Iraq

ERBIL (Reuters) - A rocket attack on U.S.-led forces in northern Iraq killed a civilian contractor on Monday and injured a U.S. service member, the U.S. coalition in Iraq said, in the deadliest such attack in almost a year.

The rockets landed in and around a military air base operated by the coalition at Erbil International Airport.

The coalition spokesman tweeted on Tuesday that the dead contractor was not American, but did not elaborate. He said three 107 mm rockets had landed inside the base.

16 Feb 2021; MEMO: The Iraqi Prime Minister and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, Mustafa Al-Kadhimi yesterday announced the arrest of the so-called "death gang" believed to be responsible for the killing of activists and journalists in the city of Basra during the 2019 anti-government protests.

15 Feb 2021; MEMO: The people of Iraq have been remembering the bombing of Al-Amiriyah Air Raid Shelter in Baghdad by the US Air Force on 13 February, 1991. The Americans targeted the shelter with two laser-guided "smart bombs", killing at least 408 civilians and wounding an unknown number of others.

BAGHDAD, Feb. 9 (Xinhua) -- Iraq is determined to recover all antiquities that were stolen after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, official al-Sabah newspaper reported Tuesday, citing a senior Iraqi official.

"The board is determined to recover the first and last Iraqi artifact smuggled abroad, and we will not give up a single piece of it, regardless of its size and importance," Laith Hussein, head of the State Board of Antiquities and Heritage of the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Antiquities, told al-Sabah.

08 Feb 2021; MEMO: The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is ready to implement its obligations as outlined by the Iraqi federal budget for the next fiscal year, KRG Deputy Prime Minister Qubad Talabani said yesterday.

FALLUJAH, Iraq (Reuters) - Abu Arkan Ibrahim picked up a rifle and joined the Iraqi insurgency against U.S. troops when they occupied his hometown of Fallujah in 2003. He was badly burned in the fighting. Now, he fears the departure of the Americans he once battled.

BAGHDAD, Feb 3 (NNN-NINA) – Iraqi Prime Minister, Mustafa al-Kadhimi, declared yesterday that, a senior leader of the Daesh group was killed, near the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.

Abu Hassan al-Ghreibawi, the group leader in southern Iraq, and Ghanim Sabah, responsible for the movement of the Daesh operatives, were killed, al-Kadhimi, who is also commander-in-chief of the Iraqi forces, said in a tweet.

BAGHDAD (AP) — From the outside, the building seems just one of the many in central Baghdad that are decaying from years of misuse — silent, windows shut.

After 6 p.m., one knock on its steel-plated doors and a portal is opened to a different world rarely found in Iraq’s capital.

BAGHDAD, Feb 2 (NNN-NINA) – The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), said that, the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Iraq, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, paid a two-day visit to Tehran, that aimed at supporting Iraq’s stability.

A UNAMI statement said that, Hennis-Plasschaert, held talks on Jan 31 and Feb 1 (yesterday), with Iranian officials, over regional issues as part of efforts to support stability in Iraq.

01 Feb 2021; MEMO: Thousands of Iraqis gathered in front of the prime minister's office in central Baghdad yesterday to protest against the government's employment policy for 2021, Anadolu reported.

The agency said the protesters rejected the government's decision to halt employment in the public sector for 2021, and demanded it amends its policy.