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Relatives of missing Iraq soldiers storm parliament
Sep 02, 2014 (AFP)
Angry relatives of missing Iraqi soldiers stormed the parliament building in Baghdad on Tuesday, attacked MPs and staged a sit-in for several hours in its main ...
Congress pressures Obama on IS after 2nd beheading claim
Sep 02, 2014 (AFP)
US lawmakers Tuesday called for Secretary of State John Kerry to present administration policy for "rolling back" the Islamic State's gains, after the rampaging...
French mum reunited with daughter taken by alleged jihadi husband
Sep 02, 2014 (AFP)
A young French mother whose daughter had been smuggled by her father out of the country and possibly to Syria was reunited with the two-year-old in Turkey, a so...
Iraq presses fightback after breaking jihadist siege
Sep 01, 2014 (AFP)
Iraqi troops, Kurdish fighters and Shiite militiamen backed by US air strikes pressed a fightback against jihadist-led militants Monday, buoyed by breaking a we...
Merkel says arms aid for Iraqi Kurds also defends Europe
Sep 01, 2014 (AFP)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday defended a watershed decision to send arms to Iraqi Kurds battling jihadist militants, saying Europe's own security wa...
UN Human Rights Council to send mission to Iraq to probe IS crimes
Sep 01, 2014 (AFP)
The UN Human Rights Council on Monday unanimously agreed to send an emergency mission to Iraq to investigate Islamic State atrocities, as Baghdad warned the cou...
US jets strike jihadists around Iraqi dam
Sep 01, 2014 (AFP)
The United States carried out another round of air strikes Monday against militants from the so-called Islamic States battling Iraqi and Kurdish forces near a m...
Iraq breaks months-long jihadist siege
Aug 31, 2014 (AFP)
Iraqi forces broke through Sunday to the jihadist-besieged Shiite town of Amerli, where thousands of people have been trapped for more than two months with dwin...
Germany to send anti-tank weapons, rifles to Iraqi Kurds
Aug 31, 2014 (AFP)
Germany will send anti-tank rocket launchers, rifles and hand grenades to support Iraqi Kurds battling jihadist militants fighting for the Islamic State, the de...
Iraqi forces retake villages on way to besieged town
Aug 28, 2014 (AFP)
Iraqi security forces backed by volunteer militiamen on Thursday retook several villages located on the way to the town of Amerli, which jihadists have besieged...
Slain Iraqis 'of no threat' to Blackwater guards
Aug 27, 2014 (AFP)
The 14 Iraqi civilians mowed down by four guards with the Blackwater private security firm were of no threat and "were not legitimate targets," a prosecutor sai...
US weighs mission to help besieged Turkmen in Iraq
Aug 27, 2014 (AFP)
The United States is weighing a possible humanitarian mission as well as air strikes to help Shiite Turkmen encircled by Islamic State jihadists in northern Ira...
Iraq forces ready bid to break jihadist siege of Shiite town
Aug 27, 2014 (AFP)
Iraq was massing forces Wednesday for an operation to break a two-month jihadist siege of a Shiite Turkmen town north of Baghdad, amid growing fears for residen...
Iraqi strikes target militants besieging Shiite town
Aug 26, 2014 (AFP)
Iraq carried out air strikes Tuesday against jihadists who have for months besieged the town of Amerli, where residents are short on food and water and face a "...
Iran provided weapons to Iraq's Kurds: Barzani
Aug 26, 2014 (AFP)
Iran was the first country to provide Iraq's embattled autonomous Kurdish region with weapons to fight off jihadist-led militants, president Massud Barzani said...
Iraqi Kurds advance on jihadist militants
Aug 25, 2014 (AFP)
Iraqi Kurdish forces backed by air power retook three villages from jihadist militants northeast of Baghdad on Monday and also held off two assaults elsewhere, ...
Iraq works to ease tensions after mosque attack kills 70
Aug 23, 2014 (AFP)
Iraqi officials worked Saturday to ease soaring tensions after 70 people were gunned down at a Sunni mosque, as attacks in Baghdad and areas to its north killed...
US strikes Islamic State in Iraq after hostage horror
Aug 21, 2014 (AFP)
The United States sought to maintain pressure on jihadist militants in Iraq on Thursday, launching air strikes after the murder of a journalist underlined the i...
Iraq forces hit militants as UN readies major aid effort
Aug 19, 2014 (AFP)
Iraqi forces battled Sunni militants along a string of fronts Tuesday, including in Saddam Hussein's hometown Tikrit, as the United Nations readied a massive ai...
World must act to halt Iraq 'genocide': Yazidi leader's son
Aug 19, 2014 (AFP)
The world is not doing enough to halt a "genocide" of Iraq's Yazidi, the son of the religious minority's leader said Tuesday, blaming international inaction for...
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