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Iraq PM-designate meets anti-government protesters
Feb 05, 2020 (AFP)
The protesters have been demanding an overhaul of the ruling elite and have rejected Allawi as a product of the political class they have been protesting agains...
Iraqi protesters face off against cleric's followers
Feb 04, 2020 (AFP)
Sadr, an enigmatic militiaman-turned-politician, backed the anti-government rallies when they erupted in October but has split with other demonstrators over the...
Iraq protest camps splinter over cleric's backing of new PM
Feb 03, 2020 (AFP)
One demonstrator was killed in southern Iraq, medics and security sources said, after men in blue caps, the signature headgear of followers of cleric Moqtada Sa...
Iraqi protesters dig in heels despite new PM-designate
Feb 02, 2020 (AFP)
Allawi was named prime minister-designate after a hard-won consensus among Iraq's rival parties, who had struggled to agree on a candidate since outgoing premie...
Iraq: four months of anti-regime protests
Feb 01, 2020 (AFP)
- Protests erupt - On October 1, hundreds of people gather in Baghdad and cities in the Shiite south in leaderless protests against corruption, unemployment and...
Stalemate over Iraq PM pick as deadline looms
Feb 01, 2020 (AFP)
Baghdad and the mainly Shiite south have been gripped by four months of anti-government rallies demanding snap elections, a politically independent prime minist...
Iraq PM-designate Mohammad Allawi, consensus choice amid protests
Feb 01, 2020 (AFP)
Allawi announced his own appointment as prime minister in a video he shared on Twitter, addressing Iraqis in colloquial dialect with the national tricolour behi...
US soldiers hurt in Iran missile strike up to 64: Pentagon
Jan 31, 2020 (AFP)
US President Donald Trump had initially said no Americans were hurt by the missiles fired on a base housing US soldiers in the country's west on January 8. Demo...
Iraq resumes joint ops with US-led coalition
Jan 30, 2020 (AFP)
The announcement came as Iraqi politicians faced a Saturday deadline to pick a successor to caretaker prime minister Adel Abdel Mahdi, who resigned in December ...
Iraq parties locked in talks over new PM as clock ticks
Jan 30, 2020 (AFP)
Months of mass anti-government protests led Abdel Mahdi to resign in December, but he has stayed on since in a caretaker role while political factions have stru...
US troops injured in Iran missile strike rises to 50: Pentagon
Jan 29, 2020 (AFP)
The personnel have been diagnosed with traumatic brain injury (TBI), Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Campbell, a Pentagon spokesman, said in a statement. The military...
Iraq president gives parliament 3 days to name new PM
Jan 29, 2020 (AFP)
"If the concerned blocs are unable to resolve the nomination issue by no later than Saturday, February 1... I see an obligation to exercise my constitutional po...
Iraq weighs larger NATO role to replace US-led coalition
Jan 29, 2020 (AFP)
The January 3 strike which killed Iranian General Qasem Soleimani and a top Iraqi commander was condemned by Baghdad as a breach of its sovereignty and of the c...
Renewed violence against Iraq protesters as TV station suspended
Jan 28, 2020 (AFP)
The youth-led campaign has pressed on despite violence that has killed more than 480 people, a vast majority of them protesters, since rallies erupted in Baghda...
Three rockets hit US embassy in protest-hit Iraqi capital
Jan 27, 2020 (AFP)
The attack marked a dangerous escalation in the spree of rocket attacks in recent months that have targeted the embassy or Iraqi military bases where American t...
Iraq protesters rebuild torched camps as rocket attack sparks fears
Jan 27, 2020 (AFP)
The renewed pressure on Iraq's government came a day after three rockets hit the US embassy in Baghdad, wounding one person and marking a dangerous escalation a...
One protester killed in south Iraq as anti-govt tents torched
Jan 27, 2020 (AFP)
The men arrived in Habbubi Square just after midnight, torching the tents where protesters had been sleeping and leaving nothing but charred shreds of fabric an...
Iraq protesters keep up rallies despite pressure from riot police
Jan 26, 2020 (AFP)
Violence has resurged in the capital and Shiite-majority south this week, with more than 15 people killed as anti-government activists ramped up their road clos...
Iraq protesters keep up anti-government rallies despite violence
Jan 26, 2020 (AFP)
Medical sources told AFP one protester was killed by live fire in the capital Sunday, while another was killed in the southern hotspot of Nasiriyah, as demonstr...
Iraq security forces clear streets stoking protester fears
Jan 25, 2020 (AFP)
It came a day after populist cleric Moqtada Sadr announced he would no longer back the youth-dominated movement, after he held his own mass rally that saw thous...
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