preliminary deal between Baghdad and Iraq’s Kurdish region on long-running financial disputes has reduced a threat to national unity, the oil minister said Friday. Baghdad has long opposed the three-province autonomous region’s independent export of oil, while Kurdish leaders have criticised Baghdad for withholding budget payments. In a first move[…]
Iraqi government forces have reached within a kilometre of the country’s biggest oil refinery, two army officers and a witness have said. It is the closest they have come to breaking an Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) siege of the facility during months of fighting, Reuters news[…]
Suspected Sunni rebels struck in and around Baghdad on Wednesday, killing 17 people including 11 soldiers and policemen, and injuring about 40 in three separate attacks, including two suicide bombings, according to police and hospital officials. The largest of Wednesday’s attacks was in the turbulent Youssifiyah district south of Baghdad[…]
Two Iraqi officials and state television say an airstrike in western Iraq wounded the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Pentagon officials said they had no information on such a strike or al-Baghdadi being wounded. An Interior Ministry intelligence official told The Associated Press on Sunday that[…]
Millions of Shia Muslims around the world annually commemorate the great tragedy of Karbala with various forms of traditional ceremonies. The mourners take part in processions held in mosques and streets with different traditions to mark the martyrdom anniversary of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)’s grandson Imam Hussein (PBUH) and his companions[…]
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has killed at least 200 people from the Albu Nimr tribe, which had taken up arms against the fighters, police officers cited by news agencies said. Women and children were said to be among those executed over the past 10 days[…]
Islamic State rebels have executed 67 people from a pro-government Sunni tribe in the western Iraqi province of Anbar, a tribal leader said Sunday, the latest mass killing carried out by the radical group. “Daesh executed last night (Saturday) 67 members of the al-Bu Nimr tribe including children and women,”[…]
Dozens of Kurdish Peshmerga fighters are preparing to leave Iraq for the besieged Syrian town of Kobane to help fellow Kurds in their battle against the ISIL. Kurdish official in the city of Erbil told Al Jazeera that more than 150 people were ready to depart and that a plane[…]
Eight Iraqi soldiers were killed in fighting with jihadists south of Baghdad as the army battled to secure the route used by hundreds of thousands of Shiite pilgrims, officers said Saturday. Pilgrims taking part in Ashura commemorations, which mark the death of Imam Hussein, one of the most revered figures[…]
Senior US officials have said they are considering an Iraqi request for more American military advisers to help Iraqi security forces in their campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group. The request came up in meetings that Antony Blinken, deputy national security adviser, and other[…]
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