Zitat:Iraqi Sects Join Battle in Syria on Both Sides

BAGHDAD — Militant Sunnis from Iraq have been going to Syria to fight against President Bashar al-Assad for months. Now Iraqi Shiites are joining the battle in increasing numbers, but on the government’s side, transplanting Iraq’s explosive sectarian conflict to a civil war that is increasingly fueled by religious rivalry.

Some Iraqi Shiites are traveling to Tehran first, where the Iranian government, Syria’s chief regional ally, is flying them to Damascus, Syria’s capital. Others take tour buses from the Shiite holy city of Najaf, Iraq, on the pretext of making a pilgrimage to an important Shiite shrine in Damascus that for months has been protected by armed Iraqis. While the buses do carry pilgrims, Iraqi Shiite leaders say, they are also ferrying weapons, supplies and fighters to aid the Syrian government. [...] Now Iraq, still haunted by its own sectarian carnage, has become increasingly entangled in the Syrian war. And Iran, which, like Iraq, is majority-Shiite, appears to be playing a critical role in mobilizing Iraqis.

Zitat:Bombings kill over 30 Shias, injure nearly 100 in Iraq
Thu Nov 29, 2012 10:22AM GMT

More than 30 people have been killed and nearly 100 others wounded in several attacks on Shia Muslims in Iraq.
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Iraqi security and medical sources said two roadside bombs targeted Shia Muslims near a restaurant in the city of Hilla, killing at least 26 people and wounding about 85 others.
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Meanwhile, another car bomb attack claimed the lives of at least six people and wounded over a dozen others in the holy city of Karbala.
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Zitat:18.12.2012 Irak

Präsident Talabani erleidet Schlaganfall

Der irakische Präsident Talabani ist als Notfall in ein Krankenhaus eingeliefert worden. Offenbar erlitt er einen Schlaganfall. Er hat bereits seit längerem gesundheitliche Probleme - zuletzt ließ er sich auch in Deutschland behandeln

Bagdad - Dschalal Talabani hat nach Angaben aus irakischen Regierungskreisen einen Schlaganfall erlitten. Der 79-Jährige sei in einem "kritischen, aber stabilen Zustand", hieß es am Dienstag aus dem Umfeld des Präsidenten. Talabani sei am späten Montagabend ins Krankenhaus gebracht worden." Das Präsidialamt sprach offiziell von einem "Gesundheitsnotfall"

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Zitat:AUSLAND
Der Irak – einem Land droht der Zerfall
18.12.2012 | 19:55 Uhr

Essen. Ein Jahr nach dem Abzug der US-Soldaten haben die Spannungen stark zugenommen, permanent sterben Menschen durch Anschläge. Der Konflikt zwischen Kurden und der Zentralregierung könnte das Land zerbrechen lassen.
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Zitat:12.12.12 Kirkuk

Im Irak gerät eine Stadt zwischen alle Fronten
Ein Anschlag nach dem anderen: In Kirkuk kocht ein Jahr nach dem US-Truppen-Abzug ein alter Konflikt zwischen Arabern, Kurden und Turkmenen hoch. Der Streit begann 1927 – damals ging es um Ölquellen.
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Zitat:Situation im Irak
Verfolgt, verjagt - Mossuls letzte Christen

Mossul - die Stadt im Irak ist heute Al-Kaida-Metropole. Es gilt eine radikal-islamistische Doktrin. Einst lebten hier auch 100.000 Christen. Inzwischen sind fast alle geflüchtet. Die, die noch da sind, sitzen auf gepackten Koffern. Eine Reportage.
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Stand: 24.12.2012 20:35 Uhr

Zitat:Bagdad
Welle der Gewalt im Irak erreicht neuen Höhepunkt

zuletzt aktualisiert: 02.01.2013

Bagdad (RP). Auch 2013 wird das neue Jahr in Bagdad von Gewalt überschattet – statt Feuerwerkskörper wurden Bomben gezündet. Bei einer offensichtlich koordinierten Anschlagsserie in mehreren Städten starben mehr als 20 Menschen, zumeist schiitische Pilger. Der Anlass der Gewalt ist ein doppelter: Derzeit begehen die Schiiten das sogenannte Arbeen-Fest – 40 Tage nach dem Todestag ihres Gründers Hussein vor 1333 Jahren. Zugleich jährte sich der Abzug der US-Truppen aus dem Irak zum ersten Mal.

