... prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki" (Spencer). "This pattern began with the ISIS takeover of the Anbar cities of Fallujah and Ramadi in December, where they took advantage of a heavy-handed attempt by the government to quell a series of protests against it by local Sunnis. (Spencer). This cooperation between local Iraqi leaders and ISIS represent Constructivism due to their cooperation created by social interactions ... capital, Baghdad (AP)." ISIS feels that they have taken the matter of discrimination into their own hands my doing an "ethnic cleansing" of the nation. The fundamental diff...

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... trend has reversed, and the Kurds are steadily making a comeback. There is now one Kurdish city with a population of nearly a million(Kirminshah), two with over half a million (Diyarbekir, Kikuk), five between a quarter and a half million (Antep, Abril, Hamadan, Malatya,Sulaymania), and 13 cities with a quarter of a million (Adiyamamn, Dersim, Dohuk, Elazig, Haymana, Khanaqin, Mardin, Qamishli, Qochan, Sanandja, Shahabad, Siirt and Urfa).13 The ... impressive literature and a fully adequate written language, and have produced a generation of Kurds whose primary and secondary level of ed...

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... for severe malnutrition, as after the war. The residents no longer need to bribe a doctor or a hospital official just to be seen. Only seven percent of hospitals were damaged or destroyed and twelve percent were looted. Two hundred and forty hospitals have reopened, as well as 1200 clinics since the war seized. Doctor's salaries have increased significantly. Prewar doctors were making around ... such as electricity and water supply have changed for the worse since the war. Electricity problems have worsened in larger cities, including the capital Baghdad. Before the conflict people had ...

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... political and real rise to power in Iraq. In 1968, Gen. Bakr and the Baathist seized the Government. Hussein was made deputy Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council, in charge of internal security, which is the number two position in the Baathist party, where he remained for the next ten years, He was 31 at the time. While Saddam Hussein was in this ... saw what was happening and started urging the President to step down and since Saddam had a lot of his family in high places, he was able to accomplish his task. On July 16, 1979, President Bakr resigned, publicly due to health pro...

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... limited to, [murder], ill-treatment or deportation to slave labor or for any other purpose of civilian population of or in occupied territory, murder or ill-treatment of prisoners of war or persons on the seas, killing of hostages, [plunder of public or private property, wanton destruction of cities, towns or villages, or devastation not justified by military necessity]" (The Avalon Project paragraph 12 ... ). Being the head of state behind this attack, George Bush is directly responsible for the murder of civilians and the destruction of Iraqi towns and cities. Article 7 of the Numburg ...

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... British influence, in 1932 (Farouk-Slugett 13), Using the British political system as a model, a constitutional monarchy was established (Harris 114), The Iraqi Parliament consisted of two chambers: an upper chamber "Senate "and a lower chamber "Chamber of Deputies. The senators were appointed by the king, and the deputies were elected by "secondary- electors who were in turn elected by "primary- electors ... a pro Pan-Arab stance, the real focus was on independent Iraqi patriotism "Iraq First (Baram 12-17). Out of this new beginning, there emerged Sadden Husayn. Husayn was a politician w...

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... PKK. Turkish belief also stated that by helping the Iraqi Kurds it might influence them to become pro-Turkish and be able to aid against the PKK warfare. Throughout the 1990's, the conflict has escalated. The PKK's enemies include not only the Turkish authorities but also, ... ironically, the two leading ethnic Kurdish groups in Iraq, namely, Masud Barzani's Kurdish Democratic Party and Jalal Talabani's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. The PKK was also now involved in conflict with KDP who was aiding the Turkish fight ... fratricidal war between the Kurds and the Turks. While intensifying o...

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... are shattered, friends turn against each other, crowds turn in confusion and whole cities erupt into battlefields. During war, thousands die every day and for what? What does war solve? War is the result of a clash of ideas. It is a solution for when negotiating takes no effect. However, ... " Marion realized that his forces were no match for the highly trained and superbly equipped British forces. To compensate for his forces lack of training and equipment, Marion used guerrilla warfare. However, when Marion was forced to confront the British headlong in combat, his forces were ... retu...

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