Secularism is a Women’s IssueThe Pentagon sent a US veteran of the “dirty wars” in Central America to oversee sectarian police commando units in Iraq that set up secret detention and torture centres to get information from insurgents. These units conducted some of the worst acts of torture during the US occupation and accelerated the country’s descent into full-scale civil war.
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Iraq/USA: Revealed: Pentagon’s Link to Iraqi Torture Centers
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Yazidi leader seeks protection for community after genocide
8 December 2016, by siawi3Khurto Hajji Ismail, the Yazidi Baba Sheikh, or religious leader, said an edict he issued to reintegrate former captives has helped overcome traditional resistance to accepting back women who were raped or members who converted to another faith, even if it was under force.
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Irak : Le déclin tragique du statut des femmes en Irak est le résultat de 30 ans de guerre et d’occupation.
12 mars 2015, par siawi3Alors que le pays - et son ancien code civil – passait de la laïcité au sectarisme, des églises ont été incendiées par des bombes pour la première fois depuis toujours, et la vie est devenue encore plus une lutte pour la survie.
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Iran Sent Arms to Iraq to Fight ISIS, U.S. Says
17 March 2015, by siawi3Iran has deployed advanced rockets and missiles to Iraq to help fight the Islamic State in Tikrit, a significant escalation of firepower and another sign of Iran’s growing influence in Iraq.
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Irak : Bagdad endeuillée par des attentats qui ont fait près de 30 morts
31 décembre 2016, par siawi3L’Irak termine l’année 2016 en deuil, après un double attentat survenu sur un marché de la capitale, Bagdad, qui a fait près de 30 morts en cette veille de jour de l’an. Deux kamikazes se sont fait exploser presque en même temps ce samedi matin, alors que les vendeurs et acheteurs étaient très nombreux sur ce marché du centre ville. « Il y a 27 morts et 53 blessés »
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ISIS Claims 2 Bombings in Baghdad, While Fighting to Hold On to Mosul
31 December 2016, by siawi3The blasts, including one suicide attack, tore through a busy market in the Sinak neighborhood, the police said. A pro-Islamic State news agency said the assailants had targeted Shiite Muslims, whom they regard as apostates.
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Iraq: Islamic state suicide bombing kills at least 24 in Baghdad
2 January 2017, by siawi3An Islamic State car bomb killed 24 people in a busy square in Baghdad. A suicide bomber blew up his explosives-laden vehicle Monday in a bustling market area in Baghdad, killing at least 22 people, Iraqi officials said, hours after the arrival of French President Francois Hollande to the country and amid a fierce fight against the Islamic State group.
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As caliphate crumbles, Islamic State lashes out in Iraq
18 January 2017, by siawi3The attacks show that even if Islamic State loses the Iraqi side of its self-styled caliphate, the threat from the group may not subside. It will likely switch from ruling territory to pursuing insurgency tactics, seeking to reignite the sectarian tensions that fueled its rise
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Iraq: Two car bombs in Baghdad kill at least 14
5 January 2017, by siawi3More than 60 people have been killed in Baghdad in attacks over the past week as Islamic State intensifies its campaign of violence in the capital as a 100,000-strong alliance of Iraqi forces extends its advances against the group in Mosul.
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Iraq: Clerics set up displays to push their idea of dress for women
9 February 2011Since the fall of Saddam Hussein’s government in 2003, women’s clothing has served as a barometer not just of fashion, but of the current ascendancy of religious values in a once secular society. On this busy thoroughfare, near Baghdad’s largest holy shrine, what might be called the mannequin salvo in the Battle of the Abaya — between secularism and Shariah law — incites heated views on both sides. If revolution in the Arab world is sweeping Cairo’s streets, the smaller strokes here represent forces no less urgent.
