Iraqi rival groups both announce parliamentary blocs to form new government
Rival Iraqi political factions said on Sunday they had each formed alliances capable of forming a government in…
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Iraqi crude oil to arrive in Egypt within 2 weeks: source
An official source with the Ministry of Petroleum said that the Iraqi shipment of Basra crude oil, which began…
Iraqi forces fight to take Mosul, car bomb in Baghdad kills 23 people
Islamic State (IS) militants captured an Iraqi police colonel and eight other officers on Monday after they ran out…
Iraqi forces battle IS in heavy west Mosul fighting
Iraqi forces battled the Islamic State (IS) group in hours of heavy clashes in west Mosul on Sunday, as the number…
Iraqi forces storm airport in bid to retake city: Mosul offensive
Iraqi security forces have launched an attack on Mosul airport, a key part of the government's offensive to drive…
Iraqi forces preparing offensive on western Mosul, commander says
Iraqi forces have started preparing an offensive to capture the western side of Mosul from Islamic State, campaign…
Iraqi general’s tour suggests tough fight ahead in west Mosul
Residents of east Mosul held up their children and took selfies with Iraqi counter-terrorism commander Lieutenant…
Caution marks Iraqi army advance against Islamic State north of Mosul
The earth shook three times with the impact of air strikes targeting Islamic State positions north of Mosul. Only…
Iraqis celebrate first Christmas near Mosul after Islamic State pushed out
Several hundred Iraqi Christians flocked on Saturday to a northern town recently retaken from Islamic State,…
Iraqi, Egyptian oil ministers meet on enhancing joint cooperation
Egyptian Oil Minister met with his Iraqi counterpart Jabbar al-Luaibi on Friday to discuss means of enhancing…
U.S. forces embedding more to help Iraqis seize Mosul
U.S. forces assisting Iraqi troops to retake Mosul from Islamic State are embedding more extensively, a senior…
Islamic State strikes back to slow Iraqi forces in Mosul
Islamic State fighters retreating in the face of a seven-week Iraqi military assault on their Mosul stronghold…
Water cuts and rising food prices leave Mosul facing crisis
Fighting between Iraqi troops and Islamic State militants has cut water supplies across a large part of Mosul,…
Mosul battle: Iraq militias ‘cut off IS access to city’
An Iraqi paramilitary force says it has seized a key road west of Mosul, effectively encircling the city controlled…
Civilian casualties from Mosul are overwhelming capacity, U.N. warns
Mounting civilian casualties from fighting in eastern Mosul between Iraqi forces and Islamic State are overwhelming…
After IS kidnap and oppression, Iraqi girls eager to get lives back
The first thing Iraqi teenager Afrah did when she escaped Islamic State captivity near Mosul was to remove her face…
Iraqi militia threatens Islamic State’s supply route to Syria
Iraqi Shi'ite militias said on Wednesday they had driven Islamic State fighters from an air base west of Mosul,…
Iraqi forces retake historical town of Nimrud
Iraqi government forces say they have captured Nimrud, the site of an ancient Assyrian city overrun by Islamic…
Iraqi army says advances in Mosul, despite suicide bombers
Iraqi special forces backed by U.S. and Iraqi air power took control of two districts of eastern Mosul on Saturday…
Iraqi special forces seize Mosul district in fresh push
Iraqi special forces said they pushed deeper into Mosul on Friday despite heavy resistance from Islamic State…
Iraq forces accused of killing, torturing civilians south of Mosul
Iraqi government forces killed and tortured civilians south of Mosul, rights groups said on Thursday, the first…
Iraq’s peshmerga storm Islamic State town as army battles in Mosul
Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces stormed an Islamic State-held town northeast of Mosul on Monday, clearing a pocket…
Iraqi PM: Mosul ‘will be liberated soon’
The Iraqi prime minister has warned so-called Islamic State (IS) militants fighting in Mosul to lay down their…
Mosul battle: Iraqi PM rallies forces and issues warning to IS
The Iraqi prime minister has warned so-called Islamic State (IS) militants fighting in Mosul to lay down their…
Bombs hit convoy of displaced people in Iraq, killing 18
Two roadside bombs struck a convoy carrying Iraqi families fleeing an Islamic State-controlled town in the north…
Iraqi forces advance deeper into eastern Mosul
Iraqi special forces said they recaptured six districts of eastern Mosul on Friday, expanding the army's…
Egypt to import Iraqi crude oil for refining
Egypt's Petroleum Minister Tareq al-Molla announced on Monday an agreement with Iraq to import Basra crude oil for…
IS kills 40 near Mosul, tries to move 25,000 to use as shields
Islamic State militants killed 40 former members of the Iraqi Security Forces near Mosul on Saturday and threw…
Battle for Mosul: IS are ‘just beards’, survivor says
Since the Iraqi and Kurdish armies began an operation to re-capture Mosul, some 17,000 people living in the…
Mosul battle: Iraqi special forces ‘break front line’
Iraqi forces fighting so-called Islamic State (IS) in Mosul have broken through the front line without suffering…
Iraqi forces resume offensive on eastern Mosul
raqi troops including elite counter terrorism forces resumed an offensive on the eastern front of Mosul on…
Iraqi elite unit, Kurdish forces in fresh push to close in on Mosul
An Iraqi army elite unit and Kurdish fighters on Thursday launched a fresh offensive to dislodge Islamic State…
Iraq warns Turkey of ‘regional war’ if doesn’t withdraw troops
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi warned Turkey that keeping troops in northern Iraq could lead to a…
Iraqi forces say recapture airbase on way to Mosul
Iraqi government forces said they seized back control of a major airbase on Saturday, a staging post on their way…
Iraq mourns victims of Baghdad suicide bombing
The Iraqi government has declared three days of national mourning after a huge bomb in Baghdad killed 165 people…
Iraqi forces retake Islamic State holdout in Falluja
Iraqi forces recaptured the last district held by Islamic State militants in the city of Falluja on Sunday and the…
Iraqi forces attack Islamic State positions south of Mosul
Iraqi troops attacked Islamic State positions south of Mosul on Sunday as the U.S.-led coalition intensifies its…
ISIS halts Iraqi army at gates of Falluja
Islamic State fighters halted an Iraqi army assault on the city of Falluja with a counter-attack at its southern…
Iraqi army pause at southern edge of Falluja, ISIS fights back vigorously
Islamic State militants fought back vigorously overnight against an onslaught by the Iraqi army on a southern…
ISIS commander in Falluja killed, U.S. military says
U.S.-led coalition strikes supporting Iraqi forces in the recapture of Falluja have killed 70 Islamic State…