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Iraq

Iran, after missile strike, warns against 'threats' from Iraqi soil

By AFP

Iran has warned that it won't tolerate "threats" coming from Iraq, a day after firing ballistic missiles at what it said was an Israeli site in the neighbouring...

  • FILE: Prime Minister of Iraq Mustafa al-Kadhemi speaks during a joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel (not in image) at the Chancellery in Berlin on October 20, 2020.
Picture: STEFANIE LOOS / AFP / POOL

    Iraq PM calls for 'calm' after drone attack on his residence

    Iraq's Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi said he was unhurt and appealed for "calm and restraint" after a drone attack on his residence in Baghdad's Green Zone early on Sunday as political tensions mount in the country.

    237 days ago
  • An undated handout picture provided by Terra Di Ninive on October 24, 2021, shows a view of carvings discovered on the walls of an ancient irrigation canal by a team of Kurdish and Italian archaeologists near Faydeh in the Nineveh area of northern Iraq. Picture: Terra Di Ninive / AFP.

    Archaeologists in Iraq find 2,700-year-old wine press

    The carvings -- 12 panels measuring five metres wide and two metres tall showing gods, kings and sacred animals -- date from the reigns of Sargon II (721-705 BC) and his son Sennacherib.

    251 days ago
  • US President Joe Biden speaks about lives lost to COVID-19 after death toll passed 500,000, in the Cross Hall of the White House in Washington, DC, 22 February 2021. Picture: AFP

    Biden announces end of US combat operations in Iraq

    Eighteen years after the US invaded Iraq to remove strongman Saddam Hussein, and seven years after a US-led coalition battled Islamic State extremists who threatened the country, Washington turned its focus to other types of assistance.

    340 days ago
  • Iraqis inspect the site of the explosion a day earlier in a popular market in the Shiite-majority Sadr City neighbourhood, east of the capital Baghdad on July 20, 2021. Iraq was in mourning for at least 36 people killed when a bomb ripped through a crowded Baghdad market in what the Islamic State group's jihadists claimed as a suicide attack. Picture: Ahmad Al-Rubaye / AFP

    Iraq reels as 36 killed in IS suicide blast on eve of Eid festival

    The bloody carnage Monday evening, one of the deadliest attacks in years in the war-scarred country, killed mostly women and children on the eve of Eid al-Adha, the Muslim festival of sacrifice.

    347 days ago
  • People gather at the ravaged coronavirus isolation ward of Al-Hussein hospital after a massive fire overnight, in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah, on July 13, 2021. Picture: Asaad Niazi / AFP

    Death toll rises to 64 in Iraq COVID unit fire: medic

    The deadly Monday evening blaze at Al-Hussein Hospital in the provincial capital Nasiriyah, which medics said was fuelled by the explosion of oxygen canisters, was the second such fire in Iraq in three months.

    354 days ago
  • FILE: Haydar al-Zamili, the local health authority's spokesperson, said early Tuesday 52 bodies were retrieved and another 22 people were wounded in the latest toll, after the fire had "ripped through the COVID isolation ward". Picture: Freeimages.com.

    At least 52 dead, 22 wounded in Iraq COVID ward fire: health official

    The fire broke out at the Al-Hussein hospital in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah late Monday and was brought under control by local civil defence forces.

    354 days ago
  • FILE: US Marine Corps tactical vehicles are seen driving along a road near the town of Tal Baydar in the countryside of Syria's northeastern Hasakeh province on 21 December 2018. Picture: AFP

    Pentagon says US air strikes in Iraq, Syria targeted Iran-backed militia groups

    The strikes come at a delicate moment as the United States blames Iran-linked Iraqi factions for recent attacks against Iraqi installations housing its personnel, while also hoping to work out a return to a nuclear deal with Tehran.

    369 days ago
  • The White House. Picture: Whitehouse.gov

    White House backs repeal of 2002 Iraq use of force authorisation

    This comes as the House of Representatives prepares to vote this week on bipartisan legislation that would repeal the longstanding authorisation for use of military force, which authorised force against Saddam Hussein's regime.

