Sabah-Islamic Jihad Union members three Turkish citizens were planning to hit U.S bases in Germany. They received bomb and gun training in Pakistan. They even shot a 'farewell footage' when they returned to Germany.
Suicide truck bomber strikes Kurdish city of Irbil, killing 19 people
AP-A suicide truck bomb ripped through the Interior Ministry in the relatively peaceful Kurdish city of Irbil on Wednesday morning, killing at least 19 people and wounding 80, officials said. Kurdish officials blamed al-Qaida linked insurgents for the devastating attack.
Iraq: Kurdish government signs 40M deal with Italian firm
(AKI) - An Italian company has won a 40 million dollar contract with the Kurdistan regional government for an overhaul of the electricity system in the two main power plants in the region, at Dokan and Darbandikhan. The ministry of electricity has chosen ELC-Electroconsult a global consulting engineering company, for the World Bank-funded scheme. "It is one of the biggest projects of the ministry in recent decades," a spokesman told Adnkronos International (AKI).
AP-One of Syria's most vocal human-rights activists was sentenced yesterday to five years in prison, in a clear warning that the government will not tolerate dissent.
(Reuters) - BP is interested in working on a range of oil and gas projects in Iraq, but is waiting for the country's parliament to pass an oil law and for security to improve before increasing its role, a senior BP executive said on Monday
(UPI) -- If Turkey intrudes into northern Iraq for a military operation against Kurdish separatists it would mean war, a senior Kurdish lawmaker warns.
Kurdish cyber-dissident held in secret for nearly a week
Reporters without borders-Reporters Without Borders today called for the immediate release of arrested human rights activist Ibrahim Zoro, who regularly posts material on foreign-based opposition websites. It noted that two other people were in prison in Syria for posting similar material.
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Sabah-Islamic Jihad Union members three Turkish citizens were planning to hit U.S bases in Germany. They received bomb and gun training in Pakistan. They even shot a 'farewell footage' when they returned to Germany.
Reuters-A car bomb near the office of a leading Kurdish party in northern Iraq killed 30 people and wounded 50 others on Sunday, police said.
AP-A suicide truck bomb ripped through the Interior Ministry in the relatively peaceful Kurdish city of Irbil on Wednesday morning, killing at least 19 people and wounding 80, officials said. Kurdish officials blamed al-Qaida linked insurgents for the devastating attack.
(AKI) - An Italian company has won a 40 million dollar contract with the Kurdistan regional government for an overhaul of the electricity system in the two main power plants in the region, at Dokan and Darbandikhan. The ministry of electricity has chosen ELC-Electroconsult a global consulting engineering company, for the World Bank-funded scheme. "It is one of the biggest projects of the ministry in recent decades," a spokesman told Adnkronos International (AKI).
AP-One of Syria's most vocal human-rights activists was sentenced yesterday to five years in prison, in a clear warning that the government will not tolerate dissent.
(Reuters) - BP is interested in working on a range of oil and gas projects in Iraq, but is waiting for the country's parliament to pass an oil law and for security to improve before increasing its role, a senior BP executive said on Monday
(UPI) -- If Turkey intrudes into northern Iraq for a military operation against Kurdish separatists it would mean war, a senior Kurdish lawmaker warns.
Reporters without borders-Reporters Without Borders today called for the immediate release of arrested human rights activist Ibrahim Zoro, who regularly posts material on foreign-based opposition websites. It noted that two other people were in prison in Syria for posting similar material.