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Washington sheltering Daesh commanders at Iraq-Syria borders
Dec 04, 2018 14:10Daesh commanders are hiding at US bases at Iraq's border with Syria, a senior commander of Hashd al-Sha’bi (Iraqi popular forces) said, warning that Washington seeks to use the terrorists as a leverage against Baghdad and Damascus.
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Zarif blasts ‘surrealism’ guiding US foreign policy
Dec 03, 2018 03:33Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif condemns the “surrealism” informing the US’ foreign policy after his American counterpart accuses Tehran of violating the very UN Security Council resolution that Washington is in breach of.
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Izadis join case against French firm for paying Daesh
Dec 01, 2018 09:46A group of women from Iraq's Izadi religious minority who were kidnapped and sexually abused by Daesh are seeking to join a legal case against a French firm charged with paying millions to the terrorist group.
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Iraqi protesters rally to denounce Saudi-led aggression on crisis-hit Yemen
Nov 30, 2018 16:44Thousands of people have taken to the streets in the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad to express outrage over the Saudi-led aerial bombardment campaign against Yemen, which has killed thousands of innocent civilians and reduced much of the Arab country's critical infrastructure to rubble.
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Top Hashd al-Sha’abi cmdr., four aides killed in Iraq’s Diyala bomb attack
Nov 29, 2018 14:29A senior commander of the pro-government Popular Mobilization Units has been killed in a bomb attack in Iraq’s eastern province of Diyala as government troops and allied fighters are engaged in joint counter-terrorism operations across the crisis-hit Arab country to flush out the last remnants of the extremist outfit.
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Earthquake of magnitude 6.3 strikes Iran-Iraq border
Nov 25, 2018 15:23A strong earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale has shaken western Iran and was also felt in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, and other provinces.
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Iraq floods leave 21 dead in two days
Nov 25, 2018 12:55At least 21 people have died and tens of thousands displaced by heavy rains that have battered Iraq over two days, the health ministry and United Nations said on Sunday.
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Second US Navy SEAL charged in alleged Iraq war crime cover-up
Nov 25, 2018 04:13A Second US Navy SEAL – a platoon commander – has faced charges of failing to act when notified of atrocities carried out by another SEAL during a 2017 deployment in Iraq, including stabbing an injured teenage Daesh terrorist, and gunning down a little girl and an elderly man.
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Iraqi lawmakers call for end to US military presence
Nov 24, 2018 09:44Iraqi lawmakers have called for the withdrawal of US troops, saying they see no justification for the presence of foreign troops about a year after the defeat of the Daesh terrorist group in Iraq.
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Four schoolchildren killed in bomb blast near Iraq’ s Mosul
Nov 22, 2018 14:41At least four schoolchildren have lost their lives and six others sustained injuries when a bomb explosion ripped through their vehicle in Iraq’s northern province of Nineveh.