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Iran asks Iraq to disarm groups in Kurdistan

20 Dec 2022; MEMO: Iran has called on Iraq to disarm Kurdish groups in Kurdistan, Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein said yesterday.

Speaking to a Kurdish TV channel, Hussein said: "Iran officially asked Iraq to disarm hostile separatist groups," stressing: "It is not acceptable to launch attacks on Iran from Iraqi land."

"Iran said it would not accept that the political groups in Kurdistan hold arms and launch attacks on it or cross its borders."

Three Servicemen, One Civilian Killed In Daesh Attacks In Iraq

BAGHDAD, Dec 15 (NNN-NINA) – Three Iraqi soldiers and a civilian were killed, while several others were wounded, in two roadside bomb attacks by Daesh militants, in central and northern Iraq yesterday, security sources said.

A roadside bomb detonated near the army patrol, in a village of the Tarmiyah area, some 30 km north of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, killing a regiment commander and two soldiers of the Iraqi ground forces, said the media office of the Iraqi Joint Operations Command.

Iraqi Military Killed Six Daesh Militants In Airstrike

BAGHDAD, Dec 8 (NNN-NINA) – Six Daesh militants were killed yesterday, in an airstrike, in a mountainous area, in Iraq’s eastern province of Diyala, the Iraqi military said.

Acting on intelligence reports, a force from the Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS), surrounded, at dawn, a tunnel used by the militants as a hideout, in the Himreen mountain range, in the northern part of Diyala Province, a CTS statement said.

Later on, Iraqi fighter jets were called in for an airstrike that destroyed the hideout and killed six militants inside, the statement added.

An assassination, a feud and the fight for power in Iraq's Kurdistan

ERBIL, Iraq, Dec 5 (Reuters) - The marriage of convenience between Iraqi Kurdistan's political dynasties is on the rocks.

While the dominant Barzani and Talabani clans have long been at loggerheads over power and resources in a region rich in oil and gas, power-sharing governments have largely kept a lid on mistrust since the two sides fought a civil war in the 1990s.

Iraqi PM Completes Cabinet Formation After Parliament Approves Last Two Ministers

BAGHDAD, Dec 4 (NNN-NINA) – The Iraqi parliament approved the nomination of two more ministers yesterday, completing Prime Minister, Mohammed Shi’a al-Sudani’s 23-member cabinet, a month after the approval of his government.

A statement by the parliament media office said, the lawmakers approved by an absolute majority the nomination of Bangen Rekani as Minister of Construction, Housing, Municipalities and Public Works, and Nizar Mohammed Saeed Amidi as Minister of Environment.

After the approval, the two were sworn in before the parliament, according to the statement.

Iraq President calls for an end to Palestine people's suffering

30 Nov 2022; MEMO: Marking the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, Iraqi President, Abdel Latif Rashid, stressed the Palestinians' "legitimate right to establish the Palestinian State, with Jerusalem as its capital", and called for "joint action to put an end to the suffering of the Palestinian people."

Rashid's remarks came in a tweet posted on his official account on Twitter yesterday.

Niece of supreme leader asks world to cut ties with Iran

BAGHDAD (AP) — The niece of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is calling on people to pressure their governments to cut ties with Tehran over it’s violent suppression of anti-government protests.

In a video posted online by her France-based brother, Farideh Moradkhani, urged “conscientious people of the world” to support Iranian protesters. The video was shared online this week after Moradkhani’s reported arrest on Nov. 23, according to U.S.-based rights monitor HRANA.

70,000 year old flatbread thought to be oldest cooked meal found in Iraq

24 Nov 2022; MEMO: An excavation at a Neanderthal site in northern Iraq has led to the discovery of the oldest food remains discovered, so far.

Archaeologists have unearthed what is believed to be the burnt remains of a 70,000 year-old flatbread from the Shanidar Cave, 500 miles north of Baghdad in the Zagros Mountains of the Kurdistan region. The find challenges the long-held belief that Neanderthals survived on a primitive diet of raw meat or uncooked plants but were, in fact, foodies.

Officials: IS militants kill 4 Iraqi soldiers in northwest

BAGHDAD (AP) — Islamic State group militants attacked an Iraqi army position in the northwestern governorate of Kirkuk early Saturday killing four soldiers, security sources and a local government official said.

IS fighters in the district of Dibis took the soldiers’ weapons and communications gear and left the scene, security sources said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to give statements to the media.

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