IRAQ WARS - BIO FUEL DAILY

Jan 15, 2018 (AFP)

There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but most such attacks in Iraq are the work of the Islamic State jihadist group. The bombing comes after Abadi's ...

PM Abadi, Hashed to stand separately in Iraq election

Jan 15, 2018 (AFP)

Abadi is hoping to secure another term in the May 12 parliamentary elections after declaring victory over the Islamic State group and thwarting an Iraqi Kurdish...

Iraq PM heads for May elections after defeating IS

Jan 14, 2018 (AFP)

Abadi's newly created "Victory Alliance" will face the "State of Law" bloc of Nuri al-Maliki, his predecessor, key rival and Shiite Dawa party co-member who now...

Baghdad suicide bombing kills at least 5: police

Jan 13, 2018 (AFP)

The officer, speaking on condition of anonymity, had earlier gave an "initial toll of three people killed and 11 wounded" in the attack. The Baghdad military co...

Iraqi Yazidis celebrate restoration of temple destroyed by IS

Jan 12, 2018 (AFP)

Overlooked by conical domes of polished stone, hundreds of men in dishdasha robes and women veiled in white gathered at the site which was blown up by the rampa...

A new life sprouts up around Mosul after scars of IS rule

Jan 12, 2018 (AFP)

But now, in districts of Iraq's second city not left totally devastated by the ferocious fighting to oust the jihadists, life is buzzing again -- with more vibr...

Mosul's old heart in ruins six months after IS ousted

Jan 10, 2018 (AFP)

Six months since Iraqi forces seized the country's second city from Islamic State group jihadists, human remains still rot in front of the Al-Nuri mosque. The b...

More than half of Iraq's displaced have returned home: IOM

Jan 04, 2018 (AFP)

At the end of December, more than 3.2 million displaced Iraqis had gone home while 2.6 millions still lived away, the International Organization for Migration s...

Crossing the river a major challenge in devastated Mosul

Jan 01, 2018 (AFP)

But now -- with whole districts still devastated some five months after the Islamic State group was forced out -- the journey takes him over two hours as most o...

Iraq faces 'new war' - on corruption

Dec 29, 2017 (AFP)

Even before he declared victory against the Islamic State group in early December after a three-year battle, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said the country's n...

HRW accuses Yazidi fighters in Iraq of executing civilians

Dec 27, 2017 (AFP)

"Relatives of victims told Human Rights Watch that on June 4, 2017, Yazidi forces detained and then apparently executed men, women, and children," the US-based ...

Jihadists kill 45 since 'liberation' of Iraq's Hawija

Dec 26, 2017 (AFP)

The Iraqi government declared victory at the start of October over IS jihadists in Hawija, their last urban stronghold in the country located about 300 kilometr...

Iraqis denounce anti-indecency edict in Shiite holy city

Dec 23, 2017 (AFP)

Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Mohammed and an important figure in Shiite Islam, is buried in Karbala. Posters warning against indecent behaviour hav...

Traders in Old rebuild their ruined market

Dec 23, 2017 (AFP)

After months of silence, the sound of construction work and returning commerce is finally filling the historic district devastated by the months-long battle to ...

UN voices alarm at clashes, house burnings in disputed Iraqi city

Dec 15, 2017 (AFP)

The United Nations rights office pointed to reports that residential areas of Tuz Khurmatu, in the Salahaddin governorate, had been shelled on December 9 and 12...

Iraq hangs 38 members of IS, Qaeda; 20 IS killed in southern Syria

Dec 14, 2017 (AFP)

It was the largest number of executions in Iraq on a single day since September 25 when 42 people were put to death in the same prison. "The prison administrati...

Iraq holds military parade to celebrate victory over IS

Dec 10, 2017 (AFP)

Abadi on Saturday declared victory in Iraq's three-year war to expel the jihadist group that at its height endangered the country's very existence. Iraqi army u...

Hashed al-Shaabi: controversial force on Iraq's front lines

Dec 10, 2017 (AFP)

Fighters from Iraq's Hashed al-Shaabi have been a controversial irregular element battling on the country's front lines. The organisation formed in 2014 after t...

Iraq since the US-led invasion of 2003

Dec 09, 2017 (AFP)

Here is a timeline of major events up until Saturday's declaration by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi of victory over the Islamic State group in Iraq: - 2003 fal...

Macron sees Iraq's total 'liberation' from IS this month

Dec 07, 2017 (AFP)

He made the prediction at a joint news conference with Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani while on an official visit to Doha. "There will be a liberat...