IRAQ WARS - BIO FUEL DAILY

UN Security Council postpones visit to Iraq

Apr 18, 2018 (AFP)

Iraq told the council in a letter this week that many officials will be busy with the election campaign, which kicked off on Saturday, and will not be able to m...

Iraq women with alleged links to IS sexually abused: Amnesty

Apr 17, 2018 (AFP)

In a new report, the watchdog revealed widespread discrimination by security forces, camp administrators and local authorities against women and children in eig...

Iraq sentences French woman to life in jail for joining IS

Apr 17, 2018 (AFP)

Djamila Boutoutaou, a 29-year-old of Algerian origin, told a Baghdad court that she left France with her husband, a rapper. She said she thought they were going...

Years after hanging, Saddam mystery lives on

Apr 16, 2018 (AFP)

The man who ruled Iraq with an iron fist for a quarter of a century was hanged at dawn on December 30, 2006, delighting many of the country's long-oppressed maj...

Iraq executes 11 convicted of 'terrorism': ministry

Apr 16, 2018 (AFP)

They included individuals responsible for car bombings, "killings of security forces personnel" and kidnappings, it said in a statement, without specifying date...

One killed in car bomb targeting Iraq election candidate

Apr 15, 2018 (AFP)

The blast in the multi-ethnic city, some 250 kilometres (155 miles) north of Baghdad, came as war-torn Iraq gears up for legislative elections on May 12. "A civ...

16 dead in attack at Iraq funeral of anti-IS fighters

Apr 12, 2018 (AFP)

"Two bombs exploded as the funeral procession was entering the cemetery" in Asdira, near the town of Sharqat, Salaheddin Shaalan told AFP. Most of 14 people wou...

Four killed in IS suicide attack on Iraq party hq

Apr 08, 2018 (AFP)

The Islamic State (IS) group issued a statement claiming the attack, which took place late Saturday in the tribal desert province of Al-Anbar, primarily home to...

Baghdad's infrastructure in ruins 15 years after Saddam fell

Apr 08, 2018 (AFP)

For 15 years promises of rebuilding infrastructure in the second most populous Arab capital have fallen through and a multitude of projects have been shelved. B...

The three weeks that ousted Saddam Hussein

Apr 06, 2018 (AFP)

Washington and London justified their military intervention with claims that the country possessed weapons of mass destruction but no such stockpile was ever di...

Five ways Iraq has changed since fall of Saddam

Apr 06, 2018 (AFP)

Here is an overview of what has changed in Iraq's economy, politics, diplomacy, demographics and the Kurdish question. - Embargo over - The fall of Saddam's reg...

15 years after Saddam's fall, Iraqi hopes fade

Apr 06, 2018 (AFP)

But the years that followed have brought only misery, he said, looking at photos of three of his sons killed in attacks in the ensuing chaos. After the US-led i...

Iraq condemns 6 Turkish women to death for IS membership

Apr 02, 2018 (AFP)

The source told AFP that the women, all accompanied by small children in the court, had surrendered to Kurdish peshmerga fighters after having fled Tal Afar, on...

Iraqi monument destroyed by IS recreated in London

Mar 28, 2018 (AFP)

The artwork will stand for two years on the empty fourth plinth in the British capital's central square as a monument to the destruction of Iraqi culture since ...

Mother Courage: Iraqi widow saved recruits from slaughter

Mar 24, 2018 (AFP)

But when a group of military cadets fled to her community near Tikrit to escape killers from the Islamic State group, she risked all to save them. In June 2014,...

Direct foreign air links restored with Iraqi Kurdistan

Mar 20, 2018 (AFP)

A cargo plane carrying electronic devices touched down from the United Arab Emirates, an AFP correspondent said. It was followed by a Royal Jordanian plane, wit...

Iraqi enthusiasts search for relics of royal past

Mar 18, 2018 (AFP)

Inside the Moudallal cafe, Arabic for "pampered", a hundred men from across the country carefully follow the auction of momentos from the nearly four decades of...

Iran 'mucking around' in Iraq elections: Mattis

Mar 16, 2018 (AFP)

Speaking to reporters as he returned from a trip to Oman, Afghanistan and Bahrain, Mattis said officials he met with had expressed frequent concerns about Irani...

US military aircraft crashes in west Iraq: coalition

Mar 15, 2018 (AFP)

"Rescue teams are responding to the scene of the downed aircraft at this time," the US-led coalition said in a statement. It did not specify the type of aircraf...

Iraq PM security detail commander killed in armed clash

Mar 13, 2018 (AFP)

Special forces commander Sherif Ismail was heading back to Baghdad after preparing the ground for a trip planned for Wednesday by premier Haider al-Abadi to the...