Mossad chief David Barnea arrived in Paris today to participate in separate meetings with delegations from the United States, Qatar and Egypt to discuss a possible deal to release hostages in Gaza. Confirmation from three sources cited by Haaretz. Among the participants in the meetings are the director of [...]
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by Editorial Staff Last night, a drone attack hit the US military in Jordan, killing three soldiers and wounding 25 others, CNN reported. It is the first time that casualties have been recorded among US forces in the Middle East since the start of the war in Gaza. The […]
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by Editorial Staff During the air strikes conducted by Iran, explosions in the province of Baluchistan in Pakistan have raised concerns and tensions, as the two countries share a border of almost a thousand kilometers in this region. Although Islamabad's official statement does not specify the precise location of the attack, unofficial reports from social media [...]
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by Editorial Staff Yesterday US military forces were attacked four times in Iraq and Syria with rockets and armed drones. One of the military spokesmen told Reuters that the attacks caused no casualties or damage to infrastructure. The official said that US and international forces were attacked in [...]
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Iraq presents the "Route of Development" to position itself as the main commercial hub of the region
Iraq unveiled an ambitious plan yesterday to transform itself into a regional transport hub by developing its road and rail infrastructure, linking Europe with the Middle East. Once completed, the 17 billion dollar project known as the "Route of Development" is expected to extend the entire length of the country for 1.200 kilometers [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) A multipolar world, this is how Xi Jinping's China understands it, which wants to have an ever greater impact on international disputes to protect its strategic and economic interests. Xi recently proposed 12 points for peace between Russia and Ukraine and concretely favored the once unthinkable rapprochement between Iran [...]
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Iraq has become a powder keg, at any moment the outbreak is inevitable. It has been about ten months since it was possible to form a government. Yesterday the protests were particularly violent: thousands of supporters of the Shiite leader Muqtada al Sadr broke through the barriers surrounding the Green Zone by occupying the Parliament building [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) As expected, Afghanistan has come out of the spotlight of the international media. The Taliban, despite the promises of the Doha agreement, continue with their law, which is decidedly austere and against any form of westernization of the newborn Islamic Emirate and of society. Faced with a non-existent economy with few prospects, no [...]
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Defense Minister Lorenzo Guerini, on a visit to London, met with UK Secretary of State for Defense Ben Wallace. The meeting, after the one that took place on 11 June last aboard the Nave Cavour of our Navy, allowed the two defense chiefs to discuss the international situation "at 360 degrees" [...]
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Two rockets landed yesterday in a rural area near an Iraqi military airbase that housed some US contractors. Fortunately, no casualties or injuries were recorded. Iraqi security forces reported that the rockets landed on the base's outer fence. Preliminary investigations showed that the attack was direct [...]
read moreThe Afghan peace does not hold up, making fear the worst for the future of a national reconciliation process opened with great clamor on 12 September last. The signing in Doha on February 29, 2020 of an agreement between the United States and Taliban rebels should have led to an easing of tensions and a withdrawal [...]
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Russia has denied offering rewards to the Taliban for killing US troops in Afghanistan. In a series of 'tweets' on its account, the Russian embassy in Washington spoke of 'fake news' and accused the New York Times, which had written about it, of circulating news that triggered threats to diplomats [...]
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There was mounting tension in Iraq over the weekend as the Baghdad government reported arresting over a dozen members of a powerful Iranian-backed Shiite militia. It is the first time that the Shia-led Iraqi government has taken steps to reduce the growing power of these [...]
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In a recent video message, the new head of the Islamic State defines COVID-19 as a "great torment" by Allah against non-believers and swears that "not a single day will pass without bloodshed". The 39-minute video is titled "The Crusaders Will Know Who Will Win in the End" and has started to circulate [...]
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The Iraqi parliament gave a vote of confidence to the new prime minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi and his partial cabinet, to succeed the resigned government led by Adel Abdul-Mahdi. It thus seems to be clear in Iraq. After six months of crisis that began last October with the outbreak of a popular uprising, Iraq has a new [...]
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NBC News reported that the Pentagon spokesman revealed that as many as thirty-four US military personnel suffered concussions and brain injuries following the Iranian missile attacks on Ain al-Asad airbase in Iraq earlier this month. Iran has launched more than a dozen ballistic missiles against two Iraqi airbases [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) The air distance between the capitals of Iran and Italy is about 3750 km, but the distance between the two borders could be reached by Iranian missiles. Indeed, Iranian missiles can hit targets within a range of 300 to 2.500 kilometers from their launch point. [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) After tonight's attack on the American bases in Iraq, where our soldiers are also present, we heard on the phone the division admiral of the reserve, Nicola De Felice, an expert in military and international politics who among his numerous positions in top defense bodies there was also the Command [...]
