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.
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.