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Ahwazi Arabs have staged anti-government protests every April since 2005, the date of the Ahwazi intifada that saw scores killed and hundreds arrested by the Iranian regime. The
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Iraq’s Sadr to meet Kurdistan’s President
conference in Baghdad when asked about a potential visit by the cleric to the Kurdistan region in north Iraq. Sadr, who spends most of his time on religious studies in Iran, “will
French foreign minister says U.N. should prepare military option in Syria
Juppe also warned that Kofi Annan’s peace plan for Syria was “seriously compromised” and said it wanted U.N. monitors deployed within a fortnight and not in three months
Israel ready to strike Iran, Lebanon, Gaza if ordered, says military chief
he United States says it does not believe Iran has so far taken a decision to develop a nuclear weapon, or that the time is right for military action, preferring to give
Assad’s ‘Crisis Cell’ reveals Syrian regime in crisis
“They are more naïve than you think” Barakat said in an interview to Al Arabiya English, explaining the regime’s decision to hire him as a secretarial employee for the Crisis Cell. “They thought it was every
Balochistan: Time for a ceasefire and political settlement
For more than six decades, Balochistan has been under Pakistani military occupation. Although all five major nationalist rebellions have been suppressed by Islamabad, this has not extinguished the desire of
Worldwide rejection for Tuareg independence in Mali; rebels vow to fight al-Qaeda
Rebels have made quick advances due to chaos in Mali since Mar. 22, when soldiers upset over the handling of the rebellion forced out President Amadou Toumani Toure just weeks before he was due to step down after an election.
A Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Iran: Still an Urgent Necessity
At a time when the number of executions, which are frequently summary and at times performed in secret, is soaring in Iran and discrimination and violence against religious, ethnic minorities
Kurdish leader accuses Iraqi PM of leading country to ‘dictatorship
Barzani appeared to raise the stakes, with language suggesting he could seek a referendum of some kind on the Kurdish region’s relations with Baghdad - although he
Iran to execute five Ahwazis ‘within days’: rights activist
Karim Abdian, director of the Ahwaz Human Rights Organization, told Al Arabiya that the execution plan comes ahead of the April 15 commemoration of uprisings that took place
