Iraq

Iraq captures high-ranking Daesh cmdr. over 2014 Camp Speicher massacre

Mar 07, 2019 16:27

Iraqi government forces have arrested a high-ranking commander of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group wanted for the June 2014 massacre of hundreds of military soldiers at an air force camp in the country’s central city of Tikrit.
Iran, Iraq reaffirm resolve to bolster neighborly ties

Mar 07, 2019 05:53

Iraq’s top parliamentarian holds talks with high-ranking Iranian officials on a wide range of issues, including ways to bolster bilateral relations, uproot terrorism and strengthen regional peace.
Iran, Iraq parliament speakers call for broader economic ties

Mar 07, 2019 01:51

Iran’s Parliament (Majlis) Speaker Ali Larijani held talks with his Iraqi counterpart Mohamed al-Halbousi on developing Tehran-Baghdad economic and parliamentary ties as well as on ways to establish sustainable security in the broader region.
US sanctions Iraq’s Nujaba group known for role in anti-terror fight

Mar 06, 2019 08:15

The United States has sanctioned Iraq’s Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba, a movement known for its active cooperation with the national army in counter-terrorism operations, which led to the collapse of the Takfiri terror group of Daesh in late 2017.
Europeans created Daesh, Iran stopped its spread: Qassemi

Mar 04, 2019 07:34

Iran says Daesh would have overridden Europe if it had not been for the Islamic Republic's fight against terror groups that Western countries once planted in West Asia to further their own agenda.
Freed Izadi women, children reunite with families in northern Iraq

Mar 03, 2019 01:46

A group of Iraqi women and children from the Izadi minority, who were freed earlier this week after five years of captivity at the hands of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group in neighboring Syria, have been reunited with their families in Iraq.
President Rouhani due in Iraq on March 11

Mar 02, 2019 11:16

President Hassan Rouhani is set to pay an official visit to Iraq later this month in order to boost bilateral ties between the two neighbors amid US sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
President Rouhani to visit Iraq on March 11

Mar 01, 2019 03:44

President Hassan Rouhani will travel to Iraq on March 11 for an official visit.
‘Iraq not abiding by US sanctions on Iran’

Mar 01, 2019 03:19

Leader of Iraq’s National Wisdom Movement Seyyed Ammar al-Hakim said his country has not given in to Washington’s pressures to comply with the US sanctions against Iran.
Protected by US, Daesh leader al-Baghdadi travels across Iraq's western desert: Lawmaker

Feb 28, 2019 15:36

An Iraqi lawmaker says the leader of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group, Ibrahim al-Samarrai aka Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is alive and traveling freely between neighboring Syria and desert areas in Iraq’s western province of Anbar under the protection of US military forces.