Iraq - Tunisia News

Tunisia-Old Iraqi planes stationed in Tunisia to be auctioned

FlightGlobal reports that Iraq Airways is preparing to auction off two Boeing B747s that have been stationed in Tunisia for an extremely...

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Six Turkish soldiers killed in northern Iraq

At least six Turkish soldiers were killed during clashes with outlawed Kurdish militants in northern Iraq, the Turkish Defense Ministry declared on...

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Latif Rashid elected as Iraq’s new president

The Iraqi parliament elected Latif Rashid as president, after two rounds of voting in which he competed with the current president, Barham...

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Iraq: OPEC+ call hopefully to stabilize oil market

Iraqi Oil Minister Ihsan Abdul-Jabbar Ismail said on Wednesday that his country hopes the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its...

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Iraqi PM Kadhimi threatens to quit if political standoff persists

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al Kadhimi has threatened to “vacate his post” if the complicated political standoff in Iraq is not resolved. His remarks were...

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Briton sentenced to 15 years in Iraq for smuggling artifacts

An Iraqi court sentenced a British man to 15 years in prison on Monday for trying to smuggle ancient artifacts out of...

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Deadly nose-bleed fever shocks Iraq as cases surge

Spraying a cow with pesticides, health workers target blood-sucking ticks at the heart of Iraq’s worst detected outbreak of a fever that...

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Multiple rockets ‘smash into US Army base’ in Erbil in Iraq

Multiple rockets have smashed into a US Army base and a Kurdish news channel office in Erbil, northern Iraq. At least five...

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Iraq court suspends Hoshyar Zebari from presidential race

Iraq’s Supreme Court said Sunday it had temporarily suspended Hoshyar Zebari, a frontrunner for the presidency, on the eve of parliament’s vote...

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Iraq receives 1.2 million Pfizer jabs

Iraq’s health ministry announced on Saturday that a shipment of 1.2 million doses of Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine had arrived in...

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Tunisia-Tunisia condemns attack on Iraqi prime minister

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Immigration and Tunisians Abroad have firmly denounced the attack on the seat of the residence of Iraqi...

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Exploding drone assassination attempt on Iraqi PM fails

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi escaped unharmed in an assassination attempt by armed drone in Baghdad on Sunday, officials said, in an...

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Iraq: Sadrists lead in parliamentary election

Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr’s party has won the most seats, according to primary results. The elections encountered low turnout, especially among youth....

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France to stay in Iraq even if US withdraws – Macron

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday that “no matter what choices the Americans make, we will maintain our presence in Iraq...

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Five killed in helicopter crash during ‘combat mission’: Iraq military

Five Iraqi troops were killed Thursday when their helicopter crashed on a “combat mission” north of Baghdad, the military said, as a...

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Iraq to sell Lebanon 1 million tons of heavy fuel oil

Iraq has signed an agreement allowing the cash-strapped Lebanese government pay for 1 million tons of heavy fuel oil a year in...

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Iraq: Roadside bomb kills 20 in Baghdad

At least 20 people were killed and many others injured Monday in a bomb explosion in a busy market in the Iraqi...

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At least 44 killed, 67 injured in coronavirus hospital fire in Iraq

At least 44 people were killed and over 67 injured in a fire likely caused by an oxygen tank explosion at a...

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At least 36 killed at hospital fire in Iraq

At least 36 people were killed in a coronavirus hospital fire in Iraq’s southern city of Nassiriya, Iraqi media reported. Search operations...

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Two injured after 14 rockets hit Iraq’s Ain al-Assad air base: US Coalition

At least 14 rockets hit on Iraq’s Ain al-Asad airbase that hosts American and foreign troops, a spokesperson for the United States-led...

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Iraq-Drone attack on Erbil International Airport

According to Rudaw news agency, An explosives-laden drone hit Erbil International Airport late on Tuesday, the Kurdistan Region’s Counterterrorism Directorate has said....