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WASHINGTON (AA): The Obama administration announced Thursday that it has begun to enforce changes to the U.S. visa waiver program following deadly terror attacks at home and in Europe. The new restrictions affect citizens of Iran, Iraq, Sudan and Syria – preventing dual nationals from participating in a visa waiver program that 38 countries are […]

29th Dec 2015

Iraqi forces retake control of Ramadi city from Daesh

BAGHDAD (AA) – Iraqi armed forces have retaken Ramadi city from Daesh, the Iraqi military announced Monday. Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, fell into Daesh’s hands last May. In a televised statement, Iraqi military spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya Rasoul said: “Ramadi has been liberated [from Daesh] and counterterrorism troops have raised the Iraqi flag on the government […]

20th Dec 2015

Iraqi troops killed in US friendly fire

WASHINGTON (AA) – U.S.-led coalition aircraft struck an Iraqi army fighting position Friday near central Iraqi city of Fallujah, in what Pentagon chief reportedly called “a mistake that involved both sides”. The airstrike killed nine Iraqi service members, the Iraqi Defense Ministry confirmed Saturday. In a statement, the U.S. Central Command described the incident Saturday as the first […]

11th Dec 2015

Iraqi PM: No solution without Turkish troop withdrawal

BAGHDAD (AA) – Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has said the solution of Iraqi-Turkey “crisis” over the deployment of Turkish troops near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul could only be solved only by a “full withdrawal of Turkish troops from Iraqi territory”. The statement issued by the Iraqi Prime Ministry’s media office came after a visit to Baghdad on […]

9th Dec 2015

US urges calm over Turkey’s troops inside Iraq without Iraq’s permission

NEW YORK (AA) – The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations on Tuesday urged political dialogue between Turkey and Iraq to defuse a row over the presence of Turkish troops in northern Iraq. Samantha Power told reporters in New York that it was important for all stakeholders to come together ahead of the next international Syria meeting in […]

3rd Dec 2015

US: White House rules out Gitmo for captured Daesh leaders

WASHINGTON (AA) — The White House said Wednesday that it will not send any Daesh leaders it captures in Iraq or Syria to the prison facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. “I would certainly rule out for you sending any additional prisoners to the prison at Guantanamo Bay,” spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters. “Not even […]

16th Nov 2015

Iraq: Shia Muslim Turkmen, Peshmerga clash in Tuz Khormato

KIRKUK, (AA): Two people were killed Sunday in clashes between Shia Turkmen and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters — which have remained ongoing for the last four days — in the Tuz Khormato district of Iraq’s north-central Saladin province. According to an Anadolu Agency correspondent at the scene, clashes between Kurdish Peshmerga and Shia fighters from the […]

10th Nov 2015

Iraq: Six dead, 24 injured in Baghdad explosions

BAGHDAD (AA): Six people were killed and 24 others were injured Monday in several explosions that rocked the Iraqi capital, a police source told Anadolu Agency. The source said that two pro-government fighters were killed and three others were injured when “an improvised bomb went off while a vehicle carrying pro-government [militia] forces was passing […]

14th Oct 2015

Iraq: Daesh encircled by Iraqi troops in Ramadi

WASHINGTON (AA): Iraqi forces trained by the U.S.-led anti-Daesh coalition have advanced 15 kilometers (10 miles) into Ramadi, encircling the militants holding the key city for months. “We now believe that battlefield conditions are set for the ISF [Iraqi Security Forces] to push into the city,” said Col. Steve Warren, spokesman for Operation Inherent Resolve […]

20th Sep 2015

Iraq: US troops arrive for Mosul operation against IS

ERBIL, (AA): U.S. soldiers have arrived at a camp in northern Iraq in preparation for an assault on Daesh-held Mosul, a member of the Iraqi parliament’s security and defense committee said Saturday. Nayef al-Shammari said 90 troops arrived at the base in Makhmur, southwest of Iraq’s Kurdish capital Erbil, and the “Iraqi government and Mosul town council will […]

