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Iraqi warplanes kill nearly dozen Daesh terrorists near Iran’s border
Jan 01, 2018 02:48A high-ranking Iraqi military official says nearly a dozen Daesh Takfiri terrorists were killed when Iraqi Air Force fighter jets bombarded their positions in the country’s Eastern Province of Diyala near the border with Iran.
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US rescuing terrorist commanders trapped in northern Iraq
Dec 31, 2017 09:08The US-led coalition military helicopters have recently carried out another heliborne operation in northern Iraq to evacuate a number of terrorist commanders from the region, Secretary-General of Iraq's Badr Organization Mohammad Mahdi al-Bayati said on Sunday.
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Iraqi search teams find dozens of Izadi bodies in mass grave in Nineveh
Dec 29, 2017 14:39An Iraqi legislator says search teams have found a mass grave in the country’s northern province of Nineveh containing the bodies of dozen members of Izadi minority, who are believed to have been executed by Takfiri Daesh terrorists when they were in control of an area there.
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Iran, Azerbaijan, Iraq judo federations sign memorandum of understanding
Dec 29, 2017 09:36The Islamic Republic of Iran Judo & Kurash Federation, Azerbaijan Judo Federation and the Iraqi Judo Federation have signed a trilateral agreement on the promotion of cooperation and interaction between the governing bodies responsible for organizing national teams as well as club competitions in the three countries.
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US-led coalition confirms killing 16 civilians in Iraq, Syria
Dec 29, 2017 02:53The US-led coalition has acknowledged the deaths of sixteen more civilians in its airstrikes against what it called Daesh positions in Iraq and Syria.
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Turkish aerial attacks kill nine PKK militants in northern Iraq
Dec 27, 2017 14:28Nine 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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Larijani calls on China, Pakistan to join anti-terror coalition by Iran, Turkey, Russia
Dec 25, 2017 09:02Iran has called on China and Pakistan to join a counter-terrorism campaign which it is spearheading jointly with Russia and Turkey, saying the coalition is an alternative to the one led by the US which has caused a "security mess".
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Theresa May hails UK troops for ISIL's defeat in Iraq, Syria
Dec 24, 2017 02:59British Prime Minister Theresa May has claimed credit for the defeat of the Daesh (ISIL) terrorists in Iraq and Syria during a Christmas address to UK troops at Royal Air Force Akrotiri military base in Cyprus, saying British forces played a major role in crushing the militants.
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Iraq’s Hashd al-Sha’abi forces deployed to Syrian border to back army: Commander
Dec 23, 2017 03:18A top commander of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), also known as Hashd al-Sha’abi, says the paramilitary group has deployed forces to the border with Syria in a bid to support army troops, who have come under terrorist fire from the war-torn country over the past three days.
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Protests rock Iraq's Kurdistan region for fourth consecutive day
Dec 22, 2017 03:16Hundreds of angry protesters have faced off with security forces in Iraq’s northern semi-autonomous Kurdish region, demanding the resignation of politicians accused of graft and corruption.