TEHRAN, July 29 - Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi suspended his electricity minister on Sunday amid continuing protests over poor public services especially power cuts and corruption, the premier's office said.
TEHRAN, July 29 - Iraq has sacked five election officials at the suggestion of a committee set up to examine alleged voter irregularities in May parliamentary elections.
TEHRAN, July 27 - Iraq’s senior Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has urged the formation of a new government as soon as possible in the wake of protests against alleged government corruption and poor public services in southern cities.
TEHRAN, July 23 - Kurdish security forces killed gunmen who had stormed government building in the Kurdish city of Erbil on Monday in an attack suspected of being carried out by Daesh, security officials said,
TEHRAN, July 19 - Turkey’s military says the head of logistics for the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militant group has been killed as Turkish military aircraft conducted a series of airstrikes against terrorist hideouts in Iraq’s northern semi-autonomous Kurdistan region.
TEHRAN, July 17 - Iran’s energy minister says rising energy consumption amid a suffocating heat wave forced the country to cut power exports to neighboring Iraq which is grappling with an electricity crisis.
TEHRAN, July 16 - Airliners of Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan - Kuwait Airways, FlyDubai and Royal Jordanian Airlines - have halted flights to the Iraqi city of Najaf amid mass anti government demonstrations in southern Iraq.
TEHRAN, July 15 - At least four people are reportedly injured after Iraqi police fire in the air to prevent protesters from storming the main government building in Basra on the seventh day of unrest.
TEHRAN, July 15 - At least four people are reportedly injured after Iraqi police fire in the air to prevent protesters from storming the main government building in Basra on Sunday on the seventh day of unrest.
TEHRAN, July 14 -Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has smashed a terror outfit and killed three terrorists in the west of the country near the border with Iraq.
TEHRAN, July 14 -At least two people have lost their lives and more than a dozen others sustained injuries in protests over dire economic conditions in southern Iraq as hundreds of other protesters stormed the airport of the holy city of Najaf and disrupted air traffic temporarily.
TEHRAN, July 13 - Ali Akbar Velayati, an international adviser to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution who is on an official visit to Moscow, said that Iran’s advisory missions in Syria and Iraq will immediately end if the two Arab countries’ governments want so.
TEHRAN, July 09 -Members of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group have killed three pro-government Iraqi forces and wounded several others near the country’s biggest oil refinery in the restive north.
TEHRAN, July 08 - A court in Iraq has handed down death sentence to a member of the foreign-sponsored Takfiri Daesh terrorist group over his involvement in the massacre of more than a dozen civilians in the country’s northern province of Nineveh.
TEHRAN, July 08 - A court in Iraq has handed down death sentence to a member of the foreign-sponsored Takfiri Daesh terrorist group over his involvement in the massacre of more than a dozen civilians in the country’s northern province of Nineveh.
TEHRAN, July 08 - Iraqi police have opened fire to break up crowds of demonstrators who had gathered near the southern oil hub of Basra to protest against a shortage of jobs, electricity, water and a number of other basic services, killing and wounding several demonstrators, local officials say.
TEHRAN, July 07 - Two Filipino women have been kidnapped on a road linking the Iraqi capital Baghdad to the Kurdish city of Erbil, security and local officials say.
TEHRAN, July 07 - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has reiterated Turkey’s determination to eradicate the threat of “terror”, saying Ankara will continue its military operation in northern Iraq until the elimination of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).