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Iraqi president in talks with 'brother' Saudi king
Nov 11, 2014 (AFP)
Iraqi President Fuad Masum arrived in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday night for talks with his "brother" King Abdullah, confirming a thaw in relations after years of st...
50 US troops arrive in western Iraq: Pentagon
Nov 10, 2014 (AFP)
US troops have deployed to Iraq's frontline western province of Anbar for the first time in the fight against Islamic State jihadists, with 50 preparing the way...
Obama doubles US troops in Iraq in expanding war on IS
Nov 08, 2014 (AFP)
President Barack Obama on Friday unveiled plans to send 1,500 additional troops to Iraq to help Baghdad government forces strike back at Islamic State jihadists...
Iraq says foreign trainers 'late' as bombs rock Baghdad
Nov 08, 2014 (AFP)
Iraq said Saturday foreign military trainers who will aid its fight against jihadists are welcome but "late", as a wave of car bombs killed dozens, highlighting...
Iraq top diplomat in Turkey to heal wounds post-Maliki
Nov 05, 2014 (AFP)
Iraq's new Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari on Wednesday made a crucial visit to Turkey aimed at mending ties badly strained under the rule of former prime m...
Shiites mark holy day in defiance of jihadists
Nov 04, 2014 (AFP)
Huge crowds of Shiites gathered in Iraq and Lebanon Tuesday to mark a key holy day in defiance of jihadists from the Islamic State group. Police and troops were...
Iraq on 'high alert' amid IS attacks, mass killings
Nov 03, 2014 (AFP)
Iraq boosted security Monday amid fears of the Islamic State group launching major attacks on Shiite pilgrims flocking to the shrine city of Karbala as further ...
IS jihadists carry out mass killings of Iraqi tribe
Nov 02, 2014 (AFP)
The Islamic State group has carried out a fresh wave of mass killings, officials said Sunday, executing more than 200 members of an Iraqi tribe which took up ar...
Shiites head to Iraq's Karbala under jihadist threat
Nov 02, 2014 (AFP)
Hundreds of thousands of Shiites will flock to Iraq's Karbala this week under threat from jihadists who consider them heretics and now hold large parts of the c...
US prepares to send military advisers to western Iraq
Oct 31, 2014 (AFP)
US officers are drafting plans to deploy American military advisers to Iraq's western Anbar province and to help arm Sunni tribes to fight Islamic State jihadis...
Top US general favors military advisers in western Iraq
Oct 30, 2014 (AFP)
The US military's top officer on Thursday called for deploying American advisers to Iraq's Anbar province to counter Islamic State jihadists, but said the Baghd...
Iraq Sunni exiles say bombs cannot defeat IS
Oct 29, 2014 (AFP)
As US-led warplanes pound jihadists in Iraq, prominent Sunni exiles say that empowering their marginalised minority will be more important than bombs and missil...
Four deminers killed in Iraq blast
Oct 28, 2014 (AFP)
An explosive device left by the Islamic State group killed four members of a demining team Tuesday in a northern Iraqi town, the Kurdish regional government's d...
Suicide bomber kills at least 14 south of Baghdad
Oct 27, 2014 (AFP)
A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-rigged Humvee armoured vehicle near security forces and allied militiamen south of Baghdad, killing at least 14, an off...
Iraqi army months away from major offensive: US officials
Oct 24, 2014 (AFP)
The Iraqi army is still months away from staging a major offensive to retake ground lost to the Islamist State group and is regrouping after suffering battlefie...
IS jihadists again besiege Iraq's Mount Sinjar
Oct 22, 2014 (AFP)
The Islamic State jihadist group has again surrounded Mount Sinjar in northern Iraq, where it trapped thousands of civilians this summer, commanders in the area...
Iraq asks for 46,000 M1A1 Abrams tank rounds
Oct 21, 2014 (UPI)
The sale of thousands of rounds of tank ammunition to Iraq under the Foreign Military Sales program has been presented to Congress The proposed sale was detaile...
US says Baghdad is not under 'imminent threat' from IS
Oct 16, 2014 (AFP)
The Iraqi capital Baghdad is not facing immediate danger from Islamic State jihadists despite battlefield gains by the group in the country's west and recent ca...
State-backed Iraq Shiite militias commit 'war crimes': Amnesty
Oct 14, 2014 (AFP)
Shiite militias backed by the Iraqi army are committing war crimes against civilians in their fightback against the Islamic State jihadist group, rights watchdo...
Triple Baghdad blasts kill at least 22: police
Oct 13, 2014 (AFP)
Three bombings within an hour on Monday rocked Shiite neighbourhoods in the Iraqi capital as people filled the streets, distributing sweets for the Eid al-Ghadi...
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