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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 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 …

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 …

Members of the pro-government Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), known as Hashd al-Sha’abi, have managed to cleanse more than a dozen villages in the southern part of the country’s province of Nineveh during the third phase of a major offensive to hunt down remnants of the Daesh terrorist group. The …

Five years ago on this day, the Islamic State (IS) terrorists carried out a barbaric attack on the Iraqi Yazidis’ hometown of Sinjar where they killed thousands of civilians and kidnapped several thousands more. The extremist group labeled the Yazidis as “infidels” to justify its horrific massacre in Sinjar. According …

An Iraqi court has sentenced an Azerbaijani woman to 15 years in prison for her affiliation to the Daesh terrorist group. The Supreme Judicial Council of Iraq, in a statement released on Thursday, announced that the Central Criminal Court had issued the verdict against the woman, whose identity was not …

Mutanabbi Street, in the heart of downtown Baghdad, has been home to booksellers for centuries. Through years of war, censorship, and dictatorship it has served as a cultural hub for the city. “Cario writes, Beirut prints and Baghdad reads,” goes the proverb, and this is where they come to do …

Overall, at least 355 people were killed or found in mass graves during July. Another 127 were wounded. During July, at least 177 people were killed, and 113 were wounded in violence-related to Iraq and the Daesh terrorist group. At least 35 of them were civilians; 19 were security personnel, …

Baghdad and Ankara have agreed on building three water dams in the Kurdistan Region, a Kurdish lawmaker in the Iraqi Parliament revealed on Tuesday. Mohammed Amin, a member of the agricultural committee, pointed out that the three water dams, which are planned to be established in Meegasor town of Erbil …

Saudi Arabia approved a draft agreement on security cooperation with Iraq on Tuesday evening, the Saudi press agency said, in a bid to strengthen ties with the neighboring country. King Salman chaired a cabinet meeting in the city of Neom that tasked the Minister of Interior, Prince Abdulaziz bin Saud, …

The Iraqi Interior Ministry announced on Monday that its forces arrested two members of the Islamic State terrorist group in the southeastern governorate of Maysan. Speaking to the news agencies, Maj. Gen. Saad Maan, the ministry’s spokesman, said counter-terrorism forces and intelligence arrested two Islamic State terrorists, who are wanted …

Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi said on Tuesday that arrest warrants were issued for 11 ministers and ministerial-level officials suspected of corruption. A total of 1,367 cases of corruption have been referred to the integrity courts, with 4,117 cases not resolved yet in various government institutions, Mahdi told a …

Iraqi security forces in cooperation with Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) are sweeping villages and farmland north of Baghdad as part of an operation aimed at clearing remaining terrorists belonging to the Daesh “Islamic State” group from around the country’s capital. A military helicopter flew over army units in the area …

The revealing process of a mass grave has started at Tuesday morning in Al-Muthanna province (South of Iraq) where it contained dozens of Arabic & Kurdish children and women who were victims of the Saddam Hussein’s former regime. The mass grave includes 70 women and children, who were shot dead. …

The Iraqi parliament intends to reopen the investigation into the 2007 Nisour Square massacre, in which employees of US security firm Blackwater, now Academi, killed 17 people and injured 20 more in Baghdad, Adnan Assadi, a member of the security and defense committee of the legislature, said. “Now is a …

Iraq’s military says its troops are partnering with security agencies and Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) “also known as Hashed al-Sha’abi” to clear remnants of the Islamic State terrorist group north of Baghdad and surrounding areas. The operation launched Saturday is the second phase of an operation dubbed “Will to Victory.” …

Iraq’s Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) has said it identified one of the assailants responsible for the killing of a Turkish diplomat in Erbil. Osman Kose was killed on Wednesday when gunmen opened fire in an upscale restaurant where he was dining in Erbil, the local capital of the semi-autonomous region …