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Al-Sadr`s Coalition wins Iraq’s elections
Moqtada al-Sadr's alliance has won Iraq's parliamentary elections, for the first time, captured 54 parliamentary seats
Sadr's movement forms the backbone of the Sa'iroun alliance, but the senior Shia cleric himself, who enjoys a strong…
Dozens Bodies Of ISIS Taken Away In Iraq
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The Iraqi civil defense forces declared that 640 bodies of ISIS militias were taken away including women and children over the last 48 hours, Commander of Iraqi civil defence forces emphasized.
Fahd Al-Aabid, the…
Iraqi Parliamentary Elections Begin
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Iraq has opened polling stations on Saturday morning for Iraqis to vote for 329 MPs in the first national elections since the declaration victory over the Takfiri Daesh terror group.
The 8959 polling stations…
No decision to host permanent US military bases: Iraqi president
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President Fuad Masum says no decision has been made for Iraq to host permanent American military bases, stressing that Baghdad will not allow for the country to turn into a launch pad for any military aggression against…
Iraqi court sentences 6 Turkish women to death over joining Daesh terror group
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A court in Iraq has sentenced six Turkish women to death and handed down a life term to another for membership in the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group and carrying out acts of terror in the war-ravaged Arab country.
A…
Bodies of 39 Indian workers kidnapped by Daesh found in Iraq
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The bodies of 39 Indian construction workers kidnapped in Iraq in 2014 by Daesh Takfiri terrorists have been found in a mass grave, India's foreign minister said Tuesday.
Sushma Swaraj told the upper house of…
Baghdad resumes paying salaries of Kurds frozen over secession vote
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Iraq's federal government has announced resumption of paying the salaries of Kurdish civil servants and Peshmerga security forces, which had been frozen in the wake of tensions between Baghdad government and Kurdish…
Iraqi PM reopens Kurdistan airports to international flights
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Iraq has ended a nearly six-month air blockade imposed on its Kurdistan after the semi-autonomous region held a controversial referendum on secession last September.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said…
Daesh militants kill over two dozen civilians, Hashd al-Sha’abi fighters in Iraq
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Remnants of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group have shot and killed more than two dozen civilians and pro-government fighters in two separate attacks amid ongoing counter-terrorism operations to purge the extremists from…
Senior Daesh figures still hiding in Mosul tunnels, Iraqi officials
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Iraqi security officials have warned that the high-ranking members of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist groups are still hiding in tunnels dug beneath the country’s strategic northern city of Mosul roughly a year after…