6 month agoIraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and the KDP candidate for the Iraqi presidency meet in Baghdad.
6 month agoPassengers, crew survive plane crash near Kifri
Iran Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi: The ridiculous justification for closing the US consulate in Basra raises doubts
Iraqi Security Forces arrest 2 militants planting improvised explosive devices in street in Sayyidiya area of south Baghdad.
6 month agoNo casualties reported in emergency Iraqi fighter jet landing around Khurmatu - MoD
PM @HaiderAlAbadi: Iraq today is a united, strong nation that can look forward to a better future with confidence
Iraqi MP from Basra: the statements of some MPs are what caused the US to close its consulate in Basra. They made statements that US was behind Basra protests.
6 month agoA slight change in the unofficial results for the early voting in the Kurdistan Region.
US State Department orders the departure of its employees from the Basra Consulate in Iraq.
Iraqi government regrets US's decision to withdraw US consular staff from Basrah, Iraq is committed to protect and secure foreign diplomatic missions - MFA
6 month agoFrom Basra tonight: Protesters gather at Abdul Kareem Kassim Square to discuss mass demonstrations.
6 month agoThis is the first official announcement that the latest assassinations in Iraq were not coincidental. PM Haidar Abadi directs security forces to focus efforts to take action on murders that happened high level implementation in concurrent timing in Baghdad and Basra
Iraqi PM Abadi has ordered an investigation into abductions and murders in Basra and Baghdad, demanding results within 48 hours
6 month agoThe Global Coalition to Fight ISIS has come up with guidelines on terminology to avoid. For example: - Avoid" "Lone Wolf" - Why? "'Wolf' has a positive, almost heroic connotation. Care should be taken not to glorify criminal activity."
6 month agoTurkish armed unit enters Shapan village in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
Special election kicked off in Iraqi Kurdistan, by which 17,469 members of Peshmergaand Kurdish security personals vote in 99 voting stations
6 month agoPeshmerga and security personnel, police stand in long queues in Amedi to cast ballots as KurdistanVotes in early elections
Early voting begins in Kurdistan Region
Reports that 3 rockets fell near the US Consulate at Basra International about an hour ago.
6 month agoIraqi female model Tara Faris -who was in Baghdad for a one-week visit- was assassinated today: "The body showed traces of six bullets" She is the latest of a string of assassinations of female activists in Baghdad and other Iraqi cities in the last weeks.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Thursday dismissed Lieutenant-General Jamil al-Shammari, an army commander in Basra, against the backdrop of ongoing violent protests in the country's south.
Coalition planes destroy ISIS weapons cache, kill 3 fighters near Makhmour
6 month agoFederal Police say 18 ISIS militants killed in Makhmour
Iraqi Security Forces kill suicide bomber attempting to target convoy in Jalawla subdistrict in Diyala Province.
In Iraqi election news, MP from Building Alliance: there is movement in Parliament towards withdrawing confidence in PM Abadi because of Basra.
Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolay Patrushev: There is a risk of the transfer by U.S. and some of its allies groups from Syria and Iraq to Afghanistan.
Moqtada Sadr met with Hassan Nasrallah, Qassem Soleimani in Beirut earlier this month to hammer out consensus to back Adel Abdulmahdi for PM.
6 month agoMakhmour At 11:40 am, the dens of ISIS militants were bombed on Mount Qahrajog in Makhmour district
PM @HaiderAlAbadi: During the past few days, our security forces conducted large-scale operations to hunt down militants trying to cross into Iraq from Syria
