IRAQ WARS - BIO FUEL DAILY

Qatari hunting party kidnapped in Iraq freed

Apr 21, 2017 (AFP)

Sources close to the negotiations said their release was part of a far-reaching regional deal involving the evacuation of civilians in neighbouring Syria. "The ...

Satellite dishes reconnect post-IS Mosul to world

Apr 20, 2017 (AFP)

"Now we know what is happening in the world," Mohammad Turki says as he installs one in the Al-Qahira district. Since Iraqi forces ousted IS from the half of Mo...

Iraq summons Turkish envoy over Erdogan interview

Apr 20, 2017 (AFP)

"The foreign ministry has decided to summon the Turkish ambassador in Baghdad to hand him a formal protest note regarding recent remarks by the Turkish presiden...

Iraq forces retake more areas in west Mosul

Apr 20, 2017 (AFP)

"The forces completed the liberation of Al-Thawra neighbourhood," Sabah al-Noman, spokesman for the elite Counter-Terrorism Service, told AFP. An officer with f...

Iran Guards member begins work as Iraq ambassador

Apr 19, 2017 (AFP)

General Iraj Masjedi was formally the senior advisor to Major General Qassem Soleimani, who oversees Iranian operations in Iraq and Syria, state news agency IRN...

Iraqi forces treated for chemical exposure: US

Apr 19, 2017 (AFP)

Saturdays' attack saw IS launch some sort of low-level chemical agent at the Iraqis in western Mosul as they worked alongside US and Australian military advisor...

Canada deploys CH-146 helicopters to Iraq

Apr 18, 2017 (UPI)

According to a statement released by the country's defense ministry, the deployment aims to support the U.S.-led coalition fight against the Islamic State, also...

Mosul op has displaced nearly half a million: UN

Apr 17, 2017 (AFP)

Iraqi forces began the country's biggest military operation in years on October 17 last year and recaptured the east side of the city in January. But an assault...

Iraq forces make Mosul gains, but anti-IS war far from over

Apr 16, 2017 (AFP)

Tough close-quarters fighting in heavily-populated areas of Mosul is still ahead, and IS also holds territory in other parts of Iraq, as well as in neighbouring...

Iraqi Christians mark first post-IS Easter in recaptured town

Apr 16, 2017 (AFP)

IS graffiti mars the walls of the Mar Yohanna church, its bell rings from a tower damaged in the fighting and most of Qaraqosh's residents are still displaced m...

Iraq's Sadr warns Assad could share Kadhafi's fate

Apr 11, 2017 (AFP)

Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr on Tuesday warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that he risked suffering the same fate as slain Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi if he ...

U.S. State Department approves training, support package for Iraq

Apr 10, 2017 (UPI)

The possible sales deal is worth an estimated $1.06 billion, the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency following its required notification to Congress. "The ...

First Palm Sunday since IS in Iraq's main Christian town

Apr 09, 2017 (AFP)

Members of Iraq's Christian minority celebrated Palm Sunday in the country's main Christian town of Qaraqosh for the first time since it was retaken from the Is...

Iraqi helicopter downed in fight to retake Mosul

Apr 06, 2017 (AFP)

The Islamic State group shot down an Iraqi helicopter operating over Mosul Thursday, as security forces announced they recaptured another neighbourhood in their...

Iraq urges residents in IS-held areas to shelter at home

Apr 05, 2017 (AFP)

Iraq's military on Wednesday urged residents to shelter in their homes in jihadist-held areas of Mosul, where its bid to oust the Islamic State group has taken ...

Trump son-in-law Kushner visits Iraq, meets PM

Apr 03, 2017 (AFP)

President Donald Trump's son-in-law and top aide Jared Kushner visited Baghdad Monday with the US's top military officer, meeting Iraq's premier to discuss the ...

Ghosts of Mosul stalk Iraq's fleeing children

Mar 31, 2017 (AFP)

The children proudly wield donated plastic water bottles like freshly dug nuggets of treasure, smiling despite the fear and death and destruction they have face...

At Iraq camp, UN chief urges more aid for people of Mosul

Mar 31, 2017 (AFP)

UN chief Antonio Guterres appealed on Friday for more aid for the people of Mosul, as he visited a camp for Iraqis displaced by the battle to retake the second ...

In Iraq, UN chief Guterres calls for protection of civilians

Mar 30, 2017 (AFP)

UN chief Antonio Guterres called Thursday for protection of civilians to be the "absolute priority" as he visited Iraq, where hundreds of thousands are caught u...

Freed from IS, but Iraq's Qaraqosh is now a ghost town

Mar 29, 2017 (AFP)

In the Iraqi Christian town of Qaraqosh, time stands still. The Islamic State group was expelled in October 2016, but life has not returned to its once-vibrant ...