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The United States military and Iraq launched a joint raid targeting suspected Islamic State group militants in the country's western desert that killed at least 15 people and left seven American ...
The 15 ISIS operatives who were killed were “armed with numerous weapons, grenades, and explosive ‘suicide’ belts,” US Central Command said in a statement Friday. The Iraqi military ...
4 January – President Abdul Latif Rashid gives a speech at a memorial ceremony marking the martyrdom anniversary of Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, stressing the importance of consolidating unity in Iraq, reaffirming national commitment of not allowing its territory to be used as a base for aggression against any of its neighbors. [4]
On 15 April, it was reported that ISIL had executed 300 more Sunni tribesmen in Anbar over the past few days, [37] as it captured three villages to the east of Ramadi. [ 11 ] The Iraqi government offensive made little headway the first weeks [ 12 ] before they started making gains around the city of Al-Karmah , close to Fallujah, at the end of ...
Turkish forces targeted Kurdish militants in northern Iraq with air strikes, killing 13 members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), the defence ministry said on Tuesday. The PKK ...
13 September – A bomb in a Baghdad Sunni mosque kills at least 30 people. 15 September – Bombings in Baghdad and Shia provinces kill at least 21 people. 21 September – Over 100 people are killed in a series of attacks across Iraq, most of them in a twin suicide bombing at a Shiite funeral in Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood.
Iraq's parliament passed a law criminalising same-sex relationships with a maximum 15-year prison sentence on Saturday, in a move it said aimed to uphold religious values but was condemned by ...
On Friday 13 December 2013, multiple attacks killed at least 36 people and wounded 46 in Iraq. A gunman killed at least 18 people, including 15 Iranians and another 7 were wounded, including 5 Iranians in Diyala Governorate, Iraq. [1] [2] In Ramadi, a car bomb killed at least 6 people and another 10 were wounded. [3]