Russia and Iran: Is the Honeymoon Really Over?
Besides China, Russia was the only major world power to congratulate Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for his second term in office following last year’s disputed presidential 
Italian Researcher Says Time for Kurdish Independence in Iraq
8 Aug 2010 (Rudaw) ERBIL, Iraqi Kurdistan: As the Arab parties of Iraq are deadlocked over the formation of a new government, an Italian researcher suggests that time for an independent Kurdistan has come here in the north of Iraq.
Iran Tops US Terror List
8 Aug 2010 (JPOST) WASHINGTON – Iran has remained the “most active” state sponsor of terrorism, according to the 2009 US annual terrorism report released last week.
Sudan suspends BBC Arabic on FM radio
Sudan has halted BBC Arabic broadcasts on FM radio stations in four northern cities, including the capital Khartoum.
Iranian judges defy their Supreme Court to hang teen
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Must a man hang because he is accused of being gay?
By Peter Tatchell, human rights campaigner
The death toll from a Basra market blast rises to 43
The blast was originally thought to be from an exploding generator
The death toll from a series of explosions in the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Saturday has risen to 43, officials have said.
Obama ‘leaving Iraq to the wolves’, says Saddam’s former minister
Saddam Hussein’s former foreign minister Tariq Aziz has called on the US to extend its presence in Iraq, saying that withdrawing troops would be “leaving Iraq to the wolves” in an interview in The Guardian newspaper published Friday.
Pro-Kurdish Party Proposes Establishing Kurdish Regional Government in Turkey
TURKEY, DYARBAKIR: Osman Baydemir, the Mayor of the Kurdish city of Diyarbakir in Turkey proposed establishing a regional Kurdish government similar to Iraq’s federal region of Kurdistan, according to the news reports.
Allawi, Kurds and Shiites May Form Govt without Maliki
05 Aug 2010 (Rudaw) IRAQI KURDISTAN, ERBIL: As the two leading Iraqi coalitions have hitherto failed to reach an agreement over the formation of a new government, Iyad Allawi’s Iraqiya may form a government joined by the Kurds and the grand Shiite 
Obama: Progress on Nuclear Sanctions Against Iran
“I’m not going to issue any public red lines. Iran should understand when I say we have all options on the table. I’m not going to announce any particular red lines at a meeting like this,”
