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Iraq Kurd chief visits Mt Sinjar after siege broken
Dec 21, 2014 (AFP)
Iraqi Kurdish leader Massud Barzani hailed victories over the Islamic State jihadist group during a visit on Sunday to Mount Sinjar, which had been besieged by ...
Iraq Kurds deliver aid to Mt Sinjar, expand operation
Dec 20, 2014 (AFP)
Kurdish peshmerga forces delivered aid on Mount Sinjar and expanded a major offensive against jihadist-held areas in northwestern Iraq on Saturday after breakin...
Iraq Kurds press fightback as top jihadist reported killed
Dec 19, 2014 (AFP)
Kurdish forces pressed their biggest offensive against the Islamic State group so far Friday, buoyed by US reports that jihadist supremo Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's ...
IS siege of Mount Sinjar broken: Iraqi Kurd official
Dec 18, 2014 (AFP)
A broad peshmerga operation backed by US-led air strikes broke the Islamic State group's weeks-old siege of Iraq's Mount Sinjar on Thursday, a top Iraqi Kurdist...
UK inquiry finds mistreatment, no torture of Iraq detainees
Dec 17, 2014 (AFP)
A British inquiry set up to probe allegations of atrocities carried out by UK troops in Iraq in 2004 cleared them of the most serious claims but found they had ...
Iraq Kurds, coalition jets in major push to retake Sinjar
Dec 17, 2014 (AFP)
Iraqi Kurdish forces on Wednesday launched a broad offensive backed by mass bombing from US-led coalition warplanes to retake the northeastern Sinjar area from ...
Iraq reports 2,700 missing since June jihadist onslaught
Dec 15, 2014 (AFP)
At least 2,700 people, mostly soldiers, are missing as a result of attacks by the Islamic State group in Iraq, the human rights ministry said on Monday. More th...
Iraq jihadists release pictures of mass execution
Dec 15, 2014 (AFP)
The Islamic State (IS) group on Monday released pictures of the execution of 13 men described as anti-jihadist Sunni tribal fighters near the northern city of T...
Iraq police crack down on kidnappings in east
Dec 14, 2014 (AFP)
Police operations in Iraq's eastern region of Diyala have led to three hostages being freed and the dismantling of several extortion gangs, the local police chi...
Devotion, defiance draw millions to Iraq pilgrimage
Dec 13, 2014 (AFP)
Millions of Shiite Muslim pilgrims defied the threat of jihadist attacks and thronged the Iraqi shrine city of Karbala on Saturday for the climax of annual Arba...
Britain confirms 'hundreds' of extra trainers for Iraq
Dec 13, 2014 (AFP)
Britain is likely to increase the number of its forces in Iraq on a training mission to "the very low hundreds", Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said in commen...
CIA letter shows pre-war concern about Iraq 9/11 link
Dec 12, 2014 (AFP)
The CIA declassified a letter Thursday that suggests US intelligence had grave doubts about part of the case made by former president George W. Bush's White Hou...
Iraq says record 17 million Shiite pilgrims in Karbala
Dec 11, 2014 (AFP)
Iraqi Defence Minister Khaled al-Obeidi said Thursday that the number of pilgrims in the city of Karbala for the annual Arbaeen commemoration had reached a reco...
Jihadist attack in Iraq kills nine Shiite militiamen
Dec 10, 2014 (AFP)
A suicide car bomb killed nine Shiite militiamen in an attack near the Iraqi city of Tikrit on Wednesday, army and hospital sources said. The suicide attacker r...
Iraqi PM appeals to US for more air raids, weapons
Dec 09, 2014 (AFP)
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi appealed to US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel on Tuesday for more air raids from Western warplanes and more arms to take on ...
Allies to send 1,500 security personnel to Iraq: US
Dec 08, 2014 (AFP)
US allies are ready to send roughly 1,500 security personnel to Iraq to help the Baghdad government in its fight against jihadists, the American commander of th...
Iran pilgrims flock to Iraq with message for jihadists
Dec 08, 2014 (AFP)
Iranian pilgrims are pouring across the border into Iraq in unprecedented numbers for a huge annual religious gathering but also to flex Shiite muscle in the fa...
Iran says it carried out air strikes in Iraq: report
Dec 05, 2014 (AFP)
A senior Iranian official said the country's military had conducted air strikes against Islamic State jihadists in Iraq, in an interview with British newspaper ...
Car bombs in Kirkuk, Baghdad kill 33
Dec 04, 2014 (AFP)
The first major attack in the disputed Iraqi city of Kirkuk in months killed 18 people Thursday, while two car bombs in a frequently targeted Shiite district of...
Kerry says any Iran strikes against IS 'positive'
Dec 03, 2014 (AFP)
US Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday welcomed any Iranian military action against Islamic State jihadists in Iraq as "positive" after the Pentagon said...
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