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April 12, 2017 09:00 ET | Source: Ziyen Inc.

BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 12, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ziyen Inc., who was qualified by the SEC under Regulation A+, have opened a new investment division in the company to focus on financing unfunded construction projects in Iraq.

Ziyen Inc. will be the worlds first Construction Intelligence company, where we will be utilizing the data, information and intelligence from our software with the capabilities to provide the finance for long-term projects.

Alastair Caithness CEO said, "The biggest fear for countries in the West is how to handle mass immigration. The cost of war has created over 250,000 International Iraqi refugees outside the Middle East, 2 million refugees in neighboring countries with a further 4 million displaced in Iraq. Therefore, the problem is only going to get worse rather than better unless we start to address the root cause.

The current horrific conditions have meant 70% of Iraqi people lack access to clean water, 80% lack proper sanitation leading to cholera epidemics and unemployment is over 50% for those under 30 years old. Power supplies from the national grid often dont exceed five hours per day.

We want to help the Iraqi people to rebuild their country. By building houses, factories and developing infrastructure, there will be an opportunity to create jobs, give people hope and help stop the mass immigration issues.

The US, European and International communities have the capabilities to do this, and if Ziyen Inc. can finance projects and bring media attention through our news outlets to focus on positives in the country, then we can help to start to rebuild a country which once had a thriving economy."

For more information about the company and investment opportunities visithttp://www.ziyen.com

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Certain statements in this press release including, but not limited to, statements related to anticipated commencement of commercial production, targeted pricing and performance goals, and statements that otherwise relate to future periods are forward-looking statements. These statements involve risks and uncertainties, which are described in more detail in the Companys periodic reports filed with the SEC, specifically the most recent reports which identify important risk factors that could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are made and based on information available to the Company on the date of this press release. Ziyen Inc. assumes no obligation to update the information in this press release.

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It's the first time an official has estimated the total number of Yazidis found in grave sites littered around Sinjar since Iraqi forces pushed the terror group out more than two years ago.

Thirty-five mass graves along with 100 individual graves have been unearthed, according to Hussein Hassoun, the spokesman of the Higher Committee to Introduce Yazidi Kurds.

"The mass graves are about 5 to 10 kilometers apart," Hassoun told CNN. Between 300 and 500 bodies were found in the past few months.

A new mass grave was recently found in the Hardan area of Sinjar, the town's mayor told Rudaw news agency.

Most of the bodies have been left in their graves, so officials can only give an estimate of the total number of dead discovered thus far. Due to limited resources, only 65 bodies have been exhumed, Fouad Othman, the spokesman of the Martyrs Ministry in Kurdistan, told CNN.

ISIS was driven out of Sinjar in 2015, and Kurdish officials believe more mass graves will be found as more territory is seized from the terror group.

A US-led coalition has mounted an aggressive campaign to recapture ISIS-held territory in recent months. ISIS currently controls less than 7% of Iraqi territory, Iraq's military says -- down from nearly 40% of the country in 2014.

Hassoun said intelligence reports indicate that there could be up to 12 mass graves in the village of Kocho, which remains under ISIS control.

The village is among two identified by the UN report as sites of large mass killings, which the report defines as more than 20 men and boys killed at the same time.

Hassoun told CNN that his committee lacked the funds to conduct DNA tests needed to match the dead with family members looking for their loved ones' remains.

He said more international support would be needed to determine the true scale of ISIS' atrocities against Yazidis.

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A Fox Business host had to correct Donald Trump when he mistakenly said the United States fired at missiles Iraq last Thursday night, not Syria.

The president was explaining to Maria Bartiromo how he told Chinese President Xi Jinping that he carried out a targeted missile strikes on a Syrian airfield over dessert at Mar-a-Lago.

I was sitting at the table, Trump said. We had finished dinner. We are now having dessert. And we had the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake that youve ever seen, and President Xi was enjoying it. And I was given the message from the generals that the ships are locked and loaded What do you do? and we made a determination to do it, so the missiles were on the way. I said, Mr. President, let me explain something to you. This was during dessert. We have just fired 59 missiles, all of which hit by the way. Unbelievable from hundreds of miles away. What we have in terms of technology, nobody can even come close to competing. We are going to start getting it because the militarys been cut back and depleted so badly by the past administration, and by the war in Iraq, which was a disaster

So what happens is I say we have just launched 59 missiles headed to Iraq

Headed to Syria, Bartiromo cut in.

Yes, heading towards Syria, and I want you to know that. Because I didnt want him to go home. He paused for ten seconds, and then he asked the interpreter to please say it again. He said to me, Anybody that uses gases to do that to young children and babies, its OK.' (RELATED: Trump Comments On U.S. Airstrikes In Syria)

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Iraqs Kurds, who have long been one of the most effective fighting forces against Islamic State (ISIS), are re-energized in their bid for independence, a senior Kurdish official said.

The Kurds, who already run their own autonomous region in northern Iraq, expect to hold a referendum on independence some time after ISIS is ousted from Mosul, said Hoshiyar Zebari, a senior member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP).

The KDP and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) agreed at a meeting on April 2 that a referendum should be held this year, Zebari told Reuters.

