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Students Protest against Prime Minister Abadi in Kut, Iraq

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 1, 2017 | Middle East

Baghdad- An Iraqi council of ministers meeting was interrupted by rioting Al-Qadisiya University students. Demonstrations took place at Wasit province’s capital Kut, 180 km west of Baghdad. Students protested in droves, chanting slogans that overthrow Prime Minister...

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Bullet holes are visible in the window of a truck driven by Iraqi soldiers as displaced families gather near Qayyarah. BULENT KILIC / AFP – Getty Images

Abadi: Iraq Air Force Struck ISIS Inside Syria

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Feb 24, 2017 | Middle East

Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Friday that the Iraqi air force struck ISIS positions inside neighboring Syria in retaliation to recent bomb attacks in Baghdad. “We ordered the air force command to strike Daesh terrorist sites in Husseibeh and Albu...

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Smoke rises after a rocket landed in the middle of the Iraqi rapid response forces’ position during a battle against ISIS militants in the south of Mosul, Iraq February 19, 2017. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

Iraqi Forces Reach Vicinity of Mosul Airport

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Feb 20, 2017 | Middle East

U.S.-backed Iraqi forces reached the vicinity of Mosul airport on Monday after dislodging ISIS hardliners from a nearby hill, the Iraqi military said in a statement. U.S.-backed Iraqi forces fought ISIS militants to clear way to the airport, on the second day of a...

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Iraqi security forces fire tear gas after supporters of Iraqi Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr tried to approach the heavily fortified Green Zone during a protest at Tahrir Square in Baghdad,Iraq February 11, 2017. REUTERS /Alaa Al-Marjani

Iraq Green Zone Protests Turn Deadly

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 12, 2017 | Middle East

Baghdad – Thousands had gathered in the Tahrir Square of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, to demand an overhaul of the commission that supervises elections ahead of a provincial vote due in September. The protest started peacefully and several speakers addressed the large...

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A handout picture released by the Iraq Prime Minister’s Press Office on January 7, 2017, shows Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi (R) meeting with his Turkish counterpart Binali Yildirim in the capital Baghdad. (AFP Photo)

Yildirim, Abadi Agree on Bashiqa Camp

by Saeed Abdelrazek | Jan 8, 2017 | Middle East

Ankara- As Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi announced on Saturday that an agreement was reached with his Turkish counterpart Binali Yildirim concerning the withdrawal of Turkish forces from the Bashiqa camp north Mosul, Turkey’s Prime Minister asserted that his...