Tag: Iraq

Baghdad: Seven Islamic State (IS) militants were killed in an airstrike during an operation in the eastern province of Diyala of Iraq, Iraqi military said. …

Washington: President Donald Trump has said that Tehran should expect a bold US response if Iran or Iranian-backed groups attack American forces or assets …

Baghdad: For Saad Malik, losing his father to the novel coronavirus was only the beginning of his nightmare. For over a week, cemeteries across Iraq refused …

Baghdad: Two rockets slammed into the Iraqi capital’s Green Zone, the high-security enclave home to government buildings and foreign embassies, early on Thursday, the …

Baghdad: The United States military warplanes launched retaliatory strikes on the Iran-backed Shia militia bases believed to be the launch site of the rocket …

Baghdad: A 70-year-old man who was confirmed to be infected with COVID-19 on Wednesday in the Iraqi province of Sulaimaniyah has died, a health …

Baghdad: Thousands of Iraqi women took to the streets across the country, defying a call by the influential Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to separate …

Hyderabad: Sixteen labourers from Telangana, who were stranded in Iraq for more than two years, returned to India following efforts by the Central and …

Diwaniyah: Anti-government demonstrators faced off against followers of influential cleric Moqtada Sadr in protest squares across Iraq Tuesday, a day after one demonstrator was …

Baghdad: Iraqi President Barham Saleh named Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi as the new Prime Minister with the task of addressing the massive popular dissatisfaction behind …

Baghdad: Ten protesters were killed in Iraq over the past 24 hours during mass anti-government protests, the national High Commission for Human Rights has …

Baghdad: An Iraqi journalist and his cameraman were shot dead by unknown gunmen last week while covering anti-government demonstrations in Iraq’s southern city of …

Washington: United States President Donald Trump on Sunday threatened to impose harsh sanctions on Iraq — its ally — if American troops are forced …

Tehran: The body of top Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani, who was killed in a US airstrike ordered by President Donald Trump, will reach Tehran …

Tehran: Gen Qassem Soleimani, the head of the Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) elite Quds Force, has been killed in US airstrikes in …

It was the first time in years protesters have been able to reach the US embassy in Baghdad, which is sheltered behind a series …

BAGHDAD: The US has carried out air strikes against a pro-Iran militant group in Iraq, killing at least 25 fighters, two days after a rocket …

Tehran: Iran on Monday said that strikes by the United States against five targets of Iranian backed paramilitary groups in Iraq and Syria are …

Baghdad: A civilian was killed and four others wounded in a bomb attack near a soccer field in Iraqs capital Baghdad, an Interior Ministry …

London: The presence of the Islamic State (IS) terror group in Iraq was a sophisticated insurgency, awith growing a indication that the militants were re-grouping …

Baghdad: Thousands of Iraqi protesters streamed into streets and public squares in the capital and restive south on Sunday, saying they were not deterred …

BAGHDAD: An armed drone targeted the home of Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr on Saturday, hours after his supporters deployed in Baghdad in response to …

Baghdad: The death toll in an attack by unidentified gunmen on demonstrators in a rally in Iraq’s capital Baghdad on Friday rose to 16, …

Washington: A number of US officials continue to accuse Iran of doing things against American interests, alleging the Iranian government of secretly positioning missiles …

Baghdad: Iraq’s rival parties were negotiating the contours of a new government on Monday, after the previous cabinet was brought down by a two-month …

Baghdad: Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi on Saturday held an extraordinary session discussing the sending of his resignation and the daily duties of …

BAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi said Friday he would submit his resignation to parliament, hours after the country’s top Shiite cleric called …

Nasiriyah: Southern Iraq was in bloody upheaval Thursday after a government crackdown killed 28 protesters and thousands defied a curfew to join funeral marches, …

Nasiriyah: Two demonstrators were shot dead in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah on Thursday, medics and security sources told AFP, as a crackdown …

KARBALA: Iraqi protesters sealed streets with burning tyres across the country’s restive south on Wednesday, as schools and public offices stayed shut a day …