IRAQ WARS - POLICY DAILY

Two rockets target coalition troops in Iraq, no casualties

Apr 30, 2022 (AFP)

"Two rockets fell outside the Iraqi base of Ain al-Asad," a security forces statement said, adding there were no "losses". The base, controlled by Iraq, is loca...

Iraqi Communists raise flag for women's rights, secular politics

Apr 29, 2022 (AFP)

For now the movement with the hammer-and-sickle banner and the peace dove logo -- Iraq's oldest active political party, founded in 1934 -- claims only a few tho...

Iraqi Christians celebrate first Easter 'Holy Fire'

Apr 24, 2022 (AFP)

With chanting and prayers, excited crowds gathered Saturday night to greet the flame's arrival at the Syriac Christian Orthodox Mar Matta monastery of Saint Mat...

Iraq exhibits restored art pillaged after 2003 invasion

Apr 23, 2022 (AFP)

Around one hundred items are on display in the capital, returned and restored nearly two decades after they were looted. Many of the works, including pieces by ...

Iran-Saudi talks resume in Iraq

Apr 23, 2022 (AFP)

"Talks resumed last Thursday in Baghdad," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity, and without giving further details. Iran's Nour news agency con...

Iraq ex-minister's minor fine in graft case sparks anger

Apr 21, 2022 (AFP)

Louay al-Khatib was given a one-year suspended sentence and fined one million Iraqi dinars (around $685) by a Baghdad court earlier this month, according to the...

Iraq 'green belt' neglected in faltering climate fight

Apr 19, 2022 (AFP)

Sixteen years after its inception, only a fraction of the 76-kilometre (47-mile) crescent-shaped strip of greenery has materialised, though the years proved a d...

9 schoolteachers among 11 dead in Iraq minibus crash

Apr 16, 2022 (AFP)

The accident happened in Babylon province around midnight as the group was returning in a minibus from the Shiite holy city of Karbala, a police source said. Th...

Ericsson says new US fines likely over Iraq corruption

Apr 14, 2022 (AFP)

Chief executive Borje Ekholm conceded in a newspaper interview in February that some of Ericsson employees may have bribed IS members for road transport through...

Iran urges Iraq against hosting 'disruptive security presence'

Apr 14, 2022 (AFP)

His comments follow accusations by Iran last month that Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region had hosted a "strategic centre" used by Tehran's arch enemy Israel. "...

Iraq official warns of jihadist threat from Syria camp

Apr 09, 2022 (AFP)

Al-Hol, in the Kurdish-controlled northeast, is Syria's largest camp for displaced people. It houses about 56,000 including displaced Syrians and Iraqi refugees...

Dutch 'should apologise for 2015 Iraq strike': study

Apr 08, 2022 (AFP)

The bombing by Dutch F-16 fighter planes targeting the Islamic State group also caused hundreds of serious injuries and damaged thousands of homes and shops, sa...

Iraq suspends TV satire show for 'insulting' military

Apr 05, 2022 (AFP)

UTV network, owned by the son of renowned Sunni Muslim politician Khamis al-Khanjar, had on Monday broadcast an episode of the "With Mulla Talal" programme that...

Shareholders sanction Ericsson board over Iraq corruption

Mar 29, 2022 (AFP)

Shareholders representing more than the required 10 percent voted against discharging the board and CEO Borje Ekholm from liabilities, a normally routine decisi...

Iraqi-Kurd politician arrested for offending top Shiite cleric

Mar 28, 2022 (AFP)

Nayef Kurdistani "was arrested by the Kurdistan region's security forces" and is being held in custody in the Kurdish capital Arbil, the autonomous region's int...

In a 'dangerous' land: tourists trickle back to Iraq

Mar 27, 2022 (AFP)

Most foreigners here since Saddam's ouster in a 2003 US-led invasion have worn army fatigues and carried guns -- but more recently there has been a trickle of c...

Mosul's Old City rises from rubble in war-scarred Iraq

Mar 09, 2022 (AFP)

Mosques, churches and century-old houses are being brought back to life in the northern metropolis, which the Islamic State group seized as its stronghold befor...

Iraqis protest rise in food prices, officials blame Ukraine war

Mar 09, 2022 (AFP)

For about a week, the price of cooking oils and flour have skyrocketed in local markets as government officials have sought to address growing anger with variou...

Iraq's delayed presidential vote back on

Mar 05, 2022 (AFP)

MPs, whose job it is to elect the president, a largely ceremonial role reserved for a Kurd, set a three-day period for candidates to register, an AFP correspond...

800 Iraqi refugees return home from Syria

Mar 03, 2022 (AFP)

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the first group left on buses via the Al-Yarubiyah border crossing. The Iraqi government has "agreed to the return ...