Page 11 - Iraq

Barack Obama policy on Syria, ISIS working: Tim Kaine

Kaine acknowledged that situation has deteriorated in Iraq

16 killed, 39 hurt in Baghdad bomb attacks

Iraqi security forces sealed off and blocked the roads leading to the scene, while ambulances and police vehicles evacuated the killed and wounded people to the hospitals

First UN food aid in two years reaches over 30,000 Iraqis in Qayyarah

Around 3.4 million people have already been forced to flee their homes in Iraq by conflict since the start of 2014

Iraq to sell oil through Iran if talks with Kurds fail

Iraq depends on oil sales for 95 per cent of its public income

M J Akbar visits holy city of Karbala in Iraq

Akbar has conveyed India's support for unity and territorial integrity of Iraq for the emergence of a stable, peaceful, united and democratic Iraq

Iraq hangs 36 over 2014 massacre of recruits: Officials

They had been found guilty of involvement in the 'Speicher' massacre

Saddam's Mosul palace-turned-IS training camp bombed

IS has held control of Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, since June 2014

Iraq: Attacks kill at least 18; province takes on militants

No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks, most of which bore the hallmarks of the Islamic State group

Iraq overtakes Saudi Arabia as India's top oil seller

The Middle East region supplied 59.73% of the total 202.9 MT of crude oil imported by India during 2015-16 fiscal

Britain doubles military trainers in Iraq

Allied air power and military trainers are helping Iraqi government, Kurdish militia and Syrian anti-IS fighters push the jihadists back to Raqa, Syria and Mosul, Iraq

Iraq PM accepts resignation of five new ministers

Abadi accepted the resignations of ministers of oil, transport, housing and construction, water resources and industry

Supporters of Shiite cleric rally in Baghdad, demand reform

Mostly men in their late teens or early 20s, waved Iraqi flags and chanted slogans as patriotic music blared from loudspeakers

Iraqi forces close to free two IS-held towns in south of Mosul

A US-led international coalition has been conducting air raids against the IS targets in both Iraq and Syria

Top IS commander Shishani killed: Jihadist-linked agency

Iraqi forces are conducting operations to set the stage for a final push to Mosul, the country's second city that fell to IS in June 2014

Iraq officials: Suicide car bomb kills 8 in Baghdad district

On Tuesday, at least 12 people were killed in a suicide car bombing at an outdoor market in al-Rashidiya

Iraq war was illegal, says Blair's former deputy

John Prescott, made the remarks in a piece to be published in the Sunday Mirror newspaper

Iraq PM announces recapture of key base from IS militants

Iraq's second-largest city fell to IS militants during their summer 2014 onslaught that captured large swaths of northern and western Iraq

Iraq executes five after devastating Baghdad blast: Ministry

IS overran large areas north and west of Baghdad in 2014, but has since lost signficant ground to Iraqi forces

Attack west of Baghdad kills 14, wounds 32

Attack struck an Abu Ghraib mosque last night as worshippers gathered to pray after breaking their fast during the holy month of Ramadan

30,000 displaced from Iraq's Fallujah in 3 days: NGO

Fallujah was the first city to fall out of government control in Jan 2014, as jihadists began to establish a foothold on it