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IS suicide attackers slow Iraq's Ramadi counterattack
Jun 01, 2015 (AFP)
A huge suicide bomb attack on an Iraqi police base killed at least 37 people Monday, further slowing an operation to retake the city of Ramadi from Islamic Stat...
Iraq lost 2,300 Humvee armoured vehicles in Mosul: PM
May 31, 2015 (AFP)
Iraqi security forces lost 2,300 Humvee armoured vehicles when the Islamic State jihadist group overran the northern city of Mosul, Prime Minister Haider al-Aba...
Iraq forces edge towards Ramadi
May 30, 2015 (AFP)
Iraqi forces retook an area west of Ramadi on Saturday as they pressed their operation aimed at sealing off the jihadists who captured the city two weeks ago, c...
IS claims Baghdad hotel car bombings that killed nine
May 29, 2015 (AFP)
The Islamic State jihadist group on Friday claimed responsibility for car bombings at two upscale Baghdad hotels that officials said killed at least nine people...
Iraq exhumed 470 bodies from Tikrit mass graves: minister
May 28, 2015 (AFP)
Iraq has exhumed the remains of 470 people believed to have been executed by jihadists near Tikrit last year in what is known as the Speicher massacre, the heal...
Car bombs rock two upmarket Baghdad hotels, five dead
May 28, 2015 (AFP)
Car bombs ripped through car parks at two high-profile Baghdad hotels on Thursday that had been targeted in deadly attacks five years before, killing at least f...
Iraq forces take up positions on Ramadi outskirts
May 27, 2015 (AFP)
Iraqi forces and militias took up positions on the southern outskirts of Ramadi, officials said Wednesday, taking two neighbourhoods and moving into Anbar unive...
Litany of problems keep Iraqi army weak
May 26, 2015 (AFP)
Iraq's leadership was indignant after US accusations that its forces lack the will to fight but assessments of the army's ability suggest the rank-and-file have...
Iraq forces in Anbar push, stir over operation codename
May 26, 2015 (AFP)
Iraqi forces launched a broad operation on Tuesday to tighten the noose on jihadists controlling Anbar, but Shiite militias gave it a name that risked raising s...
Iranian general says US did 'nothing' to save Ramadi
May 25, 2015 (AFP)
The United States has done "nothing" to help Iraq's army battle jihadists in Ramadi, according to a senior Iranian general involved in the fight against the Isl...
Iraq rebuts US criticism of security forces
May 25, 2015 (AFP)
Iraq on Monday rejected accusations by the US defence chief that its security forces dodged battle in Ramadi and lack the will to fight the Islamic State group....
Iraqi forces 'failed to fight' in Ramadi: Pentagon chief
May 24, 2015 (AFP)
Pentagon chief Ashton Carter said Sunday that Iraqi forces "failed to fight" in Ramadi, which has fallen to Islamic State militants, adding the troops lacked th...
Rampant jihadists firm up control of Iraq-Syria border
May 24, 2015 (AFP)
The Islamic State group took full control of a border crossing between Iraq and Syria Sunday, tightening its grip on the heart of its self-proclaimed caliphate....
Iraq claw back land from IS near Ramadi
May 23, 2015 (AFP)
Iraqi forces retook territory from the Islamic State group east of Ramadi Saturday, commanders said, in their first counterattack since the jihadists' capture o...
55,000 have fled IS-captured Ramadi since mid-May: UN
May 22, 2015 (AFP)
The United Nations said Friday that around 55,000 people had fled Ramadi since a surge by the Islamic State group in mid-May that landed the Iraqi provincial ca...
Iraq's Sunni tribes feel deserted after Ramadi fall
May 21, 2015 (AFP)
They were always seen as the key to defeating the jihadists in their bastions but the fall of Ramadi has deepened the distrust that Iraq's Sunni tribes feel tow...
Obama set to speed arms, training for Iraq tribes after Ramadi
May 20, 2015 (AFP)
US President Barack Obama is poised to quicken the pace of weapons supplies and training to Iraqi tribes, while eyeing a rapid offensive to recapture Ramadi fro...
US taking 'hard look' at Iraq strategy after Ramadi fall
May 20, 2015 (AFP)
Washington conceded Wednesday it is taking a "hard look" at its Iraq strategy after the fall of Ramadi, sending in anti-tank weapons to battle car bombs and wor...
Ghosts of Iraq stalk 2016 White House race
May 20, 2015 (AFP)
The Islamic State group's recent victories have called Barack Obama's Middle East strategy into question and once again made Iraq an issue on the US electoral b...
Ramadi fall failure of Iraqi PM's anti-IS strategy: analysts
May 18, 2015 (AFP)
The fall of Ramadi has scuppered Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's efforts to build a credible cross-sectarian force to fight the Islamic State group, anal...
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