Tag: Iraq

Iraqi military marks 101st anniversary as US ends combat mission (Shawn Yuan, Al Jazeera)

The Iraqi armed forces mark their 101st anniversary on Thursday while embarking on a new chapter in their tumultuous history after the United States...

US troops in Syria, Iraq targeted with renewed rocket and drone attacks (Jared Szuba, Al Monitor)

Rockets rained down near bases used by US troops in Iraq and Syria on Wednesday, marking the third straight day of such attacks since...

Iran, Iraq draw up plans for railway connection from Basra to Shalamcheh (Muhammad Jawad Adib, Al Monitor)

The transportation ministers of Iran and Iraq have signed a memorandum of understanding to build the Shalamcheh-Basra railway and Shatt al-Arab bridge. Iran, Iraq draw up...

Postwar development of civil society in Iraq’s mid-Euphrates region (Marsin Alshamary, Brookings)

Although relatively prosperous and stable, the mid-Euphrates region of Iraq has not been successful in producing a civil society that promotes and produces democratic...

Rockets fired at Baghdad’s Green Zone: Iraqi military (Al Jazeera)

Two Katyusha rockets have struck Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, which houses several Western embassies, the Iraqi military has said. One rocket was destroyed in...

Iraq official says US-led combat mission in the country has ended (Al Jazeera)

The United States-led coalition’s combat mission countering ISIL (ISIS) in Iraq has officially ended, according to Iraq’s national security adviser. The announcement on Thursday by Qassim al-Araji...

Kurdish protesters storm the chemical weapons body in The Hague (AFP, Arab News)

Dutch police arrested 50 people on Friday after Kurdish demonstrators alleging that Turkey is using chemical weapons in northern Iraq broke into the headquarters...

Civilians among 10 dead in north Iraq attack blamed on Daesh: officials (AFP, Arab News)

At least three civilians and seven Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters have been killed in northern Iraq in an attack blamed on the Daesh jihadist...

UN says Daesh committed war crimes at Iraqi prison (AP, Arab News)

The head of a UN team investigating atrocities in Iraq said that Daesh extremists committed crimes against humanity and war crimes at a prison...

Iraq Plans More Repatriation Flights As Belarus Tells Migrants They Can Go To EU (RFE RL)

Iraq is sending more planes to repatriate about 800 migrants stranded on the Belarus-Poland border, adding to nearly a thousand already brought home, the...

Mud mosque dating back to the Umayyad era discovered in Iraq (Al Jazeera)

A British Museum excavation mission, along with a local Iraqi team, has discovered a mud mosque that dates back to the year 60 AH...

Assassination Attempt against Prime Minister Al-Khadimi Highlights Intra-Shia Divisions in Iraq (Rami Jameel, The Jamestown Foundation)

A loud explosion was heard in the early hours of November 7 in the fortified area in Baghdad known as the “Green Zone.” This...

Iraq to launch repatriation flights from Belarus for citizens wishing to ‘voluntarily’ return (Middle East Eye)

Iraq is set to begin repatriating its citizens who wish to return on a voluntary basis from the Belarus border with Poland, an Iraqi official...

Keeping an Eye on Baghdad (Michael Young, Carnegie Middle East Center)

Ali Hashem is a senior Al-Jazeera English correspondent who has long covered Iraq and Iran. He is also a research fellow at the Sectarianism, Proxies, and De-Sectarianization Project...

Assassination attempt against Iraqi PM sparks fear of ‘return to chaos’ (Shelly Kittleson, Al Monitor)

An attack on Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi’s residence in the early morning hours of Nov. 7 sparked a flurry of reactions and concerns...

Iraq: Mosul rebrands as domestic tourist destination (Tom Westcott, Middle East Eye)

Every evening as the sun sets, Jungle Street comes vibrantly alive. Festooned with colourful electric lights, this leafy strip of a Mosul suburb in Iraq running...