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Drought puts Iraq at risk of jihadist resurgence: study
Sep 01, 2018 (AFP)
"The combination of its hydrological limitations, increasing temperatures and extreme weather events puts pressure on basic resources and undermines livelihood ...
Suicide bomber kills 2 Iraq policemen
Aug 31, 2018 (AFP)
On Thursday morning a "suicide bomber wearing an explosive vest drove a booby-trapped car into a federal police checkpoint" near Hawija, north of Baghdad, one o...
Iraq PM sacks paramilitary chief
Aug 30, 2018 (AFP)
The prime minister in a statement reproached the force's head Falih Alfayyadh for "having been implicated in partisan political matters which contravene the rul...
Suicide car bomber kills 11 in western Iraq
Aug 29, 2018 (AFP)
The 9 am (0600 GMT) bombing at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Al-Qaim also wounded 16 people -- 11 civilians and five security personnel, police Captain Mahmu...
Car bomb kills 11 in west Iraq after IS chief jihad call
Aug 29, 2018 (AFP)
The assailant blew up a vehicle at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Al-Qaim, one of the last towns in Iraq to be recaptured from IS, near the Syrian border. Fiv...
Iraq new parliament to meet, paving way for government
Aug 27, 2018 (AFP)
The inaugural session of the 329-seat chamber would be chaired by its oldest member, President Fuad Massum said in a decree calling for the sitting to take plac...
Iraqi grandmother faces daily battle caring for 22 children
Aug 26, 2018 (AFP)
Dressed in a long black robe, 61-year-old Sana never seems to stop. She is surrounded by children -- little girls with pigtails and little boys in colourful t-s...
UN investigators begin probe of IS crimes in Iraq
Aug 23, 2018 (AFP)
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the Security Council in the letter sent August 17 that the investigators led by British human rights lawyer Karim Asa...
Canada general to lead new NATO mission in Iraq
Aug 22, 2018 (AFP)
The former artillery officer and current commander of the 1st Canadian Division Headquarters -- a high-readiness unit that is the first to be deployed in war zo...
US service member killed in Iraq chopper crash
Aug 20, 2018 (AFP)
The crash appeared to have been accidental, as there were no indications it was caused by hostile fire, Pentagon spokesman Colonel Rob Manning said. A statement...
Iraqi girls take up swimming in IS-free Mosul
Aug 18, 2018 (AFP)
Even before the Islamic State group made Mosul the heart of its self-proclaimed caliphate in Iraq in 2014, conservatism and tradition in the ancient mercantile ...
Iraq religious tourism squeezed by Iran sanctions
Aug 16, 2018 (AFP)
At the city's edge, surrounded by mosaic-covered walls and topped by a golden dome, sits the shrine of Imam Ali, son-in-law of the Prophet Mohammed and a revere...
Iraq says six 'criminals' executed
Aug 16, 2018 (AFP)
The ministry, in a statement, said they were put to death for having "shed the blood of Iraqis" after their appeals were rejected and the sentences ratified by ...
Iraq's top musicians play on despite unpaid wages
Aug 14, 2018 (AFP)
An ageing air conditioner fights to beat back the summer heat in the cramped space at the capital's School of Music and Ballet as the 57-year-old maestro leads ...
Iraqi cleric Sadr wins vote recount: electoral commission
Aug 10, 2018 (AFP)
Allegations of fraud prompted the supreme court to order a partial manual recount, but Sadr's joint list with communists will retain all 54 seats it won to beco...
Nationalist cleric Sadr wins Iraq vote recount
Aug 10, 2018 (AFP)
Allegations of fraud prompted the supreme court to order a partial manual recount, but Sadr's joint list with communists will retain all 54 seats it won to beco...
British Museum identifies looted Iraqi antiquities, sends them home
Aug 09, 2018 (AFP)
The eight objects were confiscated by British police in May 2003, a few months after the US-led invasion of Iraq, from a now defunct dealer in London who failed...
Iraqi PM overhauls electricity ministry after protests
Aug 09, 2018 (AFP)
Four directors have been dismissed and a number of others moved "in order to reorganise the operation of the ministry in the service of the country", the prime ...
Removal of roadblocks in Iraq's capital oils traffic and trade
Aug 08, 2018 (AFP)
Like people across Baghdad, the young dentist finds a certain joy in rediscovering streets that were previously behind a tortuously slow slalom of concrete barr...
Iraq sentences two Europeans to life for IS membership
Aug 06, 2018 (AFP)
Frenchman Lahcen Gueboudj, 58, and a German woman whose name was given only as Nadia were sentenced separately at the Baghdad central criminal court, according ...
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