IRAQ WARS - BIO FUEL DAILY

Dec 22, 2022 (AFP)

NATO-member Italy has up to 650 people deployed to Iraq and Kuwait, according to the defence ministry website. Under operation Prima Parthica, Italy provides st...

Eight Iraq civilians killed in attack blamed on jihadists

Dec 20, 2022 (AFP)

There was no immediate claim for the attack but the village was a focus of resistance to the Islamic State group during its lightning advance through swathes of...

Let Iraq choose own path, Macron tells Middle East summit

Dec 20, 2022 (AFP)

The "Baghdad II" meeting in Jordan, which alongside regional powers also includes officials from France and the European Union, follows an August 2021 summit in...

Islamic State group gunmen kill nine Iraqi police officers

Dec 18, 2022 (AFP)

The attack in the Kirkuk area -- which police said left nine federal officers dead -- is one of the deadliest in Iraq in recent months. IS fighters attacked "a ...

Roadside bomb kills three Iraq soldiers

Dec 14, 2022 (AFP)

There was no immediate claim for the bombing which targeted a patrol in the Tarmiya district, around 30 kilometres (20 miles) outside the capital. The area is a...

Iraq's Mosul healing slowly, five years after IS defeat

Dec 07, 2022 (AFP)

However, like in much of oil-rich but war-ravaged Iraq, ramshackle public services and deep economic difficulties continue to hamper people's daily lives. Ghazw...

Two killed in Iraq clashes after activist given prison term

Dec 07, 2022 (AFP)

Haidar al-Zaidi, 20, was sentenced to three years over a tweet of disputed origin deemed insulting to a pro-Iran ex-paramilitary force, according to court docum...

Four Iraqi soldiers killed in machine gun attack

Nov 19, 2022 (AFP)

The source said the pre-dawn assault targeted the desert post near Kirkuk, where remnants of the Islamic State group are active, as well as Kurdistan Workers' P...

Baghdad airport hit by second fire in three days

Nov 17, 2022 (AFP)

There were no casualties in the latest blaze, which damaged several airline offices in the two-storey Nineveh Terminal. Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani t...

Iraq shelves plans to reinstate conscription

Nov 15, 2022 (AFP)

Service in the armed forces was mandatory in Iraq from 1935 to 2003, when a US-led invasion toppled former dictator Saddam Hussein, disbanding the army and secu...

CORRECTED: Lebanon extradites to Iraq 'Saddam grandnephew' accused of IS link

Nov 13, 2022 (AFP)

Abdullah Sabawi was extradited on Friday, the Iraqi security source told AFP on condition of anonymity, describing him as the "son of a nephew" of the executed ...

Lebanon extradites to Iraq 'Saddam grandnephew' accused of IS link

Nov 13, 2022 (AFP)

Abdullah Sabawi was extradited on Friday, the Iraqi security source told AFP on condition of anonymity, describing him as the "son of a nephew" of the executed ...

Flowery facelift for heart of revolt in Iraqi capital

Nov 11, 2022 (AFP)

The epicentre of the October 2019 anti-government protest movement, the square is now transformed and boasts a renovated park section, and Abbas sells coffee wh...

American shot dead in Iraqi capital: security sources

Nov 07, 2022 (AFP)

The victim was travelling by car "when unknown persons opened fire", an interior ministry source said, on condition of anonymity. The US embassy in Baghdad was ...

Iraq considers reinstating conscription

Nov 06, 2022 (AFP)

Service in the armed forces was mandatory in Iraq from 1935 up until 2003, when a US-led invasion toppled former dictator Saddam Hussein. A first reading of the...

Iraq's new premier sacks senior officials

Nov 01, 2022 (AFP)

Lawmakers approved Sudani's cabinet on Thursday following a year of political stalemate and bitter infighting between Shiite Muslim factions following contested...

Iraqi sentenced to death for anti-regime activist's killing

Oct 25, 2022 (AFP)

A wave of nationwide protests against endemic corruption and rampant unemployment in late 2019 raged for months before winding down under the shadow of coronavi...

Major Iraqi parties push for new government by Saturday

Oct 18, 2022 (AFP)

Lawmakers last week finally elected a new president who in turn nominated a prime minister, following infighting between key Shiite Muslim factions that has par...

Iraq judge quizzes five tax officials over missing $2.5bn

Oct 18, 2022 (AFP)

An internal probe by the finance ministry in oil-rich Iraq has found that the money was withdrawn from the tax authority's account at state-owned Rafidain Bank,...

Iraq's Sadrist camp refuses to join new government

Oct 15, 2022 (AFP)

The announcement came two days after lawmakers elected Abdul Latif Rashid as Iraq's new president, and he swiftly named Sudani as prime minister in a bid to end...