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Iraq’s Ministry of Electricity announced, on Thursday, the “systematic” targeting of 13 transmission towers within 48 hours in the governorates of Saladin, Kirkuk, and Nineveh. The Northern Electricity transmission General Company affiliated with the Ministry, said in a statement, “within the past 48 hours, the war against the transmission towers …

Iraq’s President, Barham Salih, held today, Thursday, in Tehran, a meeting with the new Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi. The meeting, which was attended by the foreign ministers and senior officials from both sides, is the first after Raisi assuming his post. A statement issued by the Iraqi Presidency said today …

The Energy Police Directorate announced seizing explosive devices and ammunition near oil pipelines in Baiji district, in Salahuddin. The directorate said in a statement that the bomb squads safely dismantled the devices.

One person died and three were injured when a fire broke out on a bus in a heavily fortified army compound in Damascus early on Wednesday, Syrian state news agency SANA reported. One source at the site of the explosion suggested an electrical fault had set the petrol tank on …

The presence of the Taliban movement in Afghanistan’s north will suppress the growth of threat from the Daesh (ISIS) terrorist group to Central Asian countries, Russia’s special presidential representative for Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, said on Tuesday. “Many other international terrorist organizations have been based on these territories for a long …

The Federal Intelligence and Investigation service announced today dismantling a cell that was planning to carry out terrorist attacks during Eid al-Adha in al-Anbar. Preliminary investigations revealed that the cell members carried out terrorist attacks on Iraqi army patrols and al-Hashd al-Shaabi (PMF) in 2018, in addition to attempts to …

The kidnapped Yazidis rescue office in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region announced the latest statistics of ISIS crimes since 2014. The office said the number of Yazidis in Iraq was about 550,000, and the number of displaced people due to the ISIS invasion was about 360,000, while the number of those who …

Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service, in cooperation with the Asayish forces of Kurdistan Region, arrested leaders of the “Al-Qaqaa” battalion in ISIS, according to the spokesman for the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. Major General Yahya Rasool said in a statement that the service arrested five terrorists, including four leaders of the …

Egypt’s military says almost 90 fighters were killed in northern Sinai, where fighters loyal to ISIS operate. Eight Egyptian army soldiers have been killed in recent “anti-terrorism operations”, the armed forces said. According to a statement by the armed forces on Sunday, most of the fighting took place in the …

Albania repatriated five women and 14 children on Sunday from camps in Syria that house family members of former terrorist fighters, Prime Minister Edi Rama said. Since the March 2019 fall of the ISIS group’s last stronghold, local Kurds who led the anti-extremist fight have been calling for the repatriation …

The Iraqi Intelligence services apprehended a group of ISIS terrorists in charge of the logistic support of the terrorist organization groups in Kirkuk.

Iraqi security authorities reported, on Thursday, that dozens of men accused of terrorism were arrested in Kirkuk Governorate. The Joint Operations Command in Kirkuk said in a statement, that six wanted men were arrested according to Article 1/4 of terrorism, and three hideouts were destroyed, in addition to seizing ammunition, …

Multiple roadside bombs have separately gone off near convoys of trucks carrying equipment and fuel belonging to US-led coalition forces in Iraq’s southern provinces of Dhi Qar and al-Qadisiyah as well as the central province of Babil, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage. An Iraqi security …

Five Iraqi troops were killed Thursday when their helicopter crashed on a “combat mission” north of Baghdad, the military said in statement. An Iraqi army helicopter crashed during a combat operation in northern Iraq on Thursday, killing all five crew members, the Iraqi military said in a statement, according to …

An Austrian court has sentenced two men to jail over their involvement with ISIS in Syria, a spokeswoman said Wednesday, following a high-profile trial in the country that had one of Europe’s largest per capita rates of ISIS fighters. A Chechnya-born man who fled to Austria in 2004 was sentenced …

Iraq’s Counter-Terrorism-Services (CTS) apprehended thirteen ISIS terrorists in separate security operations in several governorates. According to a statement issued earlier today, Wednesday, CTS was able to apprehend a senior ISIS terrorist named “Abu Maaz” southern Iraqi capital, Baghdad. The terrorist was caught inside a destroyed house in al-lateefiyah in possession …

Russia says members of the Takfiri Daesh militant group are moving into Afghanistan from Syria, Libya, and several other countries, stressing that Moscow would provide its Central Asian ally Tajikistan with military assistance if any security threats emanate from Afghanistan. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu made the remarks during a …

US President Joe Biden and Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi on Monday sealed an agreement formally ending the U.S. combat mission in Iraq by the end of 2021, more than 18 years after U.S. troops were sent to the country. Coupled with Biden’s withdrawal of the last American forces in …

Security authorities in Iraq’s Kurdistan apprehended a person involved in the suicidal bomb attack that took place in a market in Sadr City, east of Baghdad, a few days ago. Yesterday, Saturday, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi announced the arrest of a “terror cell” behind a Baghdad market bombing that …

Afghan forces have captured four Taliban fighters including a militant commander for carrying out this week’s rocket attack targeting the presidential palace in Kabul during the Muslim Eid al-Adha prayers, officials said Sunday. At least three rockets landed near the palace on Tuesday as President Ashraf Ghani and his top …