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Hundreds of displaced Iraqis transferred from camp
Aug 28, 2019 (AFP)
The civilians originally hailed from Hawija but had fled fighting against the Islamic State group years ago to Hammam al-Alil camp, about 150 kilometres (100 mi...
Iraq begins probe into deadly drone attack near border
Aug 26, 2019 (AFP)
Sunday's attack struck a position held by Brigade 45, a Hashed al-Shaabi unit based near Iraq's desertic western border with Syria, killing one fighter and seve...
Two fighters killed in drone attack: Iraq paramilitary force
Aug 25, 2019 (AFP)
The deaths come after a month of mysterious blasts at Hashed al-Shaabi arms depots and training camps that some of the force's top officials blamed on the US. "...
Israel bombed Iraq weapons depot: report
Aug 23, 2019 (AFP)
There have been a series of blasts in Iraq over the past month at training camps and arms depots used by the Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary forces, which are mai...
Iraq paramilitary units blame US for base attacks
Aug 21, 2019 (AFP)
Over the past month, alleged attacks have targeted four training camps and arms depots used by the Hashed al-Shaabi, a network of mostly-Shiite, pro-Iran parami...
Beats replace bombs: young Iraqis revel at summer festival
Aug 17, 2019 (AFP)
Neon red, yellow and white stage lights helped transform the basketball court in the People's Stadium in central Baghdad into a club for the "Summer Festival", ...
US-led coalition says complying with new Iraq flight limits
Aug 16, 2019 (AFP)
A statement from the coalition said it had "immediately complied with all directions received from our Iraqi partners as they implemented the Prime Minister's o...
Ex-Blackwater guard gets life in prison for 2007 Baghdad massacre
Aug 14, 2019 (AFP)
Nicholas Slatten was convicted in December of first-degree murder by a federal jury in US District Court in Washington, the second time he had been found guilty...
Explosions at Baghdad weapons depot blamed on Israel, U.S.
Aug 14, 2019 (UPI)
A weapons storage facility at the Saqr military base in southern Baghdad exploded. Adjacent to a mosque, it is used by federal police and the Popular Mobilizati...
Foreign jihadists on death row out of Iraqi govt hands: PM
Aug 09, 2019 (AFP)
"We have made no promises to any country to lighten these sentences," Abdel Mahdi said in his first full-length interview with international media. "The justice...
Iraq recovers over $1 bn in stolen state funds
Aug 05, 2019 (AFP)
The Integrity Commission said 857 arrest warrants had been issued against government officials, of whom 407 had been detained. Graft is endemic across Iraq, whi...
Five years on, Yazidis remember brutal IS onslaught
Aug 03, 2019 (AFP)
On August 3, 2014, Islamic State group fighters seized Mount Sinjar, and went on to slaughter thousands of Yazidi men and boys and abduct girls to be used as "s...
Six dead in IS attacks on security forces in northern Iraq
Aug 01, 2019 (AFP)
Three policemen and two members of the Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary force died in an attack on a checkpoint south of the city of Tikrit, a security official to...
Iraq says ex-governor embezzled $10 mn in aid for displaced
Jul 30, 2019 (AFP)
A spokesperson for the Integrity Commission told AFP that its investigators had uncovered "invoices from developers in Iraqi Kurdistan". But, he added, "no rece...
Son of Iraq's late Yazidi prince takes over as leader
Jul 27, 2019 (AFP)
He was enthroned in a ceremony in Lalish, the Yazidis' holiest site in Iraq's mountainous northwest, after having been named by their five-member High Spiritual...
Spotlight on suicide pushes taboos in conservative Iraq
Jul 24, 2019 (AFP)
Kept from school and sexually abused by her brothers, 24-year-old Nada, who first tried to take her own life at the age of 12, only agreed to speak about her ex...
Drone bombs base used by pro-Iran forces in Iraq
Jul 19, 2019 (AFP)
The US immediately denied involvement in the attack, which took place overnight between Thursday and Friday in an ethnically and religiously mixed area north of...
US sanctions four Iraqis for rights abuses, corruption
Jul 18, 2019 (AFP)
The sanctions target any property they own or have an interest in that is within the United States or under the control of "US persons," as well as "any entitie...
Blood, bones paired to probe IS crimes against Iraq's Yazidis
Jul 14, 2019 (AFP)
"It's like a puzzle," says forensic specialist Mohammad Ihsan from behind a medical mask, as he lays out yellowed bones under fluorescent lights at the shabby M...
Men still missing, Yazidi women stitch together incomes after IS
Jul 14, 2019 (AFP)
Working in the Khanke displacement camp in the country's northwest, Shemmo glances down at the name tattooed on her left hand: Kero, her husband, still missing ...
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