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Iraq marks one year since 'victory' against IS
Dec 10, 2018 (AFP)
A year ago, his predecessor announced the conclusion of a three-year battle to oust IS, putting an end to the so-called jihadist "caliphate" straddling Syria an...
UN team to begin probe of IS crimes in Iraq in early 2019
Dec 04, 2018 (AFP)
The UN Security Council adopted a resolution in September 2017 to bring those responsible for Islamic State group war crimes to justice -- a cause championed by...
Iraq's Mohamed al-Daradji battles inner demons through film
Dec 03, 2018 (AFP)
"You could say that my movies are a way of coping with the (aftermath) of the war," the 40-year-old told AFP in Los Angeles this week as he discussed his latest...
Iraq's ancient pottery struggles to outlive modern plastic
Dec 03, 2018 (AFP)
For thousands of years, clay utensils for storing food and cooking were found in virtually every home in Sumer, the earliest known civilisation in modern-day so...
With the jihadists gone, booze is back in Iraq's Mosul
Dec 02, 2018 (AFP)
The city spent three years under the iron-fisted rule of the Islamic State group, which punished those caught drinking alcohol with public lashings or worse. Bu...
Bitter Iraqis remember George H.W. Bush as 'Mr Embargo'
Dec 01, 2018 (AFP)
Under Bush's command, US soldiers in 1991 drove invading Iraqi troops from Kuwait, which strongman Saddam Hussein had infamously dubbed his nation's 19th provin...
Yazidi women want to join court case against French cement giant
Nov 30, 2018 (AFP)
They have made an application to be "civil parties" in a criminal case brought in France against Lafarge and several of its executives for complicity in crimes ...
Iraq sentences former minister in absentia on graft charges
Nov 29, 2018 (AFP)
Investigators at the Integrity Commission said the three officials were found guilty of graft charges linked to rice imports, embezzling up to $14.3 million of ...
In Iraq, an ancient board game is making a comeback
Nov 26, 2018 (AFP)
Originating nearly 5,000 years ago in what would become Iraq, the Royal Game of Ur mysteriously died out -- until Muwafaq resurrected it by making his own decor...
Partial reopening of Baghdad's Green Zone delayed: official
Nov 25, 2018 (AFP)
The enclave has been home to Iraq's parliament, government offices, United Nations agencies and western embassies since the US-led invasion that toppled dictato...
To reclaim Baghdad, Iraqi artists grapple with its ghosts
Nov 24, 2018 (AFP)
The piece was part of a two-day walking tour of Iraq's capital, an effort by young artists to address social dilemmas and reclaim Baghdad's identity after more ...
Unemployment, instability 'terror incubators': Iraq president
Nov 22, 2018 (AFP)
"Legions of unemployed youths, millions of IDPs (internally displaced people) in refugee camps, poverty and conflict are the incubators for terrorism, extremism...
Iraq removes blast walls around Green Zone for partial reopening
Nov 22, 2018 (AFP)
The Green Zone became home to Iraq's parliament and other government offices, United Nations agencies and western embassies after the US-led invasion of 2003. T...
After years of silence, music fills streets of Iraq's Mosul
Nov 21, 2018 (AFP)
For three years until last summer, the sprawling northern city was under the brutal rule of the Islamic State group. In imposing a city-wide ban on playing or e...
Heavy rains unearth Iraqi mines in Kuwaiti desert
Nov 21, 2018 (AFP)
Authorities have closed 18 desert sites and have so far removed at least 48 mines after receiving complaints from the campers, they said. The civil defence comm...
Wealth gaps affecting school children in Iraq: UN
Nov 19, 2018 (AFP)
An economic downturn, years of fighting and little government support has left Iraq's school system lacking, UNICEF found in a new study of more than 20,000 fam...
In Iraq, bloody tribal custom now classed as 'terrorism'
Nov 18, 2018 (AFP)
For centuries, Iraqi clans have used their own system to resolve disputes, with tribal dignitaries bringing together opposing sides to mediate in de facto "hear...
Iraq recovers property worth millions after illegal sale
Nov 14, 2018 (AFP)
In a statement to journalists, the Integrity Commission said it had worked with Baghdad authorities to recover the land in Kadhimiyah district. "The Baghdad-Kar...
Shaken by car bomb, Mosul fears return of IS nightmares
Nov 09, 2018 (AFP)
The blast late on Thursday hit the popular Abu Layla restaurant in Mosul, the northern city that for three years served as the Islamic State group's Iraq headqu...
Iraq gets US sanctions break to keep the lights on
Nov 08, 2018 (AFP)
With US measures imposed Monday taking aim at Iran's banking and energy industries, there were concerns Iraq -- which heavily relies on its eastern neighbour fo...
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