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Iraqi forces recapture university near Ramadi
    BAGHDAD — Iraqi government forces recaptured a university campus Sunday on the outskirts of Ramadi from Daesh (the so-called IS) group, seizing a key position for any offensive to retake the city, officials said.   Iraqi forces had recaptured parts of Anbar ...
Iraq attacks kill at least 30
BAGHDAD — Car bomb attacks in Baghdad and the Iraqi province of Diyala, mostly claimed by Daesh (the so-called IS) group, have killed at least 30 people, police and medical sources said Wednesday. The deadliest of the attacks was in the ...
Iraq studying fresh plan on where to bury radioactive waste: Official
Dina Al-Shibeeb BAGHDAD — Iraq’s government is studying how to get rid of its radioactive waste after many of the country’s provinces declined to have the toxic materials buried in their soil, an official told Al Arabiya News last week. Most of ...
Feeling the heat, Thursday declared a holiday in Iraq
BAGHDAD —  Iraq’s government has declared Thursday an official holiday because of a heatwave. A cabinet statement said several provinces had reported temperatures above 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit), particularly grueling for people who are not eating or drinking during ...
String of Baghdad bombings kills 21
    Baghdad — A string of bomb explosions, including two suicide attacks, killed at least 21 people and wounded 62 in neighborhoods of Baghdad, Iraqi police and medical sources said. The northeastern area of Al-Shaab was rocked by two explosions, at ...
First batch of US F-16 jets arrives in Iraq
BAGHDAD — Iraq received a first batch of F-16 fighter jets from the United States on Monday, Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi's office said. Iraq ordered 36 of the $65 million Lockheed Martin Corp planes, but initial deliveries were delayed because of security ...
Daesh releases new footage of 2014 Tikrit massacre
    Baghdad — The Daesh (the so-called IS) terrorist group on Saturday released new footage of its June 2014 massacre of hundreds of mostly military recruits in Tikrit. The highest estimates put at 1,700 the number of cadets the Daesh gunmen captured ...
Iraqi troops, militias repel Daesh attack on Anbar town
    BAGHDAD — Government forces and Shiite militiamen repelled a Daesh (the so-called IS) group attack Friday that left 10 soldiers dead in western Iraq's Anbar province, officials said. The militants attacked the government-held town of Khalidiyah with mortars and five suicide ...
Iraqi court sentences 24 to hang over Tikrit killings
    BAGHDAD — An Iraqi court sentenced 24 people to death on Wednesday over the killing of hundreds of soldiers at a former US military base near Tikrit during an offensive by Daesh (the so-called IS) militants, an official said. As many ...
Iraq warplane accidentally bombs Baghdad, killing 7
    BAGHDAD — A bomb fell from an Iraqi Sukhoi warplane and exploded in eastern Baghdad on Monday because of a “technical problem,” killing at least seven people, security and medical officials said.   “One of the bombs became stuck because of a ...
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