•A US Air Force C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft After more than a decade, the US-led coalition is ending its mission in Iraq, having helped save the country from jihadists while causing persistent friction. Coalition troops deployed to Iraq and Syria in 2014 to fight the Islamic State (IS) group, which had seized large swathes [&hel...
•United States president, Donald Trump US-Saudi strikes on Iraq killed at least 20 militants, including several Iranians, today, according to the Hashed al-Shaabi, an armed Iraqi alliance that includes pro-Iran groups. The United States and Saudi Arabia said they had struck Iran-backed armed militants in Iraq in response to attacks on US force...
•OPEC logo Iraq has urged the Oil Producing Exporting Countries (OPEC) to increase its oil production quota considering the country’s history of conflicts and the recent regional war that have damaged its industry, the oil ministry said today. Like other oil producers, Iraq, a founding member of OPEC, was greatly affected by the Middle East [&...
•A US Air Force B-1 Lancer bombers A US KC‑135 aerial refueling aircraft crashed in western Iraq, killing four crew members, the military said on Friday, adding that the incident was not caused by “hostile fire.” A second plane involved in the incident, which the military said occurred at 2:00 pm Eastern Time (1900 GMT) […]
•US and Iraq flags Iraq’s oil ministry announced today that it had invited US companies to bid on an oil field which had been operated by the now American-sanctioned Russian company Lukoil for years. The oil ministry said in a statement it had taken “all necessary measures to directly and exclusively invite several major American […]...
•A cleaning operation starts outside the charred building on July 17, 2025, after a fire tore through the newly opened Hyper Mall overnight A fire tore through a newly opened shopping mall in the eastern Iraqi city of Kut overnight, killing at least 61 people, authorities said today as grief-stricken families searched for missing relatives. [&...
•Debris of a missile fired from Iran toward Israel Iran launched missiles at US military bases in Qatar and Iraq this evening, official media reported, in what state TV called a “powerful” response to recent American strikes on key nuclear sites. “The operation of Iranian missiles against American bases located in Qatar and in Iraq […]...
•A building damaged in Israeli strike on Tehran today Iraq filed a complaint today with the United Nations Security Council over Israel’s “violation of Iraqi airspace” in a major attack on Iran, Baghdad’s foreign ministry said. “These practices constitute a flagrant violation of Iraq’s sovereignty,” the ministry said, calling on “the Security ...
•Eniola Isaac Officials of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission in Jordan which oversees Iraq have intervened to return a 28-year-old trafficked Nigerian lady, Eniola Isaac. This was after a report on Wednesday revealed that Eniola was allegedly lured to Iraq under false promises of a better life, reports Channels TV. However, after being subj...
•Pope Francis Pope Francis escaped two attempts on his life during his historic trip to Iraq in March 2021, according to excerpts from his forthcoming autobiography published today by Italian media. The pontiff’s Vatican security detail received an urgent warning from the British secret services, Francis wrote. “A woman packed with explosives,...
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