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Iraq’s defence minister said on Thursday (January 21) the three Americans who went missing in Baghdad last week had been seized by an “organised gang that carries out abductions for blackmail”. In an exclusive interview with Reuters in Cairo, Khaled al-Obaidi did not elaborate. The three men are employed by a small company that is doing work for General Dynamics Corp, under a larger contract with the U.S. Army, according to a source familiar with […]
Iraq said on Monday (January 11) that its air force targeted and destroyed Islamic State targets in the provinces of Salahuddin and Anbar. A statement by the Ministry of Defence said that Iraqi fighter jets conducted air strikes against the Islamic State near and in the city of Falluja in Anbar province. The statement did not say when the air strikes were carried out, but it said that it caused Islamic State heavy losses in […]
JUNE 2 (Reuters) — Iraq said on Monday (June 1) its air force has carried out air strikes against Islamic State militants in areas west and north of the capital Baghdad. A press release by the Ministry of Defense said planes of the Iraqi air force conducted “painful” strikes targeting militant’s hideout and equipment in al-Jazeera in the western Sunni heartland of Anbar province and Samarra in Salahuddin province, north of Baghdad. The statement said […]
Around one thousand runners participated in a two-kilometer race in the center of Baghdad on Monday (April 6), which has been officially designated as Iraq’s Sport Day by the Ministry of Youth and Sports. The race started at 10am local time in Abu Nawas Street, continued alongside the Tigris River and ended in a soccer field on the same street. The weather was kind to the so-called ‘victory marathon’, with sunny conditions throughout. The race […]
Hope was in the air in Baghdad city over the weekend as hundreds of colorful lanterns were released into the sky signaling Iraqis’ wishes for peace and stability in the country. Flying sky lanterns that decorated the evening sky on Saturday (March 21), more than three thousand young men and women flocked to a festival organized by the young group ‘Anummaki’. The festival aimed to signal a sign of support for more than 20,000 troops […]
(Reuters) — A suicide car bombing on Tuesday (October 14) killed a parliament member and 24 others in a Shi’ite neighborhood in Baghdad, according to police and medical officials, as Islamic State attacked towns in western Anbar province. The third straight day of bombings in Shi’ite parts of Baghdad and an offensive in Anbar province that saw strategic towns threatened by Islamic State pointed to the dire security situation in Iraq. The blast in Baghdad, claimed by Islamic State, occurred late afternoon as cars […]
BAGHDAD Mon Jul 21, 2014 4:30pm EDT (Reuters) – Ten people were killed, including a mother and three children, in a government air strike on a militant-controlled town north of Baghdad on Monday, hospital sources and witnesses said. The attack targeted the town of Hawija, 230 km (140 miles) from the capital, which is controlled by Sunni Muslim insurgents from the Islamic State and other groups opposed to Iraq’s Shi’ite-led government. A tribal leader and […]
(Reuters) – Iraqi government forces battled Sunni rebels for control of the country’s biggest refinery on Thursday as Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki waited for a U.S. response to an appeal for air strikes to beat back the threat to Baghdad. The sprawling Baiji refinery, 200 km (130 miles) north of the capital near Tikrit, was a battlefield as troops loyal to the Shi’ite-led government held off insurgents from the Islamic State of Iraqand the Levant and […]
By Kareem Raheem and Kamal Naama (Reuters) — A wave of car bombs exploded across Baghdad on Saturday, killing more than 60 people, and militants stormed a university campus in western Iraq, security and medical sources said. In total, there were a dozen blasts in mainly Shi’ite districts of the capital, the deadliest of which occurred in Bayaa, where a car bomb left 23 people dead, many of them young men playing billiards. “I was about […]
(Reuters) – Bombs exploded in predominantly Shi’ite Muslim districts of the Iraqi capital and in the southern city of Hilla on Tuesday, killing at least 49 people, police and hospital sources said. No group immediately claimed responsibility for any of the attacks, but Shi’ites are often targeted by Sunni Islamist insurgents who have been regaining ground in Iraq over the past year and overran several towns in recent weeks. The deadliest attacks on Tuesday occurred […]
