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BAGHDAD (Reuters) -A huge blast at a military base in Iraq early on Saturday killed a member of an Iraqi security force that includes Iran-backed groups. The force commander said it was an attack ...
By Timour Azhari. BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's central bank must address continued risks of the misuse of dollars at Iraqi commercial banks to avoid new punitive measures targeting the country's ...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) -Repeated U.S. strikes on Iran-backed armed groups in Iraq are pushing the Baghdad government to end the mission of the U.S.-led coalition in the country, the prime minister's ...
4 January – A US drone strike in Baghdad kills four Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba militants, including senior leader Mushtaq Talib al-Saidi. [1]5 January – Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani announces that the Iraqi government is beginning the process to remove the U.S.-led international military coalition from the country following U.S. drone strike on 4 January.
The Iraqi government remained mostly neutral during the clashes. [3] [2] Sadr's supporters stormed the Republican Palace in the Green Zone, [5] reportedly accessing the pool. [6] At 15:30 local time on 29 August, a curfew was declared in Baghdad. [7] The same day, Sadr announced he would go on a hunger strike until the violence stopped. [1]
Hatha al-Youm meaning "This day" in Arabic: هذا اليوم , is news aggregator service for Iraqi affairs in three languages arabic, Kurdish, and English. [1] It was launched in 2011 with five main sources. Over the years, [2] this service has been published to about 6,000 sources, including official Iraqi websites, according to local media ...
Baghdad has a dark history with Syria-based Sunni fighters, thousands of whom crossed into Iraq after the 2003 U.S. invasion and fuelled years of sectarian killing before returning again in 2013 ...
The attacks came a week after Iraqi forces putting down an uprising by members of an Awakening Council angry over the arrest of their commander. Despite a seeming decline in violence since the 2003 invasion of Iraq , the capability of many armed groups to strike with deadly results still exists.