IRAQ WARS - BIO FUEL DAILY

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...

Iraqi forces seize village in one of last IS bastions

Sep 19, 2017 (AFP)

"Our forces have taken the whole of Al-Rayhanna village, attacking from three directions, and have killed seven terrorists," an Iraqi colonel told AFP. Some IS ...

Iraqi forces launch assault for last IS bastions in Anbar

Sep 19, 2017 (AFP)

The Joint Operations Command, which is coordinating Iraqi security forces battling IS, said an offensive had begun to retake the town of Anna and the nearby vil...

Iraq anti-graft task force fishes for 'sharks'

Sep 19, 2017 (AFP)

The authorities readily accepted. After all, this was one way of recuperating some of the cash the former official had skimmed from state coffers. After three y...

Iraq moves to attack last IS bastion on Syria border

Sep 18, 2017 (AFP)

Armoured vehicles advanced on a road across a rocky plain as troops on pick-up trucks armed with machineguns watched from behind dusty embankments. The vehicles...

Iraq forces seize IS outpost ahead of Euphrates push; Kirkuk car bomb kills 3

Sep 16, 2017 (AFP)

The capture of Akashat, a former mining town in mainly Sunni Arab Anbar province, some 100 kilometres (60 miles) south of the jihadists' border bastion of Al-Qa...

Dozens dead in Iraq attack claimed by IS

Sep 14, 2017 (AFP)

The assailants struck at midday, opening fire on a restaurant before getting into a car and blowing themselves up at a nearby security checkpoint, officials sai...

Iraq readies to retake IS bastion near Syria border

Sep 13, 2017 (AFP)

The jihadist group has suffered a string of defeats on the battlefield that have left in tatters its "caliphate", three years after it was declared. After drivi...

Iraq holds 1,300 IS women, children: security official

Sep 11, 2017 (AFP)

"The peshmerga handed over 1,333 women and children from jihadist families from the Islamic State group," said the senior official in the Iraqi Joint Operations...

On the banks of the Tigris, a refuge for Iraqi readers

Sep 10, 2017 (AFP)

It's far from the image most have of the Iraqi capital-- but for one day this weekend on the banks of the Tigris, Iraqi readers were able to find some respite f...

The battle for Mosul from behind the camera

Sep 10, 2017 (AFP)

"In all my life as a reporter, I've never had suicide bombers right in front of me," said Patrick Chauvel, one of four finalists for the top prize at the Visa p...

Slow recovery for Iraq's Mosul after IS ouster

Sep 09, 2017 (AFP)

Much of Iraq's second city lies in ruins and many businesses are still at a standstill, even those that produced the famous muslin cotton fabric for which Mosul...

Iraq faces vast challenges despite victories over IS: experts

Sep 01, 2017 (AFP)

In 2014, as IS staged a rapid advance across northern Iraq, police and military personnel abandoned their posts to the jihadists with barely a fight. That allow...

Iraq strikes major victory over Jihadists; As IS slides from defeat to defeat

Aug 31, 2017 (AFP)

IS, which seized nearly a third of Iraq in 2014 in a humiliating defeat for the army and police, now controls barely 10 percent of the country, according to the...

Jordan, Iraq reopen only border crossing; Iraqi forces close in on last jihadist ISIS stronghold

Aug 30, 2017 (AFP)

In a joint statement, the two countries' governments said the crossing, called Turaibil in Iraq and Al-Karameh in Jordan, was reopened after it was "secured... ...

Keeping cool in combat: in Iraq the iceman cometh

Aug 29, 2017 (AFP)

In Tal Abta south of Tal Afar, where Iraqi forces have been engaged in mopping up operations against diehard jihadists of the Islamic State group, a key force i...

IS evacuation deal sparks Iraqi outrage

Aug 29, 2017 (AFP)

Hundreds of jihadists started leaving the area on Monday, heading by bus for Syria's eastern province of Deir Ezzor, which borders Iraq and is the only Syrian p...

Iraq fighters take 'victory selfies' at Tal Afar citadel

Aug 28, 2017 (AFP)

But of all the areas they reclaimed, it was the historic heart of Tal Afar and its Ottoman-era citadel that was the high point. Once an integral part of the Ass...

Iraqi forces poised for victory over IS in Tal Afar

Aug 27, 2017 (AFP)

Just a week after authorities announced an offensive to push the jihadists from one of their last major urban strongholds in Iraq, the Joint Operations Command ...

Iraqi forces hope for quick victory over IS in Tal Afar

Aug 24, 2017 (AFP)

The battle to oust the jihadists from one of their last strongholds in Iraq is proceeding more quickly than expected. On a dirt road covered with stones and obs...