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Day after rocket attack on military base, Pompeo arrives in Iraq
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Cairo [Egypt], Dec 29 (Sputnik/ANI): US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited the Iraqi Ayn Al-Asad airbase in western Anbar province, which hosts American troops, shortly after a rocket attack on another Iraqi military base in the northern province of Kirkuk, media reported.
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Iraq President says he'd rather quit than designate PM nominee rejected by
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], Dec 27 (ANI): Iraqi President Barham Salih said on Thursday he would rather resign than designate Asaad Al-Eidani as Prime Ministerial candidate whose appointment would not placate anti-government protesters in the country.
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Iraq: US Forces capture leader of paramilitary Sunni tribal fighters
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], Dec 20 (ANI): US Forces on Thursday (local time) captured a leader of paramilitary Sunni tribal fighters in Jubba area at the town of al-Baghdadi, some 190 km northwest of the Iraqi capital city Baghdad.
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Iraq: 4 killed in firing in Baghdad shooting
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], Dec 07 (Sputnik/ANI): Four people were killed during a rally in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Friday after a group of unidentified armed men opened fire on demonstrators, a source at the Iraqi High Commission for Human Rights told Sputnik.
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Rockets strike US military base in Iraq, no casualties
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], Dec 4 (ANI): Multiple rockets hit an airbase that houses US troops in western Iraq's Anbar province on Tuesday but no casualties were reported, the Iraqi military said.
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Iraq: Parliament approves PM Adel Abdul Mahdi's resignation
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], Dec 1 (ANI): Amid weeks of deadly anti-government protests in the country, Iraqi parliament on Sunday approved Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi's resignation during a parliament session held here.
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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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Iraq: 6 killed in three blasts across Baghdad
Updated : 6 years, 4 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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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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