IRAQ WARS - BIO FUEL DAILY

A year after jihadists ousted, Iraq's Mosul still in ruins

Jul 10, 2018 (AFP)

"We were liberated but what have we come back to? Our homes have been destroyed," said mother of seven Umm Mohammed. On July 10, 2017, Iraqi Prime Minister Haid...

Tension grips Iraq's Basra after protester killed

Jul 10, 2018 (AFP)

Three other people were wounded in the incident, Karim Shuak, a member of Basra's provincial council, told AFP. He said the demonstrators were "youths demanding...

Child beggars fill Mosul streets a year on from IS

Jul 08, 2018 (AFP)

A year on from Iraqi forces announcing the "liberation" of Mosul from the Islamic State group, the scars of the bloody nine-month offensive to oust the militant...

Iraqis say Russian missiles killed IS leader's son

Jul 04, 2018 (AFP)

IS's propaganda outlet Amaq said Hudhayfah al-Badri was killed in an "operation against the Nussayriyyah and the Russians at the thermal power station in Homs",...

Partial vote recount begins in Iraq's Kirkuk

Jul 03, 2018 (AFP)

"The counting process first started in Kirkuk because that is where there was the greatest number of disputes," electoral commission member Imad Jamil told AFP....

Iraq calls for repatriation of children of foreign jihadists

Jul 03, 2018 (AFP)

At least 833 children of 14 nationalities are currently in prison in Iraq, according to the Joint Operations Command, which coordinates the fight against the Is...

Post-Saddam Iraq faces parliamentary vacuum for first time

Jun 30, 2018 (AFP)

The manual recount was demanded by the supreme court in polling stations with contested results, in line with a decision by the outgoing parliament following al...

Iraq executes 13 death row jihadists to avenge killings

Jun 29, 2018 (AFP)

While Iraqis have grown accustomed to the atrocities committed by IS, the killing of the eight civilians shocked the nation and doused hopes the jihadists had b...

Iraq PM orders 'immediate' execution of death row jihadists

Jun 28, 2018 (AFP)

Abadi, who has faced charges of failing to respond in force to IS, ordered "the immediate punishment of terrorists condemned to death whose sentences have passe...

Iraqis begin colossal clean-up campaign in battered Mosul

Jun 27, 2018 (AFP)

Largely silent since Iraqi forces fully recaptured the city on July 10, Mosul's Old City awoke to the roar of trucks, bulldozers and excavators chugging though ...

Congolese doctor helps Yazidi women overcome rape stigma

Jun 27, 2018 (AFP)

The renowned doctor shakes hands with white-bearded Khurto Hajji Ismail, the Yazidis' Baba Sheikh or spiritual leader, in the Lalish temple where two conical ro...

Iraq says it killed 45 IS jihadists in Syria strike

Jun 23, 2018 (AFP)

Iraqi F-16 fighter jets carried out a "successful strike targeting a meeting of Daesh (IS) leaders" on Friday in the Hajin region, in the eastern Syrian provinc...

Iraq PM and cleric Sadr agree alliance

Jun 23, 2018 (AFP)

Sadr's joint list with communists won 54 seats in the legislative elections to become the biggest bloc in Iraq's 329-seat parliament, while Abadi's bloc came in...

Iraqis fill the Mosul airwaves after IS radio silence

Jun 22, 2018 (AFP)

One budding presenter is Nour Tai, who at 16 years old faces the microphone with a confident tone and a professional style. She hosts a weekly programme on One ...

Baghdad mall apologises for barring war orphans

Jun 21, 2018 (AFP)

"There was a misunderstanding on the part of an employee. I apologise because there is no shame in apologising and it is a virtue to admit one's mistake," Al-Ma...

Biggest Iraqi tribe calls for arms to defend against IS

Jun 20, 2018 (AFP)

The Shammar are a particular target for IS because they sided with the government in the battle with the jihadists, who were expelled from their last urban stro...

7 shepherds killed as IS 'danger' grips Iraqi desert

Jun 19, 2018 (AFP)

In a renewed threat to the region, IS attacked several remote villages and seized 30 locals from their homes, Ali al-Nawaf, a municipal council chief, told AFP....

Three truck drivers killed by IS in Iraq

Jun 18, 2018 (AFP)

The victims were "killed in an ambush by the jihadists" overnight Sunday to Monday, the security source said on condition of anonymity. Meanwhile, the same nigh...

Uproar over alleged barring of Iraq orphans from shopping centre

Jun 17, 2018 (AFP)

Volunteers from the Ruhmaa Benahm orphan association had hoped to give the orphans a rare treat for the Eid al-Fitr holiday by taking them to a restaurant and p...

In Iraq, Angelina Jolie calls for focus on conflict prevention

Jun 17, 2018 (AFP)

"I hope that we can find the strength to find a better way forward together: so that we move into a new era of preventing conflict and reducing instability, rat...