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1,300 stolen artifacts returned to Iraq's National Museum
Feb 04, 2019 05:03More than a thousand antiquities which had been stolen from Iraq have been returned to the nation. They were handed over by Jordanian authorities who confiscated them from smugglers.
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Turkey captures four Daesh suspects near border with Syria
Feb 03, 2019 01:02Soldiers have detained at least four suspected members of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group in a Turkish town on the Syrian border while they were trying to cross the frontier illegally.
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Hashd al-Sha'abi fighters stop US military patrol in Iraq's Mosul
Feb 03, 2019 00:56Members of Iraqi pro-government Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), known in Arabic as Hashd al-Sha'abi, have stopped a US military patrol in the city of Mosul, according to a new report.
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Australia admits it has killed up to 18 civilians in Mosul air raid
Feb 02, 2019 01:18Australian Defense Force officials admit that a 2017 airstrike by the country's jet fighters on the northern Iraqi city of Mosul has claimed the lives of six to 18 civilians.
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Dozens of militants' family members leave last redoubt in eastern Syria
Feb 01, 2019 12:04Members of the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have evacuated dozens of people from the last pocket of land held by the Daesh Takfiri terrorists on the eastern bank of the Euphrates River in Syria, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday.
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German police nab 3 Iraqis over suspected terror plot
Jan 30, 2019 09:38Police in Germany have arrested three Iraqi citizens suspected of planning to carry out an attack in the European country, according to a federal prosecutor’s office.
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Six killed, over a dozen injured in bomb and gun attacks across Iraq
Jan 28, 2019 04:33Iraqi security officials and medical sources say at least six people have lost their lives and more than a dozen sustained injuries when separate bomb and gun attacks struck the country’s Northern Provinces of Salahuddin and Nineveh as well as the Eastern Province of Diyala.
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Iraq to summon Turkish envoy over killing of Iraqi Kurd
Jan 28, 2019 04:29The Iraqi Foreign Ministry says it will summon the Turkish ambassador to Baghdad over the death of an Iraqi Kurd by Turkish fire in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region.
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Teenager killed as protesters attack Turkish base in Iraq's Kurdish region
Jan 27, 2019 01:13A teenage boy has been killed in a bout of violence involving Turkish troops and Kurdish protesters in northern Iraq.
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US mulls keeping troops in Syria to counter, attack Iranians in 'self-defense': Report
Jan 27, 2019 01:06Washington is considering a plan to illegally maintain a force contingent at a US military base in Syria to “combat” Iran’s influence in the region and even strike Iranians passing by near the base while purportedly claiming “self-defense,” despite a presidential order to pull out all US forces from the country, a report said.