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Officials in Iraq slam Trump’s unannounced visit to base
Dec 27, 2018 10:44US President Donald Trump’s unannounced visit to Iraq has sparked a wave of condemnations from the Arab country’s political and military leaders, with some of them demanding the expulsion of American forces.
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Trump meets US troops in Germany after Iraq visit
Dec 27, 2018 04:52US President Donald Trump and his wife Melania have greeted American troops in Germany, the president’s second visit to US troops overseas in the last day after he visited US forces in Iraq.
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Trump defends Syria pullout plan in Baghdad, says US troops to stay in Iraq
Dec 27, 2018 02:09US President Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, have made a stealth visit to Iraq, meeting American troops fighting one of the many wars that he has mocked in the past as costly blunders.
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Former Iraqi premier responds to Bahrain’s criticism of his remarks
Dec 26, 2018 12:48Former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has responded to the Bahraini regime’s recent criticism of his latest remarks, where he had censured the ruling Aal-e Khalifah regime over crackdown on political dissidents and pro-democracy campaigners in the tiny Persian Gulf island State.
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Car bomb attack kills 3, injures dozen in northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar
Dec 25, 2018 16:38At least three people have been killed and a dozen others sustained injuries when a bomb explosion ripped through a marketplace in Iraq’s northern province of Nineveh.
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Iraq gets 90-day Iran sanctions waiver from Washington
Dec 20, 2018 15:57The United States has granted Iraq a 90-day extension to an exemption from sanctions re-imposed on neighboring Iran to keep importing electricity and natural gas and meet its energy needs.
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Turkish military convoy heads in direction of Syrian border
Dec 20, 2018 03:32A convoy of Turkish military trucks passed by the town of Islahiye on Wednesday, heading in the direction of the Syrian border.
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US forces establish new base in Iraq near border with Syria: Report
Dec 20, 2018 02:37US forces have established a new military base in Iraq’s Western Province of Anbar near the border with neighboring Syria in defiance of widespread calls to end its military presence in the Middle East region.
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Arab League censures Turkish airstrikes in northern Iraq
Dec 19, 2018 03:48The Arab League has strongly condemned Turkey's repeated airstrikes against the purported positions of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militant group in Iraq's northern semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, stressing that “such actions are in violation of the Iraqi state’s sovereignty.”
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Iraqi President to visit Damascus within next few days: Report
Dec 19, 2018 03:19Iraqi President Barham Salih is reportedly going to pay an official visit to Damascus, in his first visit to Syria since the start of the foreign-sponsored conflict there more than seven years ago.