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A clay-fired cone returned to Iraq from the British Museum. (British Museum)
August 12, 2018, 4:14 am
British Museum returning looted cones, other antiquities to Iraq
Researchers able to show provenance after establishing that votive objects were identical to others found at temple site in Iraq where British museum does training
By AFP
People wait in front of a closed money exchange shop for it to open, in downtown Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, August 7, 2018. (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)
August 8, 2018, 4:36 am
Iraq reluctantly agrees to abide by US sanctions on Iran
Prime minister says Baghdad, one of Iran's largest trading partners, will comply with restrictions, but sees them as a strategic error
By AFP
In this file photo taken on April 30, 2017, a member of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces removes an Islamic State flag in the town of Tabqa, about 55 kilometers (35 miles) west of the jihadists then de facto capital of Raqqa. (AFP Photo/Delil Souleiman)
August 7, 2018, 8:54 pm
On the backfoot, Islamic State turns to old tactics to gain new strength
Having lost its 'caliphate,' jihadist group likely to increasingly focus on executing and kidnapping members of minorities to maintain its relevance
By Maya Gebeily
Palestine's Tamer Syam, left and Iraq's Mazin Fyad vie for the ball during the friendly soccer match between Palestine and Iraq at the Faisal al-Husseini stadium in the West Bank town of al-Ram on August 4, 2018. (AFP/ABBAS MOMANI)
August 5, 2018, 12:54 am
In first, Iraq soccer team plays Palestinians in West Bank
Local squad falls 3-0 in friendly, but Palestinian Football Association hails visit anyway, calls on others to follow suit
By AFP
Iraq's national football team celebrates after an international friendly soccer match between Iraq and Syria in Baghdad,, March 26, 2013. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed/File)
July 30, 2018, 11:36 pm
In first, Iraq national soccer team to play match in West Bank
Technically still at war with Israel, the Iraqi national squad will come to Ramallah, at the request of the Palestinian Authority; will need Israel's okay
By AFP
Protesters burn tires during a demonstration against unemployment and a lack of basic services, in the southern Iraqi city of Basra on July 15, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Haidar MOHAMMED ALI)
July 15, 2018, 10:50 pm
Dozens wounded as south Iraq protesters clash with police
PM Abadi announces fresh funds and pledges investment, orders police not to use live fire against demonstrators
By AFP
This photo released by Iraq's Ministry of Justice June 29, 2018, shows four men hanging in the gallows in Iraq. (Iraq Ministry of Justice via AP)
July 9, 2018, 2:36 pm
A neighbor’s word can lead to death row in Iraq’s Islamic State trials
Courts have imposed 3,000 death sentences in past few years after quick trials, often with flimsy evidence
By Hamza Hendawi, Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Maya Alleruzzo
Illustrative: Smoke billows from the eastern city of Deir Ezzor during an operation by Syrian government forces against Islamic State (IS) group jihadists on November 2, 2017. (AFP/Stringer)
July 7, 2018, 1:48 am
East Syria car bomb kills at least 18
No immediate claim of responsibility, but IS has claimed similar attacks in the past
By AFP
Iraqi pro-government forces gather in Rawa after troops retook the Euphrates valley town from Islamic State group jihadists, November 18, 2017. (AFP /Suleiman al-ANBARI)
July 4, 2018, 2:24 pm
Iraq launches major anti-IS operation after hostage killings
Federal Iraqi forces and peshmerga fighters work together for the first time since clashes following last year's Kurdish independence referendum
By AFP
A man inspects rubble after a Saudi-led coalition airstrike in Sanaa, Yemen, February 4, 2018. (Hani Mohammed/AP)
June 28, 2018, 9:08 am
UN: 10,000 children killed, maimed in conflicts worldwide in 2017
Global body says attacks by Saudi Arabia and UAE responsible for half of the 1,300 child deaths or injuries in Yemen
By Verena Dobnik
In this Sept. 21, 2016 file photo, Iranian armed forces members march in a military parade marking the 36th anniversary of Iraq's 1980 invasion of Iran, in front of the shrine of late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)
June 23, 2018, 5:44 pm
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard says senior commander killed in Syria
State news agency says Shahrokh Daiepour was responsible for training Hezbollah forces; found dead in area of deadly raid attributed to Israel
By TOI staff
This image from a video shows Iraqi soldiers in military vehicles in the Qatash area moving towards a gas plant, south of Kirkuk, Iraq, October 16, 2017. (APTN via AP)
June 23, 2018, 4:28 pm
Iraq says military air strike in Syria kills 45 Islamic State jihadists
Army targets a meeting of the terror group's leaders in the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor
By Agencies and TOI staff
Iraqi forces, supported by members of the Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization units), advance in the western desert in the northern Iraqi region of al-Hadar, 105 kilometers south of Mosul, on November 23, 2017, as they attempt to flush out remaining Islamic State group fighters (AFP/Stringer)
June 19, 2018, 7:43 am
Iraq denounces mysterious Syria airstrike attributed to Israel
Iraqi military denies positioning Iran-backed fighters in Syrian territory after paramilitary group says 22 of its members among the dead
By TOI staff and AFP
Iraqi Shiite cleric and leader Moqtada al-Sadr, center-left, shows his ink-stained index finger and holds a national flag while surrounded by people outside a polling station in the central holy city of Najaf on May 12, 2018. (Haidar Hamdani/AFP)
June 13, 2018, 8:57 am
Iraq’s Sadr announces political alliance with pro-Iranian militia chief
In bid to secure leadership role, nationalist cleric says it's time to move 'away from any dogmatism'
By AFP
Police officers of a special unit escort Iraqi asylum seeker Ali Bashar, who is suspected of having killed a German teenage girl, to a helicopter in Wiesbaden, western Germany, on June 10, 2018, heading to a prison after Bashar testified. (AFP / dpa / Hasan BRATIC)
June 11, 2018, 12:42 am
Suspect confesses to killing Jewish German girl Susanna Feldman, police confirm
Amid outcry over brutal slaying by refugee whose asylum was rejected, Merkel says case shows importance of deporting those who fail to gain immigration status immediately
By AP and TOI staff
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