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Iran’s President Starts Strategic Visit to Iraq, Stresses Reinforcement of Mutual Ties

The Iranian President Sheikh Hasan Rouhani arrived on Monday in Baghdad, starting a strategic official visit to the neighboring country. According to Press TV, the trip has been viewed by experts as Iran’s response to US President Donald Trump’s snap trip to Iraq in December. Trump slipped into Iraq on ...

March 11, 2019

Middle East

Iran’s Rouhani Arrives in Iraq on First Official Visit

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani arrived in Iraq on Monday for his first official visit, state television said, as Baghdad is under pressure from Washington to limit ties with its neighbor. Before leaving Tehran, Rouhani hailed the “special” relations between Iran and Iraq, saying they could not be compared to Baghdad’s ...

March 11, 2019

Middle East

Hashd Shaabi Commander Expresses Strong Opposition to US Military Presence in Iraq

Hadi al-Ameri, a leading figure in Iraq’s Hashd al-Shaabi paramilitary force, voiced firm rejection on Saturday to US military presence in Iraq, stressing that such presence needs permission from the Baghdad government. “We oppose any on-the-ground presence (of American troops) or US bases in Iraq,”, Ameri said in an interview ...

March 10, 2019

Middle East

Head of Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, Sayyed Ammar al-Hakim

Iraq’s Hakim Rejects Saudi Invitations to Visit Riyadh Several Times: Source

A senior Iraqi official said the head of the country’s National Wisdom Movement (NWM), or Hikma, has rejected several invitations by Saudi Arabia to visit Riyadh. The kingdom invited Sayyed Ammar Hakim for a visit to the Arabian Peninsula country six times, but all requests were rejected, the high-profile official ...

March 9, 2019

Middle East

Freed Izadi Women, Children Reunite with Families in Northern Iraq

A group of Iraqi women and children from the Izadi minority, who were freed earlier this week after five years of captivity at the hands of the ISIL Takfiri terrorist group in neighboring Syria, have been reunited with their families in Iraq. Overjoyed families met their loved ones at a ...

March 2, 2019

Middle East

Iraqi Security Agencies Say SDF Handed over Captured ISIL Militants to Baghdad

The Arab-Kurdish units of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have handed over another 130 ISIL militants, captured in the Arab Republic, to the Iraqi security agencies, with the total number of them now reaching 280, the agencies said in a press release. On Thursday, the Iraqi authorities reported that the ...

February 25, 2019

Middle East

Acting Pentagon Chief Makes Unannounced Visit to Iraqi Capital

Acting US Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan arrived in Baghdad on Tuesday for an unannounced visit during which he said he would stress the importance of “Iraqi sovereignty” and broach the issue of the future of US troops there. “We are in Iraq at the invitation of the government and our ...

February 12, 2019

Middle East

Sayyed Sistani Rejects Turning Iraq to Platform for Harming Neighboring Countries

Iraq’s top Shia authority Sayyed Ali Sistani expressed his rejection to turning Iraq to a launching pad for harming any other country. During his meeting with the head of UN mission in Iraq, Sayyed Sistani pointed out that Iraq aspires to have “good and balanced relations” with all of its neighbors ...

February 6, 2019

Middle East

Baghdad Demands US Clarification on Number, Mission of US Troops in Iraq

Iraqi president, Barham Salih commented on remarks made by US President Donald Trump concerning the American military presence in Iraq in a bid to monitor Iran. Barham Salih said on Monday that Trump did not ask Iraq’s permission for US troops stationed there to “monitor Iran.” “Don’t overburden Iraq with your own ...

February 4, 2019

Middle East

Sayyed Hakim: Iraq Won’t Be a Starting Point to Threaten Neighboring Countries

The Head of the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council, Ammar al-Hakim rejected making the Iraqi territories a starting point to threaten neighbor countries, a day after US President, Donald Trump, said that US troops are to stay in Iraq in a bid to “monitor” Iran. “We strongly reject making Al-Iraq, either ...

February 4, 2019