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  Iraqi forces declare 'victory' over IS after recapturing Mosul

  World | July 09, 2017 20:34 IST

  Iraqi forces today declared victory over the Islamic State group in Mosul after eight-month long operation.

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  After capturing Mosul mosque, Iraq declares end of ISIS caliphate but fight goes on

  World | June 30, 2017 8:12 IST

  With anti-Islamic State group forces on the offensive in both the Iraqi city of Mosul and the Syrian city of Raqqa, Iraq's prime minister made the bold assertion of ISIS caliphate coming to an end.

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  Over 1,000 children killed in Iraq since 2014: UN

  World | June 23, 2017 17:31 IST

  Geneva: According to the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef), since 2014 more than 1,000 children have been killed in Iraq when militants from the Islamic State seized the northern city of Mosul and entire swathe of the country.

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  Iraq: 7 killed, 3 injured in suicide bomb attack

  World | June 07, 2017 7:05 IST

  No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attacks, but the Islamic State militant group, in most cases, is responsible for such suicide attacks

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  Iraqi forces hope to liberate Mosul from IS by June 10

  World | May 30, 2017 13:35 IST

  June 10 marks the third anniversary of the ISIS rule in Iraq's second-largest city Mosul.

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  18 killed in Baghdad suicide attacks

  World | May 20, 2017 13:47 IST

  In two separate suicide car bombings targeting the Iraqi police in Baghdad, at least 18 persons were killed and 20 others were injured.

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  Jailed for smuggling arms in US, Iraq’s Interior Minister Qazim al-Araji now bats for friendship with Americans

  World | May 08, 2017 17:07 IST

  Former prisoner of the Unites States, Qasim al-Araji is now the head of the Interior Ministry, one of the most powerful ministries of Iraq. A decade ago, he was jailed in the US on charges of smuggling arms and for his involvement in an assassination

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  In Mosul, hunger grows amid slow advances against ISIS

  World | May 06, 2017 17:08 IST

  As Iraqi forces continue to make slow progress in the fight against ISIS, clawing back territory house by house and block by block, food supplies are running dangerously low for civilians trapped inside militant-held territory.

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  No US troops to stay in Iraq after fight against ISIS concludes, says PM

  World | May 05, 2017 15:39 IST

  Al-Abadi said that the American troops will be advisers who will help Iraq’s security forces maintain ‘full readiness’ for any future security challenges.

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  ISIS launches chlorine gas attacks in western Mosul

  World | April 15, 2017 19:00 IST

  An Iraqi military officer said that Islamic State militants have launched a gas attack in a newly-liberated area in western Mosul.

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  Top Iraqi Shia cleric issues fatwa against cow slaughter in India

  India | April 05, 2017 14:28 IST

  Amid the raging debate over cow-slaughter in India, a top Shia cleric from Iraq has issued a fatwa urging minorities not to kill the animal, considered sacred in Hinduism.

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  Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner visits Iraq as forces inch closer to retake Mosul

  World | April 03, 2017 15:25 IST

  Kushner was also the latest Trump associate to be swept up into the ongoing probe into contacts with Russian officials.

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  President Trump to accelerate support in fight against ISIS, says Iraqi PM

  World | March 21, 2017 13:00 IST

  Emerging from his first meeting with President Donald Trump, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said Monday he was assured the U.S. will accelerate its support for his country's struggle against the Islamic State group.

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  We should not have left Iraq: Donald Trump on fight with ISIS

  World | March 21, 2017 12:56 IST

  US President Donald Trump has questioned the decision of his predecessors to first send the American troops to Iraq and then withdraw them, while assuring support to the war torn country to maintain stability.

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  Trump's ISIS plan looks much like Obama's: Officials

  World | March 18, 2017 11:04 IST

  The Pentagon has given US President Donald Trump a ‘secret’ plan to defeat the terror group ISIS. According to senior officials who reviewed the document, the plan was little more than an ‘intensification’ of what the Obama administration had.

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  Islamic State-held Mosul completely surrounded, terrorists 'trapped'

  World | March 13, 2017 8:14 IST

  Islamic State terrorists are completely trapped as the remaining western neighborhoods of the city held by the terror group are now completely surrounded, a senior coalition official said.

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  In 'farewell speech', ISIS chief Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi acknowledges defeat in Iraq

  World | March 02, 2017 11:22 IST

  The ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has acknowledged the group's defeat in Iraq in a 'farewell speech' and ordered his non-Arab fighters to either return to their countries or detonate themselves, according to media reports.

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  Donald Trump’s new order to drop Iraq from travel ban

  World | March 01, 2017 23:49 IST

  US President Donald Trump’s new immigration order will remove Iraq from the list of countries whose citizens face a temporary US travel ban, officials said. A White House official who has seen the latest version

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  Revised Trump order on travel ban exempts Iraq from list: Officials

  World | March 01, 2017 10:39 IST

  President Donald Trump's new immigration order will remove Iraq from the list of countries whose citizens face a temporary U.S. travel ban, U.S. officials said Tuesday.

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  Iraqi forces regain control of Mosul airport from ISIS

  World | February 24, 2017 13:30 IST

  Iraqi forces closely supported by the US-led international coalition have seized control of the airport in the northern city of Mosul from Islamic State militants.