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Amid scars of war, Iraqi archbishop readies for pope

Mar 01, 2021 (AFP)

Amid the cleanup and reconstruction, the priest has ensured some scars of war from IS's brutal campaign remain -- a broken chalice, a smashed cross on a church ...

Pope's upcoming Iraq trip is 'dangerous': Benedict

Mar 01, 2021 (AFP)

"I think it's a very important trip," the 93-year-old pope emeritus, who lives in a monastery in the Vatican City, told the Corriere della Sera daily. "Unfortun...

Once ravaged by IS, Iraq's Sinjar caught in new tug-of-war

Feb 27, 2021 (AFP)

The Islamic State group overran Sinjar in 2014 and pursued a brutal, months-long campaign of massacres, enslavement and rape against Yazidis in what the UN has ...

Iran calls for perpetrators of anti-US attacks in Iraq to be identified

Feb 27, 2021 (AFP)

A volley of rockets on Monday targeted the high-security Green Zone in the Iraqi capital, where the American and other foreign embassies are based. The attack w...

4 protesters killed in clashes with Iraq security forces

Feb 26, 2021 (AFP)

Protesters have defied a second wave of coronavirus infections and renewed lockdown measures to vent their anger at the government over poor public services. Si...

Protester killed in south Iraq, second in days: medic

Feb 25, 2021 (AFP)

Protesters have defied a second wave of coronavirus infections and renewed lockdown measures to keep up a long-running anti-government movement in the capital o...

Senior Iraq MP target of international extortion bid

Feb 24, 2021 (AFP)

Dual raids were launched after a string of attacks on a Sydney home and online extortion attempts linked to an address in Canada. The target was the family of a...

Rockets target US embassy in Iraqi capital: military

Feb 22, 2021 (AFP)

The attack is the third in a week to target Western diplomatic, military or commercial installations across Iraq after months of relative calm. At least two roc...

Clashes between Iraqi forces and IS leave at least 7 dead

Feb 20, 2021 (AFP)

A joint force of army troops and state-sponsored tribal fighters raided an IS hideout in the leafy plains of Tarmiyah, according to a statement from the militar...

Erdogan sues opposition rival over Iraq death claim

Feb 18, 2021 (AFP)

Turkey accuses outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants of executing 13 police officers and security personnel, whom they had abducted in Turkey and he...

Western allies condemn Iraq rocket attack

Feb 17, 2021 (AFP)

The firing of more than a dozen rockets in the northwest of the Kurdish regional capital Arbil on Monday wounded at least 14 people, as well as fatally injuring...

Iraq rocket attack kills foreigner, wounds several US contractors

Feb 16, 2021 (AFP)

The attack late Monday was the first time in nearly two months that Western military or diplomatic installations have been targeted in Iraq, after a string of s...

In Iraq, generous Mideast tradition of 'istiftah' lives on

Feb 16, 2021 (AFP)

For a country as famously hospitable as Iraq, where lunch tables are often overflowing with platters of meat as big as truck tyres, the custom of "istiftah", wh...

UN slams deadly Iraq rocket attack as 'reckless'

Feb 16, 2021 (AFP)

The attack late Monday was the first time in nearly two months that Western military or diplomatic installations have been targeted in Iraq after a series of si...

Iraq: String of attacks on Western targets

Feb 16, 2021 (AFP)

A US-led international coalition has been in Iraq since 2014 to help local forces fight the Islamic State jihadist group. Here is a summary of the attacks. - Ro...

In first, Iraq arrests four suspects in protest killings

Feb 14, 2021 (AFP)

The arrests would represent the first major step towards justice for some of the nearly 600 Iraqis killed in protest-related violence, including assassinations,...

Iraq's Sadr backs early vote in rare appearance

Feb 10, 2021 (AFP)

Iraq is meant to hold early parliamentary elections this year, a central demand of an anti-government protest movement which erupted in 2019 and involved Sadr's...

Iraqi manuscript saved from jihadists presented to Pope

Feb 10, 2021 (AFP)

The book, Sidra, written in the ancient language of Aramaic and dating to the 14th and 15th century, will soon be returned to Qaraqosh, one of the places the po...

Iraq hangs five 'terrorism' convicts: security sources

Feb 09, 2021 (AFP)

The five men, all Iraqi, were executed in the Nasiriyah prison in Dhi Qar province, the only one in Iraq that carries out capital punishment, the security sourc...

Pope hails dialogue ahead of meeting with Iraq cleric

Feb 08, 2021 (AFP)

The March 5-8 visit -- the first ever by a pope -- will include stops in Baghdad, Najaf, Nasiriya, Erbil, Mosul and Qaraqosh, according to the official itinerar...