BREAKING: Iraq: String of apparently coordinated bomb blasts rock Baghdad in evening, kill at least 22.— The Associated Press (@AP) October 7, 2013
... sermon and leading prayers. The militant group later destroyed the mosque by detonating explosives inside the structures as it faced defeat in a battle with Iraqi military forces for control of the city in 2017. UNESCO, the U.N.'s scientific, educational and cultural organization, worked alongside Iraqi heritage and ...
... within 48 hours, he said. The building owner could not immediately be reached for comment. Poor building standards have often contributed to tragic fires in Iraq. In July 2021, a blaze at a hospital in the Iraqi city of Nasiriyah that killed between 60 to 92 people was determined to ...
Kurds have mixed feelings Kurds in Iraq said that they were optimistic, although some expressed fears that the deal would collapse. “This will benefit both sides,” said Abdulrahman Abbas, a resident of the town of Dukan, near where the ceremony took place. "Why should this bloodshed continue for nothing?” A ...
... Both Duckworth and Slotkin voted against him. According to the Army, Driscoll served as an armor officer from August 2007 to March 2011, deploying to Iraq from October 2009 to July 2010. He ran unsuccessfully in the Republican primary for a North Carolina congressional seat in 2020, getting about 8 ...
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s prime minister announced Tuesday that the Islamic State militant group’s leader in Iraq was killed in a military operation along with eight of the group’s other senior leaders. Watch in the player above. Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said that Jassim al-Mazroui ...
... counter-ISIS operations with Iraq's military. In the years since, the U.S. has maintained that presence to pressure Iranian-backed militias active in Iraq and Syria. The presence of American forces in Iraq also makes it more difficult for Iran to move weapons across Iraq and Syria into ...
... the country. There are approximately 2,500 U.S. troops in Iraq. Since the U.S. toppled dictator Saddam Hussein with its 2003 invasion of Iraq, the country has struggled to balance relations between America and neighboring Iran. Since the Israel-Hamas war broke out, Iraqi militias allied to Iran ...
... in the country,” the statement said. British Foreign Secretary David Cameron called the law “dangerous and worrying.” Although homosexuality is taboo in the largely conservative Iraqi society, and political leaders have periodically launched anti-LGBTQ+ campaigns, Iraq did not previously have a law that explicitly criminalized it. WATCH: LGBTQ+ Ugandans ...
... it seized large sections of Iraq in 2014. In 2016, the Iraqi government designated the Popular Mobilization Forces as an “independent military formation” within the Iraqi armed forces. In recent months, some PMF member groups staged attacks on U.S. forces based in Iraq and Syria, which they said was ...
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