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Iran has launched more than a dozen ballistic missiles at two Iraqi military bases where US and allied personnel are based, according to reports from military in the region and confirmed by the Defense Department tonight. The personnel of the Italian military contingent (about 900 units present in Iraq) [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) The US military leaders in Iraq have informed their Iraqi counterpart that US troops are starting preparations to "leave" the country. Brigadier General William Seely, head of the US task force in Iraq, wrote a letter to the Iraqi chief of joint operations, viewed by the AFP. The Iraqi Parliament, in reaction to the killing [...]
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Concern was expressed by Michele Marsiglia, president of FederPetroli Italia who, interviewed by Adnkronos, declared that the killing of General Soleimani will cause important repercussions on international oil prices. “History repeats itself as in Saddam Hussein's time, the same script '. "The US raid on Baghdad that resulted in the killing of General Soleimani is the [...]
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Europe: "now or never". The message launched in the book of General Pasquale Preziosa and Dario Velo
Massimiliano Cannata on Eurispes.it did a wonderful review on the book; "The defense of Europe", by Pasquale Preziosa and Dario Velo. Today more than ever we need Europe, we need to believe in and pursue concrete actions to find a true and credible European identity, an identity which, in the light of the latest events in the Middle East - [...]
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Taylor Adam on the WP explains in detail what is happening in Iraq between the US and Iran and why Iraq is important to the whole region. Tensions between the United States and Iran have increased throughout 2019, but on New Year's Eve, they took on a surge that saw the US embassy [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The Turkish Parliament will meet in extraordinary session on Thursday 2 January at 14, when in Italy it will be 12, to anticipate the vote on President Erdogan's AKP motion authorizing the sending of troops to Libya in support of the government of national accord of Fayez al-Sarraj against the offensive of the militias of [...]
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The conditions of the 5 soldiers involved in the explosion of an IED yesterday in Iraq are stable. For four of them the clinical picture remains serious but they are not life threatening. There are no particular variations regarding the medical bulletin already previously reported unless a soldier on which the health workers had to intervene [...]
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American intelligence agencies are analyzing up to seven terabytes of data that was found by special operations forces during last week's night raid that killed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in Syria. Washington officials told the New York Times Monday that Delta Force commando kidnapped [...]
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The Iranian government may have used a female intelligence officer to lure a leading Iranian dissident from his home in France in Iraq, where he was then kidnapped by Iranian security forces and secretly transported to Iran. The Iranian authorities gave the news of the arrest of Ruhollah Zam last October 15, news also confirmed [...]
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The death toll of the demonstrators who were killed during the protests that broke out in Iraq between 157 and 1 October last due to high prices and corruption would have been 6 dead. The government commission of inquiry in charge of shedding light on the killings in those days reported that 70% of the victims were [...]
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Brahim maarad on Agi briefly recounted what happened in Iraq after the deposition of Saddam Hussein. Since 2003, the year of the deposition of Rais Saddam Hussein, about 450 billion dollars have disappeared from the Iraqi public coffers, four times the budget maneuver, more than double the GDP: the figure sums up the profound [...]
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Tens of thousands of Islamic State supporters, many of them women and children, are radicalizing within vast Kurdish prison camps. In a shocking report published last week, the Washington Post highlighted the dire conditions in the al-Hawl prison camp in northern Syria, which the newspaper [...]
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The Iraqi Shiite militia, which controls parts of Iraqi territory, attested by the Islamic State, has accused the United States and Israel of the mysterious explosions that occurred in weapons depots across the country. Much of the territory occupied by the Islamic State (also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS) in northern Iraq [...]
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About 1.000 Islamic State fighters have returned to Iraq in recent months and are waging a low-level uprising that threatens to destabilize rural areas and could be the harbinger of a new war, an expert warned. Thousands of fighters belonging to the Islamic State - also known as the Islamic State of Iraq [...]
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According to a new report from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), the Islamic state is able to return to the Middle East much faster and more devastatingly than in 2014, when the group quickly conquered territory the size of the Great Britain, The Washington think tank report is based on the most [...]
