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By Ibrahim Salih BAGHDAD (AA): At least five people were killed and 18 others injured in three separate bomb attacks around Baghdad late Saturday, according to a security source. Two civilians were killed when an explosive device went off in the northern at-Taymiyyah district, police lieutenant Hatem al-Jabri told Anadolu Agency. Seven others were […]

3rd Feb 2017

Iraq: 50,000 Iraqis return to homes in war-battered E Mosul

By Muayyad al-Tarfi BAGHDAD (AA): Almost 50,000 displaced people have returned to their homes in eastern Mosul and the city’s southern Qayyarah district, both of which were recently recaptured by the Iraqi army from the Daesh terrorist group, according to Iraq’s Displacement and Migration Ministry. “The ministry is trying to persuade displaced people to […]

1st Feb 2017

African Union summit criticises Trump on Muslim ban

By Mohammad es-Seyyid and Ahmed Muhammed Abdalla ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AA): The 28th Summit of the African Union ended early Wednesday as it criticized U.S. President Donald Trump’s ban on immigrants and refugees from seven Muslim-majority countries. President Alpha Conde of Guinea, who was elected new chairman of the African Union, expressed solidarity with […]

28th Jan 2017

US: Trump signs executive order limiting refugee entry

NEW YORK (AA): President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday to limit the flow of refugees into the country, delivering on one of his most controversial campaign promises. The order was called “Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States” and contained a temporary entry ban that would affect citizens of […]

20th Jan 2017

Iraq: Army announces fresh gains in Daesh-held Mosul

By Ibrahim Saleh, Serhad Shakir and Mohamed Walid BAGHDAD/NINEVEH, Iraq (AA): Iraqi army forces on Thursday captured a military facility and a presidential palace in Iraq’s northern Daesh-held city of Mosul, Iraqi army sources told Anadolu Agency. “Forces from the army’s 15th Division have liberated the Jaber Ibn Hayyan [military] facility,” Capt. Tariq Jabir […]

15th Jan 2017

Iraq: 9 killed in Diyala suicide car bomb attack

By Hussein al-Amir DIYALA, (AA): At least nine victims were killed and 20 others injured Sunday in a suicide car bomb attack, police told Anadolu Agency. The vehicle was detonated near a police checkpoint in the Al-Halis area northeast of Baqubah, Diyala’s provincial capital, according to Captain Habib al-Simari, a Diyala province police officer. […]

9th Jan 2017

Iraq: Suicide bombing in eastern Baghdad market kills 6

By Ibrahim Saleh BAGHDAD (AA): At least six Iraqi civilians were killed when a suicide bomber struck a market in eastern Baghdad on Sunday, according to a police source. Police Officer Hatem al-Jabri told Anadolu Agency the incident in Al-Baladiyyat area also injured 15 others. The area has been cordoned off, he added. The […]

9th Jan 2017

Iraq: 4,500 Iraqis flee Mosul amid offensive

By Gulsen Topcu MOSUL (AA): A total of 4,500 civilians have fled northern Iraqi city of Mosul over the past three days as government forces launched the second phase of battles to retake the city form Daesh terrorists, an Iraqi aid official said Sunday. Iyad Rafid of Iraqi Red Crescent told Anadolu Agency that […]

8th Jan 2017

Iraq: Car bomb kills 13 civilians in Sadr city, Baghdad

By Amer al-Hassani BAGHDAD (AA):– At least 13 civilians were killed and 50 others injured when a car bomb detonated near a public market in eastern Baghdad, according to a security source. Daesh has claimed responsibilty. The explosion hit the mainly Shi’ite district of Jamila. Iraqi police officer Muayyad al-Jubouri told Anadolu Agency that […]

5th Jan 2017

Iraq: Massive suicide bombing kills 14 in Iraq’s Mosul

By Ahmed Qassem NINEVEH, (AA); At least 14 civilians were killed, including women and children, and another 32 injured in a suicide bombing that rocked Mosul on Wednesday, according to an Iraqi security source. Iraqi Federal Police officer Adnan al-Khabouri told Anadolu Agency that a suicide bomber driving a bulldozer had blown himself up […]