18th Sep 2015

Iraq: 12 killed in two Baghdad car bomb attacks

BAGHDAD (AA): Twelve people were killed and 63 others were injured Thursday in two car bomb attacks in central Baghdad, a police source said. “Eight civilians were killed and 25 others were injured when a car bomb went off in al-Bab al-Sharqi area in central Baghdad,” the source told Anadolu Agency. Following the attack, another car […]

14th Sep 2015

Iraq: Eight people killed in Baghdad, Diyala

BAGHDAD (AA): Eight people were killed on Saturday and another 22 injured in separate attacks in Iraq’s violence-plagued Baghdad and Diyala provinces, according to local security sources. “One police officer was killed and three others injured when unidentified attackers hurled grenades at a police patrol in southeastern Baghdad’s Jesr Diyala district,” a local police captain, […]

28th Aug 2015

Iraq: Two Iraqi army generals killed in Anbar province

BAGHDAD (AA): The Iraqi Joint Operations Command announced that two army generals were killed on Thursday during military operations against Daesh near Ramadi, the regional capital of Anbar province. An army spokesman told Anadolu Agency that Brigadier General Sefin Abdul Mejid, chief of the army’s 10th division, and Major General Abdurrahman Abu Reghif, vice chief of Anbar military operations, were killed in […]

24th Aug 2015

Iraq: Hundreds of Iraqis storm government building in Karbala

By Ali Abo-Rezeg KARBALA, (AA): Hundreds of angry demonstrators stormed a government building in the Shia-dominated Iraqi province of Karbala on Sunday. “The protesters stormed the administrative building of al-Hindiyyah district and destroyed the windows of the building because the mayor refused to resign from his position,” Zahra Matar, a member of the Karbala provincial council […]

12th Aug 2015

Iraqi parliament approves PM’s reform package

BAGHDAD (AA): Iraq’s parliament on Tuesday approved a raft of reforms proposed two days earlier by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and endorsed the same day by Iraq’s council of ministers. In a statement released by the prime minister’s office, al-Abadi expressed his pleasure with the parliamentary endorsement and congratulated the Iraqi people. “I promise to […]

11th Aug 2015

Iraq: 42 killed in separate Diyala attacks

By Felix Nih and Ahmed Badawy DIYALA, (AA): At least 42 people were killed and 87 were injured in two seperate bombings in Iraq’s eastern Diyala province on Monday, Iraqi medical and security sources told Anadolu Agency. In the first incident, a car bomb exploded in a busy marketplace, killing 35 people and injuring 72. Meanwhile, in Kanaan district, a […]

28th Jul 2015

Iraq: It is time to open a new page in the region: Iranian FM

BAGHDAD, (AA): All countries must cooperate with each other in the fight against extremism, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said on Monday. At a joint press conference in Baghdad with his Iraqi counterpart Ibrahim al-Jaafari, Zarif said: “[It is] time to open a new page that takes into account the interests of all”. He also said […]

26th Jul 2015

Turkey: Protesters, police clash in eastern Turkey

MARDIN/SIRNAK, (AA): Protesters clashed with riot police late Saturday night in the eastern provinces of Mardin and Sirnak over airstrikes against illegal Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) in Iraq. Masked protesters rallied in Nusaybin district of Mardin to demonstrate protesting Turkey’s air campaign against PKK training camps in northern Iraq. The pro-PKK protesters hurled stones, fireworks and petrol bombs […]

13th Jul 2015

Iraq: Bomb attack kills six, injures 21 in Baghdad

[Archive photo: Iraqi security forces and Shia Hashdi Shabi forces attack Falluja in Al-Anbar Province with heavy weapons in order to liberate it from Daesh [Islamic State] on July 12, 2015. Photographer: Ali Mohammed/Anadolu Agency] BAGHDAD (AA): At least six people were killed and 21 others were injured in a car bomb attack in the […]

7th Jul 2015

Iraqi warplane accidentally kills 4 in Baghdad

[Photo: Iraqi search and rescue teams evacuate bombing victims after Iraqi warplane accidentally bombed 3 residential houses in Baghdad’s Nairiyye neighbourhood on July 06. Anadolu Agency] Karim Adel El-Sayed Tair El-Bar BAGHDAD (AA): An Iraqi warplane on Monday accidentally bombed a number of residential homes east of capital Baghdad, killing four and injuring 11, due to […]

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