IRAQ WARS - BIO FUEL DAILY

Aug 06, 2018 (AFP)

Iraq's May 12 parliamentary elections were marred by allegations of fraud, prompting the country's supreme court to order a partial manual recount. As an offici...

New protests hit southern Iraq, a month into unrest

Aug 05, 2018 (AFP)

In oil-rich Basra, the southern port city where the protests broke out on July 8, tribal chiefs and Shiite religious leaders joined several hundred demonstrator...

Iraq says jihadists repeatedly hit power line

Aug 05, 2018 (AFP)

The electricity ministry said it had to once again repair the 400 kilovolt line between Kirkuk and Diyala after "terrorist attacks of sabotage... which caused t...

Iraq football team plays first match in Palestinian territories

Aug 04, 2018 (AFP)

Some 2,000 people attended the match in Al-Ram near Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank, next to Israel's separation wall cutting off the Palestinian territory....

Art of cinema comes alive in basement of Iraq aficionado

Aug 03, 2018 (AFP)

Ayoubi has scoured the country to collect 8 mm, 16 mm and 35-mm reels of old films, projectors, screens and archive materials from second-hand dealers, sometime...

US probes claims pharma giants' actions helped Iraq insurgency

Aug 01, 2018 (AFP)

In a filing with US regulators last week, AstraZeneca said it had received a Department of Justice inquiry "in connection with an anti-corruption investigation ...

Iraqis from same family risk death penalty over IS killings

Aug 01, 2018 (AFP)

The men face charges under Iraq's anti-terror legislation over the killings at Khasfah, a sinkhole in northern Iraq just eight kilometres from Mosul, the former...

HRW urges probes into 'rampant' use of torture in Iraq

Jul 31, 2018 (AFP)

"Torture is rampant in Iraq's justice system, yet judges lack instructions for responding to torture allegations," the watchdog's deputy Middle East director, L...

Iraq PM sacks electricity minister after weeks of protest

Jul 29, 2018 (AFP)

A statement from Abadi's office said the premier sacked Qassem al-Fahdawi -- whose departure was demanded by protesters -- "because of the deterioration in the ...

Iraq street satirists peddle culture change

Jul 27, 2018 (AFP)

With a rich repertoire of skits, Khaled al-Atbi and his peers poke fun at politicians more interested in lining their pockets than rebuilding a country devastat...

New wave of protests sweeps Iraqi cities

Jul 27, 2018 (AFP)

Surrounded by a cordon of anti-riot personnel equipped with electric batons, protestors in Baghdad's Tahrir Square accused leaders of being "thieves" and "corru...

Iraq protests leave 14 dead in two weeks: rights official

Jul 23, 2018 (AFP)

Demonstrations have rocked southern and central Iraq since erupting in the oil-rich port city of Basra on July 8, when security forces opened fire killing one p...

Iraq admits holding 'terrorism' suspects for months: HRW

Jul 22, 2018 (AFP)

The National Security Service acknowledged it was holding male prisoners at a facility in east Mosul, the Iraqi city from which the Islamic State group was oust...

One dead as new protests shake south Iraq, reach Baghdad

Jul 20, 2018 (AFP)

The latest death brings to nine the number of people killed in protests as Iraqis hit out at a litany of social and economic woes. The man killed was aged aroun...

In Iraq, old grievances fuel deadly protests

Jul 18, 2018 (AFP)

But just a few months after Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared victory over the jihadists, social grievances that once simmered on the back burner have boi...

Iraqis demand change as protests run into second week

Jul 16, 2018 (AFP)

Months after Iraq declared victory over the Islamic State group, attention has turned from the military battle to the fight for jobs and public services. Thousa...

Two demonstrators killed as Iraq protests hit second week

Jul 15, 2018 (AFP)

The protesters were killed in a shooting in the city of Samawah, south of the capital Baghdad, the source told AFP. A further 27 people were injured in the inci...

Two killed in southern Iraq as protests spread

Jul 14, 2018 (AFP)

The deaths overnight in Maysan province on the border with Iran brought to three the number of demonstrators killed since the protests erupted Sunday in neighbo...

Iraq PM looks to calm Basra unrest as demos spread

Jul 13, 2018 (AFP)

Abadi flew straight into the southern city from Brussels where he attended a NATO summit to discuss the Islamic State group, and immediately held talks with off...

Canada to head up NATO training mission in Iraq

Jul 11, 2018 (AFP)

The Canadian troops will be deployed in the Baghdad region starting in the fall of 2018 to help "Iraq build a more effective national security structure and imp...