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ISISIntelligence officials of the Islamic State warn that Iraq's fragile stability could be at risk, following reports that, in recent weeks, a thousand armed Islamic State fighters have entered Iraq across the border with Syria. Baghouz, a Syrian village located on the banks of the Euphrates River near the [...]
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The ruler of the Emirate of Sharjah, Sultan bin Muhammad Al-Qasimi, and the CEO of Eni, Claudio Descalzi, participated today in the ceremony for the assignment to Eni of the exploration rights of Areas A, B and C, onshore of the country. The agreement is the result of the first competitive international tender for the assignment of exploration areas in the Emirate, launched in [...]
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The Shiite militias that fought in the war against the Islamic State are now "committed to mafia-like activities" in the former strongholds of the Islamic State. Iraqi Sunnis fear another Islamic uprising, according to an article published in the Washington Post. In 2014, the rapid rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria - ISIS, in [...]
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The United States intends to place four new military bases in different areas in the Anbar province of Iraq. The Italian news agency Nova writes this, taking up the Kuwaiti daily “Al Watan”, citing intelligence sources. "US forces are planning four military bases in different areas of Anbar province for unclear reasons." In the case of […]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Since the US primacy in the world, as a global police force, is fading or is no longer what it once was, the international order is today more than ever in chaos. World leaders are increasingly tempted to test the limits of international law to strengthen their influence and [...]
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Iraqi oil minister, Jabbar Ali Hussein Luaibi, met Eni's CEO Claudio Descalzi yesterday in Baghdad. During the meeting, Eni's CEO had the opportunity to outline Eni's activities in progress in the country, also in light of the recent results of the development of the Zubair field, where production is [...]
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The Islamic State has as many as 30.000 members engaged in Iraq and Syria, according to a United Nations report. Last month, the Iraqi government announced that the war against the group, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), had been won. The statement was taken up by the President of the States [...]
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In Iraq, after the disputed elections of 12 May, the list of Shiite leader Moqtada Sadr, who has a narrow majority, announced that he had made an alliance with the Shiite group Al Fatah, considered close to Iran. Sadr's Sayeroun list, which also includes the Communist Party and Al Fatah's, can count on 101 parliamentary seats, still [...]
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A security official said a fire devastated the largest repository of ballot papers on May 12 for the eastern sector of Baghdad, Iraq's largest constituency. It is not yet known what caused the fire. The fire comes precisely but as Iraq prepares for a recount [...]
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According to reports from the UN and the Iraq Body Count (NGO operating in the territory), in Iraq the number of civilian victims of political violence has registered a sharp decline since the beginning of the year. The number of deaths went from 2.014 in the first five months of 2017 to 477 in the same period of 2018, equal to a decline [...]
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According to reports from the “al-Arabiya” broadcaster, Moqtada al-Sadr and Hadi al-Amiri, the two winners of the Iraqi legislative elections, met in Baghdad at the home of the Shiite leader to discuss the formation of the new government. According to satellite TV, in addition to discussing political developments, the two leaders stressed the importance of forming an executive who at [...]
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Iraq goes to vote. Five months after declaring victory over the caliphate, Iraq returns to the polls. Forecasts see the Shiites winning, even if divided, the Kurds in difficulty while the Sunnis paralyzed. It is the fourth time that the country has gone to the polls, since the regime of Saddam Hussein was overthrown in 2003 [...]
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According to what was communicated by General Yahya Rasool, spokesman for the Joint Operations Commando, 36 terrorists were killed during the air raids carried out in recent days. “Iraqi air strikes, conducted by several F-16s in Syria on April 19, targeted Isis terrorists who posed a threat to Iraq. According to our [...]
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The Prime Minister of Iraq, Haider al-Abadi went to Japan to seek aid for the reconstruction of his country. After meeting, on Wednesday 4 April, the representatives of the main Japanese companies to discuss how to increase Japanese investments in Iraq, Prime Minister Haider chaired a meeting in Tokyo together with the Japanese Prime Minister, [...]
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According to experts, the collapse of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria is giving rise to a host of successor groups, which are rapidly regrouping, recruiting members and launching increasingly sophisticated attacks on government forces. A military victory in the war against ISIS was officially declared by the Iraqi government in December [...]
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Mevlut Cavusoglu, Turkish Foreign Minister, in a statement reported by Turkish CNN, said that Turkey is planning a military operation in Iraq against the Turkish Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) together with the Iraqi federal government. "Even if the Afrin operation has not yet been completed, we have the ability to bring [...]
