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Iraqi legislator warns against Turkey’s attempts to ‘seize control of Mosul, annex it’
Aug 06, 2021 02:47An Iraqi lawmaker has condemned Turkey’s ongoing military operations in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region against purported positions of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militant group, stating that Ankara intends to seize control of the strategic northwestern city of Mosul and annex it to its own territory.
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Iran wants a powerful Iraq, President Raeisi tells his Iraqi counterpart
Aug 05, 2021 08:10President Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi says the Islamic Republic wants a powerful and strong Iraq and is determined to further improve relations with Baghdad.
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US renews sanctions waiver for Iraq to import Iranian energy
Aug 05, 2021 00:36The United States has allowed Iraq to continue to import gas and electricity from Iran until the start of December as part of Washington’s temporary waivers from sanctions imposed on Iran since 2018.
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Iraqi PMU forces launch operation to purge Diyala's rural areas from Daesh terrorists
Aug 01, 2021 03:10Iraqi anti-terror Popular Mobilization Units – better known as Hashd al-Sha’abi – have launched an operation to clear Daesh remnants from villages and rural areas in the eastern Province of Diyala near the border with Iran.
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Iraqi groups vow to force US troops to leave in humiliation
Jul 30, 2021 04:55Iraqi’s Kata'ib Hezbollah resistance movement has emphasized that American military troops must withdraw from the West Asian country, and it is ready to force the occupation troops to do so.
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Roadside bomb explosions hit US-led coalition supply convoys in southern, central Iraq
Jul 29, 2021 13:20Multiple roadside bombs have separately gone off near convoys of trucks carrying equipment and fuel belonging to US-led coalition forces in Iraq’s southern provinces of Dhi Qar and al-Qadisiyah as well as the central province of Babil, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
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Resistance group urges removal of all US air bases from Iraq
Jul 29, 2021 02:26The Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq Movement, a subdivision of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) or Hashd al-Sha’abi, has called for the removal of all American air bases from the Arab country, after Baghdad and Washington agreed to rename the role of the US military on Iraqi soil.
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Iraq’s resistance groups say will not accept US military presence under whatsoever role, call for full withdrawal
Jul 28, 2021 11:37Several Iraqi resistance groups have opposed any presence of US military forces in their country, after Joe Biden claimed the US role in Iraq will not be a combat mission but a training and assisting one following a so-called agreement on the withdrawal of American forces.
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US, Israel behind Najaf airstrikes, Iraq must respond fittingly: Senior PMU cmdr.
Jul 27, 2021 11:21A senior commander of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) says the US and the Israeli regime have been behind “unrelenting attacks” on the resistance group, including Monday’s airstrikes in Najaf, urging the Iraqi government to “respond fittingly.”
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Biden announces rebranding of US occupation of Iraq
Jul 27, 2021 01:06US President Joe Biden claims the country is to end its “combat mission” in Iraq by the end of the year amid reports dismissing the move as simple rebranding of the American occupation.