    382 days ago
  • Pope Francis gives the homily (sermon) during a mass at the Franso Hariri Stadium in Arbil, on March 7, 2021, in the capital of the northern Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region. Pope Francis celebrated mass on Sunday with several thousand worshippers spread across a stadium in the Kurdistan regional capital of Arbil, the largest liturgy of his trip to pandemic-hit Iraq. Picture: Vincenzo Pinto / AFP.

    Pope celebrates largest mass of historic Iraq trip

    The pontiff was greeted by thousands in a sports stadium in the Kurdistan region's capital Arbil who had gathered despite fears the event could become a COVID-19 'super-spreader'.

    482 days ago
  • FILE: Pope Francis speaks to journalists aboard the airplane heading to Iraq on 5 March 2021. Pope Francis landed in war-battered Iraq on the first-ever papal visit, defying security fears and the pandemic to comfort one of the world's oldest and most persecuted Christian communities. Picture: Andrew Medichini/AFP

    Pope Francis 'happy' to land in Iraq on historic visit

    Security will be tight in Iraq, which has endured years of war and insurgency, is still hunting for Islamic State sleeper cells and just days ago saw a barrage of rockets plough into a military base.

    484 days ago
  • FILE: Pope Francis. Picture: @vaticannews/Facebook.com.

    'Pilgrim of peace' Pope Francis heads to war-scarred Iraq

    The 84-year-old, who said he would make the first-ever papal visit to Iraq as a "pilgrim of peace," will also reach out to Shiite Muslims when he meets Iraq's top cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani.

    484 days ago
  • FILE: Pope Francis leads a Christmas Eve mass in St Peter's Basilica to mark the nativity of Jesus Christ on 24 December, 2019, at the Vatican. Picture: AFP

    Five places the Pope will see on his exceptional Iraq trip

    On his first day in the Iraqi capital, Francis will give a speech at the "Our Lady of Salvation" Catholic Church in the main commercial district of Karrada.

    488 days ago
  • FILE: US President Joe Biden. Picture: AFP

    US strikes Iran-backed militias in Syria in Biden first

    In its first military action against Iran-linked groups since Joe Biden became president five weeks ago, the Pentagon said it had carried out air strikes at a Syria-Iraq border control point used by Iran-backed groups.

    491 days ago
  • An injured man is rushed to a hospital following a twin suicide bombing on a bustling commercial street in the heart of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, on 21 January 2021. Picture: Sabah ARAR/AFP

    Twin suicide bombing in Baghdad kill 32, wound 110

    The attack was the bloodiest in Baghdad since January 2018, when a suicide bomber killed more than 30 people in the same square.

    527 days ago
  • FILE: US President Donald Trump. Picture: AFP

    Trump pardons two linked to Russia probe, Blackwater guards, others

    The White House said in a statement that Trump had granted full pardons to 15 people and commuted all or part of the sentences for five others.

    556 days ago
  • FILE: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at a press briefing on 11 December 2019 in Washington. Picture: AFP

    Pompeo welcomes new Iraq government, extends Iran sanctions waiver

    Recognising Iraq's fragility, the Trump administration has given Iraq a series of waivers on US sanctions to let it keep buying gas from Iran.

    786 days ago
  • An Iraqi protester hurls rocks towards security forces deployed to disperse the funeral procession for a protester who was killed a day earlier during an anti-government demonstration, in the central shrine city of Karbala, on 21 January 2020. Picture: AFP

    Iraq protester gunned down in second night of violence

    The anti-government demonstrations rocking the Iraqi capital and the Shiite-majority south since October had abated in recent weeks amid spiralling tensions between Iraq's key allies, the United States and Iran.

    891 days ago
  • Iraqis take part in a rally on 11 January 2020, to mourn two reporters (image) shot dead the previous evening in the country's southern city of Basra. Picture: AFP

    Hundreds mourn reporters shot dead after covering Iraq protests

    Ahmad Abdessamad, a 37-year-old correspondent for local television station Al-Dijla, and his cameraman Safaa Ghali, 26, were killed late Friday, the Journalistic Freedoms Observatory said.

    903 days ago
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