Tag Archives: Nineveh

On Wednesday, the Secretary-General of Badr Organization Mr. Hadi Al-Amiri offered condolences to Al-Hamdaniya incident, reiterating his call to the government departments concerned with the need to compel the implementation of safety measures. Al-Amiri said, in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA) “We express with great pain …

Iraqi security forces has arrested the owner of the banquet hall engulfed by the deadly blaze in Nineveh’s Hamdaniya yesterday, Kurdistan region’s Security Council announced in a press release on Wednesday. The tragic fire claimed dozens of lives last night, sending shockwaves through the country and eliciting demands for swift …

Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al Sudani received a condolence message today, Wednesday, from Russian President Vladimir Putin regarding the tragic fire incident that occurred in al-Hamdaniya district, Nineveh governorate. According to a statement from Al Sudani’s media office, President Putin expressed his sincere condolences and sympathy to the government and …

Iraq’s Federal Intelligence Agency has apprehended two senior terrorists following a security operation that lured them from a neighboring country onto Iraqi soil, Security Media Cell (SMC) reported on Sunday. The SMC press release said that the operation stretched over a span of several days before capturing the two wanted …

Iraq’s Ministry of Transportation on Saturday reported a mild earthquake in the Nineveh Governorate, registering a magnitude of 3.5 on the Richter scale. The tremor, which took place in the afternoon, was reported to have resulted in no material damage. “The seismic event was registered at precisely 3:20:55 PM local …

Iraq’s Interior Ministry announced on Sunday that its intelligence agency had arrested four militants affiliated with the Islamic State (IS) in the northern province of Nineveh, including a “dangerous leader.” The militants were found to have engaged in terrorist operations against security forces, according to a statement by the ministry. …

Iraq’s federal intelligence agency on Wednesday said it had apprehended six persons with links to the Islamic State terrorist group in a security operation in Nineveh. “Documents obtained by the agency have proven that the arrestees carried out missions for the terrorist gangs under different aliases,” a statement by the …

Iraqi warplanes carried out a series of airstrikes on ISIS sites in Nineveh’s district of Tal Afar, spokesperson to the Commander-in-Chief of the Iraqi armed forces, Major-General Yehya Rasool, said on Wednesday. Rasoul said that the airstrikes struck sites on Mount Sheikh Ebrahim, killing five members of the Islamic State …

A commander of the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group has been captured in a security operation in Nineveh, Iraq’s Security Media Cell (SMC) said in a statement on Wednesday. The arrestee, wanted in accordance with Article 4/Terrorism as by the statement, served as a bodyguard for the head of the …

A senior commander of the Islamic State terrorist group has been killed in a security operation in Nineveh, Iraq’s Federal Intelligence Agency said in a statement on Saturday. The statement said that the operation was carried out under the auspices of the interior minister. “The Federal Intelligence Agency, in cooperation …

Archaeologists in northern Iraq have uncovered some extraordinary Assyrian rock carvings dating back around 2,700 years. The discovery was made in Nineveh, east of Mosul, by a joint US-Iraqi excavation team completing reconstruction work on the Mashki Gate, which ISIS terrorists destroyed in 2016. Iraq was home to some of …

The Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service arrested a prominent ISIS leader in Nineveh Governorate on Tuesday. “Based on Intelligence information, the Counter-Terrorism Service apprehended the terrorist Ayman Latif Al-Marawi, nicknamed Abu Jandal.” The Spokesperson of the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, Yahya Rasool, revealed. Abu Jandal held a military position …

The Iraqi intelligence agency announced on Thursday destroying an ISIS site in Badush mountain, Nineveh. The agency said in a statement that it had provided the army’s airforces with the coordinates of the site after locating it. Iraqi F-16 aircraft carried out an attack destroying the site which was hosting …

Iraq’s army and Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF, al-Hashd al-Shaabi) carried out a large-scale campaign to purge the grand desert sprawling over a wide area between three governorates, an official press release said on Sunday. The statement issued by the PMF command in Nineveh said that a joint force from the …

The spokesperson for the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, Maj. Gen. Yahya Rasoul revealed that the Iraqi forces had killed two prominent ISIS leaders in Nineveh Governorate. Earlier, the Iraqi forces ambushed ISIS in the Makhmur district of Nineveh and killed three terrorists. Rasoul said the intelligence had …

On Thursday, the Iraqi security forces arrested an ISIS leader after he returned to the Al-Sharqat district from the Al-Jada’a camp in Nineveh. A security source said, “A security and intelligence detachment in Al-Sharqat, north of Saladin, in cooperation with the citizens, arrested a terrorist who returned from Al-Jada’a camp, …

Local Iraqi media said that the Iraqi army killed more than 40 ISIS terrorists in operations recently launched in the south of Mosul. A statement from the Iraqi army’s public relations department said that the Iraqi armed forces recently conducted an operation against terrorist remnants in the south of Mosul …

On Friday, the Military Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense thwarted an attack on a security point west of Nineveh and arrested three “terrorists” in Al-Anbar. The Security Media Cell said that a joint force of military intelligence and ground forces arrested three terrorists in Al-Qaim and Al-Fallujah. Other …

A security source said, Monday, that a Turkish army base in Nineveh Governorate was targeted with missile strikes. In an interview with Al-Ghadeer, the source said that “a missile attack targeted a Turkish army base in Nineveh today.” He added, “No injuries were reported as a result of this targeting.”

The Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) will submit the results of the contested Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) on Sunday after completing the hand recount and re-tallying of the ballots. Member of IHEC’s Media team Imad Jamil told Al-Ghadeer News that the Commission will submit all the results, records, and appeals …