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Iraq Ten Years after Saddam
Disenchanted Nation
Ten years after the start of the Iraq War and the toppling of Saddam Hussein, Feisal Amin Rasoul al-Istrabadi reviews developments in the country and considers whether things are better or worse now than they were before the Allied invasion
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Marching against al-Maliki
Has the Arab Spring Arrived in Iraq?
Iraq's government is falling apart. While the president of the country is being treated for a serious illness in Germany, both the national parliament and the government back home are dysfunctional and in disarray. Birgit Svensson reports from Baghdad
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Interview with Iraqi author Hadiya Hussein
''I feel closer to my country when I'm away''
Iraqi author Hadiya Hussein has been away from Iraq for more than a dozen years, yet her fiction is still filled with its concerns. Her 2004 novel "Beyond Love", recently published in English translation, is full of exile, separation, and love. Hussein talked with Marcia Lynx Qualey about home, memory, and how living outside the country affects her writing
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US Strikes People's Mujahedin of Iran off Terror List
The Schizophrenia of US Foreign Policy
The People's Mujahedin of Iran was one of the leading participants of the 1979 Revolution in Iran. For years the militant revolutionary organization was on the US list of terrorist organizations. Now the ban is suddenly lifted. Stephan Buchen on a bizarre episode of US Foreign Policy
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Opinion: Abdullah Iskandar on the Damascus Bomb Attack
The Syrian Regime's Strategic Failure
Political analyst Abdullah Iskandar holds the Syrian regime responsible for the fact that the peaceful revolution in Syria has escalated into an armed conflict. He asserts that the regime's stubborn insistence on using military force to suppress opposition drove its opponents to arms
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Minorities in Syria
United against Assad
Syria's minority groups, until now artificially divided, have united against the Assad regime. If wisely managed, this provisional union could lead to a lasting alliance. Kersten Knipp reports
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Interview with Kifah Al-Jawahiri
''Iraq's Political Crisis Is Massive''
In the wake of the US withdrawal from Iraq and amid a growing internal political crisis, Karlos Zurutuza spoke to Kifah Al Jawahiri, one of the country's most respected human rights activists
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Interview with Ex-Guantanamo Detainee Sami al Hajj
''The Guards Are Prisoners Too''
Exactly 10 years ago the first plane carrying detainees landed in Guantanamo Bay. Since then, 779 men have been detained without charge and without trial, with 171 of them still being held in Cuba. Sami al Hajj, a Sudanese journalist, was one of them. Stephanie Doetzer met him in Doha
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Iraq after the Withdrawal of US Troops
A ''Stable'' Country Teetering on the Brink
After the withdrawal of the Americans from Iraq, the governing coalition in Baghdad is imploding, the dispute between Shia and Sunni is escalating and several provinces are striving for autonomy. Birgit Svensson reports from Baghdad
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10 Years after 9/11
Terror in the Name of Virtue
The truth, which has become something of a taboo, is that Osama bin Laden was a calamity for the world, as was George W. Bush. The latter dreamed of seeing his name go down in history, and 9/11 was an opportunity too good to pass up. Ten years after the attacks on the US, we should remember the victims of both men, writes Jürgen Todenhöfer
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Saudi Arabia's Flawed Iraq Strategy
The Iranian Wolf at the Kingdom's Door
The Saudis fear that the departure of US troops from Iraq would represent a sweeping victory for Iran, which has no military presence in Iraq, but is the strongest player there. But, says Mai Yamani in her commentary, this defeat is partly self-inflicted
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Iraq on the Eve of American Withdrawal
Discord in Kirkuk
What began in 2003 as "Operation Iraqi Freedom" seems to be ending in Kirkuk in an operation to restore security. Eight years after American troops invaded, the city has become the centre of a divisive internal struggle for control. A report by Rigien Bagekany