TEHRAN, December 2 - Iraqi popular forces have uncovered two more mass graves containing the bodies of 140 civilians, including women and children, in an area home to the Yazidi religious minority, they said Saturday.
TEHRAN, December 2 - A senior Iranian official has held certain countries liable for the use of chemical weapons by terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq, warning that chemical arsenals are a threat to global peace and security, Press TV reported.
TEHRAN, November 21 - The Iraqi Commission of Integrity, an independent body responsible for investigating corruption and is affiliated to the country’s parliament, says judiciary officials have sentenced a former governor of the eastern province of Diyala to jail after being found guilty of corruption.
TEHRAN, November 20 - Iraqi security forces have uncovered a major chemical depot belonging to Daesh Takfiri terrorists in the country’s western province of Anbar
TEHRAN, November 20 - General Director of Iran’s Institution for Tehran told of the opening of a new school for the children of unencumbered Pakistanis in Iran.
TEHRAN, November 17 - Iraqi Interior Minister Qasim al-Araji said the recapture of the last redoubt of Daesh Takfiri terrorists in the country’s western province of al-Anbar by army soldiers and pro-government fighters from Popular Mobilization Units marks the end of the military threat posed by the extremists in the country.
TEHRAN, November 16 - Russia’s main battle tank manufacturer, Uralvagonzavod, has started delivering advanced T-90 battle tanks to the Iraqi army under a major deal struck between Moscow and Baghdad earlier this year.
TEHRAN, November 15 - The Iraqi prime minister has welcomed a decision by Kurdish officials to respect a recent court ban on secession, but called on them to hand over control of the territory they have illegally overrun since 2003.
TEHRAN, November 11 - Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said the military campaign against the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group has cost the conflict-stricken Arab country $100 billion worth of damage as government forces, backed by fighters from the Popular Mobilization Units, are driving the extremists out of their last redoubt in the country.
TEHRAN, November 11 - Terrorist groups continued to destroy and loot infrastructures in the Northwestern province of Idlib and sell them in the black market, social activists reported on Saturday.
TEHRAN, November 11 - Explosion of a landmine, remaining from 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, in Dehloran city in Iran's western province of Ilam injured two soldiers on Saturday, Dehloran governor said.
TEHRAN, November 11 - In a peach in the European Forum, head of Iran’s Strategic Council on Foreign Relations said Iran rushed to the help of Iraq and Syria upon their request.
TEHRAN, November 10 - Tehran's Provisional Friday Prayers Leader Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami said the world should be grateful to Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force Major General Qassem Soleimani for his major role in defeating Daesh (ISIS or ISIL) terrorist group.
TEHRAN, November 9 - The Central Bank of Iraq has ordered private banks to halt their branches’ operations in the country’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region within a week to avoid a ban on dollar sales.