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The Islamic Forum Europe has been criticised for 'taking over' a London council. But the case against it doesn't stand up.

Iraqi election candidates face poet’s sarcasm

Once upon a time, not so long ago, there was a poor Iraqi shepherd who lost all but six of his sheep to drought. In desperation, the poor shepherd decided

Iraq: Candidates Should Promote Human Rights

After Iraq’s last parliamentary elections in 2005, violence devastated Shia and Sunni Arab communities in central and southern Iraq. While some of the worst violence has subsided, armed groups continue

Iraq: Protect Christians from Violence

Iraq’s government should bolster security to protect the lives of Christians in Mosul, Human Rights Watch said today.

US–Iran Power Struggle over Iraq

US Ambassador Christopher Hill’s warning on February 18 that it could take months to form a new government in Baghdad after the Iraqi elections, scheduled for March 7, and that

Nothing Has Changed in Iraq

Perhaps the only meaningful statement in the testimony of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair in front of a committee investigating the war on Iraq, is the one that disclosed

OBAMA’S GRAND STRATEGY IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND CENTRAL ASIA

For the next two decades, Middle Asia—the predominantly Muslim region of the Middle East, the Caucuses and Central Asia—will dominate international security concerns.

Arab Reform Bulletin: New Format, New Release

After two years as a monthly publication, the Arab Reform Bulletin, a product of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, has altered its format and will now issue one or

POMED Notes: “Justice for All: the Struggle for Workers Rights in Egypt”

Kamal Abbas kicked off the discussion by noting that Egypt was put on a blacklist of countries to be reviewed about labor and workers rights, which makes the timing of

Afghanistan and the Outsourcing of War

A worrying two-thirds of the Pentagon’s personnel in Afghanistan are private military contractors, unaccountable to military law or ethics, swaggeringly overbearing, and not in any hurry to help improve the