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Iraq

Explosive-laden drone intercepted near Erbil airport

2025-07-05

[Rudaw] Local counterterrorism forces said an explosive-laden drone was intercepted in the skies of Erbil late Thursday, with no casualties reported.

The drone was downed at 9:58 pm local time near Erbil International Airport but "did not cause any casualties or material damage," the Directorate General of Counter Terrorism (CTD), which is part of the Kurdistan Region Security Council (KRSC), said on Facebook.

Earlier in the evening, Rudaw published CCTV footage showing the moment the drone fell in a village near the airport.

There are reports of flight cancellations at the airport.

Lawand Mamundi, CEO of Erbil Fly, told Rudaw that none of the flights of his company have been cancelled.

CCTV footage shows an apparent explosion near Erbil airport.

An explosive drone crashed in Sulaimani province's Garmiyan administration Thursday afternoon without causing casualties, a spokesperson for security forces said.

Remains of a suspected drone were found in Kirkuk late Thursday.

It is not clear where these drones originate from, but they are believed to be related to the latest deadly war between Iran
Iran

...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate ~~Jews~~ ~~Zionists~~ Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and Israel.

The renewed drone activity follows the US-brokered ceasefire that went into effect on June 24, ending the 12-day war between Iran and Israel. During the conflict, numerous drones and rockets flew through the airspace of Iraq and the Kurdistan Region, where several drones fell or were intercepted.

The Times of Israel points out:

In the past days, drone and rocket attacks have been reported in different parts of Iraq, including drones that landed in open spaces.

Earlier on Thursday, an explosive-packed drone fell near Kirkuk airport, which was struck on Monday by two rockets, a senior security official told AFP.

Kirkuk airport hosts Iraqi army units, federal police, and the Hashed al-Shaabi, a coalition of pro-Iran former paramilitary forces now integrated into the regular armed forces.

Early on Tuesday, Iraq’s anti-aircraft defense engaged at least one drone near the key refinery of Baiji in Salaheddin province.

Last week, hours before a ceasefire ended the 12-day Iran-Israel war, unidentified drones struck radar systems at two military bases in Baghdad and southern Iraq.

Iraq has long been a battleground of drone and rocket assaults and has proved a fertile ground for proxy wars.

The country has only recently regained a semblance of stability after decades of devastating conflicts and turmoil.

#BREAKING: Drone attacks, allegedly by pro-Iranian militias, struck Kirkuk and Erbil, Iraq

An explosive-laden drone hit Kirkuk International Airport, causing minor damage, while explosions rocked Erbil.

No group has claimed responsibility, but the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an… pic.twitter.com/MA2Ho9Q9RX
— Breaking News (@TheNewsTrending) July 3, 2025

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Ex-bodyguard of Nasrallah killed in Israeli strike in Iran Saturday

2025-06-24

[Naharnet] A former bodyguard for Sayyed
Sayyed

...Arabic term meaning your/his lordship. Groveling in His Exalted Presence is encouraged...
His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
...The late, lamented satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...>
, the slain leader of Leb
...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects....
's Hezbollah, was killed Saturday in an Israeli strike in Iran, a Hezbollah official said.

For more than a week, Israel has been carrying out waves of air attacks on Iranian targets in the foes' worst confrontation in history.

Israel assassinated Nasrallah in a strike on Beirut's southern suburbs on September 27 last year, during a war that left Hezbollah severely weakened.

His former bodyguard Hussein Khalil -- commonly known as Abu Ali, and nicknamed Nasrallah's "shield" -- was killed in Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate ~~Jews~~ ~~Zionists~~ Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
near the Iraqi border, the Hezbollah official told AFP on condition of anonymity.

An Iraqi border guard officer told AFP that Khalil and a member of an Iraqi gang were killed by "an Israeli dronezap" after crossing into the neighboring country.

The Iraqi group, the Sayyed al-Shuhada Brigades, said that the commander of its security unit, Haider al-Moussawi, was killed in the "Zionist attack", along with Khalil and his son Mahdi.

The former bodyguard had appeared alongside Nasrallah for years during the leader's rare public appearances.

The two men also shared family ties, with one of Khalil's sons married to a granddaughter of Nasrallah.

During Nasrallah's funeral in February, Khalil stood atop the vehicle carrying the slain leader's body.

