Iraq

Senior ISIL commander killed in northern Iraq

Feb 07, 2016 09:42

A top commander of ISIL Takfiri terrorist group has been killed in an airstrike in the northern Iraqi Province of Nineveh.
No security wall around Baghdad: Iraqi prime minister

Feb 07, 2016 03:10

The Iraqi prime minister denied Saturday reports of plans to construct a concrete wall around the capital Baghdad to fend off attacks by ISIL Takfiri terrorists.
Iraqi forces recapture district in troubled Anbar

Feb 06, 2016 02:45

Iraqi government forces, backed by fighters from allied Popular Mobilization units, have fully liberated a district in the conflict-ridden western province of Anbar from the Takfiri Daesh terrorists.
Bomb attacks leave six people dead, 26 wounded across Baghdad

Feb 05, 2016 03:01

At least six people have lost their lives and over two dozen others sustained injuries when a series of bomb explosions ripped through residential neighborhoods in Iraq's capital, Baghdad.
Turkish warplanes bomb northern Iraqi village

Feb 04, 2016 12:43

Turkish fighter jets have bombarded a village in Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, as Ankara continues with its operation against militants of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
Iraq receives two more F-16 fighter jets from US

Feb 04, 2016 03:05

The Iraqi air force has taken delivery of two more F-16 fighter jets as part of a deal with the United States to improve the country’s military capability in the face of threats from terrorists.
Iraq erecting concrete wall to fend ISIL off Baghdad

Feb 04, 2016 02:55

Iraqi forces have started to build a three-meter-high and 300-kilometer-long concrete barrier wall around Baghdad to deter ISIL attacks.
Iran warns against consequences of Iraq breakup

Feb 04, 2016 01:16

A senior Iranian official has warned that any plan to disintegrate Iraq would have adverse consequences for security and stability in the entire Middle East.
Iraqi forces deal big blows to ISIL

Feb 03, 2016 10:54

More than a hundred members of ISIL Takfiri terrorist group have been killed when Iraqi government forces carried out a number of clean-up operations against the terrorists across the crisis-stricken Arab country.
Iraqi Kurdistan calls for independence

Feb 03, 2016 03:03

President of Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Masoud Barzani has called for a non-binding independence referendum.