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Iraq's Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi speaks during a funeral ceremony in Baghdad, on October 23, 2019. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP)
December 1, 2019, 10:40 pm
Iraq’s PM Adel Abdel Mahdi, consensus leader, brought down by street fury
The 77-year-old veteran politician was seen as a unifying figure among Iraq’s divided factions and international allies, but popular rage at endemic graft doomed his government
By AFP
Mourners carry the casket of an Iraqi protester who was killed the day before during protests in the capital, during his funeral in the central Iraqi city of Najaf on November 10, 2019. (Haidar Hamdani/AFP)
November 11, 2019, 8:16 am
US urges early Iraq elections as rights group warns of ‘bloodbath’
Hundreds already dead in crackdown against growing protests over rampant corruption and clientelism; UN calls for ‘maximum restraint,’ including no use of live ammunition
By AFP
Iraq's Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi speaks during a symbolic funeral ceremony in Baghdad, October 23, 2019. (Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP)
October 30, 2019, 6:11 pm
Iraq PM’s future on the line as demonstrators smell change
Adel Abdel Mahdi under threat as his two main backers discuss his removal and spiraling anti-government protests kill over 240
By AFP
Burning tires light up the night skies during anti-government protests in the Shiite shrine city of Karbala, south of Iraq's capital Baghdad, late on October late October 28, 2019. (AFP)
October 29, 2019, 11:20 am
18 protesters killed in Iraq as pressure on government mounts
More than 800 wounded when security forces open fire on crowds in Karbala in one of worst attacks since demonstrators began anti-government rallies
By Qassim Abdul-Zahra
Iraqi protesters block a road as they clash with security forces during an anti-government demonstration in the Shiite shrine city of Karbala, south of Iraq's capital Baghdad on October 27, 2019. (AFP)
October 28, 2019, 9:45 pm
Iraq army declares curfew in Baghdad after student protests
Protests over rampant unemployment and corruption continue despite curfews, threats of arrest and violence that has left nearly 240 dead
By AFP
Protesters clash with Iraqi riot police vehicles during a demonstration against state corruption and poor services, between the capital Baghdad's Tahrir Square and the high-security Green Zone district, on October 1, 2019. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)
October 4, 2019, 11:20 am
Iraqi PM addresses the nation, urges protesters to go home; death toll at 33
Thousands of anti-government demonstrators have clashed with riot police in mass rallies across the country
By Qassim Abdul-Zahra
A protester flashes the V for victory sign as a riot police vehicle burns behind him during clashes amidst demonstrations against state corruption, failing public services, and unemployment in the Iraqi capital Baghdad's central Tayeran Square on October 3, 2019 (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)
October 3, 2019, 9:50 pm
Thousands protest across Iraq for third day as death toll tops 30
Demonstrators clash with police defying curfews, tear gas and live fire amid an internet blackout, as they rage against corruption and unemployment
By Agencies
Members of an Iraqi clan shake hands as they meet inside a straw tent in the town of Mishkhab, south of Najaf on November 15, 2018. (Haidar Hamdani/AFP)
November 18, 2018, 1:26 pm
In Iraq, bloody tribal custom now classed as ‘terrorism’
The practice of ‘warning’ competing tribes via shootings, including in residential areas, threatens to undermine state agencies
By Salam Faraj
This file photo taken on January 8, 2016 shows Qais Al-Khazali, the head of the Iraqi Asaib Ahl al-Haq militia, speaking at a press conference in the southern Iraqi city of Basra. (AFP Photo/Haidar Mohammed Ali)
August 30, 2018, 6:43 pm
Decade-old interrogation of Iraqi cleric shows Iran’s part in killing US troops
Recently declassified testimony of Shiite militia leader Qais al-Khazali details Iranian efforts to stoke 2007 attacks that killed or wounded hundreds of Americans
By TOI staff
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
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