A senior Iranian diplomat has rejected reports about negotiations between Iran and the US over the ongoing crisis in Iraq. “The Islamic Republic of Iran has had no negotiations with the Americans over mutual cooperation in Iraq,” Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said on ...
Read More »Iraq: Signs of disagreement emerge between ISIS and the Baath
The mask has fallen. Mosul is governed by former officers of the old army and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) controls the top administrative positions in the city. Three days were sufficient to uncover the conspiracy facing Iraq. ISIS began calling around the city that it came ...
Read More »Coverage of ISIS in Iraq plagued by rumors and misreporting
Chaos, incitement and sectarian instigation… that is the prevailing situation of Arab and Iraqi media outlets covering the explosive situation in Iraq these days. Despite the lack of live coverage from the battlefields and from regions hit by the crisis, many rumors and false information have been spread in opposing ...
Read More »Iraq foils terrorist attack on Nineveh province
Iraqi security forces and local tribesmen have thwarted an attack by ISIL terrorist elements in a strategic city in Nineveh province. According to reports on Sunday, at least 18 insurgents belonging to the so-called ISIL were killed and five vehicles destroyed after the attack on Tal Afar was repelled. Militants ...
Read More »Syria pounds ISIL positions in coordination with Iraq
Syria’s army has been pounding major bases of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in coordination with the Iraqi government in the past 24 hours. The strikes against the ISIL terrorists have been more intense than ever, said the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on ...
Read More »Iraqi Army retakes Salahuddin from ISIL terrorists
The mayor of Iraq’s city of Salahuddin has confirmed that the army retook large parts of the city after it fell to rebels from the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL). Mayor Ahmed Abdullah said in a statement that the army had retaken the districts of Ad-Duluiya, ...
Read More »Iran Warns against Military Intervention in Iraq
Iran warned on Sunday that “any foreign military intervention in Iraq” would only complicate the crisis, after the US said it was deploying a warship in the Gulf. “Iraq has the capacity and necessary preparations for the fight against terrorism and extremism,” foreign ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham was Sunday quoted ...
Read More »Takfiri terrorists have nowhere to hide: Iraqi PM
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has warned that Takfiri insurgents triggering terror within Iraq have nowhere to hide as the country’s armed forces are advancing toward their strongholds. Maliki made the remarks in a speech to volunteer fighters on Sunday at a military camp in Mahmoudiya, 30 kilometers south of ...
Read More »Rouhani says Iran ready to strike terrorism in Iraq at Baghdad’s request
Iranian president Sheikh Hasan Rouhani asserted that Tehran is ready to respond to terrorism in Iraq at Baghdad’s request, noting that the Iraqis are able to eliminate the terrorists without being in need of a foreign intervention.Rouhani made the remarks in a televised press conference participated with over 200 domestic ...
Read More »The Iraqi Shia Mobilization to Counter the ISIS Offensive
Iraq’s Shi’a are mobilizing against the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). In addition to fears of ISIS advances towards Baghdad, the Iraqi Shi’a threat perception is magnified by their desire to prevent an ISIS attack on the al-Askari shrine in Samarra. The February 2006 attack on the shrine ...
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