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Zitat:Iran, Iraq, Syria sign agreement to boost transit cooperation
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plans have been drawn up for the establishment of a railway connection between Shalamcheh and the Iraqi port city of Basra. Once the project is completed, the railway link will stretch to the Syrian port city of Latakia and subsequently to North Africa, the Iranian official stated.
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Zitat:Updated January 17, 2013, 2:08 p.m. ET
Bomb Attacks in Iraq Leave 26 Dead

BAGHDAD—Insurgents unleashed a string of bomb attacks across Iraq on Thursday, mainly targeting Shiite Muslim pilgrims, killing at least 26 people and extending a deadly wave of bloodshed into a second day.

The violence that has left nearly 60 dead since Wednesday morning followed nearly two weeks of relative calm and threatened to fuel rising tensions among Iraq's ethnic and sectarian groups.

Shiite pilgrims are a favorite target for Sunni insurgents who seek to undermine the country's Shiite-led government and provoke sectarian fighting.
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Zitat:Iraq bombings kill 23, Sunnis protest
Published: Jan. 18, 2013 at 5:43 PM
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The protests Friday in Iraq's second-largest city mirrored demonstrations by the Sunni minority across Iraq, the Voice of Russia reported. They followed a series of bombings and shootings in Iraq Thursday targeting Shiites and security forces that killed 23 people and wounded 113, police said.
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Zitat:Suicide bomber kills 42 at Iraq funeral
TehranTimes

On Line: 23 January 2013 17:49
In Print: Thursday 24 January 2013

A suicide bomber detonated his explosives during a funeral ceremony Wednesday at a Shia mosque in northern Iraq, killing at least 42 people, and injuring more than 75 people, an official said, AFP reported.
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Zitat:Deadly rocket attack on Iranian exile camp in Iraq

Five people have been killed in a rocket attack on a camp housing Iranian exiles in central Iraq, officials say. A UN spokeswoman confirmed there had been a number of deaths at Camp Hurriya, a former US military base near Baghdad used by members of the People's Mujahideen Organisation of Iran (PMOI). The PMOI said six men and one woman had been killed and more than 50 other people wounded, some of them seriously. [...]

Later, an interior ministry official said the rockets were thought to have been fired from an area west of the capital where the Badr Brigade operated. The Badr Brigade is the military wing of the Badr Organisation, a Shia group which is close to the Iranian government, reports the BBC's Nahed Abouzeid in Baghdad.

Zitat:Nach zahlreichen schweren Attentaten auf Schiiten, haben diese nun offenbar einen Anschlag auf ihre Gegner ausgeführt...

Zitat:Deadly rocket attack on Iranian exile camp in Iraq

Zitat:Qatar, Saudi establish Iraqi Liberation Army in Turkey

TEHRAN, Feb. 15 (MNA) –Turkish daily Idinlik has reported that an army known as "Iraq Liberation Army" is being established in Turkey under protection of Erdoğan.
Member of the group are remnants of Ba’ath Party and associates of Tariq al-Hashemi, who are currently receive training in Gullbasi (Turkish Military Training Center).

This newspaper added that Qatar and Saudi Arabia had accepted all financial cost of this project. Some other news suggests that, with the complicity of these governments against Maleki’s government, a number of Iraqi opposition members receive military training in Jordan and Tabuk area of Saudi Arabia.
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Zitat:Deadly car bomb blasts hit Shia areas in Baghdad

Several car bombs have exploded across the Iraqi capital Baghdad, killing at least 20 people and injuring scores more, officials say. The attacks are reported to have targeted mainly Shia areas in the city.

Security sources told the BBC three explosions rocked the neighbourhoods of Ourfally, Kiyara and Falah Street in the eastern suburb of Sadr City. Sunni insurgents linked to al-Qaeda have been blamed for a recent spike in violence.

Zitat:Iraq Stops Large Arms Cargo to Syria
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TEHRAN (FNA)- Iraq announced that its border guard units have foiled efforts to smuggle a large arms cargo into Syria.

The Iraqi Interior Ministry announced in a statement that the country's border guards have foiled attempted smuggling of arms into Syria at Iraq's Dabbamin borders.

Spokesman of the Iraqi Interior Ministry General Saad al-Mousavi announced that Iraqi police and security forces seized the cargo after hours of armed clashes with smugglers, Alforat news network reported.

The report said that armed clashes erupted on 9pm local time on Friday evening and lasted by Saturday morning.

Earlier media reports said the Qatari government has taken several arms cargos to the Iraqi Kurdistan region on Israeli aircraft and intends to smuggle these weapons into Syria in a bid to equip armed rebels, Arab media reports disclosed on Sunday.
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