The funeral drew a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people, the first mass event organized by Hezbollah since the end of its war with Israel.

Separately, five children were maimed in Iraq on Saturday by fallen debris from a missile near the town of Dujail in the northern province of Salaheddin, security and medical sources told AFP on condition of anonymity because they were not allowed to speak to the media.

The children sustained moderate and minor injuries, a medical source said.

A security source in the area confirmed the children were maimed by "a fallen fragment from a missile".

The origin of the missile was not clear.

Since Israel launched its unprecedented attack on Iran last week, Iranian missiles and drones have been crossing paths with Israeli warplanes in the skies over Iraq, forcing Iraq to close its airspace to commercial traffic.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Palestinians strike in East Jerusalem, West Bank, demanding end to war in Gaza

2025-04-08

[IsraelTimes] Shuttered storefronts line empty streets in East Jerusalem and the West Bank as Paleostinians hold a general strike demanding an end to the Israel-Hamas
Hamas

..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
"I walked through the city today and couldn’t find a single place that was open," Fadi Saadi, a shopkeeper in Bethlehem, tells AFP.

Shops, schools, and most public administrative offices are closed across the West Bank.

A coalition of Paleostinian political movements — including rivals Fatah and Hamas — called the strike to protest what they described as "the genocide and the ongoing massacre of our people."

It called for the strike "in all the occupied Paleostinian territories, in the refugee camps... and among those who support our cause."

"We close today because of our families in Gaza, our children in Gaza," Imad Salman, 68, who owns a souvenir shop in Jerusalem’s Old City, says.

"In Jerusalem, in the West Bank, we can’t do anything more than we’re doing here now," he tells AFP.

In East Jerusalem, the usually bustling commercial Salaheddin Street is empty.

"This strike is in solidarity with Gaza and what is happening there, and the war being waged against the Paleostinian people, whether by (US President Donald) Trump, (Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu, the Israeli government, or the American government," Ahmed, who did not give his surname, says.

"This war must stop, the killing and destruction must stop, and only peace should prevail — peace, and nothing but peace."

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Syria’s long-ruling Baath party on way out after collapse of Assad regime

2024-12-31

[IsraelTimes] New leaders turn Baath headquarters in Damascus into a location for former security officials, soldiers to hand over their weapons; many party members have gone into hiding or fled

A few days after Death Eaters in Syria overthrew President Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
The Scourge of Hama...
, his ruling Baath party announced it was freezing its activities, marking a stunning change in fortunes for the political group that had ruled for more than six decades.

Many members of the party’s leadership have gone into hiding and some have fled the country. In a symbolic move, Syria’s new rulers have turned the former party headquarters in Damascus into a center where former members of the army and security forces line up to register their names and hand over their weapons.

Calls are on the rise to officially dissolve the Arab Socialist Baath Party that had ruled Syria since 1963.

Many Syrians — including former party members — say its rule damaged relations with other Arab countries and aided in the spread of corruption that brought the war-torn nation to its knees.

"The party should not only be dissolved, it should go to hell," said Mohammed Hussein Ali, 64, who worked for a state oil company and was a party member for decades until he quit at the start of Syria’s anti-government uprising in 2011 that turned into civil war. He never left the country and said he is happy the Baath rule is over.

An official with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else

Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else

...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
, or HTS, the group that led the Death Eater offensive that overthrew Assad, said no official decision has been made on what to do with the Baath party.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly about the matter, noted that HTS leader Ahmed al-Sharaa has said that officials who committed crimes against the Syrian people over the past decades will be brought to justice and hinted that they include party members.

The Baath party, whose aim was to unify Arab states in one nation, was founded by two Syrian Arab nationalists, Michel Aflaq and Salaheddine Bitar, in 1947 and at one point ruled two Arab countries, Iraq and Syria.

A rivalry developed between the Syrian branch under Assad and his late father, Hafez, and the one in Iraq under Saddam Hussein, who was removed from power by a US-led invasion in 2003.

In Syria, the Baath party became inextricably associated with the Assad family, which took power in 1970. For decades, the family used the party and its pan-Arab ideology to control the country. Many senior military jobs were held by members of the family’s minority Alawite sect, and party membership was used as a cover to give it a nationalist rather than a sectarian nature.

A former soldier and decades-long Baath party member who came to party headquarters to cut his military ties, Abdul-Rahman Ali, said he had no idea it was founded by Aflaq and Bitar. He had always thought that Hafez Assad was the founder.

