Iraq has asked Saudi Arabia to break its silence on the presence of Turkish troops on its soil as the kingdom's hawkish foreign minister visits Baghdad to bring rocky relations out of a long freeze.
Iraqi ground troops, backed by the army’s air force, have reportedly taken control of the Mosul air port amid a new offensive to liberate the Daesh-held western half of the city, which serves as the last urban stronghold of the terror group in the Arab state.
Iraqi forces have mounted a major military operation to retake the strategic militant-held airport in the northern city of Mosul days after they began a new phase of the battle to drive the Daesh terror group out of its last urban stronghold in the Arab county.
Hundreds of supporters of prominent Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr have flocked into the streets the capital Baghdad, calling on the government to amend the country’s electoral law.
Iraqi government soldiers have found a cytotoxic and vesicant chemical agent in Mosul in addition to a cache of surface-to-surface missiles that could be used to weaponize the warfare agent.
A research group said violence left 16,361 civilians dead last year in Iraq, which has been hit by a campaign of death and destruction perpetrated by Takfiri Daesh terrorists over the past few years.
Iran and Iraq finalized two Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) on oil cooperation, said Iranian Deputy Oil Minister for International Affairs and Trading Amir-Hossein Zamani-Nia.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has stressed the importance of strengthening cooperation and coordination with neighboring Iraq in the fight against foreign-sponsored terrorism and extremist groups.
Iran categorically blasted a terrorist attack in the Iraqi capital eastern district of Sadr City in Baghdad on Monday which claimed the lives of dozens of workers and citizens.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi says Iraqi forces need three months to completely destroy Daesh as a large-scale operation is underway to liberate the northern city of Mosul, the Takfiri terrorist group’s last major stronghold in the Arab country.
Police and medical officials in Iraq say at least ten people have been killed in a series of bombings and mortar strikes across the country as government forces and allied fighters press ahead with a massive operation to flush ISIS (ISIL, IS, Daesh) terrorists out of the northern city of Mosul.