IRAQ WARS - NANO DAILY

From Baghdad's mosques, calls to pray echo -- but don't quite match

Apr 16, 2020 (AFP)

The staggered, lilting appeals blanket the western Baghdad neighbourhood of Rahmaniyah, thanks to Shiite muezzin Mullah Muntadhar and his Sunni counterpart Ahma...

Iraq suspends Reuters news agency over COVID-19 story

Apr 14, 2020 (AFP)

In a report published on April 2, Reuters quoted doctors saying there were more than 3,000 novel coronavirus cases in Iraq, well over the 772 cases confirmed by...

Father of modern Iraqi architecture dies of COVID-19

Apr 11, 2020 (AFP)

The 93-year-old architect and photographer is credited with designing some of Iraq's most well-known structures, including the iconic "Freedom Monument" in the ...

Iraq's new PM-elect Kadhemi, spy chief with friends on all sides

Apr 09, 2020 (AFP)

The head of Iraq's National Intelligence Service (NIS) was nominated Thursday by President Barham Saleh, in a ceremony attended by a who's who of the political ...

US, Iraq to hold talks on troop future

Apr 07, 2020 (AFP)

With Iraq increasingly becoming a proxy battleground between Iran and the United States, President Donald Trump has refused to pull the 5,200 US troops and earl...

Iraqis rally to help needy families as virus hits, economy falters

Apr 05, 2020 (AFP)

"What we're doing is a humanitarian duty towards society, and anyone who can afford it should do the same," said Abu Hashim, an Iraqi businessman in his fifties...

In Iraq, no resting place for coronavirus dead

Mar 30, 2020 (AFP)

Fearing the respiratory illness could somehow spread from the corpses to nearby population centres, Iraqi religious authorities, tribes and townspeople have sen...

Rockets hit Iraq's Green Zone, US-led coalition leaves base

Mar 26, 2020 (AFP)

Some 7,500 foreign troops are in Iraq as part of the US-led coalition helping local troops fight jihadist remnants, but those numbers are being significantly dr...

Iraq extends nationwide curfew until April 11

Mar 26, 2020 (AFP)

Schools, universities, shopping centres and other large gathering places will remain closed, as will the country's international airports. Authorities have conf...

Four abducted employees of French Christian NGO released in Iraq

Mar 26, 2020 (AFP)

The release of the four men with SOS Chretiens d'Orient (Christians of the Middle East) comes just a day after France said it would withdraw its troops from Ira...

Czech Republic pulls troops from Iraq over virus

Mar 24, 2020 (AFP)

"A military Airbus A-319 with 30 Czech army soldiers... from Iraq landed at the Prague-Kbely (military) airport on Tuesday evening," the defence ministry said i...

Iraq on total lockdown until March 28 over virus fears

Mar 22, 2020 (AFP)

Most of Iraq's 18 provinces had so far imposed their own local curfews but the new measures would include the whole of the country, according to a new decision ...

Iraq Shiites defy curfews to commemorate revered imam

Mar 21, 2020 (AFP)

On foot, they streamed to the golden-domed mausoleum of Imam al-Kadhim in Baghdad, where authorities kept an outer gate open to allow pilgrims into the surround...

Iraqi Shiite pilgrims defy curfews and coronavirus

Mar 18, 2020 (AFP)

Seeking to stem an outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, more than half of Iraq's 18 provinces have declared curfews of several days. Baghdad, the Arab world's sec...

Iraq's Shiite parties line up to oppose new PM-designate

Mar 18, 2020 (AFP)

The 54-year-old lawmaker and former Najaf governor was nominated Tuesday to be Iraq's new prime minister, the second attempt to replace outgoing premier Adel Ab...

Rockets hit Iraq base hosting foreign troops: military

Mar 17, 2020 (AFP)

The rockets slammed into the Besmaya base south of Baghdad late Monday night, a statement by the military said, making no mention of casualties. Spanish forces ...

Iraq's PM-designate Adnan Zurfi, Shiite moderate with US ties

Mar 17, 2020 (AFP)

The 54-year-old lawmaker is the ex-governor of the Shiite Muslim shrine city of Najaf, has advanced degrees in religious studies and was a long-time member of t...

Iraq names new PM as rockets hit base hosting foreign troops

Mar 17, 2020 (AFP)

The nomination came as Iraq faced two separate rocket attacks, one near the high-security Green Zone in Baghdad late Tuesday after a dawn attack hit a military ...

US-led coalition troops begin leaving Iraq bases: officials

Mar 17, 2020 (AFP)

The announcement came hours after another rocket attack targeted an Iraqi base where foreign troops are located, the 24th such attack in less than six months. "...

US warns Iraq it 'will not tolerate' attacks on Americans

Mar 16, 2020 (AFP)

The United States last week launched airstrikes against an Iranian-allied paramilitary group following a deadly attack on an Iraqi base housing US troops -- but...