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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

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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

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Iran Penetrates into US Command Center, Picks Up Drones Control: Video

Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Aerospace Force Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh disclosed on Thursday that several US aircraft that were constantly flying over Syria and Iraq were under IRGC’s control and their first-hand intelligence was being monitored and retrieved by his forces after penetrating into the US ...

February 21, 2019

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Baghdad Coordinates Military Operations in Syria with Damascus: Iraq Foreign Minister

Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammad Al-Hakim on Wednesday said he discussed with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov the issue of liberating the Syrian city of Idlib from the terrorist groups, stressing that his country coordinates the military operations in Syria with the Syrian government. “Of course, we support military and security ...

January 30, 2019

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Sheikh Khazaali: Americans Will Withdraw from Iraq Voluntarily or by Force

The Secretary General of Asaib Ahl Haq (League of the Righteous) group Sheik Qais Khazaali expected a vote in the coming months by Iraq’s parliament calling for the withdrawal of US troops. Khazaali said there’s no longer a justification for thousands of US troops to remain in Iraq now that ...

January 29, 2019

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Four Police Dead in Back-to-Back Bomb Blasts in Iraq

Four Iraqi policemen were killed Sunday in two back-to-back bomb blasts at one of their positions north of the capital, near a former Takfiri bastion, local officials and officers said. “At around 8:00 am, the police officers were taking up their post at the southern entrance of Al-Sharqat,” the town’s ...

January 27, 2019