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11/20/2022 12:43:55 PM
Turkey launched deadly airstrikes over northern regions of Syria and Iraq, the Turkish Defense Ministry said Sunday, targeting Kurdish groups that Ankara holds responsible for last week's bomb attack in Istanbul.
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World
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Region
11/19/2022 6:00:04 PM
Islamic State group militants attacked an Iraqi army position in the northwestern governorate of Kirkuk early Saturday killing four soldiers, security sources and a local government official said.
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World
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Region
11/18/2022 7:24:13 PM
A senior Iranian military official visiting Baghdad this week threatened Iraq with a ground military operation in the country's north if the Iraqi army does not fortify the countries' shared border against Kurdish opposition groups, multiple Iraqi and Kurdish officials said.
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World
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Region
11/18/2022 2:21:20 PM
The death toll from a heating gas tank that exploded in a residential complex in northern Iraq has risen to 15, an civil defense official said Friday.
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World
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Region
11/14/2022 1:32:41 PM
Iran launched cross-border missile and drone strikes Monday against Kurdish opposition groups based in northern Iraq, where local authorities reported one death and eight wounded.
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World
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Region
11/9/2022 10:13:53 AM
A strike on a pro-Iran militia convoy in eastern Syria near the Iraqi border killed at least 14 people overnight, a war monitor said Wednesday, without specifying who carried it out.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
11/6/2022 4:11:49 PM
One of the largest scandals ever to hit the country has recently hit Iraq, but the case is still shrouded in cloak-and-dagger drama, writes Salah Nasrawi
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World
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Region
11/6/2022 3:33:54 PM
Iraqi lawmakers were due Sunday to examine a bill seeking to reestablish military conscription in the country, before the first reading was postponed.
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World
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Region
11/1/2022 10:49:49 PM
Iraq's Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani announced Tuesday the dismissal of several senior officials appointed by his predecessor, days after a confidence vote in his government.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
10/31/2022 10:45:00 PM
Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and his counterparts Ayman Safadi of Jordan and Fouad Hussein of Iraq met on Monday to discuss ways to boost trilateral relations. The meeting was held on the margins of preparatory meetings for the 31st Summit of the Arab League (AL) hosted by Algeria November 1-2.
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World
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Region
10/29/2022 11:19:08 PM
A gas tanker exploded near a soccer field in northeastern Baghdad on Saturday, killing at least nine people and wounding 10 others, according to security officials.
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Antiquities
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Region
10/28/2022 4:35:31 PM
Archaeologists in northern Iraq last week unearthed 2,700-year-old rock carvings featuring war scenes and trees from the Assyrian Empire, an archaeologist said Wednesday.
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World
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Region
10/27/2022 9:08:32 PM
Iraqi lawmakers approved a new government Thursday after a year-long crisis triggered by contested elections, the office of the prime minister said.
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Arts & Culture
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Stage & Street
10/25/2022 4:49:45 PM
The management of the Sharm El-Sheikh International Theatre Festival for Youth (SITFY) named Iraq as the country of honour in its seventh edition, which is scheduled to take place in November.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
10/24/2022 11:13:00 PM
The Iraqi parliament met last week to elect a new president for the country as well as to appoint a new prime minister, writes Nermeen Al-Mufti in Baghdad.
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COP27
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Climate change
10/24/2022 10:23:26 PM
In drought-hit Iraq, six out of 10 households have had their access to drinking water disrupted and a quarter of farmers have seen crop yields drastically fall this year, said a survey published Monday.
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World
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Region
10/20/2022 9:16:34 PM
As protests rage at home, Iran's theocratic government is flexing its military muscle abroad: Tehran has supplied drones to Russia that killed Ukrainian civilians, ran drills in a border region with Azerbaijan and bombed Kurdish positions in Iraq.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
10/20/2022 10:52:00 AM
Iraq has taken its first steps towards the formation of a new government, but whether it can find lasting peace remains in doubt.
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World
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Region
10/16/2022 5:57:19 PM
Iraqi authorities are investigating the "theft" of $2.5 billion from the tax authority, officials said Sunday, in the latest corruption case to hit the country.
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World
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Region
10/15/2022 2:12:33 PM
Iraqi firebrand cleric Moqtada Sadr's movement on Saturday announced its refusal to join a new government being formed by prime minister-designate Mohammad Shia al-Sudani.
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