Tag Archives: Iraq

Deputy Speaker of the Iraqi parliament, Bashir Al-Haddad expressed on Thursday the parliament’s readiness to hold an extraordinary session at any time to vote on a new Prime Minister instead of resigning Adel Abdul Mahdi, provided that he enjoys “popular acceptability”. The President of the Republic, Barham Ahmed Saleh had …

Iraqi President Barham Salih said on Wednesday he would choose an interim prime minister if political parties failed to name a replacement for Adel Abdul Mahdi by Feb. 1. Abdul Mahdi resigned as prime minister in November under pressure from street protests but has remained in office in a caretaker …

Several Arab media have claimed that in recent hours a second US plane crashed near Iraq’s al-Anbar province, learned alghadeer.com. According to media’s sources, the aircraft is of the US Air Forces, Spartan C-27J transport aircraft and there were four people on board. According to the Russian Avia.pro website in …

Germany is the latest country to donate additional funds for mine clearance efforts in Iraq with a USD 2.2 million contributions. The United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) confirmed the donation in an official statement on Wednesday, noting that the war against the so-called Islamic State in Iraq “has resulted …

Iran’s money from exports of gas and electricity has piled up to $5 billion in a bank account in Iraq, but Tehran cannot transfer it because of the US sanctions, an official says. Iraq relies on Iran for trade and natural gas that generates as much as 45% of its …

Iraq’s Armed Forces opened an investigation this Monday to determine the origin and perpetrators of a rocket bombing that hit the Baghdad Green Zone, where embassies and government offices reside. A report shows that at least five Katyusha-type projectiles hit the site and four of them within the US diplomatic …

The Summit Foundation for Refugees in Iraq and Kurdistan Region published on Sunday a statistic of the number of Iraqi refugees in 35 countries in the world during the past five years. The statistic included the refugee population in these countries since the 2015-2020. According to the statistic in 2015, …

Baghdad International Airport administration has taken a series of preventive measures for travelers coming from China to the country through a preventive medical examination to ensure that travelers are not infected with Coronavirus. The airport administration indicated that in agreement and coordination with the Iraqi Ministry of Health and Environment, …

The Vatican on Saturday urged Iraqi President Barham Saleh to guarantee the safety of Christians and ensure they have a future place in the war-battered country. Saleh met with Pope Francis, the Vatican secretary of state and foreign minister during back-to-back audiences Saturday, his second visit to the Vatican. The …

Iraqi security forces have cleared concrete blocks from main protest sites in Baghdad and Basra, which a group of protesters had used. Security forces descended on Tayaran Square, Mohammad Qasim highway and Ahrar Bridge in Baghdad on Saturday to open them to traffic. As they began opening roads, a group …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …