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UK sees IS being ousted from Iraq towns this year
Feb 11, 2017 (AFP)
British Defence Minister Michael Fallon said Saturday in Iraq that he expected to see the Islamic State group expelled from the country's major towns by the end...
Rockets hit Baghdad Green Zone after deadly protest
Feb 11, 2017 (AFP)
Rockets were fired at Baghdad's Green Zone Saturday after Iraq's most violent protest in years saw seven people killed in clashes between police and demonstrato...
Iraq's 'cycling girls' ride for freedom
Feb 10, 2017 (AFP)
Her name is Marina Jaber but to many she is "the girl on the bike", a young Baghdad artist inspiring Iraqi women to exercise their rights one pedal at a time. I...
Mass graves found in western Iraq: officials
Feb 09, 2017 (AFP)
Iraqi soldiers have discovered two shallow graves containing the bodies of people executed by the Islamic State group in the western desert town of Rutba, offic...
Iraq cleric supporters demand electoral reform
Feb 08, 2017 (AFP)
Hundreds of supporters of Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr demonstrated in Baghdad Wednesday to demand electoral reform ahead of a planned provincial vote in Septem...
IS made sulphur weapons in Mosul university: Pentagon
Feb 07, 2017 (AFP)
Tests have confirmed that the Islamic State group was making rudimentary chemical weapons at the University of Mosul, the Pentagon said Tuesday. Coalition-backe...
NATO starts anti-IS bomb training in Iraq
Feb 05, 2017 (AFP)
NATO has begun training Iraqi soldiers on how to neutralise bombs planted by the Islamic State jihadist group, the alliance said Sunday, expanding a programme a...
Mosul residents outraged by IS 'hole fee'
Feb 05, 2017 (AFP)
Cash-strapped jihadists punching holes in people's homes to move across west Mosul undetected are now asking victims to pay for the labour, several residents sa...
Iraq faces massive challenge in Mosul offensive: UN envoy
Feb 02, 2017 (AFP)
Iraqi forces face a massive challenge as they press on to retake western Mosul, but the days of the Islamic State group are counted, a UN envoy said Thursday. I...
Iraq family turned back by US says cleared for entry
Feb 01, 2017 (AFP)
Fuad Sharef, an Iraqi man barred along with his family from the United States by President Donald Trump's travel ban, has been informed they can now enter the c...
Iraq PM says US ban punishes those 'fighting terrorism'
Jan 31, 2017 (AFP)
Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Tuesday that President Donald Trump's decision to ban Iraqis from travelling to the United States punishes those w...
Iraq calls on US to review 'wrong' travel ban
Jan 31, 2017 (AFP)
Baghdad called Monday for the United States to review its "wrong decision" to prevent Iraqis from entering the country as parliament backed reciprocal restricti...
Trump's travel ban blocks Iraqi family's move to US
Jan 31, 2017 (AFP)
If they had known what would happen, Fuad Sharif and his wife would have waited before quitting their jobs, selling their belongings and leaving Iraq with their...
Jihadist rule in Mosul sparked backlash against religion
Jan 30, 2017 (AFP)
In recaptured areas of Mosul, the extreme interpretation of Islam that jihadists forced on the local population for more than two years has sparked a backlash a...
Iraqi children flocking back to east Mosul schools
Jan 26, 2017 (AFP)
They have been waiting for two and half years and the children of Iraq's east Mosul are flocking to enrol in their reopened schools, eager not to waste another ...
As dust of war settles, east Mosul buries its dead anew
Jan 25, 2017 (AFP)
Abdulrahman Riyadh points to three mounds of earth in a garden in eastern Mosul. "That's my father, that one's my mother and next to it is my little brother." "...
Hundreds of families leave Iraq camps for Mosul return
Jan 25, 2017 (AFP)
Hundreds of families who fled Mosul last year left displacement camps Wednesday to head back to their homes, in the biggest wave yet of returns to the city, off...
Fears for Mosul civilians as Iraq plans west bank assault
Jan 24, 2017 (AFP)
Three quarters of a million civilians living in west Mosul are at "extreme risk", the United Nations warned Tuesday as Iraqi forces prepared for a push into the...
Baghdad car bomb kills three: police
Jan 24, 2017 (AFP)
A car bomb exploded Tuesday in an area for car dealerships in the Iraqi capital, killing at least three people and wounding 14, police said. The morning blast h...
IS expel residents to defend river bank in Mosul
Jan 23, 2017 (AFP)
The Islamic State group expelled civilians from their homes along the Tigris on Mosul's west bank, apparently bracing for a cross-river attack on their bastion ...
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