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Iraq and Turkey recall ambassadors as tension mounts over Bashiqa base

Baghdad and Ankara have each summoned the other’s ambassador as tension mounts over the legality of keeping Turkish troops in Iraq.

Iraq

Preparations intensify for Mosul offensive in Iraq

French fighter jets have taken off from the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier on a mission targeting the so-called Islamic State in its Iraqi stronghold of…

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Iraqi president on democracy and ISIL's decline

Euronews’ Aissa Boukanoun sits down with Iraqi leader Dr Muhammad Fuad Masum to talk about the Battle of Mosul, democracy and Daesh.

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Iraq

Iraqi forces regain control of Shirqat

Analysts say it brings the military a step closer to a main push on Mosul later this year.

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Nadia Murad, Yazidi woman and survivor of ISIL atrocities, becomes UN Ambassador

Nadia Murad Basee Taha, a 23-year-old Yazidi woman who survived trafficking and sexual abuse at the hands of ISIL, has been appointed Goodwill Ambassador for the United…

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Iraq: More than 70 tents burned down in refugee camp

More than 70 tents were destroyed by fire in the refugee camp of Yahayawa, near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, but no one was injured, the United Nations’ refugee agency UNHCR…

Iraq

Iraqi forces inch closer to ISIL-held Mosul

Iraqi forces meet resistance in an operation to re-take the town of Qayyarah as they move ever closer towards the ISIL stronghold of Mosul

Iraq

'Kidnapped' boy wearing 'explosive belt' arrested by Iraqi police

Footage from Kurdish television purports to show a distressed young boy wearing an explosive belt.

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Portugal braces itself for diplomatic row with Iraq over brutal attack

Portugal’s government is considering asking Iraq to remove its diplomatic immunity from the sons of its ambassador after they allegedly attacked a 15-year-old…

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Iraq executes 36 men for massacre of military recruits near Tikrit

Iraq has executed by hanging 36 men who were convicted over the killings of up to 1,700 military recruits at former US base Camp Speicher near Tikrit in 2014.

Iraq

Battle for Mosul: Kurdish forces capture dozen villages from ISIL

Kurdish Peshmerga forces in Iraq say they have made major gains near Mosul, capturing a dozen villages from ISIL.

Iraq

Kurdish Peshmerga forces in fresh push to retake Mosul from ISIL

Iraqi Kurdish fighters have launched a fresh assault on ISIL militants.

Iraq

In northern Iraq, thousands flee Mosul campaign

Thousands have been displaced as Iraqi army and allied forces push towards the ISIL stronghold of Mosul.

USA

Obama warns defeating ISIL militarily 'will not be enough'

President Barack Obama has hailed the progress he says the United States and its allies have made in the military campaign against ISIL.

USA

Trump insults killed Muslim soldier's parents

Donald Trump is no stranger to controversy, and this weekend the Republican candidate for President of the United States has outraged many by insulting the mother of a Muslim-American soldier, killed

Iraq

Turkey bombs PKK in northern Iraq for first time since failed coup

For the first time since last Friday's failed coup, state media says Turkish warplanes have carried out air strikes against the PKK in northern Iraq.

USA

Baton Rouge gunman was ex-marine who served in Iraq

The gunman who killed three American policemen and wounded three others in Louisiana has been identified as a former US marine sergeant who had served in Iraq.

Iraq

ISIL 'top commander' Omar al-Shishani killed in Iraq

News agency affiliated with militant group confirms Omar al-Shishani was killed in combat in Iraq.

Iraq

Stunning drone footage of the world’s biggest cemetery in Iraq

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