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Top IS figure in Iraq killed: prime minister

Jan 28, 2021 (AFP)

Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi said IS's Iraq "wali", or governor, Abu Yasser al-Issawi, was killed in an "intelligence-led operation" by Iraqi security forc...

Mosul's ruined Old City up for sale, but few buyers

Jan 28, 2021 (AFP)

But many who lived through the horrors of IS rule there are now unable to find buyers for their properties in what still resembles a warzone. Piles of rubble bl...

Pope to meet top Shiite cleric Sistani on Iraq visit: cardinal

Jan 28, 2021 (AFP)

Louis Sako, patriarch of Iraq's Chaldean Catholic Church, said it would be a "private visit" between the two religious figures at Sistani's residence in the shr...

Iraq hangs three convicted of 'terrorism': security source

Jan 25, 2021 (AFP)

The reported hangings came after rights groups warned Iraq may authorise a spree of such executions in a show of strength following the bombings on Thursday, wh...

Fears of Iraq execution spree after IS attack

Jan 25, 2021 (AFP)

On Sunday, an official from Iraq's presidency told AFP more than 340 execution orders "for terrorism or criminal acts" were ready to be carried out. "We are con...

11 Iraqi fighters killed in IS attack: security sources

Jan 23, 2021 (AFP)

The jihadists used light weapons and the cover of darkness to target the Hashed east of Tikrit, the capital of Iraq's Salahaddin province, two days after a twin...

Baghdad blasts expose gaps in Iraq's strained military

Jan 22, 2021 (AFP)

At least 32 people were killed and more than 100 wounded in the double-tap suicide attack that targeted a commercial district in Baghdad on Thursday. It was the...

IS claims Baghdad twin bombing that killed 32, wounded 110

Jan 21, 2021 (AFP)

It was the deadliest attack on the city in three years, when another suicide bomber targeted the same area. The first attacker drew a crowd at the bustling mark...

Iraqi policeman shot, dozens wounded in protests

Jan 10, 2021 (AFP)

The policeman was "killed by a bullet to the head", a medic in the city 300 kilometres (190 miles) south of the capital Baghdad said. The army confirmed the dea...

Iraq 'surprised' at US sanctions for top official

Jan 09, 2021 (AFP)

Fayyadh is one of the most senior Iraqi state officials to be placed on the US sanctions blacklist. Washington has been threatening for months to impose sanctio...

Old grievances, reborn as IS accusations, tie Iraqis to camps

Jan 08, 2021 (AFP)

The 22-year-old's family is one of hundreds rights groups fear will remain stuck indefinitely in limbo due to long-standing wrangles being repackaged by neighbo...

Iraqi PM's advisor sparks pro-Iran ire for Soleimani comments

Jan 05, 2021 (AFP)

Hosham Dawod's comments, made to the BBC, came as people marked the anniversary of the January 3, 2020 US drone strike near Baghdad's international airport that...

Anti-US chants as Iraqis mourn commanders killed a year ago

Jan 04, 2021 (AFP)

Pro-Iranian protesters, many dressed in black, massed in Baghdad's central Tahrir Square, where they also condemned Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi as a...

Major's Britain feared prospect of new war with Saddam

Dec 30, 2020 (AFP)

The confidential message is one of several papers from Major's final years in office from 1995 to 1997 made public for the first time by the National Archives. ...

Cards from across Iraq bring Christmas cheer to Christians

Dec 25, 2020 (AFP)

Under a pinkish sky, they disembarked from their charter bus with cardboard boxes full of Christmas cards, bearing hand-written messages from across Muslim-majo...

Trump warns Iran over rocket strike on embassy in Iraq

Dec 24, 2020 (AFP)

"Our embassy in Baghdad got hit Sunday by several rockets," Trump said on Twitter, referring to an attack that caused damage but no deaths. "Guess where they ca...

'Cheaper than water': Iraqis angry but unsurprised over Blackwater pardons

Dec 23, 2020 (AFP)

"I lost hope a long time ago," said Fares Saadi, the Iraqi police officer who led the investigations into the shootings at Baghdad's crowded Nisur Square. The B...

Rockets hit near US embassy in Iraq as tensions flare

Dec 20, 2020 (AFP)

AFP reporters in the capital's east heard at least five booms on Sunday night, followed by whistling sounds. A few moments later, they heard thunderous rapid-fi...

'We made it': Iraqi refugee family is home at last

Dec 17, 2020 (AFP)

From a first date that ended in bloody carnage in Baghdad, to finally receiving the keys to a new home in The Netherlands, theirs is an epic tale of courage, su...

After tough 2020, Iraq eyes more economic pain ahead

Dec 17, 2020 (AFP)

Officials who prepared the document told AFP their goal was to aim for "survival" solutions after an unprecedented fiscal crisis brought on by the coronavirus p...