Author: Khorrahan

Iraqi refugee women in Jordan are making and selling clothes through a project started by Italian priests and designers. In a Jordanian church, Sarah Nael is sewing a shirt for “Rafedin”, a project that has provided dozens of women who fled violence in neighbouring Iraq with skills to earn a living. Many of the women escaped the extreme violence carried out by the ISIL (ISIS) armed group’s self-declared “caliphate” that cut across swaths of Iraq and Syria, eventually ending up in Jordan – where they found themselves without work. “Life here is very, very difficult, if we don’t work, we…

Paris, Washington (13/7 – 50) Kenes Rakishev (Keñes Hamitūly Raqyşev) aka Kenges Rakishev is an entrepreneur, philanthropist, former special envoy for Kazakhstan, head of the Kazakh boxing federation, a family man, and most importantly, a man of success. Under Kenges Rakishev’s leadership, the Kazakh female and male boxing squad leaped considerable forward and secured the top ranking in the recent boxing championship putting Kazakhstan boxing squarely in the top ranking in the world. A total of 21 medals were won by the Kazakhstan’s boxers – a tally of six gold, seven silver and eight bronze – and all were honoured…

President Joe Biden is dispatching White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan to Tokyo this week for talks with his counterparts from Japan, Philippines and South Korea. Sullivan will also take part in “the first-ever trilateral meeting of the Japanese, Philippine, and U.S. national security advisers” while in Japan, the White House National Security Council said in a statement Tuesday. The White House offered scant details about Sullivan’s two-day visit that begins Thursday, saying Sullivan and his counterparts “will discuss ways to deepen collaboration on a number of key regional and global issues.” Sullivan’s visit comes after U.S., Japanese and Philippine…

Iraq and Egypt signed on Tuesday 11 agreements on the sidelines of the second session of the Joint Iraqi-Egyptian Committee, headed by the Iraqi Prime Minister, Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani, and his Egyptian counterpart, Mostafa Madbouly. A statement issued by the Egyptian cabinet mentioned that a memorandum of understanding was signed between the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) and the Micro, Small and Medium Development Agency (MSMEDA) in Egypt to contribute to economic growth. Both sides signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate in diplomatic training and a third one related to administrative development, public service, and civil service. A memorandum…

The Iraqi President, Abdul Latif Rashid, received on Wednesday an Iraqi artifact belonging to the Assyrian civilization, according to a statement issued by the Iraqi Presidency. The statement mentioned that the President, accompanied by the Minister of Culture, Tourism and Antiquities, Ahmed Fakak Al-Badrani, the Minister of Migration and Displacement, Evan Jabro, and other officials, visited the Medieval Civic Museum in the city of Bologna, Italy. Rashid confirmed that Iraq appreciates Italy’s efforts regarding the recovery of Iraqi antiquities, in addition to its contribution to the excavations for antiquities in coordination with the Iraqi authorities, according to the statement. The…

Brussels, London (6/6 – 60) Indonesian Minister of Defense and 2024 presidential candidate, Prabowo Subianto delivered a peace plan for the Russia-Ukraine war at the Shangri-La Dialogue, which is being held for the twentieth time this year. The 2023 event took place in Singapore on 2–4 June. It was attended by defense ministers of the Asia-Pacific region and associated officials, as well as high-level delegations from the European Union and international organizations, invited to observe. The article “Singapore hosts key Asia defense summit with eye on Ukraine” details the essence of the meeting. The proposal was severely criticized and rejected…

In the aftermath of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, a significant number of antiquities were looted not only from museums but also illicit excavations carried out at archaeological sites across the country, according to a report published on Al Jazeera’s English news website on Friday. The Iraqi government is making efforts to recover those lost cultural relics, but a lot of work remains, according to the report. “There are no official statistics of how many antiquities were stolen,” Haider Farhan, an archeology professor at the University of Baghdad and an antiquities expert, was quoted as saying. Many Iraqis…

The Kurdistan Parliament in northern Iraq witnessed on May 22 a violent fistfight between MPs belonging to the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and MPs of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) due to a dispute over the election law. MPs of the PUK objected to the reactivation of the electoral commission to hold the elections, considering the move illegal, while MPs of the KDP considered that the failure to activate the electoral commission is an obstacle to holding the parliamentary elections on time, according to Rudaw News. The head of the KDP in Kurdistan’s Parliament, Zana Mala Khalid, told reporters…

Conflict-plagued countries in the Middle East are among the most vulnerable to climate change but are almost entirely excluded from meaningful financing to mitigate its effects, aid groups warned on May 18. In a joint report focusing on Iraq, Syria and Yemen, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Norwegian Red Cross demanded greater assistance, saying the combined effects of climate change and armed conflict create an alarming cocktail of humanitarian woes. The Climate Funds Update database, which collates information from 27 UN, World Bank and other multilateral funds, listed only 19 single-country projects in Iraq, Syria…

The war in the Ukraine created two main opposing camps of countries. An Alliance of Democracies on one side and a Group of Authoritarian. The escalation of geopolitical tensions linked to the Ukrainian crisis has highlighted two main opposing camps of countries — an Alliance of Democracies on one side and a Group of Authoritarian Regimes on the other. A number of countries have resisted choosing sides, however, as they strive to balance their national interests with international developments while simultaneously advocating the need to maintain peaceful diplomacy and global connections. While the number of these so-called “in-between” countries abound…