"I am happy. We have been liberated from fear," said Ali, 43. "Even the walls had ears. We didn’t dare express opinions with anyone." He was referring to the dreaded security and intelligence agencies that detained and tortured people who expressed criticism of Assad or government officials.

Many Syrians were required to join the Baath Vanguards, the party’s youth branch, while in elementary school, where Arab nationalist and socialist ideology was emphasized.

It was difficult for people who were not party members to get government jobs or join the army or the security and intelligence services.

In 2012, a year after Syria’s uprising began, a paragraph of the constitution stating that the Baath party was the leader of the nation and society was abolished, in a move aimed at appeasing the public’s demand for political reforms. In practice, however, the party remained in control, with members holding majority seats in parliament and government.

Another former soldier, who gave only his first name, Ghadir, out of fear of reprisals as a member of the Alawite sect, said he came from a poor family and joined the party so he could enter the military for a stable income.

"You could not take any job if you were not a Baathist," he said.

While few are mourning the party’s fall in Syria, some are concerned that the Sunni majority that now controls the country could carry out a purge similar to the one in Iraq after Saddam’s fall.

A de-Baathification committee was formed in Iraq and its main job was purging Saddam loyalists from government and military institutions. The Sunni minority considered it a means of sectarian score-settling by Iraq’s Shiite majority. The Sunni resentment and disenfranchisement that followed helped to drive the rise of bad boy groups in the country including al-Qaeda and the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
in Iraq.

In Syria, a Baath party statement issued three days after Assad’s fall called on all members to hand their weapons and public cars to the new authorities.

On December 24, party member and former army colonel Mohammed Merhi was among hundreds who lined up at the former party headquarters and handed over weapons.

Merhi said the Baath party should be given another opportunity because its principles are good but were exploited over decades. But he said he might want to join another party if Syria becomes a multiparty democracy in the future.

He handed over his Soviet Makarov pistol and received a document saying he can now move freely in the country after reconciling with the new authorities.

"I want to become again a normal Syrian citizen and work to build a new Syria," he said.

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Down Under

Radiohead frontman confronts ‘coward’ anti-Israel heckler at Melbourne concert

2024-10-31

[IsraelTimes] ‘You wanna piss on everyone’s night?’ Thom Yorke responds to protester yelling about Gaza death toll before storming off stage; he then returns for final song, ‘Karma Police’

The lead singer of Radiohead clashed with an anti-Israel heckler before storming off stage at a concert in Melbourne, Australia on Wednesday night.

Thom Yorke, whose English rock band has defied boycott calls to perform in Israel three times, was nearing the end of his solo show when a protester began yelling about the Jewish state.

While it was not entirely clear what the protester said from the footage, reports said the heckler referenced the corpse count of Paleostinians in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
during the Israel-Hamas
Hamas

..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
war.

"Come up here and say that, right now," Yorke responded.

"Come up on the f*cking stage and say what you want to say. Don’t stand there like a coward, come here and say it," he said, as the crowd roared in approval of the singer.

"Come on. You want to piss on everybody’s night? OK, you do, see you later then," Yorke said, and then left the stage. Many in the crowd cried "no" in disappointment.

Yorke later returned to the stage to perform a final number, Radiohead’s "Karma Police."

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Thom Yorke discutiu com uma pessoa pró-Palestina na pista e abandonou palco do show na Austrália (info do @nme). Segue o vídeo

“Come up and say that. Right here. Come up on the fucking stage and say what you want to say. But don’t stand there like a coward, come here and say it" pic.twitter.com/ZKXgDCEYTK
— Teco (@Edukator_Teco) October 30, 2024

Radiohead, which has won several Grammy Awards and sold millions of records since the 1990s, has been the target of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel, especially in the lead-up to its 2017 concert in Tel Aviv. In response, Yorke called BDS protesters "offensive" and "patronizing."

The band first performed in Israel in 1993 and then again in 2000.

Lead guitarist Jonny Greenwood, who is married to Israeli visual artist Sharona Katan, partnered for an album last year with Israeli singer Dudu Tassa, along with artists throughout the Middle East, including Paleostinian singer Freteikh, Egyptian singer Ahmed Doma and Moroccan singer Mohssine Salaheddine.

