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September 11, 2024 3:39 PM

Iranian president visits Iraq on his first foreign trip

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian visited Iraq on Wednesday on his first foreign trip, signalling the clerical establishment's intention to strengthen ties with a strategic ally of both Tehran and Washington as regional tensions rise. Pezeshkian, ...

August 2, 2024 5:51 PM

Yazidis fear returning to their homeland, 10 years after massacre

Fahad Qassim was just 11 years old when Islamic State militants overran his Yazidi community in the Sinjar region of northern Iraq in August 2014, taking him captive. The attack was the start of what became the systematic slaughter, enslavement, and...

June 10, 2024 11:02 AM

Iraq’s Mosul springs back to life 10 years after it fell to ISIS

It was the simple night-time act of watering flowers on his street in Mosul's Old City that made Saqr Zakaria stop and think about just how safe this last bastion of Islamic State militants had become since it was liberated in 2017. "I thought for a...

November 28, 2023 3:02 PM

Iran, Iraq call for permanent ceasefire in Gaza

Iran on Monday called for a permanent ceasefire in the Gaza Strip as the four-day truce between Hamas and Israel entered its final day. At a press briefing in Tehran, Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani demanded an end of the ongoing co...

November 22, 2023 2:57 PM

Iraq’s Kataib Hezbollah militia says 5 killed by US strikes

Iraq's Kataib Hezbollah militia said five of its members were killed in its stronghold of Jurf al-Sakhar, south of Baghdad, in U.S. strikes that Washington said were in response to attacks by Iran-aligned militias against its forces in the region. T...

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