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Iraqi forces seize four villages
    BAGHDAD — Iraqi government forces retook four villages on Sunday near a mountain ridge overlooking the supply lines of the self-proclaimed Islamic State, security officials said. Iraqi security forces backed by Shiite militias gained some momentum on Saturday in their bid ...
Iraqis return to school after delay from unrest
BAGHDAD — Iraqi students went back to school on Wednesday amid tightened security as the academic year began a month late because thousands of people displaced by last summer’s onslaught by the self-proclaimed Islamic State group had taken shelter in ...
Fresh blasts rock Baghdad; many killed
    BAGHDAD — Iraqi officials say two separate bombings have killed nine people in Baghdad, the latest victims in near-daily attacks that have targeted the country’s capital.Police officials say a bomb at an out-door market in the southern district of Abu ...
Iraq rise in executions fuels sectarian conflict: UN
    BAGHDAD — The UN voiced alarm on Sunday over the increasing use of the death penalty in Iraq in the decade since its reintroduction, warning such punishments would only fuel deadly sectarian conflict. In a report released on Sunday, the United ...
Suicide attack kills at least 17 in Baghdad
    BAGHDAD — Iraqi officials say a suicide bomber has targeted a mosque in central Baghdad, killing at least 17 worshipers. A police officer says the attacker blew up his explosives-laden vest as people were leaving the Al-Khairat mosque in Baghdad’s ...
Iraqi authorities lift curfew in Anbar capital
    BAGHDAD — Iraqi authorities in the country’s western Anbar province have lifted a curfew imposed Friday in the provincial capital of Ramadi over fears that the militants might try to advance on the city. Anbar provincial council chairman Sabah Karhout ...
Iraq lawmakers approve interior, defense ministers
BAGHDAD — Iraqi lawmakers have approved all of the remaining positions in Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi’s government, including the critical posts of defense and interior ministers amid the country’s battle with the self-proclaimed Islamic State group.   Lawmakers on Saturday approved ...
Iraq imposes curfew in Ramadi
    BAGHDAD — Iraqi officials in the western Anbar province say a curfew has been imposed in the provincial capital Ramadi over fears that the self-proclaimed Islamic State group might try to advance on the city.    abah Karhout, the chairman of ...
How Mosul fell: An Iraqi general disputes Baghdad’s story
    BAGHDAD — Lieutenant General Mahdi Gharawi knew an attack was coming. In late May, Iraqi security forces arrested seven members of militant group Islamic State in Mosul and learned the group planned an offensive on the city in early June. ...
Triple Baghdad blasts kill at least 22: police
      BAGHDAD — Three bomb attacks in neighbourhoods of the Iraqi capital killed at least 22 people on Monday, security and medical sources said.   The attacks, two of them using suicide car bombs, occurred in or on the edge of the frequently ...
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