on time will contribute to the stability of the Iraqi market after identifying the real numbers of...

	An agreement is beyond the realm of possibility in Iraq	Read more
Thursday, August 26th 2010 3:18 PM

By Bedran A. Habeeb* Iraq's former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi is a politically complex person. He is a Shia, but is not pro-Iran; a Shia who leads the largest Sunni-dominated bloc, al-Iraqiya. To add to the complexity, he is a former Baathist. There are fears that if Allawi comes to power, he will become a bridge for the return of the ousted...

Political analyst: Special Tribunal for Lebanon is politicized	Read more
Tuesday, August 24th 2010 9:08 PM

Beirut, Aug. 24 (AKnews) - The Lebanese political analyst Johnny Abu Aqel described the Special Tribunal for Lebanon as “politicized”; he warned that its expected decision might be an introduction to internal sedition.The International court is investigating on 14 crimes in Lebanon since 2005 that claimed the lives of a number of politicians...

	Petraeus says he would ask Obama to keep troops in Afghanistan if pullout was too risky	Read more
Tuesday, August 24th 2010 10:45 AM

Erbil, Aug. 24 (AKnews) – The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan says he will give President Barack Obama his “forthright advice” should it get too risky for the U.S. to start withdrawing its troops from the country next July.  In an interview with the renowned BBC journalist, John Simpson, Gen. David Petraeus said the July 2011...

Poet Mohammed Badr al-Din: The Kurds have a struggle spirit because they have a case	Read more
Monday, August 23rd 2010 10:48 PM

Washington, Aug. 23 (AKnews) - The Kurdish poet Mouhammed Badr al-Din believes that the national and cultural diversity produces unique qualities. Badr al-Din, who lives in the UNited States, has assured in an interview with the correspondent of the Independent National News Agency of Kurdistan (AKnews) in Washington, Salih Majid, that the Kurds...

	British MP: Kurdistan has made outstanding progress	Read more
Sunday, August 22nd 2010 12:50 PM

Sulaimaniya, Aug. 22 (AKnews) - Nadhim Zahawi is the first Kurd and first person from the Middle East to become a member of Britain’s parliament.  Representing the Stratford-on-Avon district, Zahawi was elected to the parliament in 2010 on the Conservative Party’s ticket.  Zahawi’s family left Iraq in 1970s due to the unstable...