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Acting Pentagon chief makes surprise Baghdad visit
Feb 13, 2019 (AFP)
Shanahan is keen to reassure Iraqi leaders after President Donald Trump angered many by saying he wanted to maintain some troops at the Al-Asad airbase, northwe...
French guns on Iraq border aim to pin down IS diehards inside Syria
Feb 10, 2019 (AFP)
Warplanes flash through the sky, followed seconds later by explosions on the Syrian side that send up a mushroom cloud. "We're less than 10 kilometres (six mile...
By law or force: Iraq's Shiite armed groups vow to oust US troops
Feb 07, 2019 (AFP)
US-Iraq relations have grown tense once again, after a series of ups and downs over the years, from the 1990 Gulf war though crippling sanctions to the 2003 inv...
Italy's Conte discusses IS 'insurgency' with Iraqi leaders
Feb 06, 2019 (AFP)
"Iraqi efforts to defeat Daesh have been fundamental", Conte told reporters in Iraq's capital, using an Arab acronym for IS. "But we must be conscious that the ...
Prince of IS-ravaged Yazidis buried in Iraq
Feb 05, 2019 (AFP)
Prince Tahseen Said Ali, the longtime head of the world's Yazidi minority brutally targeted by Islamic State group jihadists in Iraq, died in Germany at the end...
Photographers in Iraq's Mosul snap dark days, bright futures
Feb 05, 2019 (AFP)
Behind him stretched the ruins of the Prophet Yunus mosque, an ancient monument infamously destroyed by the Islamic State group when it overran Mosul in 2014. A...
Trump comments spark Iraqi demands for US exit
Feb 04, 2019 (AFP)
In an interview with CBS television, Trump reaffirmed his determination to pull the United States out of "endless wars" in Syria and Afghanistan but said Americ...
Yazidis bid last farewell to spiritual leader in Iraq
Feb 04, 2019 (AFP)
The longtime head of the world's Yazidi minority, Prince Tahseen Said Ali, died in the KRH Siloah hospital in Hanover, Germany at the age of 85 at the end of Ja...
Assassination of Iraqi writer provokes indignation
Feb 03, 2019 (AFP)
The city's police force said several fatal shots were fired at Alaa Mashzoub in front of his home on Saturday. In a sign of the sensitivity surrounding the subj...
King of Spain visits Iraq, first in 40 years: diplomat
Jan 30, 2019 (AFP)
The king, whose country is a member of an international coalition battling the Islamic State group, also later met President Barham Saleh. Iraq in 2017 declared...
Its treasures ruined by IS, Mosul museum hosts modern art
Jan 29, 2019 (AFP)
For the first time since IS overran the Iraqi city in 2014, visitors on Tuesday could wander the grandiose royal reception hall, which forms part of the museum....
Four police dead in back-to-back bomb blasts in Iraq
Jan 27, 2019 (AFP)
"At around 8:00 am, the police officers were taking up their post at the southern entrance of Al-Sharqat," the town's mayor, Ali Dodah, told AFP. "One bomb went...
Iraq priest who saved Christian heritage ordained Mosul archbishop
Jan 25, 2019 (AFP)
Najeeb Michaeel, 63, was inaugurated in a ceremony in Mosul's St. Paul Church attended by Catholic leaders from the region and the US, as well as local official...
Iraq parliament approves 2019 budget, one of largest ever
Jan 24, 2019 (AFP)
It represents a nearly 45 percent increase from last year and awards even more money for public salaries, including those of the northern Kurdish region. Nearly...
In Iraq, political wrangling spawns debate over US troops
Jan 22, 2019 (AFP)
The political wrangling is another indication of Iraq's precarious position as it tries to balance ties between two key allies -- the United States and the Isla...
Iraqi PM makes first visit to protest-hit Basra
Jan 20, 2019 (AFP)
Abdel Mahdi's office said he visited several infrastructure and service projects in the oil-rich province, including water provision services in the Shatt al-Ar...
Iran FM says Tehran wants to rebuild Iraq after IS fight
Jan 16, 2019 (AFP)
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif spoke in Iraq's holy city of Karbala to commanders of the Hashed al-Shaabi, which is dominated by Iran-backed Shiite group...
Foreign troops in Iraq cut by a quarter in 2018: PM
Jan 16, 2019 (AFP)
"In January 2018 there had been almost 11,000 foreign fighters, about 70 percent of them are American, the others are from other countries," Abdel Mahdi told a ...
Iraq likely theater if US, Iran tensions worsen: study
Jan 16, 2019 (AFP)
The International Crisis Group (ICG), which researches ways to prevent war, interviewed officials around the world including from Iran for an extensive report o...
French FM visits Iraq holy city in first, pledges loan
Jan 15, 2019 (AFP)
The visit to the revered southern city capped Le Drian's packed two-day trip to Iraq, during which he announced new support for the country's reconstruction eff...
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