Western European intransigence on ensuring that citizens detained abroad as ISIL suspects or their family members can return home made world headlines recently when an Iraqi court sentenced nine French citizens to death following trials tainted by allegations of torture.
Countries including France, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands insist that logistical challenges and security risks make it practically impossible for them to help their citizens accused of membership in the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). But others, like Kosovo, Turkey, Russia, and especially Central Asian countries are showing that where there is a will to bring citizens home, there is a way.
Three Central Asian states - Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajik... Read more »
Start of the joint meeting between PUK and PDK
PUK and PDK discuss government formation
The Political Bureau of Patriotic Union of Kurdistan will meet
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