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UN launches appeal for children’s health in Iraq
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The United Nations children's fund, UNICEF, has launched an appeal for the construction of facilities that could help the children’s health situation in areas in Iraq that have been affected by the Daesh Takfiri…
US has no plan to contribute to rebuilding post-Daesh Iraq: Officials
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US and Western officials say Washington has no plan to allocate money to the reconstruction of Iraq, ravaged by the war against the Takfiri Daesh terror group, at an upcoming international fund-raising conference in…
83 killed in ‘war on children’ across Mideast in past month, says UNICEF
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The UN children's agency (UNICEF) says at least 83 children were killed in Middle East war zones in January.
Geert Cappelaere , UNICEF's regional director for the Middle East and North Africa, announced the figure in…
‘Iraq combing Anbar for remaining Daesh terrorists’
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The Iraqi army is reportedly combing through the expansive western Anbar Province for possible pockets of the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group, which the country defeated territorially last December.
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Iraqi Hashd al-Sha’abi forces find dozens of bodies in mass grave in Kirkuk
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Iraqi fighters from the Popular Mobilization Units have found a mass grave in the country’s northern province of Kirkuk, which contained the bodies of dozen of civilians believed to have been executed by Daesh Takfiri…
Iraqi parliament votes to lift sanctions on Kurdistan-based banks
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The Iraqi lawmakers have voted to end sanctions imposed on banks operating in the country’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, some four months after the Central Bank of Iraq ordered private banks to halt their branches’…
Most civilian deaths in Iraq, Syria occurred under Trump: Report
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Over three-quarters of civilian deaths in Iraq and Syria during the so-called US-led war against the Daesh terror group, also known as ISIL, occurred under Donald Trump's presidency, according to new figures by the US…
US firm halts repair of Abrams tanks in Iraq over Hashd al-Sha’abi
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The United States has suspended a maintenance program for Abrams tanks in Iraq because one of the military vehicles has allegedly been provided to the popular Hashd al-Sha'abi force, the Iraqi press has reported. …
Muqtada Sadr slams US killing of Iraqi forces
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Senior Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has slammed a recent US airstrike that killed eleven people in Anbar Province, saying the air raid was part of Washington’s repeated violations of the Arab country’s sovereignty.…
‘Apartheid state’: UN Slams Israel For human rights violation
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On Tuesday, the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) held a session aimed at assessing the progress Israel made during its third Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a UN-backed process designed to assess the human rights record…