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Iraqis hit out at insecurity as 7 buried after anti-US attack

Sep 29, 2020 (AFP)

Several among the hundreds of mourners in the village of Al-Bouchaabane, a few kilometres from Baghdad airport, told AFP that some of the children were killed b...

A year after unprecedented Iraq protests, what has changed?

Sep 29, 2020 (AFP)

The nationwide demonstrations which broke out on October 1, 2019 spiralled into a decentralised movement slamming unemployment, poor public services, endemic co...

New US threats to Iraq widen rifts, leave PM exposed

Sep 27, 2020 (AFP)

Iraq has long been caught in a tug-of-war between its allies Iran and the US, rendered rockier by Washington's "maximum pressure" policy against Tehran since 20...

Iran FM demands protection for diplomatic missions in Iraq

Sep 26, 2020 (AFP)

The top diplomats also discussed the US killing in Baghdad of top Iranian commander General Qasem Soleimani in January, and bilateral cooperation between the tw...

Iraqi youth with development disorders suffer in, and after, Mosul lockdown

Sep 25, 2020 (AFP)

Mosul's few health centres treating these young people had been shut for around four months to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus, which has infected more...

House approves Medal of Honor for soldier who saved seven in Iraq

Sep 23, 2020 (UPI)

The bill, which passed the House on Tuesday by unanimous consent, was filed after Defense Secretary Mark Esper wrote on Aug. 24 that Cashe should receive an upg...

Iraq's faith, and fury, in the time of corona

Sep 21, 2020 (AFP)

"Iraq has been through so much misery -- from war to torture to imprisonment to forced emigration and now the coronavirus pandemic," said sheikh Hassan Dhakeri,...

Iran victims of Iraq gas attack say horrors are a warning

Sep 20, 2020 (AFP)

"If someone lost a leg or an arm in the war, you can put a prosthesis on him," said Saleh Azizpour, who heads an association for victims of the attack. "But whe...

First arrests in Iraq PM's anti-corruption drive: sources

Sep 18, 2020 (AFP)

The arrests represent a rare instance in which current officials -- usually deemed too well-connected to touch in Iraq's graft-ridden system -- are subject to j...

Scores denounce Charlie Hebdo cartoons in Iraq capital

Sep 17, 2020 (AFP)

The satirical weekly reprinted the controversial images to mark the start of the trial earlier this month of alleged accomplices to a massacre at its headquarte...

Three Western targets in Iraq attacked in 24 hours: sources

Sep 15, 2020 (AFP)

While no casualties were reported in any of the attacks, Iraqi officials told AFP they see the spike as an indirect way to pressure the government as it tries t...

Return of Saddam-era archive to Iraq opens debate, old wounds

Sep 11, 2020 (AFP)

The five million pages of internal Baath Party documents were found in 2003, just months after the US-led invasion that toppled Saddam, in the party's partly-fl...

Thousands join Iraq's first weekly prayers since Covid-19

Sep 11, 2020 (AFP)

Iraq's mosques have been closed to gatherings for close to six months, but notoriously outspoken Sadr said on Wednesday that he would hold open-air prayers in h...

US cuts troops in Iraq on Trump pledge to stop 'endless wars'

Sep 09, 2020 (AFP)

The move, reducing the Pentagon's footprint in Iraq from 5,200 military personnel to just 3,000, and an expected parallel announcement on Afghanistan, comes as ...

Iraq reforms stymied by shadowy groups' wave of attacks

Sep 09, 2020 (AFP)

Since Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi took office in May, he has promised to rein in rogue militias, fight corruption and roll out long-awaited restructuring ...

After highest virus increase yet, Iraq warns it may 'lose control'

Sep 04, 2020 (AFP)

According to the Iraqi health ministry, 5,036 new coronavirus infections were confirmed on Friday, bringing the total number of cases across the country to 252,...

Gangs, smugglers, poison? Iraq's dead fish kick up stink

Sep 02, 2020 (AFP)

For centuries, civilisations in southern Iraq have made a living from farming and fishing the whiskered, carp-like fish native to the twin Tigris and Euphrates ...

Mob torches Iraq TV station accused of 'insulting religion'

Aug 31, 2020 (AFP)

On Sunday, Shiite-majority Iraq commemorated the killing of the Prophet Mohammed's grandson Hussein in 680 AD, with ceremonies held nationwide. The same day, lo...

Macron to hold top-level talks in Baghdad Wednesday: Iraq officials

Aug 31, 2020 (AFP)

The one-day visit following his trip to Lebanon will make Macron the most senior foreign official to travel to Iraq since Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi asce...

Masks and tears: Shiites mark Ashura at Iraq shrines despite virus

Aug 30, 2020 (AFP)

Ashura, on the 10th day of the mourning month of Muharram, commemorates the killing of the Prophet Mohammed's grandson Hussein at the Battle of Karbala in 680 A...