Iraq

Iran plans to build 200,000 houses in Iraq, a senior adviser to the Iranian vice-president announced on Sunday. “Iraq is planning to build 2mln houses for the poor people,” Rostam Qassemi, a former oil minister under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who is now an advisor to the first vice-president, said. “And ...

A senior Shia religious authority, Ayatollah Bashir Al-Najafi has issued a fatwa in the run up to the upcoming Iraqi elections prohibiting nominees from attracting voters with pay-offs. In the edict, Ayatollah Al-Najafi stated: “The nominees are not allowed to attract the voters by money and the voters are banned ...

Below is a translation of the speech of Sayyid Muqtada Al-Sadr, dated 18th February 2014: I am not of those who turn a blind eye and keep their mouths shut in the face of corruption and wrongdoing. It has been decreed upon us, the Sadrs, to be those who call ...

Iraqi security sources reported that the Iraqi army killed 40 militants who belong to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant in the city of Fallujah. The Special Iraqi Troops killed the militants and burnt their cars, according to the sources. The Iraqi army regained control on the area ...

Iraqi forces have wrested back control of key areas west of Baghdad that have been out of government hands for weeks amid a deadly standoff between militants and security forces. The battles in Anbar province, a mostly-Sunni desert region that shares a border with Syria, and a protracted surge in ...

Twenty-eight people have been killed in a fresh bout of violence in Iraq, with the latest mortalities taking the death toll for January to over 800. At least eight people, including a young child, were killed in a shelling that began late on Friday in Fallujah’s southern neighborhood of Nazal ...

At least six people were killed on Saturday when three mortar bombs hit a Shiite Muslim village near the Iraqi city of Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) Northeast of Baghdad, police said.  A woman and a child were among the victims, five of whom belonged to the same family, the ...

  Iraqi armed forces have managed to kill scores of al-Qaeda-affiliated Takfiri militants in the country’s Anbar Province as the army continues its fight against terrorists. According to the Iraqi Defense Ministry, the army forces carried out airstrikes on the Takfiri militants’ bases in the western province of Anbar, killing ...