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Iraqi Hashd al-Sha’abi fighters inflict losses on Daesh in eastern Syria
Jun 13, 2018 14:56Fighters from the Iraqi pro-government Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) have pounded the positions of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group in Syria’s eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr as the militants are seeking to sneak through the border into Iraq.
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Iraq's Sairoon, Fatah political parties announce alliance
Jun 13, 2018 03:35Iraqi Cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and Head of the country’s Badr Organization Hadi al-Ameri have announced a political alliance between their parties.
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Iraqi Air Force receives six more KAI T-50 Golden Eagle warplanes
Jun 13, 2018 03:05The Iraqi military has received a new batch of South Korean KAI T-50 Golden Eagle supersonic advanced trainers and light combat aircraft under a deal struck between Baghdad and Seoul several years ago.
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Turkish jets ‘destroy 12 PKK targets’ in Iraq
Jun 12, 2018 06:23Turkish fighter jets have destroyed 12 targets belonging to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq, the Turkish military says, as the army steps up a campaign against militant positions in the Qandil region.
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Iraqi court arrests four over ballot box warehouse fire
Jun 12, 2018 02:05An Iraqi court has ordered the detention of four people over accusations of torching a warehouse holding ballot boxes form the country's recent parliamentary election.
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Iraq: Sadr rejects election rerun, warns of civil war after ballots burned
Jun 11, 2018 14:06Iraqi religious scholar, Muqtada al-Sadr, whose coalition won the largest number of seats in the country's recent parliamentary elections, has rejected calls for an election rerun, warning Iraqis about breaking out of a possible “civil war” just a day after a storage site in Baghdad, which housed ballot boxes, was purportedly torched ahead of a recount.
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Turkish military forces to drain “terror swamp” in Iraq’s Qandil, Erdogan says
Jun 11, 2018 12:28Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his country’s military forces will drain the “terror swamp” in the Qandil region of Iraq's northern semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, which serves as the stronghold of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militant group.
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Iraq says any oil output hike breach of producers’ deal
Jun 11, 2018 12:28Iraq has described any unilateral decision by any oil producer regarding output as a breach of a supply cut pact between OPEC and non-OPEC countries, warning that such a move could lead to the collapse of the pact that was devised to help stabilize prices.
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Iraqi security forces strike Daesh terrorist positions in Diyala
Jun 10, 2018 08:28Iraqi security forces have launched a clean-up operation against the sleeper cells of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group in the country’s eastern province of Diyala as government troopers and allied fighters from Popular Mobilization Units are trying to flush the extremists out of the war-ravaged Arab country.
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Turkish army stationed 30km inside Iraq: PM Yildirim
Jun 09, 2018 12:29Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim says the country’s troops have been “deployed 30 kilometers inside” Iraq and in its northern regions in a declared goal of eliminating militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).