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Parliament tensions hindering Iraq’s major reforms: Abadi
Apr 15, 2016 05:26Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has called on lawmakers to exercise self-restraint amid political tensions at the parliament which have delayed a vote on his cabinet reshuffle.
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Iraq legislators vote to remove parliament speaker
Apr 14, 2016 15:49Iraqi lawmakers have reportedly voted to unseat Parliament Speaker Salim al-Jabouri and his deputies amid a major dispute in the chamber over a plan to overhaul the cabinet line-up to counter corruption.
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Iraqi MPs stage parliament sit-in to protest power grip
Apr 13, 2016 10:25Dozens of Iraqi legislators have held a sit-in in parliament to express their outrage over alleged attempts by a number of political parties and blocs to maintain their influence over key posts.
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Iraqi parliament calls off vote on new cabinet
Apr 13, 2016 02:56Iraq's parliament has decided to call off a vote on a new cabinet proposed by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi amid disagreements between powerful political parties on the line-up.
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Iraqi army liberates several areas in Hit from Daesh grip
Apr 13, 2016 02:21Iraqi army troops, backed by fighters from allied Popular Mobilization Units, have retaken several areas from the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group in the strategic city of Hit, military sources say.
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Daesh-held Fallujah residents starving: UN
Apr 12, 2016 08:41The UN has warned about deteriorating humanitarian situation in Fallujah, where thousands of Iraqis are trapped without food under the control of Daesh terrorists.
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1000s of displaced Iraqis return to Ramadi after Daesh expulsion
Apr 11, 2016 00:50Thousands of displaced Iraqi families have returned to the western Iraqi city of Ramadi more than three months after government forces and volunteer fighters retook it from Takfiri Daesh Terrorists.
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Turkish raids in north Iraq displace locals
Apr 10, 2016 13:28Dozens of villages have been abandoned and hundreds of families displaced as Turkey goes ahead with a deadly aerial campaign in northern Iraq, officials and locals say.
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US plane drops arms for terrorists in Iraq
Apr 10, 2016 08:40Several Iraqi policemen said to have seen US aircraft dropping weapons and munitions for ISIL terrorists in a region west of the Anbar province on Friday.
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Bombings, mortar attack kill 10 in, around Iraqi capital
Apr 10, 2016 01:11At least 10 people have lost their lives and more than four dozen others sustained injuries in a spate of bomb explosions and a terrorists’ mortar attack that struck residential neighborhoods in and around the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.