Seattle Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
A Kurdish journalist was gunned down in the northern city of Kirkuk, Iraqi police said. A New York-based journalists' group said Saturday it was the 136th killing of a reporter since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq five years ago.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
A Kurdish journalist was gunned down in the northern city of Kirkuk, Iraqi police said. A New York-based journalists' group said Saturday it was the 136th killing of a reporter since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq five years ago.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | yesterday
A Kurdish journalist was gunned down in the northern city of Kirkuk, Iraqi police said. A New York-based journalists' group said Saturday it was the 136th killing of a reporter since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq five years ago.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | yesterday
BAGHDAD -- A Kurdish journalist was gunned down in the northern city of Kirkuk, Iraqi police said. A New York-based journalists' group said Saturday it was the 136th killing of a reporter since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq five years ago.
Reporters sans frontières (Free subscription) | yesterday
Reporters Without Borders is outraged to learn that another journalist was murdered yesterday in the city of Kirkuk, 255 km north of Baghdad. Diyar Abbas Ahmed, who worked for a privately-owned local news agency, was gunned down near a hotel in the city centre.“This young journalist’s family and friends have to mourn another victim of the appalling bloodshed in Iraq,” Reporters Without Borders...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
A Kurdish journalist was gunned down in the northern city of Kirkuk, Iraqi police said. A New York-based journalists' group said Saturday it was the 136th killing of a reporter since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq five years ago.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Baghdad - Unknown gunmen shot dead a 28-year old journalist and an artist on Friday in the northern province of Kirkuk, according to Iraqi police sources. The assistant police chief of Kirkuk said that Diyar Abbas Ahmed, who worked for Aien news agen...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Baghdad - Unknown gunmen shot dead a 28-year old journalist and an artist on Friday in the northern province of Kirkuk, according to Iraqi police sources. The assistant police chief of Kirkuk said that Diyar Abbas Ahmed, who worked for Aien news agen...
Israelated (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Tariq AlhomayedAsharq Alawsat There seems to be an organized campaign targeting the Christian population of Iraq, which prompted the President of the Chaldean synod, the Archbishop of Kirkuk and Mosul, Louis Sako to remind Iraqis of the words of the Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) regarding the rights of neighbors towards one another. In an interview the Archbishop spoke of the importance of protecting...
Christian Today (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
... senior cleric said. “Unfortunately, they will not be the last.”Sako, based in the northern city of Kirkuk, has overseen the Christian community in Mosul since the death of Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho in March. Rahho, the second most senior Catholic cleric in Iraq, was kidnapped by gunmen after Mass and found dead by the roadside in Mosul two weeks later.“Those who carry out the attacks...
Christian Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
... afraid that that what is happening in Mosul will develop into a massacre.”Archbishop Louis Sako of Kirkuk, who has nominal oversight over Mosul after the death of Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho who was kidnapped in February 2008, added: “I am very worried. The situation is now critical.”The archbishop has sent a message pleading with the fanatics to stop the violence.Church authorities have...
Mission & Justice (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Car bombs, roadside blasts and a shooting near the capital and the northern cities of Mosul and Kirkuk killed at least 19 people and wounded at least another 66 on Friday, police and security officials said.
Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
... required Kurds to share power with Arabs and ethnic Turkomen in the contested oil-rich province of Kirkuk. Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd, criticized the law, and the council ultimately rejected it.Kurds have long demanded that Kirkuk, in northern province of Tamim, be absorbed into the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of the provinces of Irbil, Sulaimaniyah and Dahuk. Saddam...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
... required Kurds to share power with Arabs and ethnic Turkomen in the contested oil-rich province of Kirkuk. Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd, criticized the law, and the council ultimately rejected it.
Kurds have long demanded that Kirkuk, in northern province of Tamim, be absorbed into the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of the provinces of Irbil, Sulaimaniyah and Dahuk....
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
... required Kurds to share power with Arabs and ethnic Turkomen in the contested oil-rich province of Kirkuk. Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd, criticized the law, and the council ultimately rejected it.Kurds have long demanded that Kirkuk, in northern province of Tamim, be absorbed into the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of the provinces of Irbil, Sulaimaniyah and Dahuk. Saddam...