The idea of a referendum has been re-energized, Zebari, a former Iraqi foreign and finance minister, said in an interview in Erbil on April 5.

Iraqi Kurdish independence has been historically opposed by Iraq as well as Iran, Turkey and Syria, as they fear the move would embolden their own Kurdish populations to seek autonomy.

Iraqs Kurds are the community to have advanced the most toward independence. Iraq has been led by the Shiites since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, a Sunni, in 2003, following a U.S.-led invasion.

They run their own affairs in the north, through a Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), led by KDP leader Massoud Barzani.

The Kurds have played a major role in the U.S.-backed campaign to defeat ISIS. They have their own armed force, the Peshmerga, which prevented in 2014 Islamic State from capturing the oil region of Kirkuk, after the Iraqi army fled the battlefield.

The Kurds have historical claims over Kirkuk, which is also inhabited by Turkmen and Arabs. Hardline Iranian-backed Iraqi Shiite militias have threatened to drive the Kurds by force from the region and other disputed areas.

Kirkuks Kurdish-led provincial council rejected a resolution by the Iraqi parliament in Baghdad this week to lower Kurdish flags raised since last month next to Iraqi flags over public buildings of the region.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan also warned the Kurds that failure to lower the Kurdish flags would damage their relations with Turkey.

We dont agree with the claim Kirkuk is for the Kurds at all. Kirkuk is for the Turkmen, Arabs and Kurds, if they are there. Do not enter into a claim that its yours or the price will be heavy. You will harm dialogue with Turkey, he said at a rally in the Black Sea province of Zonguldak.

The KRG government rejected the Iraqi and Turkish demands, arguing that the Kurds role in defending Kirkuk against ISIS justified the hoisting of their flag.

If it wasnt for the Peshmerga, there would be neither Iraqs flag in the city nor Kurdistans, KRG Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani told reporters in Erbil on April 5.

Hoshiyar Zebari, Kirkuk, Kurdistan Democratic Party, Kurds eye independence in post-ISIS Iraq, Massoud Barzani, Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, WorldTribune.com

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The president of the Iraqi Artists Society is on a mission to return a painting by Faeq Hassanwho he calls Iraqs Picassoto the Iraqi state. The 1968 painting, a dramatic depiction of Saladins famous 12th century conquest of Jerusalem from the Crusaders, was due to be auctioned at Christies Dubai last month, but was withdrawn after he sent a letter to the auction house. I am like Sherlock Holmes, says Qasim al-Sabti, the Artists Society president.

In the letter, sent on 4 March, Al-Sabti alleged that the painting had been stolen from the Iraqi Military Club in Baghdad (run by the Ministry of Defence) in the early 1990s and then illegally smuggled and sold outside Iraq. He asked the auction house to help us return it to its rightful owners in Iraq. Two weeks later, Christies withdrew the painting from its 18 March sale. According to Alexandra Kindermann, a senior communications director at Christies, Since then the matter has been investigated by the Dubai authorities, who have been in contact with the consignor of the work and will be ruling over this case.

Al-Sabti is working closely with Maysoon al-Damluji, an Iraqi parliament member and head of the commission for culture and information, who is championing the cause and has enlisted the help of Iraqs foreign minister.

To facilitate the paintings return, proof is required that it was in fact the property of the Iraqi Ministry of Defence. This is no mean feat: most of the Ministrys records were burned and looted in the aftermath of the 2003 invasion.

For al-Sabti, the paintings return is not only a matter of rightful ownership, but also one of Iraqi patrimony. Faeq was a pioneer of Iraqi art, and was also one of my professors at the Baghdad College of Fine Arts, he relates, His work needs to be in an Iraqi museum so the next generation of artists can see it.

But Al-Sabtis artistic sleuthing may be more Don Quixote than Sherlock Holmes.

For the past month, al-Sabti has been conducting interviews, gathering documents from the Ministry of Defence and hunting down historical records to piece together the paintings history. A former military officer told him that the painting had been stolen by a police chief from Saddam Husseins regime, and then sold by his son to an Iraqi gallerist in Jordan. Meanwhile, al-Sabti has been searching for a 1973 issue of al-Rawaq, a periodical formerly published by the Ministry of Culture that featured the painting on its cover.

The paintings origins may be traced back to Iraqs former president. According to Haydar Salem, a former curator at Baghdads Saddam Centre for the Arts (now the National Museum of Modern Art), it is one of three historical scenes by three Iraqi artists that the president Hassan al-Bakr, Saddams predecessor, commissioned in the late 1960s. Salem says that the Military Club gave the two other painting to the arts centre in the late 80s, while the one by Faeq Hassan remained at the Military Club until it disappeared in the early 90s.

Al-Sabti, who has run the Hewar Gallery in Baghdad for decades and has weathered invasions, occupations and terror attacks, notes sanguinely that over 5,000 works of art have been stolen from Iraq, mostly since 2003.

But for al-Sabti and many other Iraqis, the Faeq Hassan work has particular significance. That painting is a famous one in Iraq and its part of our national heritage, says al-Sabti. It needs to be returned to us.

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