Iraq

Iraqi MP slams KRG over decision to open voting office in Kirkuk

Sep 08, 2017 00:31

Iraqi Legislator and Deputy President of the Iraqi Turkmen Front, Hasan Turan, has strongly condemned a recent decision by the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region to establish an election office in the northern oil-rich city of Kirkuk ahead of an independence referendum due this month.
Iraqi army, allies to retake Hawijah from Daesh terrorists soon: Abadi

Sep 07, 2017 03:13

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi says army troops, backed by allied Kurdish forces, will soon launch a multi-pronged operation to liberate Hawijah town in the oil-rich northern province of Kirkuk from Daesh Takfiri terrorists.
2 Iraqi Kurdish parties call for postponement of independence referendum

Sep 05, 2017 01:50

Two major Iraqi Kurdish parties have called on authorities in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region to delay the forthcoming independence referendum in a bid to save a part of the salaries of civil servants and improve the living conditions of ordinary people.
Daesh terrorist commanders slain by locals in Hawijah

Sep 04, 2017 13:41

Local residents of Hawijah have reportedly attacked a gathering of Daesh Takfiri terrorists and killed a number of high-ranking militant commanders as government forces are preparing to retake the town in the oil-rich northern province of Kirkuk from the extremists.
Iraqi forces nab over 250 Daesh terrorists hidden among refugees

Sep 03, 2017 12:27

Iraqi security forces have arrested more than 250 Daesh infiltrators, who had disguised themselves as civilians and slipped out of Tal Afar in the wake of a joint multi-pronged operation by government troops and allied fighters to push the Takfiri terrorists out of the northern city.
Daesh bomb attack on Iraq power plant kills 7, injures 12

Sep 02, 2017 14:49

An Iraqi security official says at least seven people have lost their lives and a dozen others sustained injuries when Daesh Takfiri terrorists carried out a bomb attack against a power plant north of the capital Baghdad.
US-led coalition says 61 Iraqi, Syrian civilians killed in its fresh strikes

Sep 01, 2017 12:50

The US-led coalition purportedly fighting the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group claims that dozens of people have lost their lives as a result of fresh aerial attacks by the military alliance against alleged militant positions in Iraq and neighboring Syria.
Iraqi forces, allies poised to launch Hawija operation

Sep 01, 2017 08:46

An Iraqi military official says government forces, backed by allied fighters from Popular Mobilization Units, are preparing to launch a major military operation aimed at liberating the town of Hawija in the oil-rich northern province of Kirkuk from Daesh Takfiri terrorists anytime soon.
Britain to send more troops to Iraq despite recent victories against Daesh

Sep 01, 2017 08:19

Britain is set to send more troops to Iraq with the purported aim of fighting Daesh terrorists, who have already lost their major bastions in the Arab state in the face of successful Iraqi army operations.
Iraq prime minister declares Tal Afar, Nineveh province free of Daesh

Aug 31, 2017 10:22

Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi says the northern city of Tal Afar and the entire Nineveh province have been purged of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group.