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Questions remain even as Iran, Iraq resume oil swap
Feb 27, 2019 09:40Iraq and Iran have reportedly begun exchanging crude oil following a 10-day halt which came after the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) suspended the swap earlier this month.
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Iraqi president says courts will prosecute 13 Daesh suspects captured in Syria
Feb 26, 2019 05:03Iraqi President Barham Saleh says his country’s courts will prosecute 13 French nationals who were captured while fighting for the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group in Syria.
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Iran, Iraq confer on bilateral ties
Feb 25, 2019 09:37Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Seyyed Abbas Araqchi and Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi, in a Monday meeting in Baghdad, exchanged views on ways to further increase bilateral relations between the two neighboring counties.
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Maliki reveals how Obama knowingly helped Daesh so US forces could return to Iraq
Feb 25, 2019 06:12Former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has for the first time divulged explosive secrets about how the United States supported Daesh and intentionally allowed the Takfiri terror outfit to gain power in Iraq so that Washington could creep back into the Arab country.
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Blast hits minibus carrying oil workers in eastern Syria; 20 killed
Feb 22, 2019 02:27Nearly two dozen people have lost their lives and a number of others sustained injuries when a powerful bomb explosion struck a minibus carrying workers employed in a major oil facility in Syria’s Eastern Province of Dayr al-Zawr.
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US-backed SDF hand over to Iraq 130 Daesh terrorists captured in Syria
Feb 21, 2019 15:02The so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have handed over more than a hundred Iraqi members of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group, who had been captured in neighboring Syria, to Iraqi government forces.
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Iraqi intelligence forces nab over dozen French Daesh terrorists inside Syria
Feb 21, 2019 14:57Iraqi government forces have arrested more than a dozen French citizens over their membership in the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group during a counter-terrorism operation in neighboring Syria.
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Foreign military bases not welcome in Iraq, national security advisor says
Feb 21, 2019 09:05Iraqi National Security Adviser Falih al-Fayyadh says the Baghdad government is vehemently opposed to the presence of foreign military bases on its territory.
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Washington, Baghdad agree on US troops withdrawal from Syria via Iraq
Feb 19, 2019 11:44Baghdad and Washington have reached an agreement allowing US troops to be withdrawn from Syria via Iraqi territory, Chief of Staff and Adviser to the Iraqi prime minister Abdulkarim Hashim Mostafa told Sputnik on Tuesday.
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Trump wants Europe to take back Daesh captives in Syria
Feb 17, 2019 05:03US President Donald Trump says Europe should take responsibility for those Daesh terrorists from the continent who have been captured by the US in Syria; otherwise, American forces will be “forced” to release them, as he plans to withdraw American forces from the Arab country.