TEHRAN, April 5, YJC - A suicide attack by Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group on a school used to accommodate refugees in Iraq’s city of Tikrit, located 140 kilometers northwest of capital Baghdad, has killed at least 15 people, Iraqi sources reported.
TEHRAN, April 3, YJC - Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi slammed a recent move to hoist Kurdish flags over government buildings in Iraq’s northern city of Kirkuk as a measure which escalates tensions.
TEHRAN, April 2, YJC - A total of 543 Iraqi civilians have been killed with another 561 wounded as result of terrorism, violence and armed conflict in the country, the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) said Sunday.
TEHRAN, March 31, YJC - UN chief Antonio Guterres has voiced support for Iraq’s ongoing fight against Daesh in the face of a humanitarian crisis following the months-long operation to recapture the strategic city of Mosul.
TEHRAN, March 30, YJC - UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres is in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, to examine the humanitarian situation amid the country’s intense campaign to purge Daesh Takfiri terrorists from the strategic city of Mosul.
TEHRAN, March 17, YJC - Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi called on the US to reduce its military presence in Iraq as Washington has begun a surge of troops in the face of Daesh terrorists facing a final rout in the country.
TEHRAN, March 16, YJC - Iranian Minister of Energy Hamid Chit-Chian said the country has resumed electricity export to Iraq after receiving part of its debt.
Amid battles to liberate the western side of Mosul from Daesh, Iraqi forces retake control of a third bridge crossing over Tigris River which divides the northern city into two parts.
TEHRAN, March 15, YJC - Iraqi Prime Minster Haider al-Abadi says that the military operation aimed at liberating west Mosul from Daesh is "in its last stage."
Following the liberation of Mosul International Airport, the Al-Ghazlani military base, and the Nineveh government complex, the Iraqi forces scored yet another monumental win by liberating the city’s museum.
Iran’s Permanent Representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Alireza Jahangiri categorically blasted use of chemical weapons by terrorist groups in Iraq and Syria.
Iraq, which has been excluded from a revised US travel ban, decries the prohibition in its entirety, calling on Washington to respect the dignity of the six other Muslim-majority states and remove them from the blacklist.
The US military has admitted killing 220 civilians in airstrikes in Iraq and Syria, but reports by independent monitoring groups point to staggering figures.
Turkey-backed Kurdish fighters engage in deadly clashes with militants affiliated with the anti-Ankara Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar.
A high-ranking Iraqi military commander says Takfiri Daesh terrorists have used internationally-banned chemical weapons in a recent attack on the liberated areas in eastern Mosul as government forces and their allies are pushing to expel the extremists out of the country’s second largest city.