Iraq

Abadi urges Turkish troops to leave Iraq soil

Sep 23, 2016 05:18

The Iraqi prime minister has renewed the call for Turkish troops deployed in the country since last year to withdraw as they complicate the battle to retake the northern Daesh stronghold of Mosul.
Iraqi forces reach center of key town near Mosul

Sep 22, 2016 11:25

Iraqi military and volunteer forces have reached the center of a strategic town near the Daesh stronghold of Mosul.
Iraqi forces, tribal fighters liberate strategic district in Anbar

Sep 21, 2016 11:27

Iraqi army soldiers, backed by fighters from pro-government tribal units, have fully liberated a strategic district in the western province of Anbar from Takfiri Daesh terrorists.
Iraq announces start of operation to free town near Mosul

Sep 20, 2016 01:47

Iraq says its army and volunteer forces have begun operations to rid a town near the Daesh stronghold of Mosul of the Takfiri terrorist group’s presence.
UK soldiers condemned over 2003 drowning of Iraqi boy

Sep 17, 2016 02:29

A British judge has condemned four UK soldiers who forced an Iraqi boy into a canal and let him drown during the Iraq War.
Iraqi woman who escaped Daesh slavery become UN ambassador

Sep 17, 2016 02:03

A Young Iraqi Izadi woman, who survived sex slavery at the hands of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group, has become the United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking.
Thousands rally for reforms, against corruption in Iraq

Sep 17, 2016 01:55

Thousands of the supporters of prominent Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr have staged demonstrations across the country to demand what they call the containment of rampant corruption and the formation of a technocrat government.
Daesh executes four of its own members in Iraq

Sep 16, 2016 14:11

The Daesh Takfiri terrorist group has executed four of its own members after accusing them of providing information to the Iraqi air force for a recent airstrike that claimed the lives of a number of its senior commanders.
Iraq underlines crucial role of Russia, Iran in imminent anti-Daesh operation in Mosul

Sep 13, 2016 11:44

Source in the Iraqi Foreign Ministry stressed that the Russian, Iranian and Iraqi intelligence units will continue their close cooperation against Daesh to pave the ground for the Iraqi Army and popular forces' large-scale operation for the liberation of Mosul in the near future.
Iraqi Hezbollah chief calls Saudi Arabia, Israel two sides of same coin

Sep 13, 2016 01:20

The Secretary General of Iraq’s al-Nujaba Movement, a major Shia resistance group, slammed Saudi Arabia for its hostile policies against some Muslim nations, saying that the Riyadh and Tel Aviv regimes are “two sides of the same of coin”.