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YemenExtra Y.A Turkey has carried out airstrikes in northern Iraq against the strongholds of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants, whom it says were planning to launch attacks on Turkish soil. The military said on…

YemenExtra Y.A The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) says children account for nearly half the 2.6 million Iraqis who have been displaced since three years ago, when the Daesh Takfiri terrorists began a deadly campaign.…

YemenExtra Y.A A new study has found a sharp drop in the number of people killed in Iraq and Syria due to terror attacks in 2017, which saw the territorial defeat of Daesh, the world’s most notorious terror group, in both Arab states.…

YemenExtra Y.A The Iraqi Kurdistan’s politics have stepped into a new chapter following the September 25 2017 secession referendum whose consequences marked the defeat of efforts of Masoud Barzani to separate the semi-autonomous…

YemenExtra M.A. Hezbollah Secretary General, Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah, is to appear in an interview with Al-Mayadeen TV tonight (Wednesday, January 3). Lebanese journalist and TV anchor Sami Kleib is to conduct the interview with the…

YemenExtra Y.A The so-called Islamic State’s (ISIS) official media wing alleged on Tuesday that their terrorist carried out 771 suicide bombings in both Iraq and Syria. According to Al-Amaq, ISIS carried out 493 suicide attacks…

YemenExtra Y.A Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s military and other international forces fighting Daesh in Syria and Iraq have cut the terrorist group’s numbers to less than 1,000 militants. “Due to the commitment of the coalition…

YemenExtra Y.A On the eve of Christmas, church bells have rung out again at Saint Paul’s Church in Mosul for the first time in three years, after the city was liberated from "Daesh" , backed by Saudi Arabia, (IS; formerly ISIS, ISIL).…

YemenExtra Y.A The Kurdistan Democratic Party, governing in Iraqi Kurdistan, has not yet commented on the ongoing protests in the region. Protesters demanding the ouster of authorities from the semi-autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan,…

YemenExtra Y.A A few years back, the prospects of the Iraqi nation emerging from the its latest civil strife seemed unimaginable as the Islamic State terror group swept through through most of Anbar, the Tigris basin, and the fertile…