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America's exceptional amnesia
Apr 21, 2022 01:31Needless to say, the US government has killed many people in its military interventions abroad, most recently in West Asia and Africa.
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Third dust storm in two weeks hits Iraqi capital of Baghdad
Apr 20, 2022 12:20Iraq is hit by its third dust storm in two weeks, temporarily grounding flights at airports serving Baghdad and Najaf and signalling the increasing frequency of the weather phenomenon.
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Iraq slams Turkey’s Kurdistan offensive as threat to national security, summons Ankara’s envoy
Apr 20, 2022 01:48The Iraqi presidency says the recent cross-border Turkish military operation in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region is a “violation” of the country’s sovereignty and a “threat to its national security.”
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Turkey launches fresh military operation in northern Iraq to ‘prevent terror attacks’
Apr 18, 2022 08:57Turkey has launched a new cross-border military operation against purported positions of Kurdish militants in northern Iraq, saying the incursion was aimed to “prevent terror attacks” coming from the neighboring Arab country.
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Iraq to dispatch a delegation to Tehran to discuss gas supply
Apr 18, 2022 00:00An Iraqi delegation will travel to Iran to resolve gas supply issues amid efforts to prevent a shortage of electricity in the Arab country over the warm summer months.
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Iran, Iraq see eye to eye on need to uphold Yemen truce, lift Saudi-led siege: FM
Apr 14, 2022 00:27Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says Tehran and Baghdad see eye to eye on the necessity of upholding the truce in Yemen and the lifting of the inhumane Saudi-led siege on the impoverished country.
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'Talks with neighbors over water rights, dam construction on Iran’s agenda'
Apr 11, 2022 08:59Iran’s foreign minister says the foreign, interior, and energy ministries have formed a joint committee to follow up on the issues related to cross-border rivers and the construction of dams in some neighboring countries, adding that Tehran has held bilateral talks with Turkey, Iraq, and Afghanistan over the issues.
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Ex-Iraqi parliament speaker warns of plan to grant Iraqi citizenship to 500,000 Jews
Apr 11, 2022 03:00A former speaker of Iraq’s parliament has warned of a plan to grant Iraqi citizenship to hundreds of thousands of Jews in a bid to serve the interests of the Israeli regime.
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US troops, SDF militants stage joint military drill in eastern Syria as Iraq concerned over Daesh infiltration
Apr 10, 2022 02:48US military forces and allied militants from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have held a joint military exercise in Syria’s eastern Province of Dayr al-Zawr near the Iraqi border, amid concerns in Baghdad over a possible release of Daesh terrorists from US-run prisons in Syria.
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Iraqi resistance groups won’t lay down arms until US troops withdraw, says PMU chief
Apr 09, 2022 03:06The chairman of Iraq’s anti-terror Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), known variously as Hashd al-Sha’abi, says resistance fighters will not lay down their arms and halt their operations until all American occupation troops beat a retreat from the Arab country.