Iraq

Saudi Arabia’s Cabinet has approved a memorandum of understanding with Iraq to enhance financial intelligence cooperation, focusing on anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing measures. The agreement, endorsed during the…
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A bus carrying Shiite pilgrims from Pakistan to Iraq crashed in central Iran, killing at least 28 people, an official said Wednesday. The crash happened Tuesday night in the central Iranian province of Yazd, said Mohammad Ali Malekzadeh,…
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Ten years ago, their village in Iraq’s Sinjar region was decimated by Daesh militants. Yazidi men and boys were separated and massacred, Yazidi women and children were abducted, many raped or taken as slaves. Now the survivors are coming…
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Senior Turkish and Iraqi officials will hold high-level talks in Ankara on Thursday to develop cooperation on security issues, a Turkish diplomatic source said on Wednesday. The neighbors have in recent years been at loggerheads over…
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A rocket attack on a base in Iraq wounded multiple US personnel on Monday, officials said, adding to already heightened regional tensions over an expected Iranian counterattack on Israel. The rocket fire is the latest in a series of…
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Turkiye staged new artillery strikes against Kurdish separatist positions in northern Iraq, the defense ministry and Iraqi sources said Saturday. While President Recep Tayyip Erdogan this month said operations against the Kurdistan…
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The Iraqi government announced Tuesday an official ban on a Kurdish separatist group which has been engaged in a long-running conflict with Turkiye. Turkiye has been seeking greater cooperation from Baghdad in its fight against the…
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Iraq wants troops from a US-led military coalition to begin withdrawing in September and to formally end the coalition’s work by September 2025, four Iraqi sources said, with some US forces likely to remain in a newly negotiated advisory…
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Jordanian Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Saleh Kharabsheh announced on Sunday that Jordan had received approval from the Iraqi government to renew the memorandum of understanding for crude oil supply, Jordan News Agency reported.…
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The US Central Command said on Wednesday that the Daesh group is trying “to reconstitute” as the number of attacks in Syria and Iraq is on track to double this year, compared to the year before. Daesh claimed 153 attacks in the two…
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