Tag: Iraq
Iraq says it killed 45 IS jihadists in Syria strike
BAGHDAD: Iraq said Saturday it had killed 45 jihadists from the Islamic State group, including senior members, in an air strike in eastern Syria,...
Iraq bombs meeting of Islamic State leaders in Syria: military
BAGHDAD: Iraq has launched an air attack on a gathering of Islamic State leaders inside neighboring Syria, killing 45 members of the hardline militant...
Iraq’s SC orders manual election recount
BAGHDAD: Iraq's supreme court on Thursday ordered a manual recount of May 12 legislative elections, a process expected to take weeks although parliament's mandate...
Iraqi Shi’ite paramilitaries say US strike kills 22 of their fighters
BAGHDAD: Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Forces, a grouping of mostly Iran-backed Shi'ite paramilitaries, said on Monday a US air strike on the Iraqi border with...
Turkish military says destroys 12 targets in northern Iraq
ISTANBUL: The Turkish military destroyed 12 targets in northern Iraq belonging to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in overnight air strikes, it said on Tuesday,...
In eastern Iraq, a small town builds weightlifting champions
BADRA: While some towns in Iraq are known for producing oil or textiles, Badra boasts its own special conveyer belt -- churning out weightlifting...
Iraqi cleric Sadr announces disarmament initiative
BAGHDAD: Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called on Friday for a nationwide disarmament campaign and announced his Baghdad stronghold would be first to disarm just...
Election recount, Baghdad bomb fuel Iraq tensions
BAGHDAD: Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called on his followers on Thursday to remain calm after an explosion killed 18 people in his main stronghold...
KSA urged not to turn Iraq into ‘cold war’ front with...
SAUDI ARABIA: Saudi Arabia should avoid turning Iraq into a “battleground in a cold war” with its regional rival Tehran, the International Crisis Group...
Iraq sentences Belgian to death as Islamic State fighter
BAGHDAD: Iraq’s Central Criminal Court sentenced a Belgian on Tuesday to death by hanging as a senior foreign fighter for Islamic State, a rare...
Nearly a year since fall of Iraq’s Mosul, search for bodies...
MOSUL: Atop an enormous mound of rubble under blistering sun in Iraq’s second city Mosul, fire crews and police chip away at a grim...
Denmark pulls special forces out of Iraq
STOCKHOLM: NATO-member Denmark said Thursday its special forces taking part in the US-led coalition against the Islamic State group in Iraq would be withdrawn...
Iraqi air force destroys Islamic State command centre in Syria
BAGHDAD: The Iraqi air force carried out a strike on an Islamic State (IS) position inside Syria, state television reported on Monday citing a...
Will Iraqis draw a line between mosque and state?
BAGHDAD: Iraq holds its fourth election since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003 and the first since the defeat of Islamic State (ISIS)...
Iraq readies for first election since end of Daesh war
BAGHDAD: Iraq is gearing up for key parliamentary elections on Saturday, some five months after declaring victory over the Daesh group.
A lull in violence...
Iraq voters fed up with ‘same old faces’
BAGHDAD: Only a decade after their country’s first ever multi-party elections, disenchanted Iraqis say “the same old faces” with their vested interests have been...
Iraqi F-16 warplanes target Islamic State positions in Syria
BAGHDAD: Iraqi warplanes attacked an Islamic State explosives factory and other positions inside Syria on Thursday, Baghdad’s military said, in a rare air assault...