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As reported by the Nova agency, Iraqi Council spokesman Abdul Sattar announced that yesterday, the Italian ambassador to Baghdad Bruno Antonio Pasquino was received by the president of the Supreme Judicial Council of Iraq, Faiq Zaidan, to discuss the promotion of bilateral cooperation through the exchange of legal expertise and also address the [...]
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Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al Abadi yesterday received the president of the Russian oil company Lukoil, Vagit Alekperov, in Baghdad for talks on projects underway for the exploitation of hydrocarbons in the Arab country. In particular, a statement from the premier's office reads, the two spoke of the works at the West oil field [...]
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During today's session of the Iraqi parliament, chaired by the Sunni Salim al Jubouri, the deputies voted on the budget law of 2018. The approval came despite the obstruction of Kurdish deputies. There were 178 parliamentarians in Baghdad today. The obstruction of Kurdish deputies in the Baghdad parliament during the approval of the budget law [...]
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New clashes took place in the western part of the province of Kirkuk between the militias of the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU, militias with a Shiite majority) and the fighters of the Islamic State. According to reports to "Agenzia Nova" by a source within the PMU, IS launched an attack against the village of Najativa in [...]
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At the opening of the closing session of the International Conference for the Reconstruction of Iraq - underway in Kuwait City and which sees the presence of the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres and the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Policies, Federica Mogherini - the emir of Kuwait, Sabah Ahmad Al Jabir Al Sabah announced that Kuwait will give a [...]
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French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Monday that his country will continue to support Iraq after the defeat of the Islamic State (IS) and is looking forward to participating in the reconstruction of Iraq. Le Drian arrived in Baghdad on Monday and held a meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi in the [...]
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The president of Iraq, Fuad Masum, received the French foreign minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian today in Baghdad. The news was announced in a press release by the Iraqi presidency. Main topic of the meeting, the strengthening and expansion of collaboration between Baghdad and Paris, in particular in the sectors of investments and university training, protection [...]
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Political developments and the reconstruction of Iraq, Italy's contribution to the stabilization and development of the country and the opportunities for Italian companies: these are some of the issues addressed by the Italian ambassador in Baghdad, Bruno Antonio Pasquino, in his interview to "Agenzia Nova". Accredited on November 14, 2017, the diplomat drew up an assessment [...]
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Hilal al Sahlani, Iraqi deputy and member of the parliamentary foreign affairs commission, with a statement released to the Nova agency, announced that the International Conference for the reconstruction of Iraq, starting on February 12 in Kuwait, will see the institution a Fund for the reconstruction of cities and regions devastated by war, under the [...]
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The Amman government yesterday approved a framework agreement that will be signed by the competent ministers of Amman and Baghdad to build a pipeline for the transport of hydrocarbons from Iraq to the Hashemite kingdom. According to reports from the “Petra” news agency, the project aims to build an oil pipeline for the export of Iraqi crude oil through Jordan […]
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Eric Pahon, spokesman for the US Department of Defense, said the United States will move troops deployed in Iraq to Afghanistan even if this will not lead to a major "exodus" of US soldiers from the country. "That's correct, but I can't talk about gear numbers / specs," Pahon replied when asked [...]
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The Nova agency has announced that the Iraqi Oil Ministry has announced the start of repairs of the second production unit of the Baiji refinery in the province of Salah al Din. Jabbar al Luaibi, head of the department, specified that the production capacity of the second plant, called Salah al Din 2, is 70 [...]
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Four positions of the militiamen of the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) were neutralized by the Turkish air force during some operations conducted in northern Iraq. This was announced by Anadolu, the Turkish news agency, citing a statement published today by the Ankara General Staff, according to which the operations were conducted in the northern regions of Avasin's Iraq, [...]
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According to the British Minister of State for Trade and Export Promotion, Baroness Rona Alison Fairhead, announced a deal worth $ 210,8 million for the repair and improvement of gas turbines at 10 plants. electricity in Iraq. The news was made known by the embassy of [...]
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According to the Nova agency, one dead and three wounded among the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU, Iraqi militias with a Shiite majority) are the toll of an attack by the Islamic State against a checkpoint of the PMU in the governorate of Kirkuk . The news comes from Iraqi security sources. The clash in [...]
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Citing a statement published yesterday by the Ankara General Staff, the Turkish news agency Anadolu announced that the Turkish air force has "neutralized" 8 positions of the militants of the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK), during some operations conducted in the north of 'Iraq. According to the statement from the General Staff, the raids were carried out on some [...]
