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Mass grave with Kurdish Anfal victims found in southern Iraq
Apr 14, 2019 11:07A mass grave has been discovered by local authorities in the southern Iraqi province of al-Muthanna containing the bodies of people believed to have been killed during the former Ba’athist regime’s deadly Anfal campaign against the Kurds three decades ago.
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Iraqi resistance groups express solidarity with Iran's IRGC amid US blacklisting
Apr 14, 2019 03:59Iraqi resistance groups, which have been a major partner in the national army's sweeping counter-terrorism operations, have thrown their weight behind Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) in the face of the US blacklisting of the elite military force.
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Former Izadi captives of Daesh repatriated to northern Iraq
Apr 13, 2019 16:29More than two dozen women and children from the Izadi minority group have been repatriated to Iraq’s northern province of Nineveh after years of captivity at the hands of Daesh terrorists in neighboring Syria.
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Iran, Iraq and Syria considering transnational railway project
Apr 13, 2019 07:28Iraq says negotiations are underway with Iran and Syria to develop a transnational railway line linking the three countries.
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Iraq will be no starting point for action against neighbors, Salih assures Iran
Apr 11, 2019 14:23Salih made the remarks in a meeting on Thursday with Iranian Ambassador to Iraq Iraj Masjedi in Baghdad, where the two sides exchanged views on bilateral ties and other issues of mutual interest, according to a statement by Iraq's Presidential Office.
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Iraq receives more T-90 battle tanks from Russia to boost ground force
Apr 10, 2019 00:57A high-ranking Iraqi military commander says the country’s army has received a new batch of advanced T-90 battle tanks from Russia under a major deal struck between Moscow and Baghdad in July 2017.
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Turkey, Qatar, China, Iraq denounce US blacklisting of IRGC
Apr 10, 2019 00:19Turkey, Qatar, China, and Iraq have separately denounced US President Donald Trump’s recent move to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist group.
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Iran calls on US to stop funding terrorists
Apr 08, 2019 10:30Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani, in a Monday morning meeting with Vice-President of the German Bundestag Claudia Roth, called for a stop to the financing of terrorism by self-proclaimed advocates of human rights, making reference to the US.
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Make US troops leave Iraq as soon as possible: Ayatollah Khamenei
Apr 07, 2019 00:19Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the Baghdad government should expel US forces from Iraq as soon as possible.
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Iran, Iraq to boost trade ties, cooperation in terror fight: President Rouhani
Apr 06, 2019 23:52President Hassan Rouhani says Iran and Iraq are keen to expand their cooperation in the fight against terrorism and smuggling while seeking stronger ties in the power, gas and oil sectors.