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5 killed, 90 injured in clashes with security forces in Iraq
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Sulaymaniyah [Iraq], Dec 20 (ANI): At least five protestors were shot dead and 90 others got injured amid clashes with security forces in northern Iraq's Kurdish region.
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Iraq suicide car bombing leaves 24 dead
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
London [UK], November 22 (ANI): At least twenty-four persons have lost their lives and over forty have been injured in a suicide car bombing in the northern Iraqi town of Tuz Khurmatu.
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Kurdish Regional Government to hold presidential elections in Nov
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], Oct 29 (ANI): Masoud Barzani, President of Kurdish Regional Government, called for presidential elections in northern Iraq on November 1, a month earlier to the scheduled date (December 7).
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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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Turkish jets hit Kurdistan Workers' Party arms dumps in Iraq
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], Oct 1 (ANI): The Turkish military on Saturday conducted airstrikes on the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) bases in northern Iraq and destroyed arms depots and shelters.
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Erbil urges Baghdad, U.N. to lift air embargo
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], October 1 (ANI): Northern Iraq's Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) has called on the United Nations and the federal government in Baghdad to lift an air embargo imposed on the region following this week's controversial independence referendum.
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Turkish forces kill nine PKK terrorists in counter-terror operations
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], September 30 (ANI): At least nine terrorists of the Kurdistan Workers' Party or the PKK have been killed during counter-terror operations in Turkey and northern Iraq.
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Turkish air force kills 13 in north Iraq air strike
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], September 28 (ANI): Turkish jets killed 13 suspected Kurdish PKK fighters even they struck a target in northern Iraq on Wednesday, the armed forces said in a statement.
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Destroying Daesh would not end problems, says Barzani
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Kurd [Iran] June 22, (ANI) : The President of the Northern Iraq's Kurdish Regional Government (KRG), Masoud Barzani, has saidon Wednesday that destroying the Daesh group would not end problem and urged to address the causes that led to the emergence of the jihadist group.
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ISIS captures about 3,000 people fleeing violence in Iraq: UN report
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New York, Aug. 6 (ANI): The United Nations has said the ISIS militants have captured up to 3,000 people displaced from their homes trying to flee conflict zones in northern Iraq, reportedly killing 12 of them.
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Four workers killed as gunmen attack energy facilities in northern Iraq
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Kirkuk (Iraq), July 31 (ANI): Unidentified gunmen attacked two energy facilities in Iraq's northern province of Kirkuk on Sunday, killing at least four workers in one facility and detonated explosives in the other.
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