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According to reports from the Nova agency, the Iraqi oil company Missan (MOC) has completed the drilling of 10 extraction wells in the Halfaya field 30 kilometers from al Amara, in south-eastern Iraq. This was announced by the director of Missan, Adnan Nushi. The project was developed with the contribution of the Chinese companies Bohai, Antonoil and [...]
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Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Monday told the ambassadors of the Group of Seven (G7) countries that the Iraqi government is seriously interested in economic reforms in the country. A statement from his office stated that Abadi "held a meeting this evening, with the ambassadors of the G7 group, the EU ambassador and representatives [...]
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The unicameral parliament of Iraq, concluded the first reading of the budget law for 2018. The local sources, stating that the measure will be back in court on January 31 next year. Today's session was boycotted by Kurdish and Sunni deputies, who contest the distribution of resources among the various Iraqi governorates envisaged by [...]
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The next legislative elections in Iraq have been confirmed by the Parliament for May 12, the first since the defeat of ISIS. The main novelty of this election seems to be a change in the political language used by different parties, looking for intended for the formation of coalitions. In a country polarized by years of war [...]
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Iraq has signed an agreement with the US energy company Orion for the extraction of gas in the oil fields of Basra, in the south of the country. This was announced in a statement by the Iraqi Oil Ministry. The agreement concerns the development of the Nahr Bin Omar field, which currently produces around 40 barrels of oil per [...]
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The Iraqi military command has opened an investigation into the "friendly fire" of the US-led international coalition in an "uncoordinated" air raid in the predominantly Sunni western province of Anbar which, according to unofficial sources, would have caused at least 7 deaths and 19 wounded among the security forces of the Arab country. Through a press release, the command explains [...]
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A consortium of Chinese companies has been awarded an important project to build an oil refinery with a capacity of 300 barrels of oil per day and a petrochemical complex overlooking the southern Iraqi province of Basra. The oil ministry of the Arab country announced today through a statement. The project will be carried out [...]
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The Canadian mission to Iraq made up of explosives experts has been extended to help the country clean up the dangerous remnants of the battle against the Islamic State. The news was reported by the "Toronto Star" newspaper, specifying that Canadian personnel will remain several months to train Iraqis on correct and safe neutralization [...]
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Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al Abadi and Kurdistan Prime Minister Nichervan Barzani had some dissent on the oil issue at the Davos International Forum. Among the issues at the center of the discussion is the delivery of all the oil produced in Kurdistan to the central authorities in exchange for the assignment to Erbil of 17% [...]
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Baghad's National Investment Authority has announced that Iraq intends to attract foreign investment in three oil refineries. The offer will be officially presented during the International Conference for the Reconstruction of Iraq, which will be held in Kuwait from 12 to 14 February next. The refineries involved in the initiative are that of Faw in the governorate of Basra [...]
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(by Pasquale Preziosa) In Iraq the new political elections have been decided for next May 15th. Iraq since 1991, the date of the first Gulf War, has not yet found a path of peace, the last battle was to free itself from ISIS. It is time to turn the page, to give hope for a better life to their [...]
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An important joint operation between the army and the police was carried out south of Mosul, the former stronghold of the self-styled "caliphate" in Iraq. In the operation at least 23 militiamen of the self-styled Islamic State were killed and another nine arrested. The news was reported by the chief of police of Nineveh, General Wathiq al Hamdani, quoted by the media [...]
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The Secretary General of the Iraqi Council of Ministers, Mahdi al Allaq, in an interview with the newspaper Al Sabah, announced that Iraq, at the conference in Kuwait City, scheduled for February 12, to which 70 countries are invited, international and regional organizations and Iraqi and foreign companies, will present 150 investment projects for the [...]
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Wathiq al Hamdani, chief of police of the governor, said that one of the warlords of the Islamic State (IS) was killed in an international coalition air raid in the northern Iraqi province of Nineveh. A statement states that "The Nineveh police, assisted by the International Coalition, carried out an operation yesterday [...]
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Riyad Badran, head of the Central Electoral Commission, said special seats will be organized for Iraqi citizens still displaced by the war with ISIS to allow them to vote in the next parliamentary elections, scheduled for 12 May. The decision was taken to reassure the Sunni parties who had in vain asked [...]
