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A suicide bomber killed at least 35 people and wounded dozens in a crowded market in Iraq’s capital Baghdad on Monday, the eve of the Eid al-Adha festival.
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Iran struck back at the United States early Wednesday, firing a series of ballistic missiles at two military bases in Iraq in the first act of the Islamic republic's promised revenge for the US killing of Soleimani
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17 hours after the US military in Iraq told the government that American troops were preparing to pull out of the country a senior US general in Washington said the message was sent by "mistake"
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Trump’s reckless policy may help his re-election, but it also makes it much more likely that the US will sink ever deeper into the morass of the Mideast.
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Iraq's parliament voted in an extraordinary session Sunday to expel all American troops from the country and file a UN complaint against the U.S. for violating Iraq's sovereignty with its assassination of Gen Soleimani.
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Hillary Mann Leverett, a former White House National Security official, said the US killing of Soleimani is a "declaration of war" on Iran."We are now in an incredibly dangerous situation. It is an incredibly dangerous
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Iraq’s government warned on Monday that its relations with the United States were at risk after deadly American air strikes against a pro-Iran group sparked anger on the streets with protesters torching US flags.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi has issued a decree integrating the country’s Popular Mobilization Forces into the formal armed forces.“All Hashd al-Shaabi forces will work as an inseparable part of the armed.
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Almost 100 people, mostly women and children, died as a ferry packed with families celebrating Kurdish New Year sank in a swollen river in the former jihadist stronghold of Mosul, in Iraq’s.
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Nowruz is a rite dating back to at least the 6th century BCE, marking the new year and ushering in spring. Variously known as Novruz, Nowrouz, Nooruz, Navruz, Nauroz or Nevruz, this historic.
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A week ago Hassan Rouhani paid his first official visit to Iraq as Iran’s president. He has been preceded by a series of visits by the first vice president, oil and foreign ministers, Central Bank chief.
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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani capped his state visit to Iraq on Wednesday by meeting the country’s most respected religious authority, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani— a sit-down.
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Iraq’s Sairoon coalition, led by opposition leader Muqtada al-Sadr, came in first in Saturday’s parliamentary polls, while the pro-government Al-Fatih coalition, led by Hadi al-Amiri, came in.
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Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi, who threw a shoe at then US President George W. Bush in 2008 and is now running for the highest office in his country, plans to improve relations with India if voted to power.
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Iraqis began voting in the first parliamentary election on Saturday since defeating Islamic State, but few people expect its new leaders to deliver the stability and economic prosperity tha.
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In an effort to map the new landscape, Iraq Oil Report has interviewed over a dozen candidates from across the political spectrum in the country's two largest cities - Baghdad and Mosul - and throughout the autonomous.
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No matter who wins Iraq’s elections on Saturday, Iran is likely to maintain or even increase its sway over the country just days after Donald Trump said he wanted to curtail Tehran’s regional influence.
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The Iraqi journalist who earned 15 minutes of fame internationally for throwing his shoes at former US President George W Bush a decade ago is running for office in Iraq’s elections later this month.
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Iraq on Sunday sentenced 19 Russian women to life in prison for joining the Islamic State group, the latest in a series of heavy verdicts against foreign women linked to the militants.
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Iran’s defense minister is in Iraq to exchange views with the country’s senior officials on bilateral security cooperation as well as the most recent regional developments, especially the Syria situation.
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Iraq and Syria have declared victory over the Islamic State militant group (ISIS), an international jihadi network whose presence in the Middle East drew in multiple local.
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Iran has defused all regional threats against the country, the Supreme Leader said on Tuesday, as tension rises between Tehran and Washington over the influence of the Islamic Republic
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“Baghdad firmly rejects the construction of US military bases on its soil,” said Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim Jaafari at the end of an extended visit to Russia on Friday.
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Iraq is conducting the trials of hundreds of foreign women who have been detained, with hundreds of their children, since August by Iraqi forces as IS strongholds crumbled.
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