Tag: Iraq

IRAQ (VOP TODAY NEWS) - One of the commanders of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units (Hachd al-Shaabi) ruled out any joint operation between the Iraqi government and Turkey against Kurdish militiamen. "We will not forget any of the Turkish aggression against the Iraqi borders," warned Karim...

TURKEY (VOP TODAY NEWS) - Ankara will conduct a joint operation with the central Iraqi government against Kurdish insurgents in northern Iraq, Turkish Foreign Minister Mouloud Zhaoshoglu was quoted as saying on Thursday. "The Afrin operation in northern Syria will be completed by May," CNN Turk...

IRAQ (VOP TODAY NEWS) - An Iraqi court said Thursday it had sentenced to death the hanging of Hamid al-Zawawi sister, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, a former al Qaeda leader in Iraq who was killed in 2010. "The Central Criminal Court has sentenced to death by hanging...

IRAQ (VOP TODAY NEWS) - Turkish Foreign Minister Mouloud Gawishoglu has revealed that Turkey and Iraq will take joint steps against the Kurdish militants of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) deployed in Iraqi territory. In a joint news conference on Thursday with Austrian Foreign Minister Karen...

SYRIA (VOP TODAY NEWS) - Turkey and Iraq plan to conduct a cross-border operation against the PKK, Turkish Foreign Minister Mouloud Gawishoglu said on Thursday. "Even if the Afrin operation has not yet been completed, we have the ability to carry out the two operations at...

UNITED STATES (VOP TODAY NEWS) - Experts from the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, along with analysts from the Peace Research Institute of Oslo, compiled the Women, Peace and Security Index. In their study, they analyzed the situation in 153 countries around the world...

UNITED STATES (VOP TODAY NEWS) - The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Wednesday warned of "resentment" in the families of detainees suspected of belonging to the Islamic state's organization because of their inability to visit. "There are strong feelings among...

SYRIA (VOP TODAY NEWS) - The German Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defense have agreed to modify the mission of the national army in Iraq in Syria. German Foreign and Defense Ministers Sigmar Gabriel and Ursula Von der Leyen, respectively, agreed that the German army should...

IRAQ (VOP TODAY NEWS) - "We have been considering for months the option of confrontation with the United States; if the US military refuses to leave Iraq, the Resistance forces will be quite ready and will act." This was stated by the spokesman of Kataeb Hezbollah...

IRAQ (VOP TODAY NEWS) - During the operation of the Iraqi People's Mobilization Units (Hashd al-Shaabi*) in the southwestern province of Kirkuk, 20 Daesh terrorists perished. Iraq's Popular Mobilization Units (Hashd al-Shaabi) reported the death of 20 terrorists in southwestern Kirkuk province on Sunday (March 4th)....

TURKEY (VOP TODAY NEWS) - Police arrested four Iraqi citizens on Monday on suspicion of plotting an attack on the US embassy in Ankara, hours after the embassy was temporarily closed due to a security threat, Anatolia news agency reported. The state-run agency said police had...

IRAQ (VOP TODAY NEWS) - The Kataeb Hezbollah Brigades, also known as Iraqi Hezbollah, issued a statement in which they supported the new plan adopted by the Iraqi parliament on setting a timetable for the withdrawal of foreign forces from Iraq before insisting on the...

IRAQ (VOP TODAY NEWS) - The Iraqi Prime Minister reiterated that the Hashd (People's Mobilization Units of Iraq) is a force linked to the Iraqi government. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said during a speech during the ceremony commemorating the victory against Daesh that the success...

IRAQ (VOP TODAY NEWS) - The commander of the Royal Air Force opposes the withdrawal of his army from Iraq, following the insistence of US authorities and despite the unanimous opposition of the Iraqis. The Irish newspaper Belfast Telegraph reported in a statement issued Sunday that...

IRAQ (VOP TODAY NEWS) - The commander of the Royal Air Force opposes the withdrawal of his army from Iraq, following the insistence of US authorities and despite the unanimous opposition of the Iraqis. The Irish newspaper Belfast Telegraph reported in a statement issued Sunday that...

SAUDI ARABIA (VOP TODAY NEWS) - A security source in Iraq's al-Anbar province said two Iraqi border guards were injured in a bomb blast near the border line between Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Asked by Sumaria News, the source reported that a bomb of the Daesh...

IRAQ (VOP TODAY NEWS) - A prominent Iraqi cleric has warned against "the return of terrorism" in Iraq through the weakening of Hashd al-Shaabi, before saying that "wounded wolves are the most dangerous". Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi al-Modarresi on Friday (March 2nd) warned of "attempts to undermine"...

UNITED STATES (VOP TODAY NEWS) - The Iraqi parliament has formally asked the government to set a timetable for the withdrawal of foreign troops from Iraq. With the defeat of Daesh, the presence of foreign troops in Iraq is very questioning Iraqis and some of their...

IRAQ (VOP TODAY NEWS) - By putting their signature on a petition, more than a thousand members of the Kurdish community in Iraq have given today, Thursday 1 st March, a period of two weeks in Turkey to remove its troops from Iraqi Kurdistan has...

IRAQ (VOP TODAY NEWS) - Crude oil exports from southern ports on the Gulf fell to 3.426 million bpd in February from 3.49 million bpd in January, Iraq's Oil Ministry said on Thursday.