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Iraqi air force to receive air training academy
Feb 12, 2018 (UPI)
The deal, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, is valued at $45 million under a firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract. T...
France FM calls for Iraq reconciliation ahead of poll
Feb 12, 2018 (AFP)
On a visit to Baghdad following its December declaration of victory over the Islamic State group, he said France would play its part in Iraq's reconstruction an...
Iraq's girl weightlifters also boost family finances
Feb 12, 2018 (AFP)
Jerking weights heavier than themselves at a rundown gym in Baghdad's conservative Shiite neighbourhood of Sadr City, the young women and girls come together fo...
Devastated Iraq seeks $90 billion for reconstruction
Feb 12, 2018 (AFP)
As a three-day international reconstruction conference got underway in Kuwait, officials were seeking pledges from donors and investors to restore Iraq's devast...
Iraqi-US anti-corruption activist jailed for defamation
Feb 08, 2018 (AFP)
Suicide attack kills one in Iraq's Ramadi
Feb 08, 2018 (AFP)
"A man driving a motorcycle blew himself up outside a police checkpoint," in Ramadi, a police captain said. A hospital source said one person was killed and 10 ...
Baghdad mayor has ambitious plans for her city
Feb 07, 2018 (AFP)
Thikra Alwash, a 60-year-old civil engineer and only woman mayor of a Middle East capital, faces a mountainous task. She has given herself 10 years to revive th...
Iraqi Kurds say 4,000 jihadists detained including foreigners
Feb 06, 2018 (AFP)
They include around 1,000 jihadists who surrendered during the battle for Hawija, the last IS urban stronghold in Iraq until its fall late last year, Iraqi Kurd...
US-led coalition says 'adjusting' down forces in Iraq
Feb 05, 2018 (AFP)
In a statement, it gave no specifics but made clear that the focus now will be on consolidating military gains made against IS after more than three years of fi...
Book culture returns to Mosul; Iraq lists 60 most-wanted jihadists and Baathists
Feb 03, 2018 (AFP)
At the "Book Forum" cafe, men and women, young and old, sit passionately debating literature, music, politics and history. Drinking tea, coffee and juice, some ...
Iraqis maimed in battle struggle to survive as amputees
Jan 31, 2018 (AFP)
In 2014, he was unemployed and joined the Hashed al-Shaabi, a paramilitary coalition dominated by Iran-backed groups that fought alongside Iraqi government forc...
Iraq 'police club' banned after football brawl
Jan 31, 2018 (AFP)
The confrontation broke out as guards tried to keep out an Al-Shorta -- which means "police" in Arabic -- club official who had opened fire on a rival team's bu...
Eight dead as US-led strike hits Iraq forces
Jan 27, 2018 (AFP)
The friendly fire incident drew swift criticism of the US military presence in Iraq from pro-Iranian figures in Baghdad. "Eight people -- a senior intelligence ...
Interpol returns ex-minister wanted for corruption to Iraq
Jan 25, 2018 (AFP)
"Former trade minister Abdel Falah al-Sudani has landed in Baghdad after having been handed over by Interpol," the source told AFP. "It's the first time that In...
Facing death in Iraq, European jihadists won't get help from home
Jan 24, 2018 (AFP)
Several hundred foreigners, both men and women, are thought to have been detained in Iraq since the counter-offensive that dislodged IS fighters from the countr...
Three French female jihadists risk death sentence in Iraq
Jan 23, 2018 (AFP)
The women were detained after Iraqi fighters ousted the jihadists from Mosul last July, one source said, confirming a report on RMC radio. One 28-year-old woman...
Tribal feuds spread fear in Iraq's Basra
Jan 19, 2018 (AFP)
In the north of Basra province, "bullets talk," he said. Feuds between the region's half-dozen tribes often flare into pitched battles with assault rifles and m...
IS poses threat to Iraq one month after 'liberation'
Jan 18, 2018 (AFP)
Ali al-Bayati, a commander of the Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary units which fought alongside Iraqi security forces in a gruelling battle against the group, said...
Iraq PM seeks allies online to join election list
Jan 18, 2018 (AFP)
The initiative is a first for Iraq, ahead of its fourth parliamentary and provincial assembly elections since the ouster of dictator Saddam Hussein in a US-led ...
Minorities in north Iraq look to post-jihadist future
Jan 16, 2018 (AFP)
Now that victory has been declared against the jihadists, Iraq's ethnic and religious minorities are taking the future into their own hands. In Baz Gerkan villa...
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