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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).
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Abadi faces key decision to align with Iraq liberators
Jun 09, 2018 12:19Leading Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's announcement of a coalition has left remaining parties with the choice of closing ranks which could reinstate Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi for another term.
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Iraq receives dozens of T-90 battle tanks from Russia to boost ground force
Jun 07, 2018 08:05The Iraqi military has received dozens of advanced T-90 battle tanks from Russia under a major deal struck between Moscow and Baghdad last year.
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Iraqi fighter jets target Daesh positions in Syria
Jun 07, 2018 07:57Iraq says it has launched an airstrike against Daesh positions inside the Syrian territory as both neighboring countries step up efforts to get rid of the Takfiri terror group’s remnants.
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World failing Izadi women forced into sex slavery by Daesh terrorists: Charity head
Jun 07, 2018 07:40The head of a charity group has criticized the international community’s inaction towards Izadi women, kidnapped by the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group and forced into sex slavery in Iraq and Syria.