by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Oct 13, 2017 | Middle East
The Iraqi army on Friday launched an operation to retake Kurdish-held positions around the northern city of Kirkuk as Kurdish authorities sent thousands more troops to the disputed oil region over what they said were “threats” from the central government....
by Heba El Koudsy | Apr 26, 2017 | Middle East
Guantanamo – Al Qaeda’s leader Abdul Hadi al Iraqi at his cell in Guantanamo Bay detention camp refused female prison wardens walking him to pre-trial hearings. Nashwan Abdulrazaq Abdulbaqi, who later gained fame under his Qaeda-given alias, Iraqi, appealed to...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 2, 2016 | Middle East
The Peshmerga ministry spokesman Halgurd Hekmat revealed on Thursday that 1600 Peshmerga soldiers have been killed since the major offensive to regain the city of Mosul began on the 17th of October. Hikmat added that nearly 10,000 members of the Peshmerga were wounded...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Oct 31, 2016 | Middle East
Iraq troops made a dashing advance breaking through ISIS defense lines in an eastern suburb of Mosul on Monday, taking the battle for the insurgents’ stronghold into the city limits for the first time, a force commander said. They made the gain as the...
by Jamila Halfichi | Apr 1, 2016 | Middle East
Zaha Hadid, the world-renowned Iraqi architect, died yesterday in a hospital in Miami aged 65 years. Her company said in a statement yesterday that Zaha “died suddenly in Miami this morning” and that “she suffered from a heart attack” at a hospital where she had been...
