Iraq

A motorcycle rigged with explosives went off near a mosque south of the capital Baghdad, killing three people and wounding 34, Iraqi security officials said Saturday. The officials said the blast happened the previous evening on a commercial street in the village of Mussayyib. They spoke on condition of anonymity …

Members of the pro-government Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), known as Hashd al-Sha’abi, have managed to cleanse a number of villages in the country’s western province of Anbar during the fourth phase of a major offensive to hunt down remnants of the terrorist group of Daesh. The media bureau of …

Israel has carried out several attacks targeting bases of Iraqi anti-terror forces “in recent days”, the New York Times reports. Two senior American officials told the newspaper that the attacks targeted Iraqi munition storehouses, alleging that the site was being used “to transfer weapons to Syria”. The report comes amid …

The Israeli airstrike on an ammunition depot in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, belonging to the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), is a declaration of war against Iraq, and Baghdad should openly respond to violations of its sovereignty, an Iraqi lawmaker and a PMF official, Ahmed Asadi, said on Thursday. …

Iraq’s Defense Ministry on Monday announced the arrest of a prominent recruiter for the so-called Islamic State in Anbar province. He was alleged to be a “close” associate of the group’s figurehead Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The intelligence units of the defense ministry captured “one of the most prominent terrorists in …

Iraqi military intelligence forces arrested on Sunday three Islamic State militants during a military operation in Nineveh province. In a press release, the Iraqi Military Intelligence Directorate said its troops arrested the three terrorists in al Sahaji village, west of Mosul. The three terrorists, according to the statement, were implicated …

Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces announced on Sunday that two Islamic State terrorists had been arrested for their involvement in a deadly car bomb attack in Nineveh province. The PMF or so-called “Hashed al-Sha’abi” said in a press statement that the two IS terrorists were arrested during a counter-terrorism operation in …

An Arab newspaper, on Friday, the secret of a US military unit called “Task Force” and its function to protect the crews of the US embassy in Baghdad, pointing out that this force is moving inside Iraqi cities “unaffected by censorship” and is authorized to fire live ammunition. Unlike other …

A former Blackwater security guard has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in the 2007 shooting of unarmed civilians in Iraq that left 10 men, two women, and two boys, aged 9 and 11, dead. Federal Judge Royce Lamberth delivered the sentence despite pleas for leniency from …

A gas pipeline exploded near Basra in southern Iraq on Wednesday and halted supplies to a local power station, but did not affect gas or oil output, oil ministry officials and police said. A technical fault due to scorching summer temperatures appeared to have caused the blast in al-Haritha 10 …

Iraqi government forces, supported by fighters from allied Popular Mobilization Units, have carried out separate clean-up operations against remnants of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group across the country, killing dozens of the terrorists in the process. The media bureau of Popular Mobilization Units, known by Hashd al-Sha’abi, said in a …

An anti-terrorist operation Monday carried out a major security operation in which 10 ISIS operatives were killed and six arrested in Anbar. A security source said that “counter-terrorism forces carried out a major operation with the support of the international coalition forces called Eid Salat, which included areas where a …

Iraq’s oil ministry said on Saturday it was still in talks with U.S. energy giant ExxonMobil over a major deal to improve the country’s southern oil infrastructure. An agreement with Britain’s BP and Italy’s Eni was not part of the $53 billion, 30-year mega-project. It covered the building of two …

. A United States service member advising Iraqi security forces on a mission was killed on Saturday in the northern Nineveh province, the U.S.-led international coalition fighting Islamic State said in a statement. “One U.S. service member died today during an Iraqi Security Force mission in Ninewah province, Iraq, while …

An American surveillance drone has crashed northwest of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, according to a report. The Iraqi Arabic-language Burath news agency cited informed sources on Friday saying that the drone, registered under the number “52187,” had probably crashed due to hacking or electronic jamming from an “unknown source.” …

Qassem Qadim, an Iraqi boy who made headlines after a photo of him took first prize in the “Sports” category of the 2018 Stenin photo contest, has taken his first steps with the help of the prosthetic leg he received from Russian doctors. We decided to install an advanced hydraulic …

Iraq is close to reaching a deal with oil majors BP and Eni for an export pipeline project that was initially planned as part of a mega-deal with U.S. energy giant ExxonMobil, according to five senior Iraqi oil officials involved in the negotiations. Under the proposed $400 million agreement, British …

“ISIS gangs will not be able to return despite their terrorist operations here or there,” Deputy Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Abdul Amir Yarallah said in a press briefing. He added, “The ability of the security services to eliminate everything shown by the organization,” noting that “IS will continue to …

Iraqi forces with Iraqi PMF “Hashed al-Sha’abi” on Wednesday destroyed five more Islamic State (IS) hideouts in the province of Diyala, as a comprehensive operation is ongoing in the region. They were targeted in Diyala’s districts of Khanaqin and Jalawla, Diyala Police Chief Faisal Kazim al-Abadi said, adding that the …

Iraq’s security announced on Wednesday the arrest of a senior Daesh member at the head of the terrorist group’s department in charge of “spoils-of-war.” The man was identified as al-Makna Abu Shaher and was arrested by Iraqi federal police forces in 1 Huzayran area, in the province of Kirkuk, according …