IRAQ WARS - BIO FUEL DAILY

Iraq's Abadi: 'hero' who tackled mission impossible

Oct 22, 2017 (AFP)

Three years later, the stocky prime minister with a close-cut white beard has transformed what many in Iraq considered "mission impossible" into a success story...

Nearly 700,000 Iraqis from war-torn Mosul still displaced: NGO

Oct 15, 2017 (AFP)

"One year since the start of the battle to retake Mosul from the Islamic State group (IS), some 673,000 Iraqis from the city and its surroundings remain displac...

Moscow says US 'pretending' to fight IS in Iraq

Oct 10, 2017 (AFP)

Russian military spokesman Igor Konashenkov said the Syrian regime was attempting to push the jihadists out of eastern Deir Ezzor province, but that arrivals fr...

Shock Iraq torture photos raise ethical dilemmas

Oct 10, 2017 (AFP)

"They are the most sinister, upsetting pictures I have seen in my entire life," the veteran BBC war correspondent Jeremy Bowen said of the images taken by Kurdi...

Young Iraqi given shot at governor's job after internet challenge

Oct 09, 2017 (AFP)

The radio journalist reached out to Karbala regional boss Aqil Tourihi on Facebook after seeing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau let a law student trail h...

Long-term truants make nervy school return in Iraq's Mosul

Oct 08, 2017 (AFP)

Before heading out bright and early from a camp for the displaced in Hajj Ali, 60 kilometres (35 miles) away, he had had a last look over lessons that were inte...

Cinders and desolation in Iraq's Hawija after IS

Oct 07, 2017 (AFP)

Islamic State group jihadists set fire to everything they could before they fled an Iraqi government offensive on the northern town in oil-rich Kirkuk province....

Iraq flight ban halts dig for lost ancient city

Oct 05, 2017 (AFP)

Pointing around the Qalatga Darband site, he recounts the discoveries of two statues that may help to prove this was once a thriving hub founded by one of the a...

Iraq forces retake IS bastion Hawija

Oct 05, 2017 (AFP)

IS once held one-third of Iraqi territory but it has suffered loss after loss this year and now only controls a slither of land in the Euphrates Valley near the...

Iraq forces retake centre of IS bastion Hawija: army

Oct 04, 2017 (AFP)

Government and allied forces backed by a US-led coalition launched an offensive last month to oust IS from Hawija, a longtime insurgent bastion. The town is amo...

Iraq forces claim recapture of IS-held areas near Hawija

Oct 02, 2017 (AFP)

Government forces and the Hashed al-Shaabi, an alliance mostly of Shiite militias, are fighting to retake the northern town of Hawija after expelling IS from la...

Shiite pilgrims throng Iraq's Karbala for mourning ritual

Oct 01, 2017 (AFP)

Some 25,000 members of the security forces were deployed to protect the pilgrims, who in the past have faced attacks from Sunni extremists including the Islamic...

Iraq forces attack IS-held town of Hawija

Sep 29, 2017 (AFP)

The operation came a day after IS released what it said was an audio recording of its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi urging resistance, the first such intervention...

Iraq says defeats IS infiltration near Ramadi

Sep 27, 2017 (AFP)

The jihadist infiltrators briefly occupied three areas near the city, which is the capital of mainly Sunni Arab Anbar province, long a bastion of insurgency, th...

Iraq hangs 42 prisoners on death row: ministry

Sep 25, 2017 (AFP)

It said Sunday's executions were carried out in Nasiriyah prison in the south and that those put to death were convicted under Iraq's counter-terrorism law. Ira...

Iraq since the US-led invasion

Sep 25, 2017 (AFP)

Here is a timeline of major events in the country since then: - 2003 fall and capture of Saddam - Sirens wail and explosions rock Baghdad around dawn on March 2...

Tribes, tradition stand in way of Iraq police

Sep 23, 2017 (AFP)

Faced with threats and the reality that state law in Iraq cannot stand muster with tribes and their customs, the police captain gathered his family and fled Bag...

Iraq forces oust IS from northern town in drive on Hawija

Sep 22, 2017 (AFP)

"The town of Sharqat is in our hands. There are still some villages around it that need to be liberated" from IS, the source said. Residents danced in the stree...

Pilgrims bring boom times for Iraqi gem traders

Sep 21, 2017 (AFP)

Ghoraifi, sporting two weighty rings on the right hand and a third on the left on his latest visit, said they formed only a modest part of his collection. The c...

UN sets up probe of IS atrocities in Iraq

Sep 21, 2017 (AFP)

Britain drafted the resolution to help bring perpetrators of IS war crimes to justice -- a cause championed by international human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, w...