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UN chief Ban Ki-moon arrives in Baghdad for talks
BAGHDAD — United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Baghdad on Monday for talks with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi and other top officials. He is also due to meet President Fuad Masum, Foreign Minister Ibrahim Al-Jaafari and parliament speaker Salim ...
Iraq request for US-led Tikrit air strikes ‘imminent’
    BAGHDAD — Iraq’s request to the US-led coalition for air strikes in the campaign to retake Tikrit from the self-proclaimed Islamic State group is “imminent,” a senior diplomat from a Western nation that is part of the coalition told Reuters ...
Baghdad car bomb kills young Iraqi footballer
    BAGHDAD — A car bombing in Baghdad killed Iraqi footballer Mahdi Abdulzahra on his way to practice, an official from his Electricity Club team said on Tuesday. Abdulzahra, who was born in 1996, was among eight people killed in the ...
Iraqi troops looted homes after breaking IS siege: HRW
BAGHDAD — Iraqi troops and militia looted and burned homes and destroyed villages after breaking the self-declared Islamic State group's months-long siege of a Turkmen town last August, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday. "Following the operations to end the Amerli siege, ...
Glamour over gloom as Baghdad hosts first edition of fashion show
    BAGHDAD — Leggy models in designer clothes strutted down a catwalk in front of Baghdad’s high society for a fashion show that tickled one generation’s nostalgia and filled the next one with hope. Umm Mustafa and her husband canceled all their ...
Iraqi offensive on hold to allow Tikrit civilians to leave
    BAGHDAD — Iraq's Interior Minister says military operations to recapture Tikrit, the city held by the self-proclaimed Islamic State group, have temporarily paused to allow civilians left in Saddam Hussein's hometown to leave.   Mohammed Salem Al-Ghabban says the offensive, which began ...
Besieged militants in Tikrit pounded
  Iraqi Shiite fighters of the government-controlled Popular Mobilization units launch rockets toward Islamic state (IS) group's fighters holed up in the center of the city of Tikrit on Friday during a military operation to retake the city led from its ...
Snipers, bombs slow march on Tikrit
BAGHDAD — Iraqi security forces and mainly Shiite militia exchanged fire sporadically with Islamic State fighters in Tikrit on Thursday, a day after they pushed into Saddam Hussein’s home city in their biggest offensive yet against the militants.   A source at ...
IS attacks Iraq's Ramadi with seven car bombs: police
    Baghdad — The Self-Proclaimed islamic state group launched a coordinated attack on government-held areas of the western Iraqi city of Ramadi on Wednesday, involving seven almost simultaneous suicide car bombs, police said. At least 10 people were killed and 30 wounded ...
Iraqi forces retake town near Tikrit
    BAGHDAD — Iraqi security forces on Tuesday retook a town next to the militant-held city of Tikrit as they pressed their offensive against the self-proclaimed Islamic State group, two military officials said. The Iraqi forces entered Al-Alam early in the morning ...
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