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ISIS deputy leader captured by Iraqi forces in huge blow for terror cult
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Read moreIraq hospital heads abandon posts after fire tragedy
NASIRIYAH, IRAQ (AFP) – Several hospital administrators in a southern Iraqi province have abandoned their posts, local authorities said on Saturday (July 17), after arrest warrants were issued for senior staff following a deadly hospital
Read moreTwo rockets hit near Iraq airbase hosting US soldiers
BAGHDAD (AFP) – Two rockets hit near an Iraqi airbase hosting US soldiers north of Baghdad on Sunday (April 4), three days ahead of a new “strategic dialogue” with Washington, a security source told AFP.
Read more‘Iraq will always remain with me, in my heart’: Pope’s message to packed Erbil stadium
Pope Francis has said Mass to thousands of people in the packed Franso Hariri stadium in Erbil. At the end of the last official event before he returns to Rome on Monday, Francis told the
Read morePope Francis prayed in ruined churches destroyed by the Islamic State during a historic first Papal visit to Iraq
Pope Francis prayed to crowds in the Iraqi city of Mosul on Sunday, calling for peace and tolerance. Many of the city’s churches were destroyed by IS during the occupation, which ran from 2014 to
Read moreIraq to bar pilgrims over COVID-19 fears
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq is to bar entry to religious pilgrims to the country, its government health committee said in a statement on Monday, just weeks ahead of a Shi’ite Muslim pilgrimage which is the
Read moreThree rockets hit perimeter of Baghdad international airport, no casualties
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Three Katyusha rockets fell in the vicinity of Baghdad airport on Sunday but caused no casualties, Iraqi state news agency INA said. One of the rockets landed in the airport garage damaging
Read moreExplosion targets convoy carrying U.S. military equipment near Iraq-Kuwait crossing
BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) – An explosion near the Jraischan border crossing between Iraq and Kuwaiti on Monday evening targeted a convoy carrying equipment for U.S. forces, three Iraqi security forces told Reuters. It was not
Read moreTrump will host Iraqi prime minister at the white house Aug 20: White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump will host a visit of Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi to the White House on Aug. 20 to discuss challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic as well as
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