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Iraqi fighters from the Peace Brigades and the Promised Day Brigade, groups formed by Iraqi Shi’ite Muslim cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr, parade in the central city of Kufa, some 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, on May 3, 2015. (AFP Photo/Haidar Hamdani)
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Iraqi soldiers train near the town of Jurf Al-Sakhar, southwest of Baghdad, Iraq, on April 9, 2015. (EPA/Khider Abbas)
Iraqi forces launch counter-attack against ISIS in Anbar
Baghdad, Reuters—Iraqi security forces launched a counter-attack on the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in the western province of Anbar on Monday, seeking to reverse an early setback in a new campaign to recapture the country’s Sunni heartland. Prime...Caption:
Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi (C) tours the city of Tikrit after Iraq security forces regained control from Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants, on April 1, 2015. (Reuters/Stringer)
Iraqi forces retake Tikrit from ISIS
Salah Al-Din and Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi lifted the Iraqi flag over the Salah Al-Din governorate building in the provincial capital Tikrit on Wednesday, declaring a victory for Iraqi forces over the Islamic State of Iraq and...Caption:
Nineveh Governor Atheel Al-Nujaifi. (Asharq Al-Awsat)
No role for Iran, Turkey in Mosul offensive: Nineveh governor
Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iran and Turkey will have no role in the imminent offensive to liberate Iraq’s second city Mosul from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the governor of Nineveh province told Asharq Al-Awsat on Tuesday. In answer to a question...Caption:
An Iraqi soldier takes photos of the demolished tomb of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, in Tikrit, Iraq, on March 15, 2015, following fighting between Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants and Iraqi forces. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)