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France offers surveillance help for Iraq war on IS
Aug 27, 2020 (AFP)
Parly is the second French minister to visit the Iraqi capital this summer after Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian last month. She held talks with her counter...
Shiite mourning rituals ring with Iraq's demands for justice
Aug 27, 2020 (AFP)
The thousands of black-clad pilgrims are marking Muharram, the first month in the Islamic calendar, during which they commemorate the Prophet Mohammed's grandso...
Camp Taji turned over to Iraq Security Forces as coalition departs
Aug 24, 2020 (UPI)
In a ceremony on Sunday, coalition troops withdrew from the military base, 12 miles north of Baghdad, and handed it over to Iraqi forces, Combined Joint Task Fo...
Jordan summit still on after minister positive for COVID-19: officials
Aug 24, 2020 (AFP)
Minister Arkan al-Shaybani and fellow Iraqi officials were tested upon landing in Amman on Friday and the entire delegation was placed in confinement after the ...
Series of killings plunges Iraq activists into familiar fear
Aug 21, 2020 (AFP)
One of them was Riham Yaaqub, a 29-year-old athletics coach who was deeply involved in anti-government protests and who was shot dead in the southern province o...
Trump meets Iraq PM, says US troops to exit 'at some point'
Aug 20, 2020 (AFP)
The meeting comes with attacks on American targets by pro-Iranian fighters on the rise and the Iraqi government facing calls to expel the roughly 5,000 US troop...
Iraq PM to meet Trump with US troops on the agenda
Aug 20, 2020 (AFP)
The meeting comes as attacks on American targets by pro-Iranian fighters have been on the rise, and with Tehran and Washington competing for influence in Iraq, ...
US calls on Iraq to dismantle armed groups
Aug 19, 2020 (AFP)
"Armed groups not under the full control of the prime minister have impeded our progress," said Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. "Those groups need to be replace...
As Iraq PM heads to US, pro-Iran groups step up attacks
Aug 18, 2020 (AFP)
With Tehran and Washington competing for influence in Iraq, the gulf between pro-Iranian factions and Baghdad's US-friendly premier is growing. When Kadhemi mee...
Iraq seeks Arab help to push Turkish troops out
Aug 13, 2020 (AFP)
Its comments come two days after a Turkish drone strike killed two high-ranking Iraqi officers in the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, amid heightene...
Friendships in Iraqi soccer league show 'contact hypothesis' works, but has limits
Aug 13, 2020 (UPI)
The experiment, detailed Thursday in the journal Science, however, revealed the limits of the "contact hypothesis" -- while players built relationships on the f...
Trump to meet Iraqi PM as ties rebound
Aug 08, 2020 (AFP)
Tensions skyrocketed following a US strike on Baghdad in January that killed Iranian general Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and promp...
Iraqi policemen killed protesters with hunting rifles; 2 rockets hit Baghdad airport
Jul 30, 2020 (AFP)
"According to eyewitnesses and forensic data, hunting rifles killed" two protesters, Interior Minister Othman al-Ghanemi told reporters on Thursday. The ministe...
Third Iraq protester dies of tear gas canister wound this week
Jul 28, 2020 (AFP)
The clashes came just hours after Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi instructed security forces not to "fire a single bullet" at demonstrators, following the dea...
Two protesters in first Iraq deaths under new PM: medics
Jul 27, 2020 (AFP)
The deaths threaten to reignite an unprecedented protest movement against government graft and incompetence that erupted across Baghdad and southern Iraq in Oct...
Iraqi forces free German woman kidnapped in Baghdad
Jul 24, 2020 (AFP)
"Security forces have freed activist Hella Mewis," Iraq's military spokesman Yahya Rasool said in a statement. Iraq's interior ministry said a joint task force,...
US general sees Iraq troop drawdown as IS threat dims
Jul 22, 2020 (AFP)
Though IS may never be completely eradicated, the group has been significantly diminished from when it controlled swathes of Iraq and Syria just a few years ago...
US presence cause of insecurity: Khamenei tells visiting Iraq PM
Jul 21, 2020 (AFP)
Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi of Iraq met Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the Iranian capital during his first trip abroad since taking office. "Iran will not int...
Mawla the 'Destroyer', brutal new head of IS group
Jul 21, 2020 (AFP)
Amir Mohammed Said Abd al-Rahman al-Mawla replaced Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi after his death in a raid by US special forces last October. Mawla was initially present...
Rare daytime rocket attack hits Baghdad as Iran FM visits
Jul 19, 2020 (AFP)
At least two rockets hit outside the US embassy in the high-security zone, they told AFP. Diplomats based in the neighbourhood said they could hear sirens blari...
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