IRAQ WARS - BIO FUEL DAILY

New rocket attack targets Iraq base housing US troops

Dec 12, 2019 (AFP)

There were no casualties in the overnight attack, which follows one on the same base on Monday which wounded six members of Iraq's elite US-trained counterterro...

Iraqi families fear worst after protesters abducted

Dec 11, 2019 (AFP)

In the days since, the 20-year-old demonstrator has not reappeared on messaging application WhatsApp, or in real life. Late Friday, unidentified gunmen stormed ...

As Iraqis protest against state, tribes make a comeback

Dec 10, 2019 (AFP)

With their own hierarchies, moral and justice codes, not to mention huge arms caches, tribes have once again become among the most powerful actors in Iraq's rur...

Medic, driver, witness, baker: four faces of Iraqi's uprising

Dec 10, 2019 (AFP)

"Peace be upon you and on your two rivers, Iraq," sings Kazem Saher as young demonstrators mourn their peers in the epicentre of the anti-regime movement in Bag...

Iraqis rally against government as Baghdad summons Western envoys

Dec 09, 2019 (AFP)

That came as Iraq's foreign ministry summoned four Western envoys over their condemnation of a deadly attack against protesters at the weekend. Iraq's capital a...

Rockets hit Iraq military complex housing US forces: army

Dec 09, 2019 (AFP)

Security forces found launchers with rockets that had not been fired properly, indicating a larger attack was planned, a military statement said. It is the late...

Prominent activist gunned down in Iraq shrine city Karbala

Dec 08, 2019 (AFP)

Fahem al-Tai, 53, had been taking part in weeks of rallies denouncing Iraq's entrenched political elite as corrupt, inept and beholden to neighbouring Iran. On ...

Protests grip Iraq's capital and south despite rising toll

Dec 08, 2019 (AFP)

In Baghdad, crowds of anti-government demonstrators thronged Tahrir Square, the epicentre of their movement. Late Friday, unidentified gunmen attacked a parking...

Pro-paramilitary demonstrators stream into Iraqi protest camp

Dec 05, 2019 (AFP)

The flash protest hinted at a new effort to delegitimise or intimidate anti-government protesters, and came after the apparent torture and death of a 19-year-ol...

Iraq revolution will be dramatised, written, read, and painted

Dec 05, 2019 (AFP)

But for once in recent weeks, the scenes playing out in Baghdad's Tahrir Square were a dramatisation, put on by actors who travelled 600 kilometres (400 miles) ...

Still in streets, Iraqis say problem is poverty

Dec 04, 2019 (AFP)

And that is what has kept them there, with protesters brushing off the resignation of Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi as failing to root out the rampant corrupt...

Iraq parties, allies debate new PM as violence hits shrine cities

Dec 03, 2019 (AFP)

Demonstrators demanding reform have flooded the capital and the Shiite-majority south since October, in the largest grassroots movement the country has witnesse...

Iraqi Christians cancel Christmas celebrations in solidarity with protests

Dec 03, 2019 (AFP)

The mass rallies rocking Iraq's capital and south have been met with violence by security forces and armed groups, leaving nearly 430 dead and 20,000 wounded. T...

Iraq parties in talks over new PM amid unrelenting protests

Dec 02, 2019 (AFP)

After just over a year in power, premier Adel Abdel Mahdi formally resigned Sunday after a dramatic intervention by top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistan...

Iraq's embattled PM bows out as protesters mourn dead

Dec 01, 2019 (AFP)

As anti-government demonstrators across the strife-torn country massed to honour the fallen activists, parliament met to accept the resignation which the 77-yea...

Iraq's Adel Abdel Mahdi, consensus leader brought down by street fury

Dec 01, 2019 (AFP)

The 77-year-old veteran was named prime minister in late October 2018 as a consensus candidate among Iraq's divided political giants and its competing internati...

Iraqis keep up anti-regime demos despite PM's vow to quit

Nov 30, 2019 (AFP)

Protesters have hit the streets since early October in the largest grassroots movement Iraq has seen in decades, sparked by fury at poor public services, lack o...

Eight Iraq protesters killed in clashes: medics, security sources

Nov 28, 2019 (AFP)

Around 50 others more wounded, several in critical condition, when security forces tried to retake two bridges in the city that had been blocked by the proteste...

Iraqi protesters torch Iran consulate amid deadly protests

Nov 27, 2019 (AFP)

Tall flames and thick clouds of smoke rose from the entrance of the consulate in the southern city, AFP's correspondent there said. "Victory to Iraq!" and "Iran...

Denmark offers to lead NATO training mission in Iraq

Nov 26, 2019 (AFP)

The year-old NATO mission, which provides around 500 soldiers that advise and train Iraqi troops, is currently led by Canada, whose time in charge ends in late ...