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War against terror is not over, Iraqi PMU commander warns
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A senior commander of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) has vowed "revenge" after 27 members of its troops were killed in a Daesh ambush.
Hadi al-Ameri (seen below) made the remark on Monday at a military…
Iraqi court sentences Turkish woman to death over joining Daesh terror group
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A court in Iraq has sentenced a female Turkish citizen to death and handed down life terms to ten other foreign women for membership in the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group and carrying out acts of terror in the…
NATO defense ministers agree to US demand for larger Iraq deployment
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NATO has agreed to deploy a larger military mission to Iraq after the US urged the Western military alliance to look into a long-term stay in the Arab country only after the defeat of the Daesh terror group there.
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Iraq war against Daesh left 18,000 people dead, minister says
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Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jafari says the war with the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group has killed 18,000 people since 2014.
Jafari said at a news conference on Wednesday that 36,000 people were also injured…
Kuwait confab: Donors pledge funds for Iraq reconstruction
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The Kuwaiti capital is hosting the second day of an international conference aimed at raising funds for reconstructing Iraq, which is reeling from the Daesh terror group’s campaign of death and destruction.
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Washington not to contribute funds to Iraq’s reconstruction: US officials
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The United States will be a main absentee from plans to contribute to Iraq’s finances, US officials say as Baghdad seeks to rebuild the country following a devastating battle against the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group.…
UN launches appeal for children’s health in Iraq
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The United Nations children's fund, UNICEF, has launched an appeal for the construction of facilities that could help the children’s health situation in areas in Iraq that have been affected by the Daesh Takfiri…
US has no plan to contribute to rebuilding post-Daesh Iraq: Officials
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US and Western officials say Washington has no plan to allocate money to the reconstruction of Iraq, ravaged by the war against the Takfiri Daesh terror group, at an upcoming international fund-raising conference in…
83 killed in ‘war on children’ across Mideast in past month, says UNICEF
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The UN children's agency (UNICEF) says at least 83 children were killed in Middle East war zones in January.
Geert Cappelaere , UNICEF's regional director for the Middle East and North Africa, announced the figure in…
‘Iraq combing Anbar for remaining Daesh terrorists’
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The Iraqi army is reportedly combing through the expansive western Anbar Province for possible pockets of the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group, which the country defeated territorially last December.
Kurdish Rudaw…