4th Jan 2017

Iraqi forces capture strategic districts of Mosul

By Ahmed Qassem and Ibrahim Saleh NINEVEH,(AA): Iraqi forces on Tuesday captured a major district of Daesh-held Mosul amid an ongoing army offensive aimed at ousting the terrorist group from the northern city. “Iraqi forces have taken Mosul’s southeastern Al-Hay al-Senai district following fierce clashes with Daesh militants,” Khaled al-Saadouni, an officer in Iraq’s […]

3rd Jan 2017

Iraq: 4 police killed in suicide bombing in Samarra

By Ali Cevad-Muhammed Abdulaziz SAMARRA, (AA): At least four police officers were killed here in a suicide attack in Samarra, a military source told Anadolu Agency on Tuesday. A pair of bombers wearing vests raided a police station and blew themselves up during a clash with officers, said Saladin Operations Commander Saad Muhammad. Muhammad […]

2nd Jan 2017

Iraq: Suicide bombing kills 7 near Najaf

By Ali Jawad BAGHDAD (AA): A suicide bombing killed seven policemen and injured dozens near Iraq’s southern city of Najaf on Sunday. Three bombers blew themselves up at a security checkpoint in al-Qadisiyya, north-west of Najaf, after an exchange of fire with security forces, local official Hussein Wahid told Anadolu Agency. He said 25 […]

31st Dec 2016

Iraq: Twin bombing kills 24 in Baghdad

By Ibrahim Salih BAGHDAD (AA): At least 24 people were killed and dozens injured in a twin bombing claimed by Daesh terrorist group in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Saturday, according to security and health officials. Two bombers detonated themselves near spare parts shops in Al-Sinak market in central Baghdad, police officer Ahmed Khalaf […]

4th Dec 2016

Iraq: Suicide bombing kills 12 civilians in Mosul

By Mohamed Walid NINEVEH, (AA): Twelve civilians were killed and dozens injured in a suicide bombing Saturday in Iraq’s northern city of Mosul, an army officer said. Major Abdul-Basit al-Jazaeri of the anti-terrorism forces said Daesh militants had detonated an explosives-laden tanker in al-Qadesiya al-Thaneya district in eastern Mosul. “Twelve people were killed and […]

2nd Dec 2016

Iraq: 15 children killed by Daesh snipers in Mosul

By Ibrahim Salih and Ali Jawad BAGHDAD (AA): At least 15 children have been killed by Daesh snipers over the past two days in the northern city of Mosul, according to an Iraqi army officer. “Daesh snipers are targeting children as they try to flee with their families to areas of Mosul under the […]

30th Nov 2016

Iraqi forces fight street to street in Daesh-held Mosul

By Mohamed Waleed, Ibrahim Saleh and Serhat Shakir BAGHDAD (AA): Iraqi army forces have penetrated Daesh’s defenses in two districts of Mosul and are now engaged in heavy street-fighting with the terrorist group, an Iraqi military commander said Tuesday. “After fierce resistance shown on Daesh’s first line of defense, security forces have managed to […]

29th Nov 2016

Iraq: US-led raid kills 14 civilians, 10 terrorists in Mosul

By Ibrahim Salih and Mohamed Walid BAGHDAD (AA): At least 14 Iraqi civilians and 10 Daesh terrorists were killed in an airstrike by U.S.-led coalition warplanes in the northern city of Mosul on Monday, according to a local police officer. The raid targeted a Daesh position where terrorists were preparing bombs and mortar shells […]

29th Nov 2016

Iraq: 3 killed, 8 injured in Baghdad bomb attack

By Ibrahim Salih BAGHDAD (AA): At least three people were killed and eight others injured in a bomb attack in Baghdad on Monday. The attack was carried out by a bomb-laden car in northern Baghdad, Iraqi Lt. Hatim al-Jabouri told Anadolu Agency. There was no claim of responsibility for the violence. Iraq’s security situation […]

28th Nov 2016

Iraq: Dozens of Daesh terrorists killed in Mosul operation

By Ibrahim Saleh MOSUL, (AA): Thirty-seven Daesh terrorists were killed in operations as part of Iraqi military efforts to retake Mosul city from the terrorist group, the defense ministry announced Sunday. According to a statement issued by the ministry’s Military Intelligence Directorate, Iraqi warplanes hit Daesh positions located in Tel al-Zalat neighborhood west of […]

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