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Displaced Iraq Christians in frontline prayer for return
Aug 06, 2015 (AFP)
Christian clerics prayed in the ruins of a monastery not far from jihadist positions in northern Iraq Thursday to mark a year since the exodus of Iraq's Christi...
Iraq's Jon Stewart combats jihadists with laughs
Aug 02, 2015 (AFP)
Defying death threats, an Iraqi television comedian is fighting the Islamic State group with biting satire aimed at lifting the aura of fear that is one of the ...
Iraqis vent rage at power shortages, 'corrupt' leaders
Jul 31, 2015 (AFP)
Several hundred Iraqis took to the streets of Baghdad Friday to vent their anger at the chronic electricity shortages, which they blamed on government corruptio...
IMF approves $1.24 bn Iraq emergency lifeline
Jul 30, 2015 (AFP)
The International Monetary Fund approved a $1.24 billion emergency loan for Iraq Thursday, saying the country needs extra support in the face of the Islamic Sta...
Iraq Shiite chief sees no change in Turkey stance on IS
Jul 27, 2015 (AFP)
Hadi al-Ameri, a top leader of Iraq's powerful Shiite paramilitaries, argued Monday there was no evidence Turkey had changed its position on the Islamic State j...
UN closes Iraq health programmes for lack of funding
Jul 27, 2015 (AFP)
The United Nations has suspended health programmes reaching a million people across Iraq because of massive under-funding, it said on Monday. The UN said in a s...
Turkey army blames PKK for deadly attack as truce unravels
Jul 26, 2015 (AFP)
The Turkish army on Sunday blamed PKK militants for a deadly car bomb attack that killed two of its soldiers in the Kurdish-dominated southeast, as a fragile tr...
Iraq forces retake university on edge of Ramadi
Jul 26, 2015 (AFP)
Iraqi government forces recaptured a university campus Sunday on the outskirts of Ramadi from the Islamic State group, seizing a key position for any offensive ...
Estonia donates weapons to Iraq
Jul 23, 2015 (UPI)
Estonia has sent a variety of weapons to Iraq to help it combat forces of the Islamic State, also known by the acronyms ISIS and ISIL. The Estonian Ministry of ...
US defence chief in Iraq for talks on war against IS
Jul 23, 2015 (AFP)
Pentagon chief Ashton Carter held talks in Baghdad Thursday on Iraq's war against the Islamic State group, whose "caliphate" is shrinking but is ramping up dead...
Baghdad bombing attacks kill at least 21: police
Jul 22, 2015 (AFP)
Bomb attacks killed at least 21 people and wounded dozens more on Wednesday in mostly Shiite Muslim neighbourhoods of the Iraqi capital, a police colonel said. ...
19 killed in two Baghdad car bombs
Jul 21, 2015 (AFP)
Two car bombs killed at least 19 people in mostly Shiite neighbourhoods of Baghdad Tuesday, police said. One attack struck a busy commercial street in the easte...
Toll soars to 90 after IS bomb guts Iraq town
Jul 18, 2015 (AFP)
Iraq mourned its dead Saturday after one of the deadliest car bombs in its bloody history ripped through a busy market north of Baghdad and killed at least 90 p...
US returns Iraqi artefacts recovered in Syria raid
Jul 15, 2015 (AFP)
The United States returned Wednesday hundreds of Iraqi artefacts its special forces recovered during a raid in Syria against a man described as the Islamic Stat...
Car bomb kills at least 5 in Iraq town of Khalis
Jul 14, 2015 (AFP)
A car bomb blast claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group killed at least five people in the Iraqi town of Khalis on Tuesday, officials said. The blast, whic...
Coalition-backed Iraq forces in fresh Anbar push
Jul 13, 2015 (AFP)
Iraqi forces tightened the noose on the Islamic State group in its stronghold of Anbar Monday with a ground operation teed up by a record number of coalition ai...
String of Baghdad bombings kills 21: police
Jul 12, 2015 (AFP)
A string of bomb explosions, including two suicide attacks, killed at least 21 people and wounded 62 in Shiite-dominated neighbourhoods of Baghdad Sunday, Iraqi...
Iraq police and militiamen clash in Baghdad
Jul 09, 2015 (AFP)
Iraqi paramilitaries exchanged fire with police in Baghdad Thursday, the latest sign of tension between the government and the country's Shiite militias, securi...
Iraq court sentences 24 to hang over Tikrit massacre
Jul 08, 2015 (AFP)
An Iraqi court on Wednesday sentenced 24 men to hang over the June 2014 massacre by jihadists and allied militants of hundreds of mostly Shiite military recruit...
Iraq warplane accidentally bombs Baghdad, killing 7: officials
Jul 06, 2015 (AFP)
A bomb fell from an Iraqi Sukhoi warplane and exploded in eastern Baghdad on Monday because of a "technical problem", killing at least seven people, security an...
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