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Iraq’s Hashd Shaabi Declares Baaj Free of ISIL

Iraq’s Hashd Shaabi volunteer forces announced on Sunday they have completely liberated Baaj area, near the border with Syria, from ISIL Takfiri forces. The capture of Baaj shrinks the area under control of the insurgents in the border region between Iraq and Syria, where ISIL leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is ...

June 4, 2017

Middle East

Iraq’s Popular Forces Advance in Ba’aj District in Western Mosul

The Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) managed on Saturday to advance in southern Ba’aj district, liberating Al-Risalah compound from ISIL terrorists. A PMF spokesman said that the popular forces, backed by the Iraqi air force, have been advancing in western Mosul, tightening the siege imposed on the takfiri group in ...

June 3, 2017

Middle East

Iraq Forces Announce Gains in West Mosul

Iraqi forces have recaptured around half of two neighborhoods in west Mosul that are among the targets of a broad offensive against ISIL terrorists launched last week, officers said on Friday. Iraqi security forces are more than seven months into a massive operation to retake Mosul from the ISIL terrorist ...

June 2, 2017

Middle East

Kurdish Independence Vote to Have No Effect on Oil Prices: Iraqi Oil Minister

Iraqi Oil Minister Jabar Ali Luaibi told Sputnik calls for a Kurdish independence referendum were a purely political move that would barely have an effect on oil prices. The OPEC agreement was supported by 11 non-OPEC states, which joined the deal by promising to jointly reduce oil output by 558,000 ...

June 2, 2017

Middle East

Iraqi PMF Units Liberate More Areas in Mosul from ISIL Terrorists

The Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) units continued their operations against ISIL terrorists in western Mosul, liberating Al-Khabra village in Baaj district and inflicting heavy losses upon the takfiri group. The PMF units announced that the border guards will be entitled to control the liberated area on the border with ...

June 1, 2017

Middle East

Iraq’s PMF Denies Entering in Syrian Territories

The spokesman of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), Ahmad Al-Assadi, Thursday denied that the PMF units had entered Syria to operate against the terrorist groups, adding that this requires a political approval. Assadi noted that PMF is an official body that is led by the national government to fight ...

June 1, 2017

Middle East

Fresh Bombing Hits Iraq Taking Terrorist Attacks Death Toll to 42

A fresh suicide bombing rocked Iraqi town of Hit in the Anbar province, killing 15 people and injuring 22 others. The bombing took place late on Tuesday after a suicide bomber entered a crowd of civilians and detonated an explosive device, Iraqi media reported saying that among the killed were ...

May 31, 2017

Middle East

The deputy chief of the Popular Mobilization committee in Iraq Abu Mahdi al-Mohandes

Iraq’s PMF Says to Control Entire Border with Syria

The deputy commander of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), Abu Mahdi Al-Mohandes, said on Tuesday that the PMF’s operations will continue in western Mosul till restoring the entire border area with Syria from ISIL terrorists. Al-Mohandes added that PMF troops will be deployed on the Iraqi side of the ...

May 30, 2017

Middle East

Nujaifi: Baghdad blasts aim at diverting attention from heavy ISIL losses In Mosul

Nujaifi: Baghdad Blasts aim at diverting attention from Heavy ISIL losses In Mosul Iraqi Vice President Osama al-Nujaifi stressed on Tuesday that the terrorists blasts which rocked Baghdad overnight and in the morning are aimed at diverting attention from heavy losses inflicted upon the Takfiri ISIL group in Mosul. “We ...

May 30, 2017

Middle East

Dozens Martyred, Injured in Baghdad Bombings (Updated)

At least 27 people were killed and more than 100 wounded in two bombings in Baghdad, security and medical officials said on Tuesday. In the first attack, a suicide bomber struck near a popular ice cream shop overnight, killing 16 people (photos below). In the second, a car bomb ...

May 30, 2017