Iraq

Iraqi forces liberate two western regions

Mar 12, 2016 14:03

Iraqi counter-terrorism forces have fully liberated two districts in the conflict-ridden western province of Anbar, purging the areas of members of the ISIL Takfiri terrorist group.
Iran sends medical team to Iraq

Mar 12, 2016 13:54

Iran has dispatched a medical team to Iraq to help victims of recent chemical attacks by Takfiri terrorist group in the Arab country’s northern province of Kirkuk.
Iraqi government to punish Takfiri terrorists for chemical raid

Mar 12, 2016 13:51

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said Saturday the ISIL Takfiri terrorists will be punished for a recent chemical attack in northern Iraq that claimed the life of a young girl.
At least 9 killed in latest bombings and shooting in Baghdad

Mar 12, 2016 13:47

Nine people were killed and a dozen others injured in a series of bomb explosions and a shooting attack Saturday at residential neighborhoods in and around the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
Muslim shrines in Iraq and Syria are Iran's redlines: President Rouhani

Mar 12, 2016 09:31

President Hassan Rouhani says Iran will not tolerate terrorist attacks on holy shrines of Shia Imams in Iraq and Syria, and that the revered sites are a “red line” to the Islamic Republic.
Takfiri terrorists burn 100s of ‘Christian books’ in new video

Mar 12, 2016 09:19

The ISIL terrorist group has released a video apparently showing its members lobbing hundreds of Christian books into fire in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.
Iraq: Sadr calls for sit-in to pressure Prime Minister

Mar 12, 2016 09:12

Influential Iraqi religious scholar Muqtada al-Sadr has called for a sit-in in the capital Baghdad on the day of a deadline he has set for the country’s prime minister to enact promised reforms.
Iraqi child dies in ISIL chemical attack

Mar 11, 2016 16:06

A three-year-old Iraqi girl has succumbed to injuries she sustained during a chemical attack by the ISIL Takfiri terrorist group on a village in the northern province of Kirkuk.
Iraqi protesters demand formation of new cabinet

Mar 11, 2016 15:55

Tens of thousands of Iraqis held a demonstration in the capital, Baghdad, Friday to call for Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to form a new cabinet of independent and professional ministers.
Iraq, Lebanon defy fellow Arab League states over Hezbollah

Mar 11, 2016 15:51

Iraq and Lebanon have refused to go along with a decision by fellow Arab League members to declare Lebanon's Hezbollah resistance movement a "terrorist" group.