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Iraq’s PM set to meet with US president this month: White House
Mar 08, 2017 04:18Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi is set to visit the United States and meet with President Donald Trump in Washington this month, the White House says.
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Iraq calls on US to fully remove Muslim travel ban
Mar 08, 2017 03:47Iraq, which has been excluded from a revised US travel ban, decries the prohibition in its entirety, calling on Washington to respect the dignity of the six other Muslim-majority states and remove them from the blacklist.
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Iraq's prime minister visits troops in Mosul airport
Mar 07, 2017 11:42Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has paid an unannounced visit to troops deployed in the north of the country amid a fierce battle to recapture the second largest city of Mosul.
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‘Turkey, Russia, US military chiefs meet in Turkish city’
Mar 07, 2017 08:17The Turkish army says its chief of the general staff has met with his Russian and American counterparts in Turkey, discussing the situation in Iraq and Syria among other things.
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‘Iraqi elite forces retake government building in Mosul’
Mar 07, 2017 05:39Iraqi special forces have reportedly reclaimed the government’s headquarters in the northern city of Mosul, the last urban area controlled by Daesh in Iraq.
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Trump expected to sign new executive order on travel ban
Mar 06, 2017 16:53US President Donald Trump will exclude Iraq from the list of Muslim countries targeted in a travel ban when he signs a revised executive order as part of his promised overhaul of the nation’s immigration and refugee policies, according to a White House official.
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About 200k civilians displaced since Mosul operation started: IOM
Mar 06, 2017 04:40A high-profile NGO says more than 200,000 civilians have been displaced since the onset of the operation to liberate the northern Iraqi city of Mosul from Takfiri Daesh terrorists.
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Iraqi forces launch fresh push in western Mosul battle
Mar 05, 2017 13:12Iraqi forces have started a new push toward Mosul's old city center as they press ahead with their operation to purge the western bank of the Tigris River of Daesh terrorists.
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Mosul chemical attack believed to be carried out by Daesh amounts to war crime: UN
Mar 05, 2017 04:10The UN says the recent chemical attack in Mosul, believed to be the first by the Daesh terrorist group in the northern Iraqi city, could amount to a war crime.
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Spokesman: Hashd Al-Sha'abi ready to kick off new liberation phase in Iraq
Mar 04, 2017 13:23Iraqi Volunteer Forces Spokesman Ahmad al-Assadi voiced Hashd al-Sha'abi's readiness to start fresh military operations to seize back all regions to the West of the city of Mosul in Nineveh Province.