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Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al Abadi arrived today in Davos in Switzerland for the 48th World Economic Forum. This was announced by the press office of the Prime Minister of Baghdad. “The purpose of our participation (…) is to obtain the contribution of the international community to the reconstruction of Iraq”, says Abadi. To this end, the prime minister added [...]
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The Nova agency has announced that the Iraqi president, Fuad Masum, with a decree approved today, has set the date for the elections of the Council of Representatives (the single-chamber parliament of Iraq) for next 12 May. This was reported by a press release from the Iraqi presidency. The presidential decree comes after the go-ahead by the parliament [...]
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The Iraqi Ministry of Transport announced today the signing of a contract with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to collect taxes for aircraft transiting through Iraqi airspace. In a note, the ministry stressed that this is the first contract of its kind, noting the economic importance for the country. On [...]
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The Iraqi Security Forces have reopened after more than three years, the main road that connects the city of Mosul with the nearby province of Duhok, in the Autonomous Region of Iraqi Kurdistan. As part of the normalization process of the Mosul Dam area, the Italian military assisted the Iraqi and Kurdish Security Forces [...]
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Saudi Arabia and Iraq have entered into bilateral cooperation agreements in various fields. The Minister of Trade and Investments Majid al Qasabi, and the Iraqi Minister of Planning and Commerce Suleiman al Jumaili signed the agreements, at the end of the work of the bilateral coordination council which took place in Riyadh. The [...]
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Unicef has collected truly alarming data on Iraq: poverty and conflict have interrupted the schooling of three million children. “Many children have had their childhood stolen, forced to fight, says Unicef regional director for the Middle East and North Africa Geert Cappelaere. At least one in four children affected by the conflict [...]
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The Iraqi premier, Haider al Abadi, received the UN envoy to Iraq, Jan Kubis. According to a note from the Abadi office, the need to hold elections on schedule is at the center of the talks. Moreover, Abadi and Kubis discussed the issue of security in the country, stability and future reconstruction. Aside […]
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The United States supports Iraqi parliamentary elections on May 12, as planned by the Iraqi government, the US embassy in Baghdad said today, criticizing requests for postponement of the vote. "Postponing the elections would set a dangerous precedent, undermining the constitution and damaging Iraq's long-term democratic development," the embassy said in a statement. [...]
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The death toll of the double attack carried out today in Baghdad at Sahet al-Tayaran square has risen to 38 dead and 105 injured. According to reports from the interior ministry, the two explosions were caused by two suicide bombers wearing explosive belts. The attacks have not yet been claimed. The area of [...]
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More than 6,4 million children in the world are refugees and displaced persons, forced to move within their own country or across the border due to wars and other emergencies. More than half, that is 3 and a half million children between 5 and 17 years, last year could not attend school [...]
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The European Commission today proposed a strategy aimed at helping Iraq for reconstruction after the defeat of ISIS on its territory. The proposal, a note reads, outlines ongoing and long-term EU support and takes into account the Iraqi government's priorities. "It is essential to act quickly and rebuild the country [...]
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According to Mohammed Karbouli, a member of the Iraqi parliamentary committee on defense and security, more than 2.900 people have been lost in the province of Anbar, where ISIS was defeated in Ramadi and Fallujah more than a year ago. Thousands of people, most of them men and teenagers, after the victories [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Many think that Isis was defeated in its state form after the battles, neighborhood by neighborhood in two key countries of the region. In Iraq and Syria, the campaign to overthrow the so-called caliphate project that Isis established in June 2014 has largely achieved its goal. After three [...]
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At least 45 members of the security forces and civilians were killed in the attacks conducted by ISIS. A police officer from the province of Kirkuk reported this to the AFP news agency. In the same period, "the army, the police and the paramilitary units of the Popular Mobilization Units killed 288 jihadists and [...]
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The Italian government will ask the parliament to move part of the 1.400 soldiers present in Iraq, where Italy is the second largest force after the US, to Niger with the aim of "consolidating that country, defeating human trafficking and to beat terrorism ”. The Prime Minister, Paolo Gentiloni, said today [...]
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The liberation of Mosul cost between 9000 and 11.000 deaths dearly, a number almost 10 times higher than reported so far. This is what emerges from an investigation by the Associated Press, according to which Iraqi forces or the US-led Coalition are responsible for the deaths of 3.200 civilians, caused by bombings, air raids or [...]
