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Iraq PM lands in Riyadh after Tehran visit
Apr 17, 2019 (AFP)
The meeting, reported by official Saudi media, comes amid a steady warming of ties between Baghdad and Riyadh after decades of strain. The two countries signed ...
Iraq begins trials for 900 jihadists; Syria Kurds return 25 Yazidis to Iraq
Apr 14, 2019 (AFP)
They were handed over to Iraqi authorities by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, which ousted IS from swathes of eastern Syria including territory borderin...
Iraq offers to try foreign IS suspects, for a price
Apr 10, 2019 (AFP)
Western countries have been rocked by fierce public debate over whether to repatriate citizens who joined the Islamic State group, which held swathes of Iraq an...
Iran's leader urges Iraq to demand US withdraw troops
Apr 07, 2019 (AFP)
The remarks came during a visit to Tehran on Saturday by Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi, whose country is under pressure from the United States to distan...
Pentagon increases number of U.S. troops killed by Iran in Iraq to 603
Apr 05, 2019 (UPI)
During a State Department briefing Tuesday, Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook said the revised figures are taken from recently declassified U.S. milita...
Millions of pilgrims travel to Shiite shrine in Iraqi capital
Apr 02, 2019 (AFP)
"More than five million pilgrims" have flocked to the glittering shrine from other parts of Iraq as well as the Gulf, Iran, India and Pakistan since Friday, acc...
Post-IS Iraq treads fine line as it seeks regional role
Mar 24, 2019 (AFP)
The country is seeking to position itself as a "bridge" between rival powers in a region beset by deep divisions, says Iraqi political scientist Ihssan al-Shemm...
Post-IS, north Iraq's minority mosaic blown apart by trauma
Mar 21, 2019 (AFP)
He hails from the mountainous region of Sinjar, which borders Syria and is home to an array of communities -- Shiite and Sunni Arabs, Kurds, and Yazidis. That p...
Iraqi museum unveils 'looted' artefacts as UK return ancient tablet
Mar 19, 2019 (AFP)
Basra is the most oil-rich province in Iraq but its heritage sites have long been neglected. On Tuesday between 2,000 and 2,500 pieces went on display in the Ba...
Iran's Rouhani makes first official visit to Iraq
Mar 11, 2019 (AFP)
Shiite-majority Iraq is walking a fine line to maintain good relations with its key partners Iran and the United States who themselves are arch-foes. It has bee...
Two killed in car bomb attack in Iraq's Mosul
Mar 08, 2019 (AFP)
A statement by the Iraqi military's media centre said one young woman and a security officer were killed in the blast, which took place in the city's eastern ha...
Ambush kills six Iraqi paramilitary forces south of Mosul
Mar 07, 2019 (AFP)
Unidentified assailants on Wednesday night attacked a convoy of Hashed al-Shaabi fighters who were going on leave and therefore unarmed, the security forces' me...
Iraq children tortured, unfairly tried for alleged IS ties: HRW
Mar 06, 2019 (AFP)
The rights group's extensive report was based on interviews with 29 Iraqi children who are current or former detainees in the Kurdish Regional Government, as we...
Once-bustling Baghdad boulevard dallies in disrepair
Mar 05, 2019 (AFP)
But with young Iraqis listening to modern music and spending hours in hipster-style coffee shops, the boulevard that bustled non-stop in the 1970s is at risk of...
Iraq doctors say vendettas threaten their lives as they save others
Feb 28, 2019 (AFP)
Shaymaa al-Kamali, a family physician in Baghdad, said her problems began when she barred a patient's father from staying in the hospital after visiting hours. ...
Iraq saves France thorny repatriations of IS jihadists
Feb 25, 2019 (AFP)
France has been rocked by fierce public debate over whether to repatriate dozens of its nationals, including children, caught fleeing IS's collapsing "caliphate...
Bodies found after 12 people abducted in Iraq
Feb 19, 2019 (AFP)
"Armed men on motorbikes" abducted the group on Sunday as they collected truffles in the Al-Nukhaib region in the desert between Najaf and Al-Anbar provinces, s...
To fight off unemployment, Iraqi youth plant start-up seeds
Feb 17, 2019 (AFP)
The first murmurs of this creative spirit were felt in 2013, but the Islamic State group's sweep across a third of the country the following year put many proje...
Bomb blast kills eight Shiite militiamen in Iraq
Feb 14, 2019 (AFP)
The roadside bomb exploded when a convoy of Saraya al-Salam drove along a highway near Samarra, one source said, adding that several people were also wounded in...
India resumes flights to Iraq after 30 year gap
Feb 14, 2019 (AFP)
"This is the first time in the last 30 years" that a plane has come from India to Iraq, said Pradeep Singh Rajpurohit, India's ambassador to Iraq, at the intern...
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