Turkish airstrikes hit 28 PKK targets in Iraq’s north
Turkish airstrikes have “destroyed” 28 PKK terror targets in northern Iraq, the General Staff said Wednesday. The military said fighter jets hit targets on Tuesday…
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Car bomb near ballot box site in Iraq’s Kirkuk kills one
One person was killed in Iraq’s Kirkuk on Sunday when a suicide car bomb went off near a storage site housing ballot boxes from a…
Iraq’s Abadi orders immediate executions of ISIS militants on death row
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Thursday ordered the immediate execution of all convicted ISIS militants on death row, in a swift retaliation for the…
Six hostages who appeared in ISIS video released in Iraq
Iraqi security forces liberated six men who were held captives by ISIS and detained the kidnappers two days after ISIS threatened to execute them. ISIS…
Al-Sadr calls for self-restraint from Iraqis, following court ruling on vote
Following Iraq’s Federal Supreme Court endorsement on Thursday for a manual recount of all ballots from last month’s national elections, Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr who heads the…
Iraq police in armed clash with pro-Iran Hezbollah militia in Baghdad
Iraqi police surrounded the headquarters of an Iran-backed militia and detained one of its members after an armed clash Wednesday left three people wounded in…
Turkey Says Its Air Strikes Kill 35 Kurdish Militants In Northern Iraq
Turkish warplanes killed 35 militants from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in air strikes in northern Iraq’s Qandil mountain region on Friday, the Turkish military…
Re-analysing Islamic State’s route to Iraq: Systematic fall and decline of bureaucratic-military relationship in Post-US invasion, a probable cause?
Introduction The systematic fall of the city of Mosul in mid-2014 by self-proclaimed Islamic State shocked and awed not only the military and intelligence community…
Iraqi policeman at site of explosion, fire raises suspicions
An Iraqi policeman in a Reuters photograph from Sunday when a fire erupted at a ballot box warehouse in Iraq had appeared in a photo…
Iraq’s parliament speaker calls for election rerun
Iraq’s outgoing parliament speaker Salim al-Jabouri said on Sunday that a May 12 parliamentary election should be repeated after a storage site housing ballot boxes in…