TEHRAN, Mar 12 -Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says the fight against terrorism is not over yet despite the collapse of the Daesh terror group in Iraq and Syria as the US is now relocating the Takfiri terrorists from the Middle East to Afghanistan, Central Asia and the Caucasus.
TEHRAN, December 16 -Turkish warplanes have struck PKK targets in northern Iraq, ignoring protests from Baghdad which says Turkey's repeated airstrikes violate Iraqi sovereignty and endanger civilians.
TEHRAN, November 11 -A senior Iraqi politician says the Iraqi parliament will discuss the withdrawal of US forces from the country amid rising unease at Washington's meddling in Baghdad's internal affairs.
TEHRAN, September 23 - Iraqi judicial officials have handed down life terms to four people over membership in the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group and involvement in acts of terror in the war-ravaged Arab country’s northern provinces of Kirkuk and Nineveh.
TEHRAN, September 08 -Iraqi officials have denounced recent deadly demonstrations in the southern city of Basra, saying they believe the US, Daesh terrorists and remnants of former Ba’ath regime are behind the violence.
TEHRAN, September 03 -Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadihas has declared himself the head of the pro-government Popular Mobilization Units, only a few days after he dismissed the former leader over purported involvement in “political and partisan work.”
TEHRAN, September 02 - Former secretary of state John Kerry has revealed the Obama administration's frustrations with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a new book slated for release this month.
TEHRAN, June 25 -A court in Iraq has handed down death sentences to six members of the foreign-sponsored Takfiri Daesh terrorist group over their involvement in a bomb attack in the country’s southern province of Dhi Qar, which claimed the lives of dozens of civilians and left many more injured last September.
TEHRAN, June 24 -Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said on Saturday their political blocs would enter into an alliance, bringing Iraq one step closer to forming a new government.
TEHRAN, June 10-Iraqi security forces have launched a clean-up operation against the sleeper cells of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group in the country’s eastern province of Diyala as government troopers and allied fighters from Popular Mobilization Units are trying to flush the extremists out of the war-ravaged Arab country.
TEHRAN, January 28 -The Iraqi volunteer forces of Hashd al-Shaabi announced on Saturday that its forces are on alert to carry out anti-terrorism operations on Syrian soil following coordination with Damascus officials.
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, October 16 - Iraqi security forces have launched a "major operation" in the Kurdish-held region of Kirkuk, advancing towards oil fields and a strategic military base, according to Kurdish and Iraqi officials.
TEHRAN, October 14 -Iraqi Turkmen fighters from the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) have engaged in a two-hour gun battle with Kurdish forces in the country’s central province of Salahuddin.
TEHRAN, October 4 - Iraqi forces launched a final assault on Wednesday to capture the town of Hawija, one of two pockets of territory in Iraq still under IsIs control, the country’s military said in a statement.
TEHRAN, September 29 -Iraqi armed forces have launched the second phase of a military operation to liberate the northern town of al-Hawijah, one the last remaining bastions of the Takfiri Daesh terror group in the country.
TEHRAN, September 27 -Isis attacked on Wednesday several positions held by Iraqi forces in Anbar province, west of Baghdad, killing at least 7 soldiers and wounding 16, according to a preliminary toll from security sources.
TEHRAN, September 23 - Turkey’s top security body says an independence referendum planned by Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region “directly” threatens Turkish national security.
TEHRAN, September 17 - Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi says Kurdish authorities are “playing with fire” with their plan to hold a referendum on the independence of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region.