1 year agoBasra protesters are back. Tires burning in commercial street. Iraq security forces have been deployed those areas.
Police fire live rounds to disperse protest in Iraq's Basra
1 year agoAn image shows one of many Basra protesters fainted after inhaling the tear gas that was fired by Iraq security forces tonight.
Iraq's FM summons Turkish ambassador over yesterday's air strikes on Sinjar and Makhmour camp, handing him a letter of protest
1 year agoProtests resume in the oil-rich city of Basra, in southern Iraq. Protesters block the main road of the city's Provincial Council, demand better services and jobs.
8 suspected terrorists were killed in air strikes in the north of Iraq, Zap and Hakurk areas
In Iraq, Office of Baghdad Mayor: the water color in some areas of Baghdad has changed because of high levels of mud in the Tigris River.
Three suspected terrorists killed by air strikes on the border between Diyala and Salahaddin
1 year agoErbil police officers rescue a child stranded in the middle of a flooded road as heavy rainfall continued to affect areas this week.
More than 20 combat aircraft, as well as unmanned aerial vehicles and tanker aircraft, took part in the campaign against PKK targets in northern Iraq last night
1 year agoResidents of the Makhmour refugee camp are condemning Turkey's airstrikes in which 4 members of the Self Defence Units were killed (Pictures: @h_dogancetin)
1 year agoIraqi Parliament Speaker Mohammed al-Halbousi has arrived in Erbil. He will meet with KRG officials and pay a visit to Lalish.
Mayor of Makhmour says they have lost contact with a refugee camp sheltering Kurds from Turkey after Turkish airstrikes
Turkish fighter jets bombarded 5 PKK targets in Shlo and Sakina villages western Sinjar. Casualties feared.
Turkey's Ministry of Defense confirms that it conducted airstrikes against PKK positions in Mount Qarachokh and Shingal.
Turkish warplanes have targeted PKK bases in Sinjar and Qarachokh mount.
1 year agoInherent Resolve:Coalition Forces, in coordination with ISF, struck an ISIS tunnel in the Makhoul Mountains in the Salah ad Din province of Iraq, Dec. 10. ISF surveyed the site afterwards and confirmed the tunnel, and the weapons and explosives inside, were destroyed completely. DefeatISIS
Interior Ministry orders sacking of more than 125 Kurdish policemen in Kirkuk
Amnesty International report: Islamic State group's decapture destruction of agriculture in northern Iraq has hindered the return of residents.
US Secretary of energy @SecretaryPerry asked Kurds to cut their ties with Iran specially in the case of oil exporting by tankers from Kirkuk.
1 year agoFierce clashes ongoing between PKK and Turkish army near Kani Mase, northeastern Duhok.
More than 15 militants have escaped from Suse prison in Sulaimani. Large search scale undergoing by security forces.
Per @brett_mcgurk, "A couple of thousand.of the most hardened ISIS fighters" remain holed up in the Hajin and DeirEzZor area On October 2, when asked how many ISIS were in the area, @OIRSpox told Pentagon reporters, "We always said around between, you know, 1,000 and 2,000"
[email protected]'s @brett_mcgurk called the SDF incursion into Hajin "a pretty significant achievement" while talking to reporters Tuesday but cautioned retaking the last 1% of the so-called caliphate from ISIS would require "a period of months"
Inherent Resolve: Between Dec. 2 and Dec. 8, CJTF-OIR conducted 251 strikes consisting of 494 engagements in Syria and Iraq.
Mike Pompeo: Iran supports terrorists in Afghanistan, Lebanon and Iraq
1 year agoJasib Abbas Darraji of Brigade 4 Badr Military Wing was killed after striking an IED north of Baquba today.
"We have managed, thanks to the great work our folks are doing out there, to target and capture and detain some of his closest associates" per @brett_mcgurk on ISIS leader Baghdadi "If he's still with us, I don't think it will be for too much longer"
ISIS leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, "He is in deep, deep hiding at best" per @StateDept's @brett_mcgurk "There have been times we thought he was no longer around and he would issue an audio tape, so it's hard to say" if he's alive "Know for sure, he was in very very deep hiding"
"Ballpark we're talking a period of months" to defeat ISIS in Hajin stronghold, per @brett_mcgurk