Greenwood pushed back on critics this year who urged him to cancel a planned tour with Tassa in Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
due to the ongoing war.

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Iraq

Arbaeen walk: 16 Iranian pilgrims killed in Iraq road accident

2023-09-03

[GEO.TV] A road accident in northern Iraq has killed at least 16 people, mostly Iranian pilgrims, as millions of people converge on the holy city of Karbala for Arbaeen, one of the world’s biggest religious gatherings.

A traffic accident in northern Iraq has claimed at least 16 lives, the most of them Shia Iranian pilgrims in the midst of one of the largest religious gatherings in history, Arbaeen, which draws millions of people to the holy city of Karbala.

According to the state news agency INA, who cited the corpse count from Khaled Burhan, the director of health services in Salaheddine province, the accident between the cities of Dujail and Samarra also resulted in the injuries of at least 13 persons.

Burhan added that the majority of the dead were Iranian tourists but did not go into detail about the crash's causes. He stated that the injured were transferred to hospitals.

On condition of anonymity, because he was not licensed to speak to the media, a medical official in Salaheddine told AFP news agency that two minibuses collided soon before midnight on Friday.

The official stated, citing witness testimony, that it is thought that one of the drivers dozed off behind the wheel. He estimated 18 fatalities.

Since the start of Arbaeen this year, 2.6 million pilgrims—many of them from Iran—have visited Iraq either land or air, according to statistics released on Friday by the interior ministry.

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Iraq

Two Iraqi university professors were gunned down in the Kurdish regional capital Arbil

2022-06-29

Two Iraqi university professors were gunned down in the Kurdish regional capital Arbil prompting the arrest of a disgruntled former student, authorities say.#Iraq https://t.co/iu2XepZiKj
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) June 28, 2022

Shootings as a means of settling scores are far from rare in Iraq — its legacy of war and sectarian conflict mean the country’s 40 million people count some 7.6 million firearms, according to figures from the Small Arms Survey.

Police believe the shooter did not originally intend to kill the engineering professor, but rather his wife, who is a law professor at the same university and was away from home at the time, Khosnaw said.

The suspect was expelled from Soran University by the first victim’s wife and was then refused a place at Salaheddin University by the second victim, the governor said.

He had been arrested several times previously after making death threats against the second victim, whose bodyguard was also maimed in the attack.

Rudaw adds considerably more detail, including that the family says the killer is mentally ill.

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Iraq

Suicide bomber kills two Iraqi troops during anti-ISIS raid

2022-04-27

[Rudaw] Two Iraqi soldiers were killed Tuesday when a jacket wallah went kaboom! during an army raid targeting Islamic State

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Yutes join military groups to evade compulsory military service

2022-03-04

Youths in #Syria’s #Aleppo, who joined military groups affiliated with the government forces, are not considered graduate of the compulsory military service. https://t.co/zjS43sRLkb
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) March 3, 2022

ALEPPO, Syria (North Press) – Salah Qarqanawi, a 38-year-old resident of Salaheddine neighborhood in Aleppo city, north Syria, is working as a bus driver. He carried guns for seven years when he joined a military unit affiliated with the Military Academic in Aleppo in order to evade the compulsory military service.

Qarqanawi said he preferred to join a military group and work for fixed hours a day near his family rather than join the compulsory military service and move to another Syrian governorate.

In 2012, the opposition members entered his neighborhood and he was compelled to displace along with his family to al-Hamdaniyah neighborhood in Aleppo, and in June 2015, he joined the al-Forsan military group, affiliated with the Syrian government.

At the three first years of joining the military groups, he and other youths had privileges. They used to get food baskets and diesel very easily. He was paid 50,000 SYP in addition to some more money when he stood at a checkpoint, he said.

But, it has been a year since they get no salary at all “for unknown reasons”, he added.

“Our commander told us that the matter of salary is related to the Damascus-based Administrative Department 217 in charge of our military unit.”

“I could not hand over my weapon because I am still wanted by the government forces to join the compulsory military service. Therefore, I move among the security points deployed in the city as necessary,” he noted.

WAITING
Rami Eid, a pseudonym for a 25-year-old man of Sayf al-Dawla neighborhood. He evaded the compulsory military service and then joined a group affiliated with the popular committees, which in turn follow the Military Security Branch since 2014).

Fearful of being killed in the first battle in case he joined the military service, Eid preferred to be a member at the checkpoint and be near his family and friends.

