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Eleven people including nine schoolteachers died in a head-on road crash south of Baghdad as they returned from a Ramadan meal, Iraqi officials announced Saturday, Arab New reports. A police source indicated the crash was caused by speed, adding that Read more
The renewed Iraqi parliament held Sunday its first session in the capital Baghdad, almost three months after legislative polls. The parliament, Anadolu news agency reported citing Iraqi state-run news agency INA, is due to elect a speaker and two deputies Read more
Two Katyusha rockets hit Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone that houses the US embassy, reports said Sunday. The Green Zone in Baghdad was the target of two Katyusha rockets. The first was shot down in the air by C-RAM defense batteries, Read more
Iraq is set to invite Iran’s new President Ebrahim Raisi to attend a regional conference in Baghdad late this month that will also include Saudi Arabia. Iraqi top diplomat Fouad Hussein, according to his department, landed in Teheran Wednesday in Read more
15 people were injured Wednesday in a bomb explosion inside a popular market in the Shia-majority Sadr City in eastern Baghdad, reports say. The blast, a security source in the Baghdad police department, indicated that an explosive device went off Read more
A farmer and his son died Sunday in a roadside bomb explosion in the southern part of Iraqi capital Baghdad, Xinhua news agency reports. The explosion, Chinese news agency notes citing a statement by the Iraqi Joint Operations Command (JOC), Read more
Unidentified gunmen killed Monday in his car a senior officer of the Iraqi intelligence services, second such incident this year. Col. Nebras Farman was killed in an attack by unidentified gunmen on his car in the Shia-dominated eastern district of Read more
Iraqi Health minister Hassan al-Tamimi resigned Tuesday following his suspension in the wake of last month’s deadly fire which killed 130 people, including Covid-19 patients in a hospital in capital Baghdad. Al-Tamimi, reports say, submitted his resignation to Prime Minister Read more
The Iraqi cabinet Sunday suspended health minister and Baghdad Governor as part of investigations into a fire that killed 82 on Saturday at local hospital in Capital Baghdad, reports say. A special Sunday Cabinet session headed by Mustafa Al-Kadhimi suspended Read more
A number of rocket attacks hit a military base hosting NATO forces in Iraq, a few days after the alliance said it would send more 3,500 boots to the country in view of increasing the fight against the Islamic state Read more