Recently added articles from APS Diplomat Redrawing the Islamic Map:
Resurgence In The Shi'ite World - Part 46 - Iraqi Moderate Ba'th Lures Maleki.
Oct 19, 2009; ... PM Nuri al-Maleki is being lured by moderate former members of the Arab Ba'th Socialist Party which ruled under Saddam's Sunni/Ba'thist dictatorship. These moderates, consisting of Shi'ite and Sunni Arabs, are secular and mostly well educated with many of them efficient technocrats. The ...
IRAQ - Erdogan Visit.
Oct 19, 2009; ... Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Oct. 15 paid a state visit to Baghdad, where he received a red carpet welcome by Maleki. A number of agreements were signed. But while Maleki stressed the importance of Iraqi sovereignty, Erdogan reiterated Ankara's vow to keep pursuing PKK rebels in ...
IRAQ - New Electoral Law Eludes Parliament.
Oct 19, 2009; ... On Oct. 15 the Iraqi Council of Representatives (parliament) failed to pass a new electoral law, postponing a vote to the following week. On Oct. 13, US Ambassador Christopher Hill and the top US commander in Iraq, Lt-Gen Ray Odierno had urged the MPs to pass thhis law, crucial to ...
IRAQ - Pre-Election Violence.
Oct 19, 2009; ... A series of co-ordinated bombings aimed at a meeting for national reconciliation on Oct. 11 killed 23 people and wounded 65 others in Ramadi, capital of Iraq's western province of Anbar which borders with Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. These were the latest in a string of deadly attacks ...
