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...Talabani, who was known by fellow Kurds as “Mam Jalal”, or Uncle Jalal, emerged as a vital mediator in disputes between Masoud Barzani, leader of the Kurdistan Regional Government, and Baghdad....
...Close friends Jalal (Sam Otto) and Ziyaad (Ryan McKen) train to become Isis fighters, with Jalal determined to live up to the reputation of his brother, who preceded him to the Middle East and died in battle...
...The PUK’s leader Jalal Talabani died last month....
...just in Shia-dominated Baghdad recently, but in Sulaimaniya, the stronghold of the Tehran-allied Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), the historic rival to President Barzani headed by the recently deceased Jalal...
...The modern states created around what Jalal Al-e Ahmed termed this “westoxified elite” have proved unable to gain popular legitimacy, and in fact both Boko Haram (which pointedly calls for the end of western...
...Both Masoud Barzani’s Kurdistan Democratic party, which dominates the provinces of Erbil and Dohuk, and Jalal Talabani’s Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, which is the main power in the province of Sulaymaniyah...
...From there and all the way to Suleimania, the PUK stronghold, the only visible portrait is that of Jalal Talabani, the revered PUK leader who has been incapacitated by a stroke for nearly two years....
...Some of their top leaders, such as the current Iraqi president Jalal Talabani, have closer ties with Baghdad and many of them spent time or studied there....
...The charges came despite talks over the weekend involving President Jalal Talabani, prime minister Nouri al-Maliki, Sunni politicians and US embassy officials that appeared to resolve the issue with the...
...Hiwa Osman, a writer and former adviser to Iraqi president Jalal Talabani, and now setting up a news network, points out that while there is a lot of oil money, there is little domestic manufacturing....
...The Forty Rules of Love, by Elif Shafak, Viking £12.99, 354 pages, FT Bookshop price: £10.39 The friendship between Jalal ad-Din Rumi and Shams of Tabriz must rank among the most influential in history....
...parties as they are turning Kurdistan into a two-family region – Barzanistan and Talabanistan,” said Hemin Lihony, a 24-year-old journalist from the second city of Sulimaniyeh, referring to Mr Barzani and Jalal...
...The governing coalition in Kurdistan, made up of the Kurdistan Democratic party (KDP) of Massoud Barzani, the Kurdish president, and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) of Jalal Talabani, the Iraqi president...
...movement is posing the first significant challenge to Kurdistan’s long-standing political duopoly, where power has been shared by the KDP, led by Mr Barzani, and by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, headed by Jalal...
...Genel and Heritage have taken comfort from a quotation by Jalal Talabani, Iraq’s president, at the June 1 ceremony. “The oil deals signed by the KRG are legal and constitutional,” Mr Talabani said....
...The agreement now has to be approved by Iraq’s Presidency Council – comprising President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd, and his two deputies, a Shia and a Sunni....
...political parties who monopolise everything,” he says, referring to the Kurdistan Democratic party, which is headed by Masoud Barzani, the regional president, and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, led by Jalal...
...Irbil became a partner in the US-backed central government in Baghdad following the 2003 invasion of Iraq – the national president, Jalal Talabani, is Kurdish – and the US wanted to champion Kurdistan as...
...The Iranian president went from the airport to a meeting with Jalal Talabani, Iraq’s president, where Mr Ahmadi-Nejad declared his support for a “united Iraq, a sovereign Iraq and an advanced Iraq”....
...Also present were Adel Abd al-Mahdi, Shia vice-president, Jalal Talabani, Iraq’s Kurdish President, and Massoud Barzani, the president of the autonomous Kurdistan region, Together, Mr Maliki, Mr Abd al-Mahdi...
...For many Kurds, the referendum is a chance to reclaim Kirkuk, which Jalal Talabani, Iraq’s Kurdish president, has called the “Jerusalem of Kurdistan” – a historic capital purged of much of its non-Arab population...
...Jalal Talabani, the Iraqi president, hosted the talks, which included Marcie Ries, the US embassy’s counsellor for political and military affairs, and Mr Abdollahian....
...Jalal Sharafi, the Iranian diplomat freed last week after two months’ captivity, gave a press conference at Iran’s foreign ministry in Tehran, arriving from hospital in a wheelchair flanked by doctors and...
...February 4–Iranian diplomat Jalal Sharafi kidnapped in Baghdad....
...Jalal Talabani, the Iraqi president, late on Thursday said Mr Sadr, whose group is a partner in the governing Shia coalition, had ordered his commanders to leave Iraq to facilitate the US operation in the...
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