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Iraq's Sadr demands closure of US embassy
Oct 27, 2023 (AFP)
"If the government and parliament do not respond, we will take a different position that we will announce later," the Shiite cleric, who often criticises the go...
US forces in Iraq, Syria face spike in attacks
Oct 25, 2023 (AFP)
Although the attacks have not been claimed by a known group with documented links to Iran, Washington says Tehran is involved and has threatened to respond "dec...
US says forces in Iraq, Syria attacked 13 times in week
Oct 24, 2023 (AFP)
Armed factions close to Iran have threatened to attack US interests over Washington's support for Israel since Hamas militants killed more than 1,400 people in ...
Dutch took 'unacceptable risk' in 2015 Iraq strike: lawyer
Oct 24, 2023 (AFP)
The first-ever trial involving civilian casualties in the air war against the Islamic State group opened at The Hague District Court, with the victims' lawyers ...
Iraq sentences Saddam Hussein's daughter for promoting political party
Oct 22, 2023 (AFP)
The party was dissolved and banned after Hussein was toppled during the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq. According to the ruling, which AFP was able to review, Rag...
US troops targeted Iraq in rocket attacks escape unharmed
Oct 20, 2023 (AFP)
Armed factions close to Iran have threatened to attack American interests in Iraq over US support for Israel since militants from the Iran-backed Hamas Islamist...
Iraq airfield hit by Turkey hosts regular forces: Kurd official
Sep 20, 2023 (AFP)
Monday's strike on Arbat airfield, southeast of the city of Sulaimaniyah, killed three members of the counterterrorism forces of Iraq's autonomous northern regi...
Iraq sentences IS member to death over pilgrim bombing
Sep 14, 2023 (AFP)
The attack in Taji district north of Baghdad targeted a "mawkeb", one of the many stalls providing free food and drinks to pilgrims during Shiite Muslim festiva...
18 Iraq police get jail terms over Sweden embassy fire
Sep 12, 2023 (AFP)
Supporters of the powerful Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada Sadr set the Swedish embassy in Baghdad alight on the night of July 20, after a Stockholm-based Iraqi re...
Millions of Shiite pilgrims flock to Iraq's Karbala
Sep 06, 2023 (AFP)
The event, organised under strict security, brought together some 22 million pilgrims this year, according to official figures. Iran hit a new participation rec...
Curfew lifted after deadly unrest in Iraq city
Sep 03, 2023 (AFP)
Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani imposed the curfew on Saturday evening after rival protests -- between Kurdish residents on one side and Turkmen and Arab...
Three killed in ethnic protests in Iraq's Kirkuk
Sep 02, 2023 (AFP)
Two people were shot in the chest and a third in the head, Ziad Khalaf, director of the local health authority, told AFP. The victims were a 25-year-old man and...
Iraq jails Iranian, 4 Iraqis for life for killing US citizen
Sep 01, 2023 (AFP)
Stephen Troell, who had been living in Baghdad with his family, was shot dead in unclear circumstances on November 7, officials said. Baghdad's Karkh district c...
French soldier killed in Iraq 'anti-terror' operation
Aug 29, 2023 (AFP)
Sergeant Nicolas Mazier, an air force paratrooper, "fell in combat while carrying out his mission", the Elysee Palace said in a statement, expressing Macron's "...
Iraq hangs 3 for IS-claimed blast that killed hundreds
Aug 28, 2023 (AFP)
The bombing was one of the world's deadliest after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. At least 323 people were killed in the car bombing that ...
French military trainer killed in Iraq: presidency
Aug 21, 2023 (AFP)
The soldier, identified as Nicolas Latourte, "lost his life while accomplishing his mission" on Sunday, the office of President Emmanuel Macron wrote on X, form...
Iraq court annuls death sentence in academic's murder
Aug 10, 2023 (AFP)
Ahmed Hamdawi Oueid was sentenced to death by a Baghdad criminal court in May after being found guilty of killing Hashemi, an internationally recognised expert ...
Danish aid group attacked in Basra; Iraqis keep up Koran protests, Sweden moves embassy
Jul 22, 2023 (AFP)
"Our staff on the premises at the time were physically unharmed, but there has been damage to the property with structures set on fire," the organisation's exec...
Iraq expels Sweden envoy as Koran stomped in Stockholm
Jul 20, 2023 (AFP)
News that Swedish authorities would permit the protest to proceed on free speech grounds had led hundreds of Iraqis to storm and torch Sweden's Baghdad embassy ...
Iraqi protesters torch Swedish embassy in Baghdad
Jul 20, 2023 (AFP)
Swedish authorities approved an assembly to be held later Thursday outside the Iraqi embassy in Stockholm, where organisers plan to burn a copy of the Koran as ...
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