IRAQ WARS - POLICY DAILY

Heritage of Iraq's last few Jews at risk

Mar 03, 2022 (AFP)

Iraq's Jewish community was once one of the largest in the Middle East but its members have dwindled to a handful, outside of the autonomous Kurdistan region. "...

Iraqi president withdraws pardon for ex-governor's son after outcry

Feb 28, 2022 (AFP)

Jawad Louay al-Yasseri, whose father was then governor of the central province of Najaf, was arrested in 2018 and sentenced to life in prison, which amounts to ...

Iraq unveils restoration work at ancient city ravaged by IS

Feb 24, 2022 (AFP)

The jihadists released video footage in 2015 of their orgy of destruction at Hatra in which they took guns and pickaxes to the once extensive remains of what wa...

Drugs, tribes, politics a deadly mix in Iraq border province

Feb 23, 2022 (AFP)

The murders all happened in January and February in one Iraqi province, Maysan, which borders Iran and where drug trafficking, tribal disputes and political sco...

Iraq ex-foreign minister Zebari ruled out of presidential race

Feb 13, 2022 (AFP)

Zebari, 68, who served as foreign minister for a decade after the 2003 US-led invasion that toppled dictator Saddam Hussein, had already been suspended temporar...

Iraq sentences police officer, informant to death over deadly operation

Feb 13, 2022 (AFP)

The two men can appeal the verdict, handed down by the criminal court in the central province of Babylon, a judiciary source told AFP, speaking on condition of ...

UN panel wraps up after Iraq pays $52.4 bn for Kuwait invasion

Feb 09, 2022 (AFP)

Set up in 1991 by UN Security Council Resolution 692 to manage financial compensation owed by Iraq to Kuwait, the commission raised the funds through a five per...

Iraq struggles to make use of Saddam's crumbling palaces

Feb 09, 2022 (AFP)

With their marble columns, ornate carvings and gaudy furniture, they reflected the megalomania and delusions of grandeur of Saddam, who visited some of them onl...

In Iraq's Mosul, library rises from ashes of IS reign

Feb 09, 2022 (AFP)

Now, almost five years after their defeat, the war-battered northern metropolis is trying to rebuild the pride of the city long known as a literature hub boasti...

Mired in poverty, dozens of Lebanese join jihadists in Iraq

Feb 08, 2022 (AFP)

A native of the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, the 22-year-old is one of at least eight men who have been reported killed in Iraq since December 2021, as a ...

Iraq presidential vote in doubt after boycotts, candidate suspension

Feb 07, 2022 (AFP)

A cancellation would be the latest chapter of political turmoil in the war-scarred country which, almost four months after a general election, still hasn't chos...

Iraq turmoil deepens as presidential vote postponed indefinitely

Feb 07, 2022 (AFP)

The sweeping no-show deepens a political crisis in the war-scarred country which, almost four months after a general election, still hasn't chosen a new prime m...

Lebanese museum returns millennia-old antiquities to Iraq

Feb 07, 2022 (AFP)

Sealed wooden boxes transported the 331 tablets bearing ancient cuneiform script from the Nabu Museum in northern Lebanon to Baghdad, an AFP journalist said. Ir...

Iraq political kingmaker Sadr puts vote for president in doubt

Feb 05, 2022 (AFP)

The 73-member bloc's parliamentary chief, Hassan al-Izari, told a news conference they will not attend Monday's session in the 329-seat house, making a vote unl...

Bottom of gender rankings, Iraqi women defy critics to work

Jan 30, 2022 (AFP)

"Society does not accept that a girl can live outside the family home," said 29-year-old Saeedi, who works in Iraq's southern oil and gas fields around Basra. S...

Iraq air strikes kill nine suspects in deadly IS attack

Jan 29, 2022 (AFP)

The January 21 attack, which killed 11 soldiers in Hawi al-Azim in the eastern province of Diyala, was the deadliest claimed by the jihadists in Iraq this year....

Six rockets target Baghdad airport, damaging two planes

Jan 28, 2022 (AFP)

The rockets hit Baghdad International Airport's causing "significant damage to one runway and to two civilian planes", the Civil Aviation department said in a s...

Iraq's battle against IS cells grinds on in the desert

Jan 25, 2022 (AFP)

The small riverside base is ringed by sand berms, a shallow moat and coils of razor wire, and three soldiers in mismatched uniforms are busy strengthening it wi...

Two wounded as rocket fire targets parliament speaker's home: authorities

Jan 25, 2022 (AFP)

Three Katyusha rockets landed some "500 metres" (1,640 feet) from the home of Mohammed al-Halbussi in the Gurma district of Anbar province, west of the capital ...

Arabic oud icon seeks to 'change soul' of Iraq with music

Jan 19, 2022 (AFP)

"When you are in your own country, you feel very high emotions with the audience," the master string player said in an interview with AFP. At nearly 60, the vir...