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Explosions hit Hashd al-Sha’abi position north of Iraqi capital
Aug 21, 2019 01:23Several powerful explosions have rocked a position held by Iraqi pro-government Popular Mobilization Units, better known by the Arabic word Hashd al-Sha’abi, near a strategic air base north of the capital Baghdad.
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US military forced to comply with orders to halt flights over Iraq
Aug 18, 2019 02:41The US military has been forced to comply with Iraqi demands to halt flying planes, helicopters and drones over the country after its prime minister warned that violating aircraft would be targeted by Iraq’s air defense systems.
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Iraq rejects Israel’s role in Persian Gulf mission, warns of West’s presence
Aug 13, 2019 02:33Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohamed Ali al-Hakim has expressed his country’s opposition to the Israeli regime’s possible involvement in a US-led mission in the Persian Gulf, warning that the presence of foreign forces, including Western countries, in the strategic water body will be fueling tensions.
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Pentagon identifies Marine killed in Iraq
Aug 12, 2019 08:05The Pentagon has identified an American Marine killed in Iraq’s Northern Nineveh Province over the weekend.
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Pentagon announces killing of US 'adviser' in Iraq in combat mission
Aug 11, 2019 03:04The US military has announced the killing of one of its terrorist soldiers in Iraq’s northern Nineveh Province during what it describes as a combat mission along with Iraqi security forces, without elaborating on the circumstances.
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American surveillance drone crashes near Baghdad
Aug 09, 2019 06:34The Iraqi Arabic-language Burath news agency cited informed sources on Friday saying that the drone, registered under the number "52187," had probably crashed due to hacking or electronic jamming from an "unknown source."
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Iraqi Hashd al-Sha’abi forces cleanse areas in southern Nineveh of Daesh
Aug 05, 2019 14:25Members of the pro-government Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), known in Arabic as Hashd al-Sha'abi, have managed to cleanse more than a dozen villages in the southern part of the country’s province of Nineveh during the third phase of a major offensive to hunt down remnants of the Daesh terrorist group.
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Iraq says has no links to fuel smuggling tanker seized by Iran
Aug 05, 2019 07:35Iraq's oil ministry has denied having any links to an oil tanker confiscated by Iran in the Persian Gulf for smuggling fuel to some Arab states.
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Daesh recruiting women for terrorist attacks, Iraqi intelligence service warns
Aug 04, 2019 11:16Iraq’s state-owned and Arabic-language al-Sabah newspaper, quoting head of the Intelligence and Counter Terrorism Department at the Interior Ministry, Abu Ali al-Basri, as saying, reported on Sunday that the terrorists had allowed women to increasingly participate in acts of terror.
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About 3,000 members of Izadi minority remain unaccounted for: Iraqi official
Aug 03, 2019 14:35An Iraqi official says thousands of members of the Izadi minority remain unaccounted for ever since Daesh militants overran their hometowns in the northern part of the country in 2014.