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At the request of Baghdad, UN will end in 1 year its probe of Islamic State extremists in Iraq
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Security Council on Friday voted unanimously to end, a year from now, a U.N. probe into activities of Islamic State extremists in Iraq. The vote came at the request of the Iraqi government. The U.K.-sponsored resolution noted that Baghdad also asked that...
Iraq steps up repatriations from Islamic State camp in Syria, hoping to reduce militant threats
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq is stepping up repatriation of its citizens from a camp in northeastern Syria housing tens of thousands of people, mostly wives and children of Islamic State fighters but also supporters of the militant group. It’s a move that Baghdad hopes will reduce...
US should use its influence to help win the freedom of a scholar missing in Iraq, her sister says
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States should use its influence to help win the freedom of a Russian-Israeli academic at Princeton University who went missing in Iraq nearly six months ago and is believed to be held by an Iran-backed militia regarded by Washington as a terrorist group, her sister...
18 people have been killed in Iraq after a bus carrying Shiite pilgrims to Karbala overturned
BAGHDAD (AP) — A bus carrying pilgrims to the Iraqi city of Karbala overturned north of Baghdad on Saturday, killing 18 people, medical officials said. Millions of believers converge on the city each year for the Shiite pilgrimage of Arbaeen, regarded as the largest annual public...
Iraq court sentences 5 people to life in prison in killing of US citizen, officials say
BAGHDAD (AP) — An Iraqi criminal court convicted five men and sentenced them to life in prison on Thursday in the killing of a U.S. citizen in Baghdad last year, officials said. Stephen Edward Troell, 45, a native of Tennessee, was fatally shot in his car in November by assailants...
A French soldier is killed in clashes with extremists in Iraq
BAGHDAD (AP) — A French soldier serving alongside Iraqi forces was killed in combat during a counterterrorism operation north of Baghdad, according to the French military. Such losses among foreign forces in Iraq have been rare in recent years. Two Iraqi soldiers and four other...
Top Turkish diplomat calls for Iraq to designate PKK a terrorist organization during Baghdad visit
BAGHDAD (AP) — Turkey’s foreign minister on Tuesday denounced a separatist Kurdish group that operates in northern Iraqi territory as an enemy of both Turkey and Iraq, and urged the Iraqi government to ban the group as a terrorist organization as Ankara has done. Turkish Foreign...
UK, Iraq agree to increase cooperation on combating drug trafficking, terrorism
BAGHDAD (AP) — Britain’s security minister on Monday pledged more U.K. support for Iraq’s security forces in combatting drug production and trafficking.. In a visit to Baghdad on Monday, Security Minister Tom Tugendhat said British officials “want to build on our strong...
Officials commemorate 20th anniversary of deadly attack on UN headquarters in Iraq
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi and United Nations officials on Saturday marked the 20th anniversary of a deadly attack on the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad. The Aug. 19, 2003, truck bomb attack on the Canal Hotel in Baghdad, which housed the U.N. headquarters in Iraq at the time, killed 22...
At least 6 Turkish soldiers killed in attacks by Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq, Ankara says
ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey's defense ministry said on Thursday that a spate of attacks the previous day and overnight by Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq killed at least six Turkish soldiers. The attacks prompted retaliatory airstrikes that left four members of the outlawed Kurdistan...
