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Muqtada al-Sadr, an Iraqi influential Shia cleric, who had initiated a protest at the gates of the Green Zone in Baghdad to request a cabinet reshuffle and the establishment of a government of technocrats met with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Read more
The US has admitted to having established a base in Iraq after the site came under attack for the second time on Monday by militants of the Islamic State group. The first attack took place three days earlier. Iran-backed Asaib Read more
Qatar’s ministry of energy and industry said the meeting between OPEC members and oil producing non-OPEC countries to be held in April is aimed at reaching “an agreement among producers on freezing their crude output at January levels in order Read more
The war in Iraq against the Islamic State could be taking a new turn after the death of a US marine in a rocket attack by the extremist group on a small outpost near Mahmour, South of Mosul, and the Read more
The Syrian war clocked five years this week and peaceful efforts to end it are going at a snail’s pace in the latest round of peace talks in Geneva. Negotiations are still being held indirectly and both sides still have Read more
Baghdad and Riyadh could be entangled in a politico-diplomatic row after Iraq’s Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari hailed locally-based Shia militia groups and Lebanese Hezbollah organization. The Iraqi minister’s statement led to a march out protest by the Saudi delegation at Read more
A suicide attack in Hilla, 95 kilometers south of Baghdad, claimed by the Islamic State (IS) killed at least 60 people and wounded dozens on Sunday making it the second most fatal single attack since the beginning of the year Read more
“I have a suggestion: Give us the oil and we will give every Kurdish employee a salary like we do for every Iraqi employee,” Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said in an interview on state television. His comments are aimed at Read more
After declaring Ramadi in the Anbar province liberated in December, the Iraqi government announced that the city is fully under the control of its forces after militants of the Islamic State (IS) group were forced out of its suburbs on Read more
The Iraqi government is building concrete barriers around northern and northwestern Baghdad alongside trenches as part of a security measure against attacks from militant groups. According to spokesman of the Iraqi Interior ministry Brigadier General Saad Maan, the barriers will Read more