ISLAMABAD - A delegation led by Lt-Gen Anwer Hamad Ameen Ahmed, Commander of the Iraqi Air Force, visited Pakistan Aeronautical Complex Kamra, where it was received by Air Marshal Sohail Gul Khan, Chairman Pakistan Aeronautical Complex Board, Kamra. The delegation was briefed about organisation and ...

LAHORE : The Ministry of Water Resources, Govt of Iraq, has awarded an irrigation project to the National Engineering Services of Pakistan.  The project called East of Gharaf aims at strengthening the war-torn economy of Iraq by providing sustainable irrigation and drainage facilities to about ...

AL-AMADIA, Iraq : Iraqi Kurds living near the border are wary of thousands of Kurdish fighters leaving Turkey for northern Iraq, and hope the move does not lead to more Turkish air and artillery strikes.For years, Turkey’s military has targeted fighters from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party ...

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraqi soldiers and policemen cast their ballots for provincial elections on Saturday, a week ahead of the main vote that comes amid an uptick in violence and a long-running political crisis.The credibility of the elections, the first since March 2010 parliamentary polls, has been ...

SAMARRA (AFP) - An attack by militants on an Iraqi army checkpoint north of Baghdad on Sunday left three soldiers dead, security and medical officials said. Insurgents threw hand grenades at the checkpoint, which lies east of Samarra, 110 kilometres (70 miles) north of Baghdad, before opening fire ...

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraqi premier Nuri al-Maliki looked to head off protests in Sunni areas of the country on Tuesday with a prisoner release even as he threatened to use state resources to “intervene” to end the rallies.The move came as powerful cleric Moqtada al-Sadr voiced support for ...

BAGHDAD  - A total of 4,471 civilians died in Iraq's festering "low-level war" with insurgents in 2012, the first annual climb in the death toll in three years, campaigners said on Tuesday. The deaths, up from 4,059 in 2011, showed militant fighters were still bent on carrying out large-scale ...

RAMADI, Iraq (AFP) - Two people were wounded when security forces opened fire to disperse protesters who attacked Iraq's deputy premier on Sunday, forcing him to flee a rally he was addressing, an AFP reporter said.The demonstrators, who have blocked a key highway connecting Iraq to Syria and ...

BERLIN, Iraq (AFP) - Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, a key figure who has long sought to bridge political and sectarian divides in his war-scarred country, arrived in Germany on Thursday for treatment after he suffered a stroke. German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said Talabani, 79, was in ...

ARBIL  - The president of Iraq’s Kurdistan region has ordered its peshmerga security forces on high alert, a statement issued on Saturday said, attributing the move to clashes with central government forces. An Iraqi general however said that the clashes in question came during an arrest ...

SAMARRA  - Iraqi police arrested the head of a jail from which dozens of Qaeda militants escaped weeks ago, hours after he left hospital after being treated for wounds suffered in the incident. Brigadier General Laith al-Salmani is now being investigated in connection with the September 27 ...

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Smiling shyly, Wassan Saleh admitted to being the face of a vast problem across Iraq’s bureaucracy that officials are now trying to remedy: she had never used a computer.Her participation in information technology (IT) classes at a Baghdad college is part of efforts by ...

BAGHDAD  - Shootings and bombings in central and north Iraq on Tuesday left seven people dead, including a judge and the bodyguard of an MP, security and medical officials said. In the main northern city of Mosul, Judge Abbas al-Abadi was gunned down as he was leaving his home, police First ...

BAGHDAD  - A conservative, Shiite-majority area of Baghdad serves as the unlikely base for Iraq's first female national weightlifting team, which is due to compete in Morocco on Thursday.The team of four usually trains at a club in Sadr city, an area better known for fierce battles between US ...

Shootings and bombings killed five Iraqi police, including a general, on Wednesday in the latest in a series of attacks targeting the country's security forces, security and medical officials said. The unrest came after six soldiers were killed nationwide on Tuesday, including a colonel, as ...

