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Political blocs aim to scrap Iraq PM cabinet nominees
BAGHDAD — Iraqi political blocs want to replace some or all of the premier’s Cabinet nominees, a move likely to continue the system of party-affiliated ministers he called to change, officials said on Sunday. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi has said ...
US firm to de-mine Ramadi retaken from Daesh
BAGHDAD — A US de-mining company is removing explosives and training Iraqis to dismantle the devices planted by Daesh in the largest Iraqi city retaken from the militants, a diplomat and two US officials said on Monday. Hundreds of improvised explosive ...
Suicide bombings, mortar fire kill 17 in Iraq
Baghdad — Four suicide bombings targeting Iraqi security forces and civilians and mortar fire that struck houses near Baghdad killed many people on Monday, security and medical officials said. The morning attacks also wounded at least 64 people, the sources said. In ...
Calm before the storm at Baghdad protest camp
BAGHDAD — Sitting in the shade near the protest tents, Raad Al-Haeri watched as convoys of armored SUVs ferried politicians and diplomats in and out of Baghdad's Green Zone. The 27-year-old scrapes together around $400 a month working odd jobs and ...
Fears in Iraqi govt, army over Shiite militias’ power
BAGHDAD — It was a tense confrontation between two forces supposed to be on the same side in Iraq. First, heavily armed police, led by the interior minister, waded into a Shiite militia base south of Baghdad and arrested its deputy ...
Sadr protest camp illegal, says Cabinet
BAGHDAD — The Iraqi Cabinet has decided not to authorize a protest camp by followers of cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr which had been due to begin Friday in front of the fortified "Green Zone". Tens of thousands of Sadr supporters have been ...
Top Daesh terror leader reported killed
BAGHDAD — A top Daesh commander and feared Chechen terrorist Omar Al-Shishani has died of wounds suffered in a US air strike in Syria last week, a senior Iraqi intelligence official and the head of a Syrian activist group said ...
Daesh returns to Iraqi town, 24 hours after vacating it
Baghdad — The Daesh group on Monday returned to the desert town of Rutba in western Iraq, less than a day after vacating it, officials said. The mayor of the remote town in Anbar province had warned when Daesh pulled out ...
As army rebuilds, Iraqi assault to retake Mosul months away
BAGHDAD — It will take many more months to prepare Iraq’s still struggling military for a long-anticipated assault on the Daesh group’s biggest stronghold in the country, the city of Mosul, US and Iraqi officials say — and it may ...
Iraq: Suicide attack kills at least 47 south of Baghdad
BAGHDAD — A suicide bomber on Sunday rammed his explosives-laden fuel truck into a security checkpoint south of Baghdad, killing at least 47 people and wounding dozens, officials said, the latest episode in an uptick in violence in the war-ravaged ...
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