Iraq

US sanctions Iraq’s Nujaba group known for role in anti-terror fight

Mar 06, 2019 08:15

The United States has sanctioned Iraq’s Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba, a movement known for its active cooperation with the national army in counter-terrorism operations, which led to the collapse of the Takfiri terror group of Daesh in late 2017.
Europeans created Daesh, Iran stopped its spread: Qassemi

Mar 04, 2019 07:34

Iran says Daesh would have overridden Europe if it had not been for the Islamic Republic's fight against terror groups that Western countries once planted in West Asia to further their own agenda.
Freed Izadi women, children reunite with families in northern Iraq

Mar 03, 2019 01:46

A group of Iraqi women and children from the Izadi minority, who were freed earlier this week after five years of captivity at the hands of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group in neighboring Syria, have been reunited with their families in Iraq.
President Rouhani due in Iraq on March 11

Mar 02, 2019 11:16

President Hassan Rouhani is set to pay an official visit to Iraq later this month in order to boost bilateral ties between the two neighbors amid US sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
Mass psychosis & the church of humanitarian interventionism (1)

Mar 02, 2019 08:07

Like the proverbial general always fighting the last war, the US liberals remain trapped in the past, unable to adapt to rapidly unfolding kinetic developments. The problem is that not only is this general fighting the last war, but the general can no longer distinguish between right and left and has lost any semblance of a moral compass.
President Rouhani to visit Iraq on March 11

Mar 01, 2019 03:44

President Hassan Rouhani will travel to Iraq on March 11 for an official visit.
‘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.