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Top Saudis discussed assassinating Iran’s General Soleimani in 2017, sources tell NY Times
Nov 12, 2018 03:08Saudi Major General Ahmed al-Assiri, who has allegedly been fired over the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, took part at a meeting in Riyadh in 2017 that involved plans to assassinate the kingdom’s “determined enemy,” Iran’s Major General Qassem Soleimani, as well as sabotaging Iran’s economy, The New York Times reports, citing three sources familiar with the matter.
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Terrorists will fail to avenge defeat in Iraq: Qassemi
Nov 11, 2018 13:58Iran has slammed a recent "inhumane and shameful" terrorist attack in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, saying terrorists will fail to take revenge for their defeat against the Iraqi government and people.
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Iraqi MPs plan motion to seek expulsion of US troops
Nov 11, 2018 13:50A senior Iraqi politician says the Iraqi parliament will discuss the withdrawal of US forces from the country amid rising unease at Washington's meddling in Baghdad's internal affairs.
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15 PKK militants 'neutralized' in northern Iraq: Turkey
Nov 10, 2018 14:23Turkey's military has claimed to have "neutralized" 15 militants of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) after striking the group's hideouts and armories in Iraq.
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Iran’s Zarif highlights costs of US wars
Nov 10, 2018 03:13Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif made a reference to data released by an academic center on the financial and human costs of the wars that the US has waged since the 9/11 attacks purportedly to fight terrorism, saying they have wreaked havoc on the Middle East.
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US war on terror kills 500,000 in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan
Nov 09, 2018 03:51A study has revealed that the so-called US war on terror has killed about half a million people in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan over the past 17 years.
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Car bomb blast kills 3, wounds 12 in Iraq's Mosul
Nov 09, 2018 02:27At least three people have been killed and a dozen others wounded Thursday after a car bomb exploded near a restaurant in the Iraqi city of Mosul in a rare terrorist attack since Daesh terrorists were flushed out last year.
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Remains of several ex-parliamentary candidates found in mass grave in Iraq’s Nineveh
Nov 07, 2018 12:03Iraqi security forces have found a mass grave in the country’s northern province of Nineveh that contains the remains of a number of former parliamentary candidates believed to have been executed by Daesh Takfiri terrorists when they were in control of the area.
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US exempts Iraq in further retreat on Iran sanctions
Nov 07, 2018 11:46Iraq will continue importing electricity and natural gas from Iran under an exemption from US sanctions, the special representative for Iran at the US State Department Brain Hook has said.
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Russia, Germany slam US re-imposition of sanctions on Iran
Nov 07, 2018 02:30Russia and Germany have slammed the United States' move to reinstate sanctions against Iran's vital oil exports, shipping and banking, saying Moscow and Berlin would continue trade with Tehran.