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Iraq PM says will ask US for more arms, strikes
Apr 13, 2015 (AFP)
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said Monday he will use a visit to the United States to seek increased air support and arms deliveries to aid Baghdad's bat...
Blackwater guards get heavy sentences in 2007 Iraq killings
Apr 13, 2015 (AFP)
A former Blackwater guard was sentenced to life in prison and three others received 30-year sentences Monday for their roles in a 2007 mass shooting in Iraq tha...
Iraqis do not want to be 'puppets' of Iran: US
Apr 09, 2015 (AFP)
US Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday that Iraqi leaders have asserted the country's sovereignty in their war against jihadists and do not want to be "puppe...
IS frees over 200 Yazidis in Iraq
Apr 08, 2015 (AFP)
More than 200 most elderly members of Iraq's Yazidi minority were freed by the Islamic State group after eight months in captivity and crossed Wednesday to the ...
Iraq PM says 'next battle' is retaking Anbar
Apr 08, 2015 (AFP)
Iraq's premier said Wednesday that the country's "next battle" is to retake Anbar province from the Islamic State jihadist group, his most direct statement yet ...
Iraq battles IS in Tikrit week after city 'retaken'
Apr 07, 2015 (AFP)
Iraqi security forces and allied paramilitaries battled militants from the Islamic State jihadist group in Tikrit on Tuesday, the interior ministry said, a week...
Iraq PM says 'only' 152 homes, shops burned in Tikrit
Apr 06, 2015 (AFP)
Iraq's prime minister said Monday that "only" 152 homes and shops were burned in Tikrit, where pro-government forces have been accused of carrying out abuses af...
Northern Iraq's displaced get own radio station
Apr 05, 2015 (AFP)
A radio station catering specifically to northern Iraq's large displaced population began broadcasting on Sunday near the Kurdish capital Arbil. "This radio sta...
Amnesty probing reports of Iraqi forces' abuses in Tikrit
Apr 03, 2015 (AFP)
Amnesty International said Thursday it was investigating reports of serious human rights violations committed by Iraqi government and allied forces in the opera...
Iraq forces hunt diehard jihadists after Tikrit breakthrough
Apr 01, 2015 (AFP)
Iraqi forces battled the last jihadists in Tikrit Wednesday to seal a victory the government described as a milestone in efforts to rid the country of the Islam...
Iraq PM says Tikrit 'liberated' after month-long battle
Mar 31, 2015 (AFP)
Iraq said security and allied forces backed by US-led coalition aircraft "liberated" the city of Tikrit on Tuesday, its biggest victory yet in the fight against...
US drone killed two Iranian troops in Iraq: state media
Mar 30, 2015 (AFP)
Two Iranian Revolutionary Guardsmen were killed by a US drone in the Iraqi city of Tikrit, Iranian state media said Monday, in a report that was denied by the P...
'Major sacrifices' required to retake Tikrit: Iraq officer
Mar 28, 2015 (AFP)
Retaking the city of Tikrit, where jihadists have rigged streets and buildings with explosives, will require "major sacrifices" on the part of Iraqi forces, a s...
Air strikes trigger final push on Iraq's Tikrit
Mar 26, 2015 (AFP)
Iraqi government forces revived a stalled ground operation to retake Tikrit Thursday following US-led air strikes that paved the way but left the anti-jihadist ...
Iraq vows to bring is own rights violators to justice
Mar 25, 2015 (AFP)
Iraq pledged Wednesday to probe all rights abuses committed in the conflict-torn country, including by its own security forces and pro-government militias, and ...
US mulls air strikes on Tikrit, aids Iraqis with 'eye in the sky'
Mar 25, 2015 (AFP)
Washington is considering launching air strikes, possibly within days, to back up Iraqi and Shiite forces battling to recapture Tikrit from the Islamic State ji...
US launches Tikrit air strikes to support Iraqi forces: officials
Mar 25, 2015 (AFP)
US aircraft on Wednesday launched bombing raids to support Iraqi forces fighting to recapture Tikrit from the Islamic State group, after Baghdad issued a reques...
Obama to host Iraq PM on April 14: White House
Mar 23, 2015 (AFP)
President Barack Obama will host Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi next month, the White House announced on Monday. Officials said the meeting would take pl...
Iraq militia chief slams army 'weaklings' over Tikrit strikes
Mar 22, 2015 (AFP)
The head of a powerful Shiite militia on Sunday criticised "weaklings" in the Iraqi army who want US-led air strikes to support the massive operation to retake ...
Iran general in Iraq 'whenever we need': militia chief
Mar 22, 2015 (AFP)
Qassem Soleimani, Iran's top officer responsible for foreign operations, provides assistance in Iraq "whenever we need him," Hadi al-Ameri, the commander of the...
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