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Iraq’s pro-government Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), known as Hashd al-Sha’abi, have successfully purged more than a dozen other 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 media bureau of …

The United States imposed sanctions on Four Iraqis including two former Iraqi provincial governors it accused of human rights abuses and corruption, the U.S. Treasury Department said on Thursday. The sanctions target Rayan al-Kildani and Waad Qado, and former governors Nawfal Hammadi al-Sultan and Ahmed al-Jubouri, the Treasury said in …

The Central Criminal Court in the Federal Baghdad/ Rusafa resumption presidency sentenced two terrorists from Kyrgyzstan for fifteen years for the crime of belonging to ISIS. “The two terrorists admitted during the interrogation that they had come to Syria through Turkey to join ISIS terrorist gangs with their husbands,” a …

Firefighters have successfully put out a fire at a strategic oil pipeline in northern Iraq that links oil-rich Kirkuk to the Turkish port of Ceyhan, a security source said. The pipeline is currently not operational, the source said. The fire started after six improvised explosive devices went off in succession …