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A general view of the Iraqi Parliament during a meeting in Baghdad. (AFP/FILE)

September 16th, 2018 - 06:50 GMT

Mohammed al-Halbusi Elected as New Iraqi Parliament Speaker

Iraq's parliament on Saturday elected Sunni politician Mohammed al-Halbusi as assembly speaker after winning majority votes.

Iraqi soldiers re-group on the front line against Islamic State (IS) group jihadists near Fallujah, in Iraq's Anbar province, on May 3, 2016. (AFP/Moadh al-Dulaimi)

May 5th, 2016 - 12:00 GMT

Iraqi army recaptures territory from Daesh around Fallujah

Iraqi army forces. (AFP/File)

May 4th, 2016 - 04:00 GMT

Iraqi forces retake four villages in Anbar province

A file photo shows Incirlik air base in southern Turkey. (AFP/File)

April 27th, 2016 - 10:00 GMT

Turkey to receive long-range missiles from US for Daesh fight

Daesh gunmen in Mosul. (AFP/File)

April 22nd, 2016 - 07:31 GMT

Iraq frees 200 people imprisoned by Daesh near Mosul

Civilians escape Islamic State grip as Iraqi forces push on in Ramadi. (AFP/File)

April 11th, 2016 - 05:36 GMT

Thousands of Iraqis return to Ramadi after liberation

Iraqi Counter Terrorism Forces drive their armored vehicles after they retook an area from Daesh on April 2, 2016 in Anbar province. (AFP/Moadh al-Dulaimi)

April 4th, 2016 - 04:00 GMT

Iraq: Airstrikes in Anbar province kill senior Daesh commanders

Iraqi men carry the coffin of three-year-old Fatima Wais, who was killed following a chemical attack by Daesh in the town of Taza, south of Kirkuk, during her funeral on March 11, 2016. (AFP/Marwan Ibrahim)

March 15th, 2016 - 04:23 GMT

Iraqi civilians flee town in Anbar province as battle looms

Iraqi families fleeing violence in the northern Nineveh province gather at a Kurdish checkpoint in Aski kalak, 40 km west of Erbil. (AFP/Safin Hamed)

March 15th, 2016 - 06:30 GMT

Iraq: Airstrikes kill 60 Daesh militants in Nineveh province

Iraqi emergency responders clear debris from the site of a truck bomb, that exploded at a crowded checkpoint, in the Iraqi city of Hilla, south of Baghdad on March 6, 2016. (AFP/Haidar Hamdani)

March 8th, 2016 - 02:48 GMT

Iraqi forces recapture more territory held by Daesh in Anbar province

Iraqi Shia fighters from the Popular Mobilization units sit in the back of a vehicle as they drive down a road, in the desert of Samarra, on March 3, 2016, during an operation aimed at retaking areas from Daesh. (AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)

March 3rd, 2016 - 07:30 GMT

Iraqi PM dismisses calls to exclude Shia fighters from battle with Daesh in Mosul

Iraqi soldiers and local militias take a stand against Daesh in the Anbar province. (AFP/File)

March 1st, 2016 - 04:30 GMT

Daesh suicide bombers kill eight in Iraq’s Anbar province

Iraqi soldiers patrol the site of an army position where an attack was carried out by Daesh in the Abu Ghraib area west of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, on February 29, 2016. (AFP/Ahmed al-Rubaye)

March 1st, 2016 - 12:33 GMT

US, Iraq discuss plans to recapture Mosul from Daesh