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As reported by the Nova agency, Saudi Arabia today congratulated Iraq for the "great victory against terrorism" and the defeat of the Islamic State (IS). A Saudi foreign ministry official told the kingdom's "Spa" news agency today that "the end of the war in Iraq is a great victory against [...]
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According to Nova reports, with the defeat of the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, the strategic areas of the two countries are becoming increasingly the subject of contention between other forces and states in the region. In particular Turkey and Iran both remain strongly interested in some strategic areas of these countries. Sinjar, Kurdish-Yazidi region, located [...]
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The number of victims of the earthquake that hit Iran and Iraq is destined to rise. This was stated by the ambassador of Italy to Iran, Claudio Conciatori, in an interview with TG2000, speaking of the 7.3 magnitude earthquake that devastated the area on the border of the two countries, reported that the latest update [... ]
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According to a report drawn up by the UN on Somalia, a faction of the Islamic State (Isis) active in Somalia has greatly strengthened over the last year, thanks to the funds received from Syria and Iraq. The faction would be led by Sheikh Abdulqader Mumin, and was targeted last week in the first operation carried out [...]
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Nova reports it. The Iraqi government voted yesterday in its weekly meeting on a provision to set the date of the parliamentary elections as May 15, 2018. This was reported in a press release by the Office of Prime Minister Haider al Abadi. The note states that the government is committed to maintaining "a safe environment for [...]
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According to the Nova Agency, a total of 114 Iraqi civilians were killed and another 244 were injured in acts of terrorism, violence and armed conflict in Iraq in October 2017. This is what emerges from the data released today by the assistance mission of the United Nations in Iraq (Unami). The number of civilians killed in [...]
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Ali Khamene, Supreme Leader of Iran, meeting Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi in Tehran expressed agreement on the political line followed by the government of Baghdad aimed at defending the administrative unity of the country and its territorial integrity. The official website reads that Khamenei also referred to the unity among the different Iraqi ethnic groups. The [...]
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The clashes between Iraqi government forces and Kurdish peshmerga continue in the areas of northern Iraq, following the tension between Baghdad and Erbil following the referendum for the independence of Kurdistan. The death toll in armed clashes is at least 31. In the last few hours, the Iraqi federal forces and those [...]
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Moqtada al-Sadr, the Iraqi Shiite leader, sent to the province of Kirkuk, in the north of the IRAQ, on the day when Baghdad forces regained total control of Altun Kupri, a town in the north of the province not far from the administrative border of the Kurdistan region, a military force with the aim of "Protecting civilians and [...]
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Mr. Saad Asim al-Janabi, head of the Republican Rally Iraqi party and the general secretary of the Iraqi Communist Party Mr. Raed Fahmi received the members of the Central Committee of the Party and held a meeting attended by a number of members of the party general secretariat, the Republican Rally of Iraq to discuss the [...]
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The regional government of Iraqi Kurdistan said it was ready for dialogue with Baghdad, after federal forces took control of the disputed territories. This was reported in a statement from Erbil: "The cabinet welcomes the initiative of Prime Minister Haider al Abadi to start negotiations with the regional government to resolve some issues in compliance [...]
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According to the NOVA Agency, the High Electoral and Referendum Commission of Iraqi Kurdistan has announced that the presidential and parliamentary elections scheduled for November XNUMXst will be temporarily postponed following the latest developments in the region. In a press release published two weeks after the date of the vote, the commission declares that it has interrupted [...]
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The federal government of Iraq will consider "illegal and non-binding" all oil contracts signed without Baghdad's consent, and reserves the right to take "legal action in national and international courts" against foreign companies acting "against the national interests ". Through a press release, the Iraqi Oil Ministry warns [...]
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Accusations against President Massud Barzani of having precipitated the crisis with the central authorities in Baghdad are multiplying in Iraqi Kurdistan by insisting on holding the referendum on Kurdish independence despite the opposition of the international community. A former member of the High Council for the referendum, Abdullah Warty, said that Barzani kept a letter sent to him hidden [...]
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According to the Iraqi oil minister, French oil giant Total is interested in taking delivery of the gigantic Majnoon oil field in southern Iraq following the announced departure of Shell which has operated since 2010. Thierry Autain, director of Total in Iraq, in a statement released today, he expressed to [...]
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Iraq: Kurdistan Security Council, Baghdad forces are preparing "big attacks" against Erbil According to Nova, the Security Council of the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan announced today that it has received "dangerous messages" from Iraqi security forces, including the units of the Shiite Popular Mobilization, which are allegedly preparing "major attacks" against the [...]
