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Kurds say Turkish army shells Iraq border area
The Turkish army on Friday pounded areas across the border in northern Iraq with artillery fire, continuing its assaults on suspected rebel positions, a Kurdish border guard…
US forces raid Iranian consulate in Iraq
United States forces stormed an Iranian consular office in the northern Iraqi Kurdish city of Arbil early on Thursday and arrested five people, including diplomats and staff. The…
Double suicide attack leaves 53 dead in Iraq
At least 35 people were killed and 25 wounded in a double suicide car bomb attack on Monday evening in the northern Iraqi town of Tall Afar, bringing the overall car bomb death…
Suicide bomber strikes police centre
A suicide bomber ripped through an Iraqi police recruitment centre in the northern Kurdish city of Arbil on Wednesday, killing 45 and wounding up to 100 a day after Iraq’s first…
Former Iraqi vice-president captured
Former Iraqi vice-president Taha Yassin Ramadan has been captured by Kurdish fighters in the northern city of Mosul on Monday and turned over to United States forces.