IRAQ WARS - BIO FUEL DAILY

Iraq cleric Sadr in 'Green Zone' sit-in protest

Mar 27, 2016 (AFP)

Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr on Sunday entered the perimeter of Baghdad's fortified "Green Zone" and began a sit-in to ramp up pressure for reforms. The symbolic m...

Iraq buries young victims of football pitch bomb carnage

Mar 26, 2016 (AFP)

Iraq on Saturday buried the victims, among them many young boys, of a suicide attack that ripped through a trophy ceremony after a football tournament and kille...

Iraq says begins offensive to retake IS-held Mosul

Mar 24, 2016 (AFP)

The Iraqi army said Thursday its troops and allied militia had launched what is expected to be a long and difficult offensive to retake the second city of Mosul...

Calm before the storm at Baghdad protest camp

Mar 23, 2016 (AFP)

Sitting in the shade near the protest tents, Raad al-Haeri watched as convoys of armoured SUVs ferried politicians and diplomats in and out of Baghdad's Green Z...

Marine deployment to Iraq fire base first of its kind: US military

Mar 21, 2016 (AFP)

About 200 US Marines have established an artillery position in northern Iraq, the US military said Monday -- a first-of-its-kind deployment whose existence was ...

Jihadist attack kills six soldiers in western Iraq

Mar 21, 2016 (AFP)

At least six soldiers were killed Monday in an attack in western Iraq claimed by the Islamic State group that began with five suicide bombers ramming explosives...

Moqtada Sadr, Iraq's 'enfant terrible', back in spotlight

Mar 20, 2016 (AFP)

A string of mass protests culminating in an ongoing sit-in at the gates of Baghdad's Green Zone have thrust the mercurial Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr back on to ...

Iraq forces in major push against IS in Anbar

Mar 19, 2016 (AFP)

Iraqi forces have launched a broad offensive to retake the city of Hit from the Islamic State group in the western province of Anbar, a top commander said Satur...

IS jihadists kill US marine in Iraq rocket attack

Mar 19, 2016 (AFP)

The Islamic State group killed a US marine in a rocket attack in northern Iraq Saturday, the Pentagon said, only the second American combat death in the fight a...

Cleric's supporters defy ban for Baghdad sit-in

Mar 18, 2016 (AFP)

Thousands of supporters of prominent Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr defied a government ban Friday to launch sit-ins at the main gates of Baghdad's Green Zone aimed ...

IS says it executed six for spying in Iraq's Fallujah

Mar 17, 2016 (AFP)

The Islamic State jihadist group on Thursday released pictures of six men being executed on charges of "spying" for the Iraqi government in the city of Fallujah...

Iraq cabinet warns Sadr protest camp 'illegal'

Mar 16, 2016 (AFP)

The Iraqi cabinet has decided not to authorise a protest camp by followers of cleric Moqtada Sadr which had been due to begin Friday in front of the fortified "...

Iraqi army plane crashes, IS claims downing it

Mar 16, 2016 (AFP)

An Iraqi army plane went down Wednesday near Kirkuk, with the military blaming a technical problem but the Islamic State group claiming its fighters shot it dow...

Civilians flee Iraq town as battle looms

Mar 15, 2016 (AFP)

Terrified residents were fleeing the Iraqi town of Hit as security forces closed in Tuesday and jihadist fighters hunkered down to defend one of their main bast...

IS returns to Iraqi town, 24 hours after vacating it

Mar 14, 2016 (AFP)

The Islamic State group on Monday returned to the desert town of Rutba in western Iraq, less than a day after vacating it, officials said. The mayor of the remo...

Iraq PM vows retaliation after IS chemical attack

Mar 12, 2016 (AFP)

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi vowed on Saturday to retaliate against the Islamic State group after it launched a chemical attack on a town near Kirkuk. T...

Thousands evacuated as Iraqi forces advance against IS

Mar 10, 2016 (AFP)

Iraqi forces retook a town from the Islamic State jihadist group in Anbar province Thursday and evacuated 10,000 civilians as they advanced up the Euphrates val...

Finland charges two Iraqis with war crimes

Mar 08, 2016 (AFP)

Two Iraqi men who arrived in Finland as part of Europe's huge migrant influx were charged Tuesday with war crimes allegedly committed in their home country, off...

35 killed clearing bombs in Ramadi in two months: officials

Mar 07, 2016 (AFP)

Three Iraqi fighters died Monday trying to defuse bombs left behind by the jihadists in Ramadi, as the toll taken by the huge mine-clearing effort there continu...

IS suicide bombers penetrate Iraq army HQ, kill general

Mar 01, 2016 (AFP)

Four Islamic State group suicide bombers infiltrated an army headquarters west of Baghdad, killing an Iraqi general and five other soldiers, army and police off...