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Iranian, four Iraqis jailed for life for killing of US citizen in Baghdad

An Iranian man and four Iraqis were given life in prison for the 2022 killing of US citizen Stephen Troell in Baghdad. An Iraqi court sentenced the man on Thursday in a move welcomed by Washington. “The Iranian man was the mastermind of the crime,” one legal source said. All five involved were arrested in Iraq soon after Troell was killed. Troell was killed after an attempted abduction last November, […]

today1 September 2023

International

Iraq’s president calls for early elections to end political crisis

INTERNATIONAL Iraqi President Barham Saleh on Tuesday encouraged early legislative elections to settle a political crisis that escalated into deadly clashes this week, leaving dozens dead and hundreds more wounded. Early elections, less than a year after the last polls, have been a key demand of the influential Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, whose supporters battled state security forces during violence that started on Monday. "Holding new, early elections in accordance […]

today31 August 2022

International

Iraq: Thousands of anti-Sadr demonstrators protest Parliament occupation

INTERNATIONAL Thousands of demonstrators opposed to Iraq's powerful cleric, Moqtada Al-Sadr, staged a protest on Monday at the edge of Baghdad's fortified government zone, where Sadr's supporters were holding an open-ended occupation of Iraq's Parliament, Reuters reports. The rival Shia Muslim groups are affiliated with heavily armed militias, raising fears of clashes as tension soars over the failure to form a government nearly 10 months after an October election – the country's longest post-election deadlock. Sadr's […]

today2 August 2022

International News

Threat to evacuate US diplomats from Iraq raises fear of war

The United States has made preparations to withdraw diplomats from Iraq after warning Baghdad it could shut its embassy, two Iraqi officials and two Western diplomats say, a step Iraqis fear could turn their country into a battle zone. Any move by the US to scale down its diplomatic presence in a country where it has up to 5,000 troops would be widely seen in the region as an escalation […]

today29 September 2020

International News

‘Here to stay’, vow Iraqi protesters as deadly violence surges

Iraqi protesters vowed to continue their escalation until demands for an independent prime minister and snap elections are met, as deadly violence surged in Baghdad and several key southern cities. Two protesters were killed in the capital's Tayaran Square in the early hours of Monday after security forces fired live ammunition and tear gas to disperse angry crowds, officials said. Another protester was killed in Baghdad later in the day. […]

today21 January 2020

International News

Iraq protesters block roads as they step up calls for reform

Protesters closed large roads in cities across Iraq on Sunday night, escalating their campaign for political change, as the clock ticked down the final hours to their deadline for the government to meet their demands for reform. In Najaf, demonstrators burned pictures of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and tore down posters of Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis the former leader of Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), or Hashd al-Shaabi, the umbrella grouping of Iraq's mostly Shia […]

today20 January 2020

International News

Iraqi protesters leave US embassy compound in Baghdad

Iraqi protesters have withdrawn from the perimeter fence of the United States embassy in Baghdad, after the pro-Iran Popular Mobilisation Units (PMU) paramilitary group asked them to leave. On Tuesday, thousands of Iraqis had encircled and vandalised the embassy compound, outraged by US air raids in Iraq and Syria that killed 25 PMU fighters over the weekend. Angry crowds marched unimpeded through the checkpoints of the usually high-security Green Zone […]

today2 January 2020

International News

Arrest warrants issued for 20 accused in blast in Sadr’s Baghdad stronghold

Iraq's Supreme Judicial Council has issued arrest warrants for 20 people accused of involvement in a blast that killed 18 people in the Baghdad stronghold of cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose bloc won an election marred by fraud allegations, state TV reported. Nationalist Sadr and Iranian-backed paramilitary chief Hadi al-Amiri, who won first and second place respectively in the May vote, announced on Tuesday an alliance between their blocs. Security and […]

today13 June 2018

International News

Baghdad: Iraqi forces in full control of Kirkuk

The Iraqi army says it has taken full control of Kirkuk following a major advance on Kurdish-held territories. The federal government in Baghdad and sources inside the city told Al Jazeera on Monday that Iraqi security forces had captured the governorate building in the centre of Kirkuk city. According to security forces, troops moved into the building with no opposition from Kurdish Peshmerga fighters. A dozen Humvees from Iraq's US-trained […]

today17 October 2017

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