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Iraq Shiite militias head for Ramadi after IS takeover
May 18, 2015 (AFP)
Shiite militias converged on Ramadi Monday to try to recapture it from jihadists who dealt the Iraqi government a stinging blow by overrunning the city in a dea...
Shiite pilgrimage violence leaves four dead in Baghdad
May 14, 2015 (AFP)
Deadly violence erupted overnight when Shiite worshippers marched through a Sunni neighbourhood of Baghdad on their way to a shrine for an annual ritual, police...
Baghdad blasts targeting Shiite pilgrims kill six
May 12, 2015 (AFP)
A suicide attack and two mortar rounds targeting Shiite faithful marching to a Baghdad shrine killed six people Tuesday in the Iraqi capital, medical sources an...
Security failures behind Iraq prison break: mayor
May 10, 2015 (AFP)
The mayor of an Iraqi town where more than 42 inmates escaped in a prison break claimed by the Islamic State group said Sunday that serious security failures we...
30 prisoners killed, 40 escape in Iraq jail break
May 09, 2015 (AFP)
Six guards and 30 detainees were killed in a prison break north of the Iraqi capital during which 40 inmates escaped, an interior ministry spokesman said Saturd...
Kurds push US to arm them directly
May 08, 2015 (AFP)
The leader of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region insisted Friday that the United States should arm his forces fighting the Islamic State group directly instead of...
Iraq launches Sunni anti-IS force in Anbar
May 08, 2015 (AFP)
More than 1,000 Sunni fighters from Anbar joined Iraq's Popular Mobilisation force Friday as part of government efforts to make the fight against the Islamic St...
Obama meets Iraqi Kurd leader
May 05, 2015 (AFP)
US President Barack Obama met the head of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region at the White House on Tuesday, courting a vital ally on the frontline of the fight ag...
Four killed in Baghdad car bombing near Shiite HQ
May 05, 2015 (AFP)
A car bomb blast near the Baghdad headquarters of a Shiite militia fighting the Islamic State jihadist group in Iraq killed at least four civilians on Tuesday, ...
IS claims Baghdad bombing that killed 15
May 03, 2015 (AFP)
The Islamic State group Sunday claimed responsibility for a car bomb attack outside a popular Baghdad restaurant that killed 15 people, including four policemen...
Shadow of Saddam lives on in Iraq
May 03, 2015 (AFP)
Dozens of Iraqis crowding a Baghdad street fought to glimpse the red-haired man in a glass coffin, hoping to witness the end of a long-feared member of Saddam H...
At least 13 killed in Baghdad car bombing: police
May 03, 2015 (AFP)
At least 13 people were killed by a car bomb in Baghdad on Saturday, police said, in one of the deadliest attacks in the Iraqi capital this year. A police colon...
Iraqi Kurd leader to visit US for talks next week
Apr 30, 2015 (AFP)
The White House will next week host the head of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, a frontline ally in the fight against Islamic militants, a US official said Th...
Iraq lacks DNA results to test body of 'Saddam deputy'
Apr 24, 2015 (AFP)
Iraq's health ministry does not have DNA test results from a close relative of Izzat al-Duri that could determine whether Saddam Hussein's long-fugitive deputy ...
Saddam-era officer drew up IS master plan
Apr 19, 2015 (AFP)
An ex-intelligence officer under the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was "the strategic head" behind the Islamic State group and drew up the blueprints for t...
Over 90,000 flee fighting in Iraq's Anbar: UN
Apr 19, 2015 (AFP)
More than 90,000 people have fled fighting between pro-government forces and the Islamic State jihadist group in the Ramadi area of Iraq's Anbar province, the U...
IS claims deadly US consulate blast in Iraq
Apr 18, 2015 (AFP)
The Islamic State group claimed Saturday a bombing near the US consulate in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region a day earlier that killed two Turks. "Security deta...
Thousands flee fighting in Iraq's Ramadi: UN
Apr 17, 2015 (AFP)
Thousands of civilians have fled escalating fighting between pro-government forces and jihadists in the Iraqi city of Ramadi over the past week, the United Nati...
Iraq testing body of suspected Saddam VP
Apr 17, 2015 (AFP)
Iraq is to test the body of a man killed on Friday by pro-government forces to determine if it is that of Saddam Hussein's long-fugitive deputy Izzat Ibrahim al...
Retaking all of Iraq's Anbar out of reach for now: analysts
Apr 15, 2015 (AFP)
Baghdad has announced its next battle against the Islamic State group is retaking Anbar province, but analysts say entrenched jihadists and limited Iraqi forces...
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