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Reacting to the Sunday suicide attack that killed more than 200 people in Baghdad, the Justice Ministry executed five prisoners on Monday as a show of solidarity with the grieved population. It is unclear if those executed played a role Read more
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi sacked the chief of the Iraqi National Intelligence Service Zuhair al-Gharbawi and replaced him with Mustafa Kadhimi in an unexplained decision. The head of the state media was also relieved off his duties. Abadi also fired Read more
Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi called for the temporal suspension of the weekly Friday protests by followers of influential Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to enable the military to focus on liberating Fallujah. “We ask our dear young people to postpone Read more
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced, late on Sunday, the beginning of a military offensive to retake from the Islamic State group Fallujah, known as the ‘City of Minarets and Mother of Mosques.’ Abadi said in the televised statement “the moment Read more
Muqtada al-Sadr and his supporters ended their sit-in protests in front of the Green Zone in Baghdad after Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi submitted a list of cabinet nominees to the parliament. The prominent Shia cleric has however urged the protesters Read more
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
“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
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi during a meeting with German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier criticized Turkey for not upholding its promise to stop terrorists from entering into Iraq and battling the crucial smuggling of petrol by the Islamic State. Turkish Read more
U.S will be sending at least 100 troops to Iraq as part of a specialized expeditionary force targeting ISIS leaders but the move is not welcomed by authorities in Baghdad. Sources hinted that the number of troops could be around Read more
Iraq’s Central Bank Governor Ali Moshen Ismail highlighted that the nation’s foreign currency reserves will surpass the forecasted $50 billion for 2015 by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by $10 billion without going into details. In spite of the expected Read more