Tag: Iraq

IRAQ - The UN calls on the international community to jointly fight the Islamic State terrorist group (IS) and associated groups in Iraq. This was stated on Monday by the Deputy Permanent Representative of the UN Secretary General Farhan Hak, commenting on the attacks of the previously...

IRAQ - The media department of the popular crowd issued a clarification on the killing of 27 of its fighters in Kirkuk province because they were ambushed by a terrorist group disguised as a military uniform. "A special force of the popular crowd has been carrying...

IRAQ - The Saudi newspaper Al-Watan reports that Baghdad is planning to buy the Russian S-400 ground-to-air missile system from Moscow. A member of the Iraqi Parliament's Committee on Security and Defense said that Hashd al-Shaabi forces, deployed in most of the headquarters of the Islamic...

IRAQ - By installing an electronic detection and surveillance system, Iraq is seeking to better protect its land borders. Iraq plans to spend a big budget on securing its borders, said Abdel Amir Yarallah, deputy chief of staff of the Iraqi army, quoted by Baghdad Today...

IRAN - Iran is negotiating an agreement with Russia to import wheat to allow flour exports to neighboring Iraq, Kao Zergeran, secretary-general of the Iranian Food Federation, told Reuters on Saturday.  The agreement includes the import of about one hundred thousand tons of Russian wheat per...

IRAQ - Haider al-Abadi said Friday night before leaving Baghdad for Munich: "Daesh is a foreign invention that developed in Syria and then arrived in Iraq." "The Daesh terrorist group was manufactured and imported by foreigners": it is with these words that the Iraqi Prime Minister...

IRAQ - GENEL Energy said it had received late payments of $ 7.05 million from the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), accounting for 4.5 percent of the total revenue of the Tawke field for November 2017. The total net share of Jinl's share of export payments for...

IRAQ - At the end of the International Conference for the Reconstruction of Iraq, organized under the auspices of the World Bank on Wednesday, February 14, in Kuwait, the Rule of Law Coalition, led by Iraqi Vice President Nouri al-Qaeda, Maliki, a former prime minister,...

IRAQ - The Iraqi government and the World Bank signed two projects worth $ 510 million on Wednesday aimed at improving Iraqis' living conditions, increasing water distribution and creating jobs. The two projects were signed in the framework of the International Conference on Iraq Reconstruction,...

KUWAIT - Kuwait pledged 30 billion dollars in aid to Iraq during an international conference on the reconstruction of the war-torn country against the Islamic State. "The international community's commitment to Iraq was clear during the conference," said Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah al-Khalid al-Sabah,...

US military forces are still present on Iraqi soil, despite the announcement of the defeat of Daesh in Iraq. This means that Washington's main objective is not the fight against terrorism, but the maintenance of its influence in Iraq. On the military side, the United...

IRAQ - Iraqi Interior Minister Qassem al-Araji announced today that the al-Anbar desert has been secured to some extent and the army has managed to free the passage of Tribal, which has strategic importance and was currently seeking to liberate other border crossings. According to...

IRAQ, KIRKUK - Iraq will begin exporting oil from fields north of Kirkuk to Iran this month at a rate of 60,000 bpd, Kirkuk Governor Rakan al-Jubouri told Reuters. Jabouri made the remarks at a conference for the reconstruction of Iraq in Kuwait on Monday. Iraq agreed...

SYRIA - The leader of the Islamic state organization Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is still alive and receiving treatment at a hospital for organizing in the desert region of northeastern Syria, a senior Interior Ministry official said. The head of the Falcon Intelligence Cell, director of intelligence...

SYRIA - The draft federal budget for the fiscal year 2019 provides for the allocation of 1.4 billion dollars to support the opposition in Syria and the national security forces in Iraq, the Pentagon said on Monday. "The operation" Unshakable determination "provides for the allocation...

SYRIA (VOP) - The leader of the terrorist organization Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is alive. Currently, he is hiding in the north-east of Syria in the Jazira region, the Iraqi newspaper Al-Sabah reports with reference to the head of the Intelligence and Anti-terror Department...

IRAQ (VOP) - The total damage to the infrastructure of Iraq during the fight against the Islamic State group (IS/ISIS) is estimated at $ 45.7 billion. In particular, the destruction of the residential sector is estimated at $ 16 billion, power plants and power networks...

IRAN (VOP) - The Iranians resisted attempts at US interference and thwarted their plots. The Iranian president made a speech on Sunday, February 11, to the Iranians, participating in the march marking the 39th anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Revolution, and meeting place...

IRAQ - The explosion in the town of Dujail, 70 km north of Baghdad, killed six people and wounded five others. "The final result of the explosive device explosion in Al-Gomhouria neighborhood east of Dujail in Salahuddin province was six dead and five wounded, including...

IRAQ - The offensive by the Iraqi forces to eliminate the new terrorist group called the "White Flags" is still going on. The operation of Iraqi forces launched in the southeastern province of Kirkuk and eastern Salaheddine province against the "White Flags" that espouse the...