Eid works as a mechanic in his free time. He awaits for the settlement process decision because he evaded the compulsory military service six years ago. He hopes his service at the checkpoints would be included so that he is considered as a graduate of the compulsory military service and go back to his normal life as a civilian.

Eid said the years he fought the opposition factions went “in vain” because he couldn’t get married and have children.

Given Eid is wanted to enlist in the compulsory military service, his group [at the checkpoint] stopped paying him his salary. “After the government’s interest ended, they get rid of us and they do not enlist our names in the settlement process as members who served the group.”

DECEIVED
On February 20, the Syrian government opened two settlement process centers in Deir Hafer and Maskana towns in the east of Aleppo to settle the status of the wanted people. But, many people avoid visiting the centers fearful of being arrested given some who went there went missing as local people said.

Amjad Sharabati, 35, a man of al-Ashrafiya neighborhood joined the local defense forces in a settlement process in 2018 because he had evaded the compulsory military service.

In September 2018, the Syrian government issued a settlement process and settled the status of 713 wanted youths of the local defense forces, according to sources of the local defense forces themselves.

In early January 2022, Sharabati was shocked that he and 400 other comrades were ordered to move to Draij village in Rif Dimashq to enlist in the compulsory military service.

Sharabati now serves in the Ninth Brigade in al-Sanamayn district in the northern countryside of Daraa as a soldier of the Syrian government forces. “I really wanted to serve in my hometown but I was put under the full authority of the government after I gave them my ID and my military service book.”

Reporting by Mo’taz Shamta

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Iraq

Bodies of Iraqi soldiers found in ISIS mass grave in Kifri, or possibly police in Duraji

2021-12-17

[Rudaw] Kurdish Peshmerga forces have discovered a mass grave in the northwest of Kifri containing the bodies of at least ten members of the Iraqi army, a Peshmerga official told Rudaw on Thursday.

The mass grave holding members of the Iraqi army was found in a former Islamic State

...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) prison, which the terror group used during their grip on the country to imprison people, Mohammed Syasi, the deputy head of Qaratapa-Hamrin front told Rudaw.

The soldiers "were kidnapped by ISIS militias in 2018," Syasi said.

The mass grave was found between Palkana and Duraji villages, around 10 kilometers northwest of Kifri. It is one of hundreds of mass graves in the country.

Rudaw English reached out to Iraqi Grave Protection but they were not immediately available for comment.

There are more than 200 ISIS mass graves in the country that could contain up to 12,000 bodies, according to the United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...

Kurds find mass grave of Islamic State victims in Iraq

[IsraelTimes] Kurdish forces in northern Iraq find a mass grave containing the bodies of at least 11 Iraqi policemen presumed killed by jihadists, a peshmerga security official says.

“A mass grave was discovered on Thursday in the Duraji area” where there are many caves once used as hideouts by the Islamic State group (IS), the official says.

Duraji is in Salaheddin province in an area disputed between the federal government and the autonomous region of Kurdistan.

“The bodies of at least 11 Iraqi police officers have been taken from the grave so far” since the operation began in the morning, says the official. “We think they had been prisoners of IS in 2018,” the official says, adding that both peshmerga and Iraqi federal police were taking part in the search.

He says the mass grave was discovered as a result of “information obtained from IS hideouts in the region where the jihadists imprisoned members of the Iraqi forces they captured.”

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Iraq

Iraq blast kills 8 members of the security forces

2021-08-12

[AlAhram] The blast killed six soldiers and two coppers charged with oil field protection, the source said.

A blast killed eight members of the security forces on Wednesday during an operation in northern Iraq to detonate explosives planted by the Islamic State

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Iraq

New attack reports at the Baghdad Airport

2020-08-16

[ALMASDARNEWS] On Friday, the Iraqi Security Media Cell confirmed that three rockets landed in the vicinity of Baghdad International Airport, without any casualties.

The cell said: "Three Katyusha rockets fell in the vicinity of Baghdad International Airport, without any significant losses."

The cell added in its statement: "It was found that it was launched from the Radwaniyah area, south of the capital, Baghdad."

Last night’s attack marked the second time in the last 48 hours that an Iraqi installation has been targeted by Katyusha rockets.

The previous attack occurred at the Balad Airbase in the Salaheddine Governorate.

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