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Recount of May vote in Iraq credible, transparent: UN
Aug 07, 2018 01:40The United Nations has commended the "credible and transparent" manual recount of votes from Iraq's parliamentary elections held in May, calling for further steps towards the formation of a government in the country.
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Iraq concludes manual recount of May parliamentary elections
Aug 06, 2018 14:50Iraq's election commission has concluded the manual recount of votes from the country’s parliamentary elections held in May, wrapping up a process following accusations of electoral fraud.
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Iraqi court jails French, German Daesh members for life
Aug 06, 2018 10:47An Iraqi court has sentenced a French man and a German woman to life in prison for their membership in the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group, some seven months after Baghdad announced that the terror outfit lost all of its urban bastions in the war-ravaged Arab country.
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Jordan, Iraq ink security deal but still face rocky road
Aug 06, 2018 07:35Jordan and Iraq have signed a military and security cooperation agreement after years of stormy ties which saw Daesh terrorists gain control of their joint border and cut vital trade to a bare minimum.
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Civilian casualties unavoidable in anti-terror operations in Iraq, Syria: US coalition
Aug 01, 2018 01:06The US-led coalition has claimed that it impossible to avoid civilian causalities in its airstrikes supposedly targeting terrorists in Syria and Iraq.
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Over dozen Daesh remnants slain in Iraqi army airstrikes, ground operations
Jul 29, 2018 12:07More than a dozen members of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group have been killed and several others captured as Iraqi air forces and government troops launched separate counter-terrorism operations across the crisis-hit Arab country to flush out the last remnants of the terrorist outfit.
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Iraqi PM sacks electricity minister, 5 election officials
Jul 29, 2018 08:08Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has sacked his minister of electricity and five election officials following weeks of protests against corruption and chronic power outages.
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Grand Ayatollah Sistani calls for quick formation of new Iraqi govt.
Jul 27, 2018 14:22Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Ali al-Sistani has urged the formation of a new government in Iraq as soon as possible in the wake of protests against alleged government corruption and poor public services in southern cities.
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Three killed as gunmen storm govt. building in Erbil
Jul 23, 2018 08:51Kurdish security forces have killed three gunmen who stormed the governorate building in the city of Erbil in Iraq's semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan and took hostages.
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15 Daesh Takfiris killed as army jets strike areas in eastern Iraq
Jul 22, 2018 14:18More than a dozen members of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group have been killed when Iraqi Air Force fighter jets carried out a string of airstrikes against militant hideouts in the country’s eastern province of Diyala.