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BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Hundreds of Iraqis shouted slogans and waved Iraqi flags Sunday outside Baghdad’s heavily guarded Green Zone to protest alleged irregularities they say prevented tens of thousands of people in Mosul from voting in last weekend’s landmark elections. The demonstrators were mainly Iraqi Christians, Turkomen and Yazidis …

(AINA) — The Iraqi Turkmen Front (ITF) issued an official protest to the High Commission for the Elections in Iraq on 31st January 2005 complaining about widespread irregularities committed by the Kurds in the Turkmen region. The document details extensive voting abuses by Kurds, including: Kurds voting outside of their …

“La solution consiste essentiellement ? lever la mainmise de la Syrie sur le Liban, qui doit recouvrer sa souverainet? et son ind?pendance”, a affirm? ? la presse le d?put? Nassib Lahoud, apr?s un entretien avec le vice-ministre syrien des Affaires ?trang?res Walid Mouallem.“Tel est l’objectif central. Tout autre voie maintiendra …

(AINA) — An armed group under the leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) attacked Mr. Behnam Habib Ayub Habash. Mr. Habash is in charge of the office for selling land in the area of Hamdaniya in northern Iraq. The armed assailants accused Mr. Habash of registering land in the …

Even as Iraqi Muslims proclaimed Sunday’s elections a success, the Christians of that country complained that they were prevented from voting both in Iraq and in the United States. Christian Assyrians, 1 million of whom reside in Iraq, claim that Kurdish officials in North Iraq blocked the delivery of ballot …

GENEVA — Reliable sources on the ground in many Iraqi villages say they were deprived of their right to vote in Sunday’s election, according to Philippe LeBlanc, OP, NGO representative at the United Nations in Geneva. Nearly 150,000 Iraqis were unable to cast their ballots. Eight largely Christian villages in …

UNPO 150,000 ChaldoAssyrians gathered in al-Hamadaniya, Karmelis, Bartila, al-Ayadiya and the surrounding villages to protest their exclusion from voting in the election on Sunday, Azzaman Newspaper reported yesterday. Voting boxes and supplies were not delivered to the predominantly Christian districts of Baghdeda, Bartilla, Karamlesh, Shekhan, Ain Sifne and Rimady, which …

Despite being proclaimed a great success, Iraq’s landmark elections on Sunday have sparked significant complaints from the Christian communities both in Iraq and in the United States. According to a report published yesterday by the Alabama-based Decatur Daily News, Christian Assyrians–which include members of the Assyrian Church of the East …