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Iraqi Federal Police forces also killed 93 Daesh members, when they targeted seven vehicles belonging to the fighters in the southern part of Mosul. Government forces located and destroyed eight ...

At the NATO Summit in Brussels in July 2018, Allied leaders launched NATO Mission Iraq, following a request and upon ...

More than 660 German Federal Police officers, thought to include the ... Europol said the "investigation focused on an Iraqi-Kurdish network suspected of smuggling Middle-Eastern and East African ...

But the Iraqi federal authorities in Baghdad have recently sharpened their tone against the Turkish Kurdish insurgents. Colonel Salam Abdel Khaleq, the spokesman for the Kurdish Asayesh security ...

By John Lee. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has visited Iraq, accompanied by Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), U.S ...

Mr Abadi had declared the vote illegitimate. An Iraqi military spokesman said counter-terrorism and federal police forces, as well as the Popular Mobilisation - an Iranian-backed paramilitary ...