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Car bombs rock two upmarket Baghdad hotels, five dead

BAGHDAD: Car bombs ripped through car parks at two high-profile Baghdad hotels on Thursday that had been targeted in deadly attacks five years before, killing at least five people, police said.

Car bombs, suicide attack kill at least 22 in Iraq

BAGHDAD: At least 22 people were killed in explosions across Iraq on Sunday, including a suicide car bomb attack on a military post in western Anbar province, police and medical sources said.

Islamic State takes military barracks, dam in Iraq’s Anbar: sources

BAGHDAD: Islamic State militants in Iraq took partial control of a water dam and military barracks guarding it in the western Anbar province after fierce fighting through the night that continued on Saturday, security sources and witnesses said.

Iraqi forces fight to rout Islamic State militants from Ramadi

BAGHDAD: Iraqi security forces fought to rout Islamic State militants from the western city of Ramadi on Wednesday, slowly regaining some ground from the militant group, security and local officials said.

Ramadi exodus compounds Iraq humanitarian crisis

BAGHDAD: Some pushed wheelbarrows piled high with their belongings across the only bridge to Baghdad. Others balanced battered suitcases on their heads, or held babies aloft so they would not be crushed in the exodus from Iraq's western province of Anbar.

Iraqi forces retake most of Iraq’s largest refinery: officials

BAGHDAD: Iraqi forces retook most of the country's largest refinery from Islamic State on Saturday, security officials said, reversing gains by the militants who seized parts of the sprawling complex this week.

Shi’ite fighters leave Tikrit after looting: Iraqi officials

BAGHDAD: Almost all Shi'ite paramilitaries had left Tikrit on Saturday after locals complained that some fighters had spent several days looting the Sunni city after helping retake it from Islamic State.

Iraq request for U.S.-led Tikrit air strikes 'imminent': diplomat

BAGHDAD: Iraq's request to the U.S.-led coalition for air strikes in the campaign to retake Tikrit from Islamic State insurgents is "imminent", a senior diplomat from a Western nation that is part of the coalition told Reuters on Tuesday.

Iraqi Kurds say Islamic State used chlorine gas against them

ARBIL, Iraq: Iraqi Kurdish authorities said on Saturday they had evidence that Islamic State had used chlorine gas as a chemical weapon against their peshmerga fighters in northern Iraq in January.

Iraqi troops pause, await back-up in Tikrit battle

BAGHDAD: Iraqi forces and mainly Shi'ite militiamen battling to wrest full control of the city of Tikrit from Islamic State militants paused their offensive for a second day on Saturday as they awaited reinforcements, a military source said.

Iraqi forces push into Tikrit, bombers hit Ramadi

BAGHDAD: Iraqi security forces and militias fought their way into Saddam Hussein's home city of Tikrit on Wednesday, advancing from the north and south in their biggest counter-offensive so far against Islamic State militants.

Islamic State says it has killed three for homosexuality, blasphemy

BAGHDAD: Islamic State militants said on Tuesday they had killed two men in northern Iraq for homosexuality and another for blasphemy.

Iraqi troops, militia retake strategic town north of Tikrit

BAGHDAD: Iraqi troops and militias drove Islamic State militants out of the town of al-Alam on Tuesday, fighters and a local official said, clearing the way for an offensive to retake the nearby city of Tikrit from the ultra-radical group.

Advancing Iraq troops enter strategic town on edge of Tikrit

BAGHDAD: Iraqi government forces and Iran-backed militiamen entered a town on the southern outskirts of Saddam Hussein's home city Tikrit on Friday, pressing on with the biggest offensive yet against Islamic State militants that seized the north last year.

Islamic State torches oil field near Tikrit as militia advance

BAGHDAD: Islamic State militants have set fire to oil wells northeast of the city of Tikrit to obstruct an assault by Shi'ite militiamen and Iraqi soldiers trying to drive them from the Sunni Muslim city and surrounding towns, a witness said.

Iraqi forces try to seal off Islamic State around Tikrit

BAGHDAD: Thousands of Iraqi soldiers and Shi'ite militiamen sought to seal off Islamic State fighters in Tikrit and nearby towns on Tuesday, the second day of Iraq's biggest offensive yet against a stronghold of the radical Sunni Islamist militants.

Iraq army and Shi'ite militias launch attacks north of Baghdad

BAGHDAD: Iraq's armed forces, backed by Shi'ite militia, attacked Islamic State strongholds north of Baghdad on Monday at the start of a campaign aimed at driving them out of the mainly Sunni Muslim province of Salahuddin.

Iraq to track down antiquities after Islamic State museum rampage

BAGHDAD: Islamic State militants who destroyed priceless antiquities from the northern Iraqi city of Mosul have kept some artifacts to sell, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Saturday, vowing to prevent the radical Islamists from smuggling them to market.

Wave of bombings in Baghdad kills 37 people

BAGHDAD: A wave of bomb attacks around Baghdad killed 37 people and wounded dozens more on Tuesday, as at least seven explosions struck in or near the Iraqi capital, police and medical sources said.

Special Report: How Iran's military chiefs operate in Iraq

BAGHDAD: The face stares out from multiple billboards in central Baghdad, a grey-haired general casting a watchful eye across the Iraqi capital. This military commander is not Iraqi, though. He's Iranian.
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