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Haidar al-Abadi returns to Baghdad after concluding his visit to Turkey

OIR Spokesman: Last week alone, ISF operations across Iraq have resulted in the arrests of more than 50 suspected militants and the removal of more than 500 improvised explosive devices and munitions.

Alton Kupri bridge on the Erbil-Kirkuk road is being repaired Federal Police-Peshmerga coordination and should be reopened in the next few days.

Erdogan joint press conference with Abadi: Iraqi problems are our problems; We want to open a new border crossing with Iraq; We reopen our consulates in Basra and Nineveh

Big demonstration in Mosul today with people demanding that Kata'ib Sayyid Shuhada remain in the city

The army fired live bullets at the demonstrators at the West Qurna 2 field, and reported more than three casualties.

Iraqi PM @HaiderAlAbadi meets Turkish President @RT_Erdogan in Ankara on Tuesday to discuss trade, security, and watercrisis

ISIS force strength may be close to its peak in 2015. As of June 2018, estimated 28,600 to 31,600 Daesh fighters in Iraq Syria per IG report US intelligence estimates had 33,000 ISIS fighters at group's peak in 2015

Sheikh of Al-Ibrahim clan killed; Rashid Jawad al-Bahloul and one of his companions were killed in an attack by armed militias in the district of Sayed Dakhil, east of Nasariah.

KRG PM @PMBarzani to visit Turkey on 18 October to participate in AKP congress

PM @HaiderAlAbadi: Earlier I announced the dismissal of several senior officials in the Ministry of Electricity and in other ministries. We will replace officials who fail to carry out their duties, are suspected of corruption or those who waste public funds

PM @HaiderAlAbadi: Maintaining good relations with all our neighbours is a key pillar of our foreign policy. This is in the interest of the Iraqi people and for the peace, prosperity and security of the region

PM @HaiderAlAbadi: We recently marked the fourth anniversary of the crimes committed by Daesh against our Yazidi community. Those who instigated, facilitated and carried out these crimes will be held to account. We are working with the UN to ensure there will be no impunity

PM @HaiderAlAbadi: We are investing in upgrading the operational and fighting capabilities of our armed forces. We continue to face a terrorist threat, and we must ensure that our armed and security forces have the equipment and training they need

Iraqi security source: ISIS cells are active in Tarimiyya district north of Baghdad in agricultural areas and have clashed with security forces in recent days. They are a threat to civilians.

Abadi: We are committed not to use the dollar in dealing with Iran and not to apply sanctions

Construction work continue on a steel bridge and joint checkpoints on the road between Erbil and Kirkuk. According to an agreement between KRG and Iraqi Government the Road is due to reopen before the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha on August 22

Iraqi Defense Ministry says East Anbar Operations Command Intelligence has foiled suicide motorcycle attack on alley approaching one of the most popular restaurants in Fallujah.

Iraqi source: rumors of ISIS leader Baghdadi's death led some non-Iraqi ISIS officials to nominate Abu Uthman al-Tunisi as new ISIS leader.

Iranian paramilitary forces deployed members of its "Al-Sabreen Brigade," usually tasked with protecting Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, on the Iraqi-Iranian borders.

Iraqi Security Council, chaired by PM Abadi, refuses the politicization of Irag's position on new US sanctions against Iran. Iraq has deep relations with Iran but is forced to support US sanctions.

Large-scale op launched by Iraq's Federal Police to sweep through the desert region west of Samarra all the way to Lake Tharthar.

One person was killed by an attack on armed militias targeting him in the middle of Al-Amara, Maysan Province.

Photos from earlier in the day. There is a minor presence of sleeper cells on some of the islands in the Tigris so these areas have been struck as well.

Iraq PM Haider al-Abadi cancels visit to sanctions-hit Iran

KRG Electoral Commission sets September 5 as official start date of election campaigns for the September 30 parliamentary elections.

Iraqi Army to take control of Mosul city and Baiji oil refinery, despite Hashd al-Shaabi objections

Chief of Staff of the Kurdish Peshmerga forces Jamal Eminki says that there's not any negotiation between KRG and Iraqi Government to redeploying the Peshmerga Forces in Kirkuk and other disputed areas.

Head of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Units orders the shutdown of all PMU political and economical offices in all provinces of Iraq. Additionally, all PMU forces will withdraw from Mosul.

SDF are building and manning border posts on the border with Iraq,with cooperation with the Iraqi Forces,and are looking for ISIS hideouts and tunnels