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New MPs give pro-Iran bloc upper hand in Iraq parliament
Jun 23, 2022 (AFP)
Iraq was plunged deeper into political crises on June 12 when 73 lawmakers from Sadr's bloc -- then the biggest in parliament -- quit en masse in a bid to break...
Six dead in Iraq tribal dispute
Jun 22, 2022 (AFP)
The violence in Al-Uzair district, south of Amarah in the southeastern province of Maysan, lasted several hours, said Saad al-Zaidi, police spokesman for the ar...
Nine dead in Iraq tribal clashes
Jun 22, 2022 (AFP)
Six people, including the soldier, were killed during a clash between two tribes sparked by a dispute over agricultural land, said Saad al-Zaidi, police spokesm...
From Saddam to IS: Iraq still exhuming mass graves
Jun 15, 2022 (AFP)
A skull is freed from a layer of clay, a tibia is placed in a body bag -- all bound for a laboratory to be genetically checked against blood samples from relati...
Iraq's Sadr warns MPs could 'resign' to break deadlock
Jun 09, 2022 (AFP)
Parliament in Baghdad has been in turmoil since October's general election, and intense negotiations among political factions have failed to forge a majority in...
British pensioner jailed for 15 years in Iraq antiquities case
Jun 06, 2022 (AFP)
His German co-defendant was acquitted. The maximum penalty for the offence is death by hanging but the court decided on a lesser sentence for James Fitton, 66, ...
In Iraq, centuries-old black community still on the margins
Jun 02, 2022 (AFP)
Centred in the city of Zubair, near Basra in the far south of Iraq, the community has its origins in East Africa. Like other remote parts of Iraq, Zubair is a p...
Danish supreme court rejects Iraqi torture compensation
May 31, 2022 (AFP)
A total of 23 Iraqi plaintiffs had sued Denmark after they were arrested and subjected to "torture and inhumane treatment" in 2004 during operation "Green Deser...
IS plotter of Baghdad market bombing sentenced to death
May 30, 2022 (AFP)
It was the city's first major suicide bombing in three years that ended a period of relative calm after Iraq declared the defeat of the jihadist group in late 2...
Rockets fired at Iraq military base with foreign troops
May 30, 2022 (AFP)
A coalition source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said five rockets struck the Ain al-Assad base in Anbar province, according to initial reports. "Iraqi s...
Two minors killed by PKK fire in north Iraq: Iraqi Kurds
May 26, 2022 (AFP)
The PKK which has been waging an insurgency against the Turkish state since 1984, a conflict that has killed 40,000 people, many of them civilians, denied respo...
Iraq says six killed in Islamic State group attack
May 23, 2022 (AFP)
The six were gunned down in the Taza Khurmatu district south of the city of Kirkuk, said Hussein Adel, the local adminstration head, adding that a seventh perso...
UN calls on Iraqi politicians to end seven-month stalemate
May 17, 2022 (AFP)
"The streets are about to boil over in Iraq," Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert told reporters. "We cannot afford to go back to a situation that we observed in October...
Briton, German on trial in Iraq over pottery shards
May 15, 2022 (AFP)
James Fitton, 66, a retired British geologist, and Volker Waldmann, 60, a Berlin psychologist, appeared dressed in the yellow uniform of detainees for the two-h...
Iraq exhumes remains of Saddam-era victims from mass grave
May 14, 2022 (AFP)
The mass grave was first discovered in April near the southern city of Najaf, during work to build a residential compound. It is believed to date back to the 19...
Yazidis displaced anew by north Iraq violence
May 09, 2022 (AFP)
"Last time we were displaced because we were afraid of the Islamic State" jihadist group, said Kalo, 37, from the non-Arab, Kurdish-speaking minority. The Yazid...
4,000 uprooted by fighting in Iraq's Sinjar: Kurdish official
May 03, 2022 (AFP)
The Yazidis are a Kurdish-speaking non-Arab, non-Muslim minority who were massacred by Islamic State group jihadists in 2014. Clashes left one Iraqi soldier dea...
Murals bring 'joy' to Baghdad concrete jungle
May 02, 2022 (AFP)
Perched on a scaffold at a busy intersection, the 49-year-old artist and instructor at the Baghdad College of Fine Arts is adding final touches to a mural dedic...
Iraqi soldier killed in clashes with Yazidi fighters
May 02, 2022 (AFP)
The heartland of Iraq's Yazidi minority, Sinjar is the site of frequent confrontations between security forces and local fighters affiliated with Turkey's banne...
19th century Iraq church celebrates first mass since IS defeat
Apr 30, 2022 (AFP)
IS swept into Mosul and proclaimed it their "capital" in 2014, in an onslaught that forced hundreds of thousands of Christians in the northern Nineveh province ...
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