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Iraq on high alert amid protests, claims of 'infiltration'
Jul 15, 2018 03:16Iraq has placed its security forces on high alert amid protests against economic hardship spreading in the country’s southern provinces.
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US to open new military bases in Iraq, Kuwait: Reports
Jul 14, 2018 07:04New reports says the United States will open new bases in Iraq and Kuwait in defiance of widespread calls to end its military presence in the region.
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Two people dead in protests over economic conditions in southern Iraq
Jul 14, 2018 01:31At least two people have lost their lives and more than a dozen others sustained injuries in protests over dire economic conditions in southern Iraq as hundreds of other protesters stormed the airport of the holy city of Najaf and disrupted air traffic temporarily.
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Iraqi PM visits Basra after deadly protests
Jul 13, 2018 08:13Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has visited the southern oil city of Basra after deadly protests there against dire economic conditions.
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Turkish forces ‘neutralize’ 18 PKK terrorists in Turkey, hit their bases in Iraq
Jul 11, 2018 11:53Turkish security and gendarmerie forces have “neutralized” more than two dozen members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militant group when they carried out a string of counter-terrorism operations in the country’s southeastern provinces of Diyarbakir, Sirnak and Osmaniye.
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Three Iraqi PMU fighters killed, five injured during clashes with Daesh in restive north
Jul 09, 2018 13:52Members of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group have killed three pro-government Iraqi forces and wounded several others near the country’s biggest oil refinery in the restive north.
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Iraqi court hands death sentence to Daesh terrorist over killing 16 civilians
Jul 09, 2018 00:27A court in Iraq has handed down death sentence to a member of the foreign-sponsored Takfiri Daesh terrorist group over his involvement in the massacre of more than a dozen civilians in the country’s Northern Province of Nineveh.
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Two Filipino women kidnapped on road to Iraq’s Kurdistan
Jul 08, 2018 01:01Two Filipino women have been kidnapped on a road linking the Iraqi capital Baghdad to the Kurdish city of Erbil, security and local officials say.
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Army forces, allies launch operation to capture Daesh terrorists in central Iraq
Jul 04, 2018 12:21Iraqi government forces, backed by allied voluntary fighters from Popular Mobilization Units, have mounted a large-scale offensive in the central part of the war-ravaged Arab country to hunt down the remnants of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group.
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Iraqi military aircraft kill over dozen Daesh terrorists in Salahuddin
Jul 03, 2018 14:26Iraqi military aircraft have launched an aerial attack against the remnants of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group in the country's north-central province of Salahuddin, killing more than a dozen extremists in the process.