At least eleven people died in the night of Monday on Tuesday at a bombing in the center of Iraqi capital, Baghdad. There are several people injured. A car bomb exploded in the Karrada district. The authorities have put the environment down.
A suicide attack north of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, killed nine civilians on Sunday. Twelve people were injured in the explosion in the city of Baquba, according to medical staff.
Iraqi forces have completely surrounded the Islamic State terrorist group in Mosul. That's a spokesman for the coalition that supports the Iraqis in the fight against IS on Tuesday.
Certainly two people have died in suicide attacks on a base in northern Iraq, where American advisers are also involved. The attackers disguised themselves as members of a Kurdish militia.
Iraqi troops have begun a new offensive at the Iraqi city of Mosul, which is partly owned by Islamic State (IS). Two major military sections attack the city from the northwest, according to a spokesman for the army.
A group of Jezidis is liberated in northern Iraq from the terrorist movement of Islamic State. It's about 36 people who have been detained for three years by IS, including children and women, so did the UN organization for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Sunday. Further details were not given.
A high general of the Iraqi army expects that IS has been completely chased out of Mosul within three weeks. Out of major parts of the city, Islamic State has already been expelled. The battle for Mosul has been taking place since October.
Hunters from Qatar abducted in Iraq in December 2015 have been released. The abductors have transferred the 26 Qatars to the Iraqi Ministry of Interior, according to the BBC Friday.
The Iraqi army has Ayad al-Jumaili, that would be the right hand of IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, slain by an air strike. Notified by the Iraqi state television Saturday.
By a suicide bombing in Baghdad on Wednesday killed at least thirteen. Forty people were injured.
Iraq's UN Ambassador Mohamed Ali Alhakim on Friday said that no evidence has been found Islamic State has used chemical weapons in defense of Mosul. The terrorist organization is besieged in the city by Iraqi forces with US support.
Iraq breathe a 'sigh of relief', as the US president Donald Trump has decided to withdraw the country from the list of countries subject to a US re-entry ban.
The Red Cross has accused the warring parties in the Iraqi city of Mosul on the use of chemical weapons. The aid agency says five children and two women have treated who had been injured by chemicals.
The Iraqi army on Wednesday morning brought under control last exit road from Mosul. Thus, the terrorists of the Islamic State holding the western district occupied surrounded.
Abu al-Khayr al-Masri, one of the most experienced leaders of al Qaeda, was killed by a US attack with a drone. That several sources, including the jihadist organization Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, confirmed Monday. The Pentagon agreed Sunday with an unmanned aircraft have fired a missile at a terrorist target in the emergency west of Syria.
For the first time since the fall of dictator Saddam Hussein in 2003, a key minister from Saudi Arabia visited Iraq. The Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir was Saturday in Baghdad.
Iraqi security forces on Thursday began storming the airport controlled by the Islamic State in Mosul and a nearby military base. Reported that the Iraqi state.
The US military is in Iraq ' peck at someone's oil '. That said Defense Minister Jim Mattis Monday before he arrived in Baghdad for an unannounced visit. Mattis thus distanced himself from a statement by President Trump, who let slip in January against the CIA staff that the United States had to seize Iraqi oil when they had settled in 2003 with leader Saddam Hussein. 'But okay. Maybe you still have a chance, '' said Trump last month.
In a huge explosion in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Thursday definitely killed 48 people. Presumably still dozens of people injured. It is the third day in a row that a bomb exploded in the city.
By a bombing in a Shiite suburb of Baghdad Wednesday, at least fifteen people, fifty others were wounded died.
Islamic State also gets brainwashed Yazidi children for suicide attacks. The terror army definitely keeps thousand children captive of the religious minority from Iraq. The extremists have them mentally and physically the last two years prepared for kamikaze actions.
The Iraqi army has carried out an airstrike last weekend with F-16s at a house where leaders of Islamic State in meeting gathered. Thirteen of them would therefore be killed.
At least four demonstrators and a policeman were killed Saturday came by violence during a demonstration of supporters of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. That said the governor of Baghdad at the station al-Jazeera. Certainly 320 demonstrators and four policemen were injured.
Iraq conflict will go out of the way. That Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on TV Saturday following the first call he had with the US president Donald Trump. It came under more tensions with neighboring Iran on the agenda.
Iraq's 'People's Mobilization' the government in Baghdad on Sunday asked Americans who want to stop in the country and there are already off. That is to impose a reaction to the decision by President Trump among others Iraqis travel restrictions.
In the east of Mosul, which was recaptured by Islamic State, on Tuesday with support from UNICEF thirty schools reopened. Result, 16,000 children were to follow the teaching opportunity again. The fighting in the northern Iraqi city that was in some districts two years is not possible.
The Iraqi government army eastern Iraq completely under control. The defense ministry reported on Monday that fighters from Islamic State (IS) have to give up their last foothold east of the Tigris river.
In a presidential complex in the Iraqi city of Tikrit is a mass grave with certain 89 bodies have been found. It probably involves the remains of Iraqi soldiers killed by (IS) fighters of the Islamic State, according to the security services. In the city are already exposed several mass graves.
Barack Obama pardons Chelsea Manning, who is serving a prison sentence of 35 years for leaking military secrets. Manning is released on May 17, 2017.
Iraqi Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari (Foreign Affairs) has played a mediating role between the warring neighbors Saudi Arabia and Iran. The minister made in his own words, including the role of messenger, Iranian state broadcaster IRIB reported Saturday.
