Middle East

Disabled Wardens Get Green Light

Handicapped volunteers have started to help out Baghdad’s traffic police with growing jams.

22 Feb 05

Schools in the Sunni triangle close following a series of death threats against pupils and teachers.

22 Feb 05

Kurdish students from Iran and Syria are escaping the troubles by studying in northern Iraq.

22 Feb 05

IWPR tails Kirkuk’s police chief to find out what it takes to keep the peace on the city’s tough streets.

22 Feb 05

In the Kurdish areas where people are the most receptive to democracy, they still find it hard to register to vote.

22 Feb 05

Does the new collaborative spirit between the two big Kurdish parties come too late to maximise their gains from the election?

22 Feb 05

Thirty years of state manipulation are proving hard for some Iraqis to throw off.

22 Feb 05

Sixteen years after the Kurdish town was hit by a poison gas attack, a man alleged to have supplied the chemicals could be brought to justice.

22 Feb 05

Many chemical attack victims say its mastermind should be tried and executed in Halabja, but others want him to confront consequences of his actions.

22 Feb 05

Washington and Tehran vie over distribution of Kazakstan's vast energy reserves

22 Feb 05

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