Syria Survey. Moyen-Orient / Middle East. Middle East Resources. Middle East / North Africa. Jihad in Syria. Blogs Middle East. WikiLeaks And War Mongers. Middle East | Iraq | IRAQ: Iraqi women suffer. Youth are on the move. As technology has developed and the world has become a smaller place, young people are travelling more than ever in search of work, education, and health services. According to the 2006 ‘State of the World’ population report published by the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), young people aged between 15 and 25 years constitute one third of the total international migration flow worldwide. Add to this figure 25- to 29-year-olds, and the total amounts to half the overall migration flow.
While young people travel abroad in search of better opportunities and living conditions, there is a huge downside that is regularly reported in the press. Hundreds of lives have been lost or ruined as people leave their homelands in search of a better life in Europe or North America. Europe’s newspapers carry regular stories of Africans washed up on the beaches of southern Europe, or downed at sea in overcrowded boats. But despite these headlines, the migration continues. Why move? Brain drain. Chroniques orientales - Mozilla Firefox. C'est mardi - le premier du mois de mars. Dans un mois et demi, de nouvelles élections devraient avoir lieu. Devraient : dans cette Egypte postrévolutionnaire, jalonnée d'imprévus, le conditionnel a remplacé l'indicatif. Morsi, élu pour quatre ans, en sait quelque chose.
Au bout d'un an, il a été balayé par l'armée. C'est mardi, donc, et les militaires ont convié les correspondants de la presse étrangère à un dîner. L'initiative est incongrue pour une caste habituellement peu bavarde. Mais au Caire, plus rien ne surprend. Le pince-fesse a lieu à la « Maison de la Défense aérienne », un de ces nombreux clubs privés où l'on peut fêter son mariage, jouer au football, plonger dans la piscine surélevée et siroter une bière sans alcool dans le jardin d'en bas - à condition d'être du bon côté de l'échelle sociale.
Au 15ème étage, la porte s'ouvre sur un salon feutré. El-Sissi, la vraie raison de cette opération de communication ? Middle East Strategy at Harvard. Middle East Strategy at Harvard. Sandbox: Martin Kramer on the Middle East. The Middle East Blog - A blog about life in the hottest and holiest region in the world. - TIME.com. Middle East Policy Council. On Vulnerable Ground. On Point - The United States Army in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Iraq and Gulf Analysis. Montrose Toast - Iraq Order of Battle. Insurgent Iraq: Links to full-text online resources about the Iraqi insurgency. Basra and Southern Iraq Analysis. IRAQ. Toward a new era in Turkish-Iraqi relations regarding the PKK Ab. Edition 16 Volume 6 - April 17, 2008 Turkey, Iraq and the PKK • New Turkish strategy points the way ahead - Bulent ArasTurkey considers itself a responsible actor in Iraq and tries to preserve good relations with all segments of Iraqi society. • Turkey's problematic Middle East role - Steven A.
CookNorthern Iraq is a flashpoint that has the potential to trip Iraq into another round of civil war. • Toward a new era in Turkish-Iraqi relations regarding the PKK - Abdulkadir OnayTurkish officials believe that Iraqi Kurds view the PKK as a potential bargaining card. • A time for moderates? New Turkish strategy points the way ahead Bulent Aras Turkey has a new strategy in its war against Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) terror. The Kurdish question is a serious domestic problem for Turkey. But the ruling party still received more support than the DTP in populated Kurdish regions. Turkey also pursues international diplomacy and prioritizes coordination and cooperation with the US and EU. Prof. Inside the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) - Council on Foreign Re. Dan O'Huiginn. Iraqanalysis.org. Iraq. In English....The Happening: Latest News and Multimedia about Kurdistan, Iraq and the World. Aswat Al Iraq. Iraq.
Herodote Kurdistan Irakien. Voir le sommaire de ce numéro Berévan ADLIG *Doctorante, Institut français de géopolitique, université Paris-VIII. Résumé Depuis l’intervention américaine en Irak en 2003, nous assistons à une évolution politique dans le Kurdistan irakien, zone qui a été en guerre perpétuelle depuis le début du XXe siècle. Le territoire kurde en Irak connaît un véritable essor depuis 1991, date d’instauration de la zone de protection aérienne à la suite de la guerre du Golfe. Malgré ces évolutions, la région kurde connaît une certaine instabilité à cause des rivalités de pouvoirs qui opposent le PDK et l’UPK, les deux principaux partis politiques kurdes irakiens, maîtres incontestables de la région kurde en Irak. La guerre civile de 1994-1998, au cours de laquelle se sont affrontés partisans du PDK et de l’UPK, n’est pas complètement effacée des mémoires. Abstract : Iraqi Kurdistan La rivalité entre le PDK et l’UPK La genèse Mollah Mustafa Barzani prend la tête de la tribu Barzani dès 1933.
