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Hashd al-Sha’abi continue to defend Iraq: PMU commander
Oct 31, 2017 03:02A high-ranking member of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) has brushed off calls by the US to lay down their weapons, stressing that they will continue to defend the country.
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Iran will lift border restrictions with Iraq’s Kurdistan soon: Baqeri
Oct 30, 2017 14:29A senior Iranian commander says the country will remove its border restrictions with Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region “in the coming days,” lifting curbs imposed after last month’s independence referendum.
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Iraqi premier calls on Kurdish people to abide by law after outbreak of riot
Oct 30, 2017 14:27Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has called for “calm” and “adherence to law” in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region following an outbreak of riot there after Massoud Barzani, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG)’s president, announced that he would effectively step down early next month.
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Kurdistan’s Barzani fires parting shots at US
Oct 30, 2017 05:26Massoud Barzani, who until Sunday was the president of Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, has delivered pointed remarks against the United States for ditching its putative allies, the Kurds.
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Iraq to deploy soldiers to key Kurdistan border crossing
Oct 30, 2017 03:12Members of the Iraqi Federal Police Force are going to be deployed to a key border crossing in the country’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region after Iraqi government forces and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters reached an agreement in a bid to resolve a conflict about control of border crossings.
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Protesters storm Iraqi Kurdistan's parl. as Barzani resigns
Oct 29, 2017 14:01Angry demonstrators, some carrying clubs, have reportedly stormed the parliament of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region in the region’s capital city of Erbil as the Kurdish lawmakers approved a request by president of Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government, Massoud Barzani, to step down early next month.
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Iraqi army seizes control over 40 oil wells in northwestern Nineveh
Oct 29, 2017 13:33Iraqi army troops have taken control over 40 oil wells West of Mosul city, an army officer reported on Sunday, adding that the wells were previously under the control of Masood Barzani's fighters.
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Wahhabism ideology inspiring terrorism in region: Iraqi commander
Oct 28, 2017 14:13A high-ranking commander of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Units says Daesh and other terrorist groups in the region are influenced by Wahhabism, Saudi Arabia’s official radical ideology.
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US calls counter-terrorism Iraqi forces ‘terrorists’
Oct 28, 2017 09:33As an official branch of the Iraqi armed forces, the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), also known by its Arabic name Hashd al-Sha’abi, has been a bulwark against Daesh terrorism in Iraq soon after the terrorist group launched an offensive in the Arab country in 2014.
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No bargain over defensive issues: Friday Prayer Leader
Oct 27, 2017 14:41Tehran's interim Friday Prayer Leader, Ayatollah Mohammad Emami-Kashani said that US is fighting with the thoughts, ideology, and feelings of the Iranian nation.