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Iraq forces fire on Baghdad protesters after 4 killed in Karbala
Nov 04, 2019 (AFP)
It was the latest bloodshed in a wave of ongoing protests, road blocks and a campaign of civil disobedience waged by protesters accusing the Iraqi government of...
Blocking police at checkpoints, Iraqis revel in people power
Nov 04, 2019 (AFP)
After a month of defying official curfews and road closures to protest, Iraqis have flipped the rule book. One recent evening, police officers erected a row of ...
Iraqi protesters, security forces clash in capital
Nov 02, 2019 (AFP)
The violence in Baghdad has been centred on two bridges linking Tahrir to the Green Zone on the west bank of the Tigris River where most government buildings an...
Foreign actors must not 'impose will' on protests: top Iraq cleric
Nov 01, 2019 (AFP)
"No person or group, no side with a particular view, no regional or international actor may seize the will of the Iraqi people and impose its will on them," Sis...
French warplanes destroy IS tunnels in northern Iraq: minister
Nov 01, 2019 (AFP)
Writing on Twitter, Defence Minister Florence Parly said that Paris was giving "no respite" to IS, which was behind several deadly attacks in France in recent y...
Iraq president says PM willing to resign, vows early polls
Oct 31, 2019 (AFP)
The reforms, announced in Saleh's first televised address in weeks, appear unlikely to appease Iraqis protesting in Baghdad and the south to demand an overhaul ...
Amnesty slams use of 'skull-piercing' tear gas grenades in Iraq
Oct 31, 2019 (AFP)
Anti-government demonstrations have rocked the Iraqi capital and its south this month, leaving more than 250 people dead so far -- around half of them in the ca...
Iraq's Moqtada Sadr: cleric and kingmaker
Oct 30, 2019 (AFP)
The onetime militiaman has earned himself a cult-like following in Iraq which he can mobilise with a single tweet to crown -- or bring down -- a government. He ...
Iraq PM's future on the line as demonstrators smell change
Oct 30, 2019 (AFP)
Massive rallies broke out in Iraq's capital and south this month against corruption and unemployment, spiralling into angry calls for a total government overhau...
Main backers of Iraqi premier drop support amid protests
Oct 29, 2019 (AFP)
The surprise rapprochement came as tens of thousands flocked to the capital's Tahrir Square to demand the government quit, the largest rally yet since protests ...
Iraq's young 'PUBG generation' schools its politicians
Oct 28, 2019 (AFP)
They stole the spotlight on Monday by joining a wave of anti-government protests in Iraq's capital and south, ignoring threats of arrest and parents worried by ...
Iraq students join protests as pressure on government swells
Oct 27, 2019 (AFP)
The capital and country's south have been rocked by a second wave of demonstrations since Thursday, with protesters digging in despite tear gas, curfews and vio...
Iraq's Mosul breathes easier after death of 'butcher' Baghdadi
Oct 27, 2019 (AFP)
In June 2014, Baghdadi climbed a set of stairs at the Al-Nuri Mosque in the northern Iraqi city and declared himself "caliph" over millions of people in Iraq an...
Sit-in ups pressure on Iraq govt amid relentless protests
Oct 26, 2019 (AFP)
Thousands of Iraqis returned to the streets in the capital Baghdad and across the south over the last two days, defying curfews and violence that has left over ...
More than 60 dead as Iraq protests take new violent turn
Oct 26, 2019 (AFP)
The death toll from protests this month has soared to 220, including dozens killed since Friday as they torched government buildings or offices belonging to fac...
In buckets and gardening gloves, Iraqis dress for tear gas
Oct 25, 2019 (AFP)
Facing the officers, demonstrators donned their equipment too -- plastic buckets, soda cans and gardening gloves. The rivals faced off on a main bridge of the I...
Iraqis stockpile food as they gear up for new demos
Oct 24, 2019 (AFP)
A wave of anti-government demonstrations swept Iraq earlier this month, with thousands taking to the streets against rampant corruption, mass unemployment and f...
Replicas of Assyrian statues smashed by IS unveiled in Iraq's Mosul
Oct 24, 2019 (AFP)
The real "lamassu" -- massive statues of winged bulls with human faces -- had adorned a royal throne room in the ancient city of Nimrud for centuries, and one w...
Anti-government protests resume in Iraq after bloodshed
Oct 24, 2019 (AFP)
Iraq was rocked by demonstrations in early October, first denouncing corruption and unemployment before evolving into calls for an overhaul of the political sys...
Outcry in Iraq over official report on protest violence
Oct 23, 2019 (AFP)
Iraq was rocked by protests during the first week of October, with thousands taking to the streets of Baghdad and the country's south to demand jobs, services a...
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