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PM Abadi: Iraqi Kurdish oil exports should be under Baghdad contol
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Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has called on the country’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region to place back all control over the regional oil exports under the central authority of Baghdad, as the area is after all…
Turkey strikes PKK bases in N Iraq amid Syria offensive
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Turkey has carried out airstrikes in northern Iraq against the strongholds of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants, whom it says were planning to launch attacks on Turkish soil.
The military said on…
Iraqi lawmakers set May 12 as date for national elections
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The Iraqi parliament has finally approved a date for holding national elections as the Arab country struggles to return to normal political life after a devastating three-year war against Daesh.
The Iraqi parliament…
UN says half of displaced people by war in Iraq are children
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The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) says children account for nearly half the 2.6 million Iraqis who have been displaced since three years ago, when the Daesh Takfiri terrorists began a deadly campaign.…
New mass grave with 20 tortured bodies unearthed near Iraq’s Mosul
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Iraqi security forces have unearthed yet another mass grave containing the bodies of at least 20 women tortured and slain by Daesh terrorists near the northern city of Mosul, which was once the terror group’s main…
Iraq’s parliament passes resolution against US policy shift on Quds
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Iraq’s Parliament has passed a resolution denouncing US President Donald Trump’s contentious decision to recognize Jerusalem al-Quds as Israel’s “capital.”
Ali es-Safi from the National Iraqi Alliance told Turkey’s…
Iraqi forces continue clearing strategic Huwaijah area of ISIS sleeper cells
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The Iraqi Army and Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) continued their operation to establish security inside Huwaijah, which was recently liberated by the allied forces.
Karim Al-Khafeqi, commander of the Iraqi Army’s…
Iraqi search teams find dozens of Izadi bodies in mass grave in Nineveh
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An Iraqi legislator says search teams have found a mass grave in the country’s northern province of Nineveh containing the bodies of dozen members of Izadi minority, who are believed to have been executed by Takfiri…
Iraqi forces launch massive anti-ISIS operation in Kirkuk with air support
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Amid ongoing operations by Iraqi forces to destroy the Islamic State’s last underground strongholds throughout the country, the province of Kirkuk has in recent days been subject to a huge anti-insurgency operation, so…
Iraqi forces kill 15 Daesh bombers near border with Syria
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The Iraqi Interior Ministry says government forces have launched a counter-terrorism operation to hunt down Daesh Takfiri terrorists near the country’s border with Syria, killing more than a dozen extremists in the…