Five Iraqi militants were killed by a US airstrike near Kirkuk. The US military said the airstrike was a “self-defense strike on an imminent threat.” ISIS claimed multiple attacks against US forces on Sunday. Five Iraqi terrorists, identified as members of an Iran-backed militia, were killed by a US airstrike near the northern city of … Read more
A bomb and rifle attack in northern Iraq claimed the lives of at least seven cops. The strike occurred near Kirkuk, which is 293 kilometers from Baghdad. No one has claimed responsibility for the killings. A bomb and rifle attack in northern Iraq claimed the lives of at least seven police personnel. On Sunday, the … Read more
BAGHDAD: Iraqi soldiers killed nine Islamic State militants in Kirkuk, Iraq’s northern region, on Wednesday, according to the Iraqi military. The Iraqi military surrounded nine militants holed up in a tunnel near Kraw Mountain, some 250 kilometres north of Baghdad, and blasted the tunnel, killing all nine militants inside, according to the Iraqi Joint Operations … Read more
Iraqi authorities said one person died on Friday, as cases of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever expanded to Iraq’s north, Since the beginning of the year, Iraq has recorded eight deaths from 40 cases of the ailment, also known as Congo fever, according to health ministry spokesperson Seif al-Badr. Health authorities in Kirkuk, north of Baghdad, announced … Read more
More than 1,000 Iraqis were brought to hospitals with respiratory illnesses on Thursday as a result of a sandstorm, the country’s eighth in less than a month, according to official media. Residents in six of Iraq’s 18 provinces were awakened to a heavy cloud of dust blanketing the sky, including Baghdad and the huge western … Read more
BAGHDAD: Unknown gunmen on Tuesday detonated seven power transmission towers in Iraq’s northern province of Kirkuk, the country’s Ministry of Electricity said in a statement. The attack took place near the town of al-Riyadh in the south of the namesake provincial capital Kirkuk, which itself located some 250 km north of Baghdad, and sabotaged the … Read more
