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Baghdad bombings kill at least 30: police, medics
Aug 06, 2014 (AFP)
Five bomb attacks, including four car bombings, killed at least 30 people and wounded around 70 others Wednesday in several Baghdad districts, Iraqi police and ...
Kurds unite to oust Iraq jihadists, rescue stranded civilians
Aug 06, 2014 (AFP)
Kurds from Iraq, Syria and Turkey joined forces in north Iraq Wednesday to try to reclaim areas lost to jihadists and rescue thousands of civilians stranded in ...
PKK urges Kurdish groups to unite against Iraq militants
Aug 05, 2014 (AFP)
The outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which for years waged a deadly insurgency against Turkish authorities, called on all Kurdish armed groups Tuesday t...
Appeals mount to save Iraq's Yazidis from extinction
Aug 05, 2014 (AFP)
Iraqi helicopters dropped supplies Tuesday to thousands of people hiding from jihadists in desolate mountains, many of them from the Yazidi minority which offic...
Iraq air force backs Kurds against jihadists, scores flee
Aug 04, 2014 (AFP)
Baghdad's air force and Kurdish fighters from Syria joined forces with Iraq's embattled peshmerga Monday to push back jihadists whose latest attacks sent thousa...
Iraq jihadists seize another town from Kurdish forces
Aug 03, 2014 (AFP)
Jihadists raised their black flag in Iraq's northern town of Sinjar Sunday in a second straight day of advances against Kurdish forces, sparking mass displaceme...
Fighting in flashpoint Iraq town kills five militants
Jul 31, 2014 (AFP)
The Islamic State launched a failed attack on the Iraqi town of Dhuluiya on Thursday, sparking clashes that left at least five of its fighters dead, the army an...
Car bombs kill 15 in Shiite Baghdad districts: police
Jul 30, 2014 (AFP)
Car bombs killed at least 15 people and wounded more than 40 Wednesday on the main streets of two Shiite neighbourhoods of Baghdad, police and medical sources s...
Jihadists defend Iraq shrine demolitions
Jul 29, 2014 (AFP)
The Islamic State group Tuesday defended its destruction of religious sites in the Iraqi city of Mosul on the grounds that the use of mosques built on graves am...
US plans largest ever sale of Hellfire missiles to Iraq
Jul 29, 2014 (AFP)
The United States plans to sell 5,000 Hellfire missiles to Iraq in a $700 million deal, officials said Tuesday, as Washington tries to help Baghdad retake groun...
France says ready to facilitate asylum for Iraq's Christians
Jul 28, 2014 (AFP)
France said Monday it was ready to help facilitate asylum for Christians in Iraq displaced by a jihadist onslaught, saying it was "outraged" by their persecutio...
Iraq army kills 17 in anti-jihadist raid
Jul 28, 2014 (AFP)
An Iraqi government raid on jihadist targets in a flashpoint town southwest of Baghdad killed 17 people on Monday, including at least three civilians, medical a...
Shiite militia display jihadist bodies in Iraq city
Jul 27, 2014 (AFP)
Shiite militiamen in Iraq's city of Baquba dragged the bodies of Islamic State jihadist fighters through the streets Sunday and hung them from a bridge and a ut...
Iraq's Mosul counts the cost of insurgent rule
Jul 27, 2014 (AFP)
When Islamic State fighters first seized Iraq's city of Mosul, life improved for many residents. But some now say the economic and cultural cost of jihadist rul...
Top Sunni official held in Baghdad
Jul 26, 2014 (AFP)
Armed men in military uniform raided the home of a senior Baghdad Sunni politician overnight and whisked him and several of his guards away, police said Saturda...
Iraq gets new president, UN chief seeks more urgency
Jul 24, 2014 (AFP)
Kurdish politician Fuad Masum became Iraq's new president Thursday, in a step towards forming a government that visiting UN chief Ban Ki-moon said must be inclu...
Iraq prison convoy ambush kills 60 as UN chief visits
Jul 24, 2014 (AFP)
An onslaught on a convoy transferring inmates north of Baghdad left dozens dead Thursday, as visiting UN chief Ban Ki-moon said Iraq's survival hinged on a more...
Russia delivering weapons to Iraq: report
Jul 24, 2014 (AFP)
Russia has begun supplying military helicopters and fighters jets to Iraq, a report said Thursday, as Iraq's defence minister visited Moscow to press for equipm...
Iraqi sacred city gains prominence as Baghdad founders
Jul 23, 2014 (AFP)
The holy Shiite city of Najaf has gained prominence as a centre of political and military power since the start of a crisis that has raised the spectre of Iraq ...
Kurds agree on Fuad Masum for Iraq president: official
Jul 23, 2014 (AFP)
Veteran Iraqi politician Fuad Masum was almost guaranteed to become Iraq's next president after the main Kurdish blocs in parliament agreed on his candidacy Thu...
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