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More than 800 Iraqis repatriated from notorious Syria camp
Aug 28, 2025 (AFP)
Jihan Hanan, director of the Kurdish-administered camp, said that "there are approximately 850 people departing today". She added that since the start of the ye...
Iraq toughens stance against pro-Iran faction after Baghdad clash
Aug 09, 2025 (AFP)
The decision follows an attack on a government office in south Baghdad late last month that killed three people, including a policeman, and which the authoritie...
3 killed in Iraq clashes between armed group, security forces
Jul 27, 2025 (AFP)
The violence erupted when armed men stormed a local office of the agriculture ministry in the city's south, the interior ministry said. Police forces responding...
US lets staff return to Iraq weeks after Iran strike
Jul 17, 2025 (AFP)
While the State Department did not explain its reasons, such shifts in staffing generally indicate Washington sees a lower risk of conflict. "Personnel who are ...
Pentagon identifies soldier who died in Iraq as Michigan resident
Jun 19, 2025 (UPI)
In a statement Wednesday, the Department of Defense identified the soldier as Staff Sgt. Saul Fabian Gonzalez, 26, of Pullman, Mich. Gonzalez died Tuesday in Er...
Iraq in contact with Iran, US in bid to stay out of conflict: officials
Jun 14, 2025 (AFP)
The government in Baghdad is a close ally of Tehran, but also a strategic partner of Iran's arch-foe the United States, which has some 2,500 troops in Iraq as p...
French general takes command of NATO mission in Iraq
May 22, 2025 (AFP)
Major General Christophe Hintzy replaced Lieutenant General Lucas Schreurs of the Netherlands during a ceremony at a military base inside Baghdad's fortified Gr...
Iraq's judiciary acquits powerful former speaker of forgery
Apr 27, 2025 (AFP)
Halbussi had been the highest-ranking Sunni official since he first became speaker of parliament in 2018 with the support of Iraq's powerful pro-Iran parties, a...
UN voices alarm over death of Iraqi in custody
Apr 08, 2025 (AFP)
In a post on X, the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) said it was "following closely the case of an Iraqi national who died in unclear circumst...
Two injured in attack on Christians in north Iraq
Apr 01, 2025 (AFP)
The region's Asayesh police force said it was investigating the attack in the city of Dohuk. The region's autonomous Kurdish authorities said the attacker was S...
Syria FM's Iraq visit focuses on security
Mar 14, 2025 (AFP)
Asaad al-Shaibani's visit to Syria's neighbour coincided with Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani announcing that security forces had killed a senior I...
Iraq investigating attack on Syrian workers
Mar 12, 2025 (AFP)
For several days, Syria's Mediterranean coast was engulfed in extreme violence, with mass killings of members of the Alawite minority community, to which ousted...
Iraq restoration work brought back Mosul's 'identity': UNESCO chief
Feb 05, 2025 (AFP)
Mosul's historic Al-Nuri Mosque with its famed leaning minaret, nicknamed Al-Hadba or "hunchback", has been restored using its original brickwork, years after i...
Iraqi archaeologists piece together ancient treasures ravaged by IS
Jan 09, 2025 (AFP)
Once the crown jewel of the ancient Assyrian empire, the archaeological site was ravaged by Islamic State (IS) fighters after they seized large areas of Iraq an...
Declassified files show UK anger at Chirac over Iraq
Dec 31, 2024 (AFP)
Minutes of an emergency cabinet meeting on March 17, 2003 -- a week after Chirac said he would veto any resolution approving military action -- showed UK minist...
Iraq's prohibition zeal threatens Baghdad's boozy subculture
Dec 22, 2024 (AFP)
"We appealed to all authorities in the country, but no one listened to us," said the owner, a Christian who asked not to be named. Although a law banning the sa...
Iraq says to begin repatriating Syrian troops who fled offensive
Dec 19, 2024 (AFP)
"Today, the Iraqi authorities will start returning Syrian soldiers to their country after coordinating with the relevant Syrian authorities in this regard," int...
Rights groups urge Iraqi government to halt 'secret executions'
Dec 12, 2024 (AFP)
In recent years Iraqi courts have ordered hundreds of executions in "terror" cases, proceedings that rights groups say often lack due process or in which confes...
Two Iraqi officers killed storming militant hideout: officials
Dec 09, 2024 (AFP)
Iraq's national security service said one of its teams "stormed a terrorist hideout and eliminated its occupants" in Anbar province, which borders Syria. Two of...
Influential Shiite cleric Sadr urges Iraq to keep out of Syria fighting
Dec 05, 2024 (AFP)
Sadr stressed in a post on X the "necessity of Iraq's government, people, parties, militias and security forces not getting involved in the Syrian issue", urgin...
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