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Iraqi forces takeover Kirkuk province
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], Oct.20 (ANI): Iraqi armed forces on Friday took control of the last district in the oil-rich province of Kirkuk.
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Iraqi army launches operation in Kirkuk
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Erbil [Iraq], Oct 16 (ANI): The Iraqi security forces have begun operations to take over military bases and oil wells from Peshmerga of the oil-rich Kurdish city, asserted the Iraqi Kurdish Regional Government (IKBY) Security Agency.
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Iraq forces recapture Hawija from ISIS
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], Oct 5 (ANI): The Iraqi Army on Thursday announced the capture of the town of Hawija and surrounding areas from the Islamic State.
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Iraqi Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani dies
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], Oct 3 (ANI): Jalal Talabani,the Kurdish leader and the first president of Iraq under its postwar Constitution, has passed away in hospital in Berlin, Germany, at the age of 83.
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Israel denies involvement in Iraqi Kurdistan referendum
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Tel Aviv [Israel], October 2 (ANI): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rebuffed the claims by the Turkish Government of Israeli involvement in the Kurdish referendum in Iraq.
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Kurds vote in favour of independence from Iraq
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Irbil [Iraq], September 28 (ANI): Iraqi Kurds have voted overwhelmingly in favour of declaring independence from Iraq in a historic referendum.
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Iran warns of regional chaos from Iraqi Kurd's Independence vote
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Tehran [Iran], September 27 (ANI): Iran has strongly gone vocal about the fact that the Independence vote in Iraqi Kurdistan would trigger "political chaos" in the region.
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Baghdad orders Kurdish region to hand over borders, ports ahead of referen
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], Sep 25 (ANI): Hours before the Kurds get ready to carry out a controversial referendum, Iraq's central government in Baghdad ordered the country's Kurdish region to hand over all border crossings and airports to federal government control late Sunday night, according to a loc
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50 killed, 80 injured in ISIS-claimed twin attacks in Iraq
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], September 14 (ANI):At least 50 people were killed, including some Iranian pilgrims, and over 80 more got injured, when the Islamic State jihadists carried out twin attacks in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah.
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Iraqi parliament votes against Kurdish independence referendum
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], September 13 (ANI): The Iraqi Lawmakers on Tuesday voted against the independence referendum planned by Iraqi Kurdish leaders on September 25 and called on the Prime Minister Haider Abadi to negotiate with them for the unity of the country.
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Kabul: Two Afghan workers for the Iraqi Embassy killed in attack
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 01 (ANI): Two Afghan workers for the Iraqi Embassy in Kabul were killed on Monday after few gunmen launched an attack.
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Iraqi foreign minister not sure about fate of 39 missing Indians
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 24 (ANI): Iraq Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari on Monday he was not sure about fate of 39 missing Indians, who were held captive by Islamic State in Mosul.
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