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Iraqi forces capture half of last Daesh redoubt in Tal Afar
Aug 30, 2017 13:54Iraqi government forces have regained full control over half of the last remaining redoubt of Daesh Takfiri militants in Tal Afar as they are joined by volunteer fighters from the Popular Mobilization Units in a multi-pronged operation to liberate the northern city from the extremists.
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Iraq , Jordan officially reopen vital trade route on border
Aug 30, 2017 13:54Iraq and Jordan have finally allowed traffic through their single border crossing as officials watch the reopening of Trebil on the Jordanian side of the border.
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Iran warns Iraq's Kirkuk decision to back Kurdish referendum provocative
Aug 30, 2017 13:42Iran says a decision by councilors in the Iraqi province of Kirkuk to take part in next month’s independence referendum is a “provocative, wrong and unacceptable mistake.”
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Jordan, Iraq set to reopen main border crossing after Daesh withdrawal
Aug 30, 2017 04:25Jordan and Iraq are set to reopen their main border crossing after Iraqi forces recaptured a key highway connecting the two neighbors from Daesh Takfiri terrorists.
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Iraq’s Kirkuk votes to take part in Kurdish independence referendum
Aug 30, 2017 02:33The Provincial Council in Iraq’s ethnically mixed and oil-rich Northern Province of Kirkuk has voted to take part in late next month's Kurdish independence referendum irrespective of Baghdad government’s strong opposition to the planned vote.
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Countdown begins for liberation of Iraq’s Tal Afar
Aug 29, 2017 11:23Iraqi army soldiers, backed by allied fighters from the Popular Mobilization Units, are gradually entering al-Ayadiya district in Tal Afar to dislodge Daesh Takfiri terrorists from the northern city.
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PKK says arrested two Turkish intelligence officers in Iraq
Aug 29, 2017 10:17The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militant group says it has arrested two Turkish intelligence officials, who were planning to assassinate one of its prominent leaders in Iraq.
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Iraqi security forces find Daesh torture cells in western Tal Afar
Aug 28, 2017 12:02Iraqi security soldiers have discovered a detention facility in the western flank of Tal Afar, which members of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group used to incarcerate people and subject the detainees to various forms of torture.
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Car bomb at busy Shia Muslim neighborhood kills 9 people in Baghdad
Aug 28, 2017 11:23A massive car bomb explosion has ripped through a busy market area in the eastern part of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, killing at least nine people and injuring more than two dozen others.
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Iraq says battle to retake Tal Afar from Daesh nearly won
Aug 27, 2017 14:22Iraqi army soldiers and allied fighters from Popular Mobilization Units have dislodged the Daesh Takfiri militants from almost all neighborhoods of Tal Afar and its surrounding areas after an eight-day offensive to drive out the extremists from the northern city.