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Protesters have been suffocated due to inhalation of tear gas, as security forces tried to break up protests in the capital, Baghdad. The clashes took place in al-Khilani Square, central Baghdad, between demonstrators and security forces from the riot police, when they tried to reopen al-Khilani Square and remove concrete …

At least four million people Friday demanded the departure of U.S. troops from Iraq with a march in Baghdad, which was convened by Iraqi resistance and cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr three weeks after the murder of Iraq’s PMF commander, Abu Mahdi Al-Mohandes. At the country’s capital, streets were filled with an …

Thirty-four US service members have been diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries following the Iranian missile attack on US forces in Iraq earlier this month, Pentagon spokesman Jonathon Hoffman said Friday. Seventeen service members, who were flown to the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, have returned to duty in Iraq. …

Iraqi oil bosses were wooed by shopping trips, cash and offers of new TVs from businessmen seeking lucrative contracts to rebuild export infrastructure after the U.S. invasion that brought down former ruler Saddam Hussein, British prosecutors told a London jury. Michael Brompton, a prosecutor for the U.K.’s Serious Fraud Office, …

President Donald Trump had better voluntarily ordered the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq before they are forced out, says a high-ranking official from the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), better known by the word Hashed al-Sha’abi. “Today all Iraqis, men, and women have poured out onto the streets to …

Six people were killed and two seriously wounded in a shooting in southwestern Germany, police said on Friday. The shooter, believed to have a personal motive, launched an assault in the town of Rot am See. Police in nearby Aalen said a man with a personal connection to the victims …

China has locked down nine more cities in an attempt to stop the spread of the coronavirus which has now claimed the lives of at least 26 people. The city of Wuhan, where the virus started, had been effectively quarantined for days, with all train and bus stations closed and …

According to Iraq’s local media, people from “all of the Iraqi provinces” have gathered in the ongoing rally to condemn the Americans’ illegal presence in the country, after the US assassinated Iraqi PMF commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis in Baghdad earlier this month. The protesters are carrying banners and chanting slogans …

China locked down some 20 million people at the epicenter of a deadly virus outbreak on Thursday, banning planes and trains from leaving in an unprecedented move aimed at containing the disease which has already spread to other countries. The respiratory virus has claimed 17 lives since emerging from a …

In a major legal victory for members of the Rohingya Muslim minority, the United Nations’ top court on Thursday ordered Myanmar to take all measures in its power to prevent genocide against the Rohingya people. The court’s president, Judge Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf, said the International Court of Justice “is of …

Iraqi police announced on Thursday that they have discovered a depot where the Islamic State (IS) terrorists had hidden hundreds of bombs and other improvised explosive devices (IED) in Kirkuk. According to a statement by the Iraqi Police, the depot was found during a search operation in Sada village of …

Millions of Iraqis are expected to take part in a mass rally against the US military presence in their homeland on Friday amid a fresh wave of public anger triggered by a recent meeting between President Barham Salih and his American counterpart, Donald Trump. Last week, influential Iraqi cleric Muqtada …

Dutch flag carrier the KLM has announced it is resuming flights through the Iranian and Iraqi airspace following an interim halt that was caused by soaring military tensions in the Middle East region. A KLM statement issued and published on Thursday said that the company had reached the security assessment …

Up to 40 Syrian soldiers have been killed and 80 others wounded in a multi-pronged attack by militants in the northwestern province of Idlib. Syria’s official news agency SANA cited a military source as saying that militants launched “fierce attacks with large numbers” on the country’s army positions in the …

The billion-dollar Israeli spyware company accused of helping hack Jeff Bezos A bombshell UN report published Wednesday accuses Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of hacking Jeff Bezos’ phone in 2018. The UN report indicates that Mohammed carried out the hack using technology from the NSO Group, a billion-dollar Israeli …

Clashes erupted as Lebanon’s new government convened a day after it was formed following a three-month political vacuum. Police are using water cannon to contain protesters throwing rocks during anti-government demonstrations in Beirut. The clashes erupted on Wednesday as Lebanon’s new government convened a day after it was formed following …

The European Union is bracing for a stormy opening to post-Brexit trade talks as it puts the finishing touches to a negotiating mandate that will offer Britain worse trading terms than it has given Canada. Senior EU figures expect a series of early rows over the conditions attached to market …

Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan started US-monitored talks on Wednesday in the Sudanese capital to try hammer out a draft deal to resolve their dispute over a Nile dam that Ethiopia is constructing, an Egyptian spokesman said. The $4.6 billion Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam project on the Blue Nile, which promises …

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he did not consider the brain injuries suffered by 11 U.S. service members in Iran’s recent attack on a base in Iraq to be serious, as the American military moved more troops out of the region for potential injuries. In a separate statement …

Iraqi President Barham Salih met U.S. President Donald Trump in Davos on Wednesday and discussed reducing foreign troops in the country, the Iraqi presidency said, after Washington spurned an Iraqi request earlier this month to pull out its troops. “During the meeting, reducing foreign troops and the importance of respecting …