Iraq

‘Iraq not abiding by US sanctions on Iran’

Mar 01, 2019 03:19

Leader of Iraq’s National Wisdom Movement Seyyed Ammar al-Hakim said his country has not given in to Washington’s pressures to comply with the US sanctions against Iran.
Protected by US, Daesh leader al-Baghdadi travels across Iraq's western desert: Lawmaker

Feb 28, 2019 15:36

An Iraqi lawmaker says the leader of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group, Ibrahim al-Samarrai aka Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is alive and traveling freely between neighboring Syria and desert areas in Iraq’s western province of Anbar under the protection of US military forces.
Questions remain even as Iran, Iraq resume oil swap

Feb 27, 2019 09:40

Iraq and Iran have reportedly begun exchanging crude oil following a 10-day halt which came after the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) suspended the swap earlier this month.
Iraqi president says courts will prosecute 13 Daesh suspects captured in Syria

Feb 26, 2019 05:03

Iraqi President Barham Saleh says his country’s courts will prosecute 13 French nationals who were captured while fighting for the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group in Syria.
Iran, Iraq confer on bilateral ties

Feb 25, 2019 09:37

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Seyyed Abbas Araqchi and Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi, in a Monday meeting in Baghdad, exchanged views on ways to further increase bilateral relations between the two neighboring counties.
Maliki reveals how Obama knowingly helped Daesh so US forces could return to Iraq

Feb 25, 2019 06:12

Former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has for the first time divulged explosive secrets about how the United States supported Daesh and intentionally allowed the Takfiri terror outfit to gain power in Iraq so that Washington could creep back into the Arab country.
Blast hits minibus carrying oil workers in eastern Syria; 20 killed

Feb 22, 2019 02:27

Nearly two dozen people have lost their lives and a number of others sustained injuries when a powerful bomb explosion struck a minibus carrying workers employed in a major oil facility in Syria’s Eastern Province of Dayr al-Zawr.
US-backed SDF hand over to Iraq 130 Daesh terrorists captured in Syria

Feb 21, 2019 15:02

The so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have handed over more than a hundred Iraqi members of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group, who had been captured in neighboring Syria, to Iraqi government forces.
Iraqi intelligence forces nab over dozen French Daesh terrorists inside Syria

Feb 21, 2019 14:57

Iraqi government forces have arrested more than a dozen French citizens over their membership in the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group during a counter-terrorism operation in neighboring Syria.
Foreign military bases not welcome in Iraq, national security advisor says

Feb 21, 2019 09:05

Iraqi National Security Adviser Falih al-Fayyadh says the Baghdad government is vehemently opposed to the presence of foreign military bases on its territory.