Thematic Focus: Climate Change, Resource Efficiency, Ecosystem Management, and Environmental Governance The Drying of Iran’s Lake Urmia and its Environmental Consequences FEBRUARY 2012 Lake Urmia in the northwestern corner of Iran is one of the largest permanent hypersaline lakes...
Israil Will Recognize Independent Kurdistan/Peshmerga Will Not Leave Kirkuk Israel: ‘democratic’ Kurdistan to be independent soon Tel Aviv tells Washington that Kurdish independence is a ‘foregone conclusion’ as Iraqi Kurds vow to keep control of Kirkuk Israel told the United States...
Araz News: 26.06 Dr. Hasani, secretary general of New South Azerbaijan Awaking Movement has been transferred to Evin Prison’s quarantine while he continues to hunger strike. He began to hunger strike on May 18. 19.06 Dr. Latif Hasani...
Note: Araz News does not share all ideas mentioned in this article. JEFFREY GOLDBERG The Atlantic’s late-2007 rendering of what the Middle East might eventually look like (The Atlantic) So as I was saying…. First, a bit of...
Turkmens looking to form their own brigade against ISIL militants in Kirkuk Iraqi Turkmens will form a brigade of approximately 6,000 people to protect the Turkmen-populated areas of the Kirkuk province from the threat of militants led by the Islamic State of Iraq...
Gunmen have shot and killed a senior member of the Iraqi Turkmen Front, Munir Kafili, in an armed attack in Kirkuk on Tuesday. Reports state that Kafili died at the scene after sustaining a gunshot to the head when his...
Araz News: A group of Azerbaijani Students from Mohaghegh Ardabili University of Tabriz protested some local publications in Tabriz which insult Turks. Navid-e Azerbaijan weekly, which is being published in Urmia (capital of West Azerbaijan province of Iran) and distributed...
Araz News: Human rights organizations reports, South Azerbaijani political prisoner Dr. Asadollah Asadi is transferred into solitary cell in Ward 240 of Evin Prison after he begun hunger strike. Its 4 years that 64-old prisoner is imprisoned. Rights activists say...
During the IRGC’s annual convention held in September 2013 in Tehran, the Iranian President gave a speech about IRGC involvement in Iran’s economic sector. His lecture had two parts, one part for the Western world and the other part for the...
The Turkmen community in Iraq’s northern city of Kirkuk have begun to take up arms after militants linked with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) reportedly captured the Turkmen-majority city of Tel Afar. “Turkmens have the right to...
ISIL-led militants seize Turkmen-populated city of Tal Afar in northwestern Iraq Militants led by the group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, ISIL, took complete control of northwestern Iraqi district Tal Afar on Monday, according to a security source....
Araz News: Hundreds of people rallied in two largest South Azerbaijan cities, Tabriz and Urmia. Protesters sounded slogans related to Lake Urmia disaster and blamed president Rouhani to not keeping his promises on Lake Urmia. According to Araz News correspondents...
“The speed of the jihadis’ advance has shocked the Iraqi government and its Western allies” Iraqi Kurdish forces say they have taken full control of the northern oil city of Kirkuk as the army flees before an Islamist offensive nearby....
By Alim Bayaliyev (the 19/02/2014 of the CACI Analyst) In early June this year, Turkey will host the fourth Summit of the Turkic Council, an intergovernmental organization that brings together Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey. Presidents Ilham Aliyev, Nursultan...
Araz News: Nader Ghazipour, parliamentarian of Urmia, capital of West Azerbaijan Province, in Iran’s parliament said there is a conspiracy against West Azerbaijan Province. “Some Kurdish parties claim Urmia is a part of great Kurdistan and some others put Urmia...
