Iraq

Iraq and the United States have agreed on a phased pullout of the US-led anti-jihadist coalition but have yet to sign a final agreement, the Iraqi defense minister said Sunday. The US has some 2,500 troops in Iraq and 900 in Syria as part…
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An explosive detonated as a convoy of American and other troops belonging to the anti-jihadist coalition passed through northern Iraq on Thursday, a US official told AFP. The forces encountered an IED (improvised explosive device) blast…
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Iraq’s official media regulator on Tuesday ordered all media and social media companies operating in the Arab state not to use the term “homosexuality” and instead to say “sexual deviance,” a government spokesperson said and a document from…
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When Jacob Nemec’s family heard he was planning to go on holiday in Iraq, they pleaded with the 28-year-old American to reconsider. “I got a text from my grandma for the first time in five years saying – being your grandmother and to…
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An Iraqi court on Sunday sentenced to death a former policeman convicted of killing prominent academic Hisham al-Hashemi, whose murder in 2020 sparked condemnation in Iraq and abroad. The sentence against Ahed Hamdawi Oueid for killing…
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Militants fired rockets at Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone as clashes between Shi’ite Muslim groups spilled into a second day, Iraq’s military said, and Iran closed its border with Iraq after the worst fighting in the Iraqi capital for…
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Spraying a cow with pesticides, health workers target blood-sucking ticks at the heart of Iraq’s worst detected outbreak of a fever that causes people to bleed to death. The sight of the health workers, dressed in full protective kit, is…
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Iraqi military bases hosting US troops in Iraq’s western Anbar province and the capital of Baghdad were hit by Katyusha rockets Wednesday while in Syria, eight rounds of indirect fire landed inside a base with members of the US-led…
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