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Isis fighters give up fighting: we are without food The men of the Islamic State in arms lay down the hatchet and surrender to the Iraqi army hungry because the caliphate no longer pays them and does not even have the money to feed them. The Sun writes, reporting the statements of General Paul Frank, commander of a task [...]
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The United States does not recognize the referendum for independence that took place last September 25 in the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan and continues to support the unity of Iraq. This was announced by the US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, through a statement, in which the parties are invited to put an end to mutual threats. "The [...]
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Turkey's first diplomatic retaliation in the referendum on the independence of Iraqi Kurdistan, approved yesterday in a plebiscite. Ankara has ordered the representative of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (PDK) of President Massud Barzani, Omer Merani, not to "return" from Erbil, where he is at the moment. This was announced by the Foreign Minister of Ankara, Mevlut Cavusoglu, [...]
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The curfew in some districts of Kirkuk has been lifted and the Iraqi city is quiet in the aftermath of the referendum on the independence of Kurdistan. Police said the curfew imposed yesterday was lifted at 5am this morning. "The situation is stable and normal," said Kirkuk Police Chief Khattab Omar Aref. [...]
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The autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan celebrated the referendum on independence, amid local tension and international fear of another regional conflict. The polling stations closed at 18 pm Italian time, an hour after what was initially expected, and according to the latest official data on the turnout of 17 the participation was 78%. The forecast is that [...]
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On September 14, while the north of the country was gradually freed from the presence of Al Baghdadi's men, in the surroundings of Nassiriyah - in the southern governorate of Dhi Qar - ISIS men carried out three different operations within a radius of a few tens of kilometers, on the route connecting Baghdad with the southern provinces, [...]
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The electoral campaign for the referendum on the independence of Iraqi Kurdistan, scheduled for 25th of this month, opened today. The campaign will end on 22 September and according to the Erbil Electoral Commission there will be 5,5 million people entitled to vote. There will also be voting in some cities controlled by Kurdish Peshmerga forces such as Kirkuk. The Kirkuk Electoral Bureau made [...]
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The Administrative Court of Justice approved the decision proposed by the Anbar Provincial Council which called for the removal of Governor Suhaib al Rawi involved in a financial corruption case. This was reported by Hamid Ahmed al Hashem, councilor of the province of Anbar. The appointment of the new governor is scheduled for tomorrow. Al's [...]
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Nine militiamen of the self-styled Islamic State (IS) were killed in an air raid launched by the US-led international coalition southwest of Kirkuk, in northern Iraq. This was announced by a local source on condition of anonymity to AlSumaria News, specifying that among the victims there is also a Russian leader sell'Is. The coalition fighters [...]
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The Iraqi Army today liberated five villages in the Tal Afar district, west of Mosul. The commander of the Iraqi special forces, General Abdul Amir Yarallah, has announced that the 16th division of the Iraqi Army has liberated the villages of Al Ashak al Awal and Al Ashak al Thani, and controls the director of Al Kasik who leads to the [ ...]
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A leader of the Islamic State (IS), responsible for the recruitment of the organization, was killed in the bombing of Iraqi fighters in the center of Tal Afar, where the offensive of the Baghdad forces is underway to free the city, the last stronghold of the group jihadist in the province of Nineveh. According to Iraqi intelligence sources, the air forces killed IS recruiter Abu Qatada al Afri [...]
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The Iraqi Armed Forces killed 16 members of the Islamic State (IS), including four suicide bombers, after repelling a jihadist attack near Tal Afar, the last bastion of the self-styled "caliphate" in the northern Sunni province of Nineveh. Colonel Dureid Saeed, of the 15th Army Division, told the Kurdish agency “Basnews”. Meanwhile, the popular mobilization units (PMU, coalition [...]
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Iraqi Oil Minister Jabbar Ali al Luabi met with Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al Jubeir in Jeddah. According to a press release from the Riyadh Foreign Ministry, bilateral relations and ways to strengthen them are at the center of talks between Al Luaibi and Jubeir. The Iraqi oil minister undertook a visit on 8 August [...]
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The Carabinieri of the "Unite4Heritage" Task Force ("Blue Helmets of Culture"), of the Cultural Heritage Protection Command, employed in the "Inherent Resolve / Prima Parthica" Operation, continue to train the police forces of the countries in risk. In Baghdad, the III Cultural Heritage Protection Course for personnel belonging to the «Tourism and [...]
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