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Iraqi security forces start offensive to purge areas near Kirkuk of Daesh terrorists
Mar 11, 2018 13:05Iraqi security forces, supported by pro-government fighters from Popular Mobilization Units, have started an operation to clear remnants of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group from villages near the country’s oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk.
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Terrorists solely responsible for Syria chemical attacks, if any: Deputy FM
Mar 10, 2018 15:24Syria’s Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad has rejected claims that the Arab country’s military used chemical weapons in an area near the capital Damascus, saying terrorists and their supporters should be held accountable for any such incident.
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Hashd al-Sha’abi inclusion in Iraq's security service helpful, says Abadi
Mar 10, 2018 14:02Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has defended his decree to formally incorporate pro-government fighters from the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) into the Arab country’s security service, stressing that such a move would help establish security and stability.
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Senior Daesh figures still hiding in Mosul tunnels, Iraqi officials
Mar 09, 2018 15:11Iraqi security officials have warned that the high-ranking members of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist groups are still hiding in tunnels dug beneath the country’s strategic northern city of Mosul roughly a year after government troopers and allied fighters retook the area from the extremists.
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Iraq gives death sentence to sister of former al-Qaeda leader
Mar 08, 2018 14:27The sister of a former al-Qaeda leader in Iraq who was killed in 2010 has been sentenced to death in a Baghdad court on terrorism charges, including collaborating with militants in terror operations.
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Bomber kills religious official, bodyguard in eastern Afghanistan
Mar 07, 2018 16:38A bomber has killed a senior religious official and his bodyguard and wounded nearly a dozen others in eastern Afghanistan.
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Syria army preparing to lift siege on terrorist-held Eastren Ghouta
Mar 07, 2018 09:43A Syrian army colonel says government forces will lift the siege on the terrorist-held Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta, making it possible for people trapped in the embattled enclave to return to the “state’s embrace” soon.
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Terror acts by over 30 armed groups thwarted: Intel. Min.
Mar 04, 2018 15:56Security forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran have thwarted acts of terror by more than 30 terrorist cells other than Daesh Takfiri group in recent years, an official with Intelligence Ministry says.
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US-led coalition warplanes pound northeastern Syria, kill scores of civilians
Mar 03, 2018 14:56Scores of civilians have lost their lives or sustained injuries when the US-led coalition purportedly fighting the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group carried out a series of aerial assaults in Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah.
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Over two dozen Daesh members killed, arrested in army operation west of Mosul
Mar 03, 2018 10:49Iraqi media reports say more than two dozen Daesh terrorists have been killed and arrested in an army operation west of Mosul, which was once the Takfiri terror group’s main stronghold in the Arab country.