IRAQ WARS - BIO FUEL DAILY

Jul 16, 2023 (AFP)

In May, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was welcomed back to the Arab League, marking his first appearance at the pan-Arab body since Syria was suspended in 20...

Iraq patriarch leaves Baghdad as tensions with president soar

Jul 15, 2023 (AFP)

Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako, the patriarch of Iraq's Chaldean Catholic Church and architect of Pope Francis' historic visit to the country in 2021, is a key int...

Missing Israeli-Russian academic held in Iraq: Israeli PM's office

Jul 05, 2023 (AFP)

Kataeb Hezbollah is a powerful faction of Iraq's Hashed al-Shaabi, Iran-backed former paramilitaries that were integrated into the Iraqi security forces in rece...

Iraq's prized modern art plagued by forgery, trafficking

Jun 29, 2023 (AFP)

Adorning a wall of Baghdad's modern art museum, the painting "Death to Colonialism", with its sombre blues and greys, by pioneering Iraqi artist Shakir Hassan a...

Iraq police officer jailed for life over protest killings

Jun 25, 2023 (AFP)

Nasiriyah was a centre of anti-corruption protests that gripped Iraq in late 2019 and were crushed by authorities in a crackdown that killed more than 600 peopl...

Iraq to launch indictments over torture under past government

Jun 21, 2023 (AFP)

The 14 alleged perpetrators, including nine police officers, were part of a cell known as Committee 29 which had a free rein in 2020 to interrogate senior offic...

Qatar emir holds Baghdad talks with Iraq PM

Jun 15, 2023 (AFP)

Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani was welcomed by Prime Minister Mohamed Shia al-Sudani at the airport, images broadcast on Iraqi media showed. Relations between ...

Iraqi cleric who fled jail dies escaping recapture

Apr 20, 2023 (AFP)

Saad Qambash, once head of Iraq's Sunni Waqf, the state body overseeing religious and civilian properties for Sunni Muslims, was jailed for four years earlier t...

Iraq's Yazidis mark New Year still haunted by IS horrors

Apr 19, 2023 (AFP)

In 2014, the Islamic State (IS) group swept across swathes of Iraq, carrying out horrific violence against the Kurdish-speaking community whose non-Muslim faith...

Iraqi gambling dens raided, nearly 200 arrested: ministry

Apr 18, 2023 (AFP)

The raids targeted four locations in Baghdad where games of blackjack and roulette had been underway, ministry spokesman Saad Maan said. A ministry official, sp...

Firebrand Iraqi cleric Sadr 'freezes' rank and file movement

Apr 14, 2023 (AFP)

Sadr, a Muslim Shiite leader, has the ability to mobilise tens of thousands of his supporters with a single message and presents himself as an anti-corruption c...

Iraq's Saddam still revered in Jordan 20 years later

Apr 08, 2023 (AFP)

The instantly recognisable face peers out from everything from bumper stickers to mobile phone cases in neighbouring Jordan, despite symbols and images associat...

Iraq needs law to confront crisis of disappeared people: UN

Apr 04, 2023 (AFP)

He never did, according to the mother's testimony reported Tuesday by a UN committee which urged Baghdad to establish a legal framework for tackling the "heinou...

Iraq cancels TV show for insulting tribal sheikhs

Mar 27, 2023 (AFP)

After only three episodes, the Communications and Media Commission ordered private channel UTV to stop broadcasting "Al-Kasser" ("The Predator"), with the regul...

20 years after US invasion, war-scarred Iraq faces uncertain future

Mar 20, 2023 (AFP)

The oil-rich country remains traumatised from the years of war, occupation and bloody sectarian turmoil that followed the operation launched on March 20, 2003. ...

Shiites the big winners in Iraq since US toppled Saddam

Mar 17, 2023 (AFP)

The big winners of the 2003 invasion, Shiite Muslims, despite their frequent internal squabbles, hold preeminence over Sunnis and the ethnic Kurdish minority in...

20 years after US Iraq invasion, Senate acts to end war authorization

Mar 16, 2023 (AFP)

In a procedural vote that came over a decade after the war's official end, senators from both parties strongly supported cancelling the 2002 Authorization for U...

In Iraq, Saddam's ageing superyachts attest to legacy of excess, war

Mar 14, 2023 (AFP)

Just a few hundred metres separate the grandiose vessels on the Shatt al-Arab waterway in Iraq's southern city of Basra but, despite their proximity, they have ...

Up to 500 IS fighters still active in Iraq: military

Mar 12, 2023 (AFP)

But Iraqi General Qais al-Mohamadawi, part of the anti-jihadist coalition, stressed that IS -- now based in remote desert and mountain hideouts -- has "lost its...

Iraq hails 'new page' in Iran-Saudi relations

Mar 10, 2023 (AFP)

Riyadh cut ties with Tehran after Iranian protesters attacked Saudi diplomatic missions in the Islamic republic in 2016 following the Saudi execution of revered...