SAMAWA  - Wissam Mohammed Kazem took off in south Iraq in a homemade plane, but his love of aviation ultimately landed him in jail for making the aircraft without approval. Another Iraqi ended up in trouble 30 years ago over a homemade helicopter, indicating that then, as now, it is not in ...

Moral policing has resulted in the killing of at least 90 teenagers in Iraq during the last month, as they were stoned to death over the ‘charges’ of ‘emo appearances’, reported Al-Arabiya, an Arab news channel.The killings by religious police for having the haircuts has ...

BAQUBA  - A gun attack early Saturday morning on a checkpoint manned by anti-Qaeda militiamen in central Iraq left five of them dead, security and medical officials said. Attackers struck the Sahwa checkpoint in Khan Beni Saad, 40 kilometres (25 miles) north of Baghdad in Diyala province, ...

LONDON (AFP) - Britain's army said Thursday the death of an Iraqi detainee in Basra had cast a "dark shadow" over its reputation, after an inquiry found he suffered "gratuitous violence" at the hands of soldiers. Hotel receptionist Baha Mousa, 26, was hooded, assaulted and held in stress positions ...

RANJ ALAALDIN On Tuesday, Iraq just about managed to form a government - only days before a constitutional deadline, and nine months since the elections took place. With the cabinet now named and accepted by parliament, the hard work starts for a country that still has many challenges and disputes ...

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraq will sign preliminary contracts, from Sunday, with oil companies that bid successfully last week for seven fields, oil ministry spokesman Assem Jihad told AFP. The contracts will then be submitted to the cabinet for final approval. On Sunday, the consortium comprised of ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has complained to President Barack Obama about a US meeting with alleged Iraqi insurgents, Baghdads top diplomat said. Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said in Washington Thursday the Iraqi government found it shocking that ...

RAMADI, Iraq (AFP) - A member of Al-Qaeda in Iraq who broke out of jail has been killed in a firefight while two other prisoners on the run have been surrounded by police, a police officer said on Saturday. "We killed 'Imad the killer' and he is lying on the street in front of me. We are exchanging ...

BAGHDAD (AFP) - A last-gasp compromise will allow the future of non-US foreign troops in Iraq to be put to the vote in parliament on Monday, the final day before lawmakers start their year-end break, MPs said. With the troops' UN mandate due to expire on Dec 31, there is too little time to push ...

LONDON (AFP) - An Iraqi doctor was jailed for life on Wednesday for trying to murder hundreds of people in failed car bombings in London and Glasgow last year. Bilal Abdulla, 29, who was born in Britain but raised in Iraq, was ordered to spend at least 32 years behind bars after being found guilty ...

Iraq said on Wednesday it was ready to take over security responsibilities from US security forces in Baghdad as both countries say they are nearing a deal on a contested military pact. Interior ministry spokesman Major General Abdel Karim Khalaf said Iraqi police are capable of handling security ...

Secretary Defence Kamran Rasool has said that allied forces have been allowed to use Pakistan's airspace. Defence Secretary Rasool said that allied forces took permission to hit specific targets in tribal areas several times. He said war on terror could not be won without US cooperation. Rasool ...

ANKARA (AFP) - The Turkish military Sunday accused Iraqi Kurds of aiding Turkish Kurdish rebels holed up in their autonomous enclave in northern Iraq after the militants killed at least 15 soldiers in a daytime attack near the border. The charge came from the deputy chief of the army as top ...

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Saturday described as "concerning" the car bombing which killed 17 people in the Syrian capital, Damascus. "I just learnt this morning about the bombing in Syria. Obviously, any activity by extremists is concerning. But I don't know the ...

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraq's main Sunni Arab bloc on Saturday ended an almost year-long boycott of Shia Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's government, in a major boost for reconciliation in the deeply divided country. Parliament overwhelmingly endorsed the appointment of six ministers from the country's ...