MENA News Dozens killed in west Iraq air strike, MPs and medics say Ghada Ismail Dec 8, 2016 0 Air strikes killed dozens of people, including many women and children, in an Islamic State-held town near Iraq's…
MENA News Islamic State strikes back to slow Iraqi forces in Mosul Ghada Ismail Dec 5, 2016 0 Islamic State fighters retreating in the face of a seven-week Iraqi military assault on their Mosul stronghold…
MENA News Iran, Iraq at loggerheads with Saudis ahead of OPEC meeting Ghada Ismail Nov 30, 2016 0 Iran and Iraq are resisting pressure from Saudi Arabia to curtail oil production, making it hard for the…
MENA News Mosul battle: Iraq militias ‘cut off IS access to city’ Ghada Ismail Nov 24, 2016 0 An Iraqi paramilitary force says it has seized a key road west of Mosul, effectively encircling the city controlled…
MENA News Iraq lauds progress on Mosul, expects Trump to continue support Ghada Ismail Nov 22, 2016 0 Iraq's foreign minister said on Monday that the fight to wrest back control of Mosul from Islamic State was…
MENA News Iraq to make suggestions to accelerate OPEC supply cut agreement Ghada Ismail Nov 21, 2016 0 Iraq's oil minister Jabar Ali al-Luaibi will make suggestions at a meeting of OPEC oil ministers at the end of…
MENA News Church in northern Iraq reopened after two years under IS control Ghada Ismail Nov 21, 2016 0 The bells have rung out after two years of silence in the Mar Korkeis church in the town of Bashiqa, some 15 km (10…
MENA News After IS kidnap and oppression, Iraqi girls eager to get lives back Ghada Ismail Nov 20, 2016 0 The first thing Iraqi teenager Afrah did when she escaped Islamic State captivity near Mosul was to remove her face…
Industry & Trade Egypt signs export contracts worth $12M with Iraq, €300K with Spain: minister Noha Gad Nov 19, 2016 0 Egypt's Commercial Service Office in Baghdad concluded signing export contracts worth US$12 million for the 65…
MENA News Iraqi troops push further into Mosul as Islamic State pledges more suicide attacks Ghada Ismail Nov 19, 2016 0 U.S.-backed Iraqi troops expanded their foothold on the eastern side of Islamic State's stronghold of Mosul on…