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Iraqi PM Adel Abdul Mahdi resigns amid anti-government protests
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], Dec 01 (ANI): Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi on Saturday submitted his resignation to Parliament amid ongoing anti-government protests in the capital of Baghdad and in the southern part of the country.
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Iraqi PM Adel Abdul Mahdi announces he will resign
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], Nov 29 (ANI): Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi said on Friday he will submit his resignation to the parliament, in a move that follows weeks of violent anti-government protests in the country and calls for him to step down by the Shiite religious leadership.
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At least 45 protesters shot dead, 152 others wounded in escalating Iraqi u
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Baghdad (Iraq), Nov 29 (Sputnik/ANI): At least 45 demonstrators have been shot dead by security forces and 152 others have been injured amid increasing protest violence in the south of Iraq and the country's capital of Baghdad, local media reported, citing sources.
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Death toll rises, 25 more killed in anti-government protests in southern I
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Nasiriyah [Iraq], Nov 29 (ANI): As many as 25 people were killed on Thursday after security personnel fired tear gas and live ammunition in a bid to disperse anti-government protestors here even as protests turned more violent in other parts of the country, according to medical sources and w
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47 policemen injured in violence outside Iranian consulate in Iraq
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Najaf [Iraq], Nov 28 (Sputnik/ANI): Forty-seven police personnel were wounded in clashes with demonstrators outside the Iranian consulate building in Iraq's southern city of Najaf, Luay Yasiri, the governor of the Najaf province, told Al Arabiya on Thursday.
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Iraq: 6 killed in three blasts across Baghdad
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], Nov 27 (ANI): At least six people were killed and 17 others sustained injuries in three separate blasts in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Tuesday, an official at the country's Interior Ministry told Xinhua news agency.
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Pentagon chief asks for US Navy secretary's resignation over his handling
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], Nov 25 (ANI): US Defence Secretary Mark Esper on Sunday asked for the resignation of Navy Secretary Richard Spencer over his handling of a case involving a Navy SEAL officer who was accused of war crimes in Iraq.
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6 killed, 158 wounded in anti-gov't protests in southern Iraq
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], Nov 24 (ANI): At least six people were killed and some 158 others sustained injuries in anti-government protests in southern provinces of Basra and Dhi Qar on Sunday, the Iraqi Independent High Commission for Human Rights (IHCHR) had said.
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Iraq Boosts Security on Syrian Border to prevent ISIS infiltration
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Moscow[Russia], Nov 24 (Sputnik/ANI) Iraq has ramped up its security infrastructure along the Iraqi-Syrian frontier by increasing its border guards to prevent Islamic State terrorists from finding their way into the country.
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Three people killed in anti-govt protests in Iraq's Nasiriyah
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Nasiriyah [Iraq], Nov 24 (Sputnik/ANI): Three people were killed as a result of protests in Iraq's southern city of Nasiriyah, amid ongoing anti-government demonstrations throughout the country, as per media reports.
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Iran condemns US sanctions on information minister
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Tehran [Iraq], Nov 23 (ANI): Iran's Foreign Ministry on Saturday condemned the fresh move by the United States to sanction the Iranian minister of information and communications technology (ICT).
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Mike Pence makes an unannounced trip to Baghdad to visit US troops, Iraqi
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Nov 23 (ANI): United States Vice President Mike Pence landed in Baghdad on Saturday on an unannounced trip to visit the American troops stationed in the Middle East country and hold talks with Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi.
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