Géopolitique du Moyen-Orient. Turkey's Problematic Middle East Role - Council on Foreign Relat. With all the attention in Iraq over the last five years focused on the fate of al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia, the conflict between Sunni and Shi’ite, the role of Iran, the security of Anbar province, the “surge” and, most recently, the further deterioration of Basra, the situation in northern Iraq has only received sporadic attention. The conventional view has been that the predominantly Kurdish north has been the one relatively stable part of Iraq since the beginning of “Operation Iraqi Freedom” and thus was a good story.
Unlike other parts of the country, the invasion left the north relatively unscathed and what became known as the Kurdish Regional Government enjoyed a 12-year head start in building government institutions. In the immediate post-Saddam period, the KRG was able to deliver services and, importantly, security to the area. Yet, northern Iraq is a flashpoint that has the potential to trip Iraq into another round of civil war. Guerre En Irak. ‘Hard Lessons: The Iraq Reconstruction Experience’ - The New Yor. Iraq and Gulf Analysis. Iraq Business News. Jamaat Ansar al-Sunna. History[edit] The group was founded in September 2003 as an umbrella organization for guerrillas, with former members of Ansar al-Islam who had fled to Iran after a 2003 joint operation by Iraqi and US forces.[2] Their goal was to expel U.S. occupation forces from Iraq.
Following the twin Sunni and Shiite uprisings of the spring and summer of 2004, and the subsequent decrease in U.S patrols and the creation of "no-go" areas in the Sunni Triangle, Ansar al-Sunna was believed to be part of a loose coalition of insurgent groups (also including guerrillas from al-Tawhid wal Jihad) controlling the Sunni cities of Fallujah, Ramadi, Samarra, and Baquba (U.S. offensives later largely wrested control from Baquba, Fallujah, and Samarra, although underground guerrilla resistance forces still had a strong presence in those cities).
The United States and Iraqi Interim governments linked Ansar al-Sunna with Abu Musab al-Zarqawis, Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad (al-Qaeda in Iraq). Suicide bombings[edit] De Bagdad à Jérusalem : L'Orient indiscret. François Hollande a raison de dire, comme il l’a fait lors de ses vœux au corps diplomatique jeudi, qu’il « ne suffit pas de répéter à l’envi qu’il faut parler à la Russie » pour régler la crise syrienne. « Nous ne cessons de le faire, a poursuivi le président de la République. Les problèmes ne disparaissent pas dès lors que nous en parlons, ce serait tellement simple ». Certes, la France parle à la Russie. Le problème, c’est qu’au cours des six années écoulées depuis le déclenchement de la guerre en Syrie, où Paris et Moscou se retrouvent dans deux camps différents, les diplomates français ont souvent usé d’un ton extrêmement dur, voire même fort tranchant et peu diplomatique à l'égard de la Russie, une posture qui s’est révélée finalement contreproductive.
Petit florilège de ce dialogue franco-russe. Alain Juppé, ministre des Affaires étrangères de Nicolas Sarkozy, compare le soutien russe à Assad à une « tache indélébile » sur la réputation de la Russie. Syria Comment. The Middle East en français. Kurds in Iraq: The Struggle Between Baghdad and Erbil (liam anderson) Forcing them to choose sides in a highly polarized and politicized environment. This polarization has not, for the most part, been driven by inherent communal antipathywithin these regions, although in some places such animosity is readily apparent, but by the pressures that have been brought to bear from developments in the secondconflict environment — among the political elites of the Iraqi and Kurdistan regionalgovernments.
This dynamic was made dangerously apparent in August 2008, whenISF units were ordered into the Kurdish-administered town of Khanaqin. The question of which government should administer the disputed territories isfraught with complexity. While there have been agreements, both formal andinformal, between Baghdad and Erbil on this question, the presence of peshmerga interritories deemed to be outside the current limits of the KRG, and the presence of ISFin territories deemed to be historically part of Kurdistan, provide the spark that couldignite military conflict. . Iraq Updates.