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Senior MP: No need for US presence in Iraq
Jan 13, 2018 13:44A senior Iraqi legislator underlined opposition to the presence of the US military men in his country in the alleged fight against the terrorist groups.
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UK govt. rejects pleas for checks to avoid repeat of Iraq War
Jan 10, 2018 09:20The British government has rejected MPs’ pleas for stronger checks to prevent a repeat of the 2003 invasion of Iraq which occurred on the order of then US President George W. Bush and with the help of then UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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New mass grave with 20 tortured bodies unearthed near Iraq’s Mosul
Jan 09, 2018 05:28Iraqi security forces have unearthed yet another mass grave containing the bodies of at least 20 women tortured and slain by Daesh terrorists near the northern city of Mosul, which was once the terror group’s main stronghold in the Arab country.
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Daesh executes own members in Iraq over refusing bomb attacks
Jan 08, 2018 16:42A high-ranking commander of the Iraqi pro-government Popular Mobilization Units, commonly known by the Arabic word Hashd al-Sha'abi, says the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group has executed some of its members in Iraq’s northern Salahuddin province after they refused to carry out separate bomb attacks.
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Iraq’s parliament passes resolution against US policy shift on Quds
Jan 08, 2018 09:50Iraq’s Parliament has passed a resolution denouncing the US President Donald Trump’s contentious decision to recognize al-Quds as Zionist entity’s “capital.”
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Year 2017 results: Some go up, while others go down
Jan 07, 2018 16:45As the year 2017 came to the closure, one couldn’t help but notice the deep wounds that it left on the face of this world. Among those one can mention the never-ending horror of the Syrian war, conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Ukraine, that are claiming thousands of innocent civilians, while affecting elder people, women and children the most. The victims of these conflicts won’t live to see the peaceful future tomorrow, if there’s one after all that killing.
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Six PKK militants killed as Turkish jets pound northern Iraq
Jan 07, 2018 14:30Six members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) have been killed when Turkish military aircraft carried out a string of aerial attacks against the militants’ positions in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region.
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Iraq to export 30k bpd of Kirkuk oil to Iran
Jan 07, 2018 09:54Iraq says it will start exporting about 30,000 barrels per day (bpd) of oil from oil fields in its northern Kirkuk province to Iran before the end of January.
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UN urges Baghdad, Erbil to resolve rift through dialog
Jan 06, 2018 09:42The United Nations has called on the central Iraqi government and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to settle their differences thorough engaging in talks based on the country’s constitution.
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Iraqi forces kill 15 Daesh bombers near border with Syria
Jan 03, 2018 02:31The Iraqi Interior Ministry says government forces have launched a counter-terrorism operation to hunt down Daesh Takfiri terrorists near the country’s border with Syria, killing more than a dozen extremists in the process.