Millions of black-clad Shia pilgrims are converging on the holy city of Kerbala for the Arbaeen religious commemoration, the largest annual gathering of people anywhere on earth. Walking in long ...
Read More »Iraq’s top court bans any secession after Kurdish crisis
Iraq’s Supreme Federal Court has ruled that no region or province could secede from the homeland after an unconstitutional Kurdish referendum that ended in failure but brought the country to ...
Read More »Daesh terrorists besiege 10,000 civilians in western Iraq: UN
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) says members of the Takfiri Daesh militant group have laid siege to a town in Iraq’s western province of Anbar, ...
Read More »Over 25 ISIS hideouts destroyed, several villages librated in Anbar
A high-ranking Iraqi military commander says more than two dozen Daesh hideouts have been destroyed and dozens of villages liberated ever since army soldiers, backed by allied fighters from the ...
Read More »Daesh on verge of final collapse in Iraq, Syria after losing last major cities
The Daesh Takfiri group has virtually reached the point of annihilation in Iraq and Syria after its last two substantial urban strongholds in both countries were captured by government and ...
Read More »Over two dozen Daesh hideouts destroyed, 40 villages retaken in west Anbar ops: Official
A high-ranking Iraqi military commander says more than two dozen Daesh hideouts have been destroyed and tens of villages liberated ever since army soldiers, backed by allied fighters from the ...
Read More »Iraqi army recaptures key natural gas field from Daesh
Iraqi government forces have managed to liberate a major natural gas field from Daesh Takfiri terrorists in the country’s embattled western province of Anbar as they are battling to drive ...
Read More »Anbar to be freed in days: Haider al-Abadi
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has said that the country’s western Anbar province will be fully liberated from Daesh in “a few days.” “We will announce liberation of al-Qaim within ...
Read More »Protesters storm Iraqi Kurdistan’s parl. as Barzani resigns
Angry demonstrators, some carrying clubs, have reportedly stormed the parliament of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region in the region’s capital city of Erbil as the Kurdish lawmakers approved a request by ...
Read More »Federal Iraqi forces peacefully retake Kurdistan borders after deal with Iraqi Kurds
Federal Iraqi forces have peacefully taken control of all border crossings ringing the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) following an agreement with Kurdish authorities. A reported agreement between Baghdad and ...
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