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Iraq seeks termination of UN assistance mission by end of 2025

Robert Imoh — Mon, 13 May 2024 11:01:28 +0000

Iraq requested the termination of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) operations by the end of 2025, the Iraqi government said. In a statement the Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani said based on the findings by the UN-formed Independent Strategic Review Team, Iraq’s request for UNAMI to end by 2025 is a timeline […]

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UN envoy spotlights promising efforts in Iraq

Gbemi Banks — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 10:15:18 +0000

A year after its formation, the Iraqi government has taken significant initiatives yet its population demands more action. The UN Assistance Mission for Iraq in a presentation told the Security Council on Tuesday. During the presentation of the mission’s recent report, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, the UN special envoy for Iraq, informed the ambassadors of major developments […]

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Iraq tells Sweden it will cut ties if Koran burned again

Gbemi Banks — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 14:40:12 +0000

Iraq on Thursday warned it would sever diplomatic ties with Sweden if a Koran is burned again. The warning came after hundreds of people stormed the Swedish embassy in Baghdad and set it alight in a protest against plans for one Quran to be burned in Stockholm later on Thursday. Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom […]

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Ex- UN official jailed 15 years for drugging, raping women

Gbemi Banks — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 09:35:40 +0000

A former UN official who drugged and raped an unconscious women over two decades during humanitarian missions in the Middle East was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment on Friday. Karim Elkorany, 38, sexually assaulted at least 20 women most of them close friends during work trips to Iraq, Egypt and while home in the United […]

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Russia accuses U.S. of ‘pretending’ to fight Islamic State in Syria, Iraq

Freedom Reporter — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 11:10:22 +0000

Russia accused the United States (U.S.) on Tuesday of pretending to fight Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. Russia also accused U.S. of deliberately reducing its air strikes in Iraq to allow the group’s militants to stream into Syria to slow the Russian-backed advance of the Syrian army. In the latest sign of rising tensions […]

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Trump removes Iraq from new travel ban order

Freedom Reporter — Mon, 06 Mar 2017 20:37:37 +0000

President Donald Trump signed a revised executive order for a U.S. travel ban on Monday, leaving Iraq off the list of targetted countries, White House Senior Administration Officials said. This development happened after his controversial first attempt was blocked in the courts. The officials said that the new order, which the White House said Trump […]

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Journalist killed by roadside bomb

Freedom Reporter — Sun, 26 Feb 2017 19:41:54 +0000

A television journalist covering the battle to retake Mosul from occupying ISIS fighters was killed by a roadside bomb on Saturday, Rudaw TV said. Shifa Gardi, 30, was killed and her cameraman was injured, the Kurdish media organization said in a statement. It’s the first recorded killing of a journalist in Iraq in 2017, the […]

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