18+ hour, 15+ min ago   (336+ words) 964media KIRKUK — Military intelligence arrested a man known as Abu Sahir in Kirkuk's Yaychi subdistrict on Sunday, saying he held several positions in the Islamic State group while it controlled parts of Anbar, in the latest of a run of…...

20+ hour, 30+ min ago   (156+ words) 964media Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Al-Zaidi waves as he departs on an official visit to France and Germany BAGHDAD — Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi left for France and Germany on Sunday, with understandings expected to be signed in Paris covering investment, energy,…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (164+ words) KRG Interior Minister Rebar Ahmed ERBIL — Coalition forces are being moved out of the Kurdistan Region daily and Iraq should avoid a security vacuum when they go, KRG Interior Minister Rebar Ahmed said, urging Baghdad to build bilateral security relationships…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (255+ words) 964media BASRA — Graduates marched from the Basra Oil Company headquarters toward the Makina area on Wednesday, the eleventh day of their campaign for jobs in the oil sector The march was peaceful, in contrast to earlier days Banners called on…...

6+ day, 22+ hour ago   (306+ words) 964media ERBIL — The Kurdistan Regional Government has asked Baghdad for 140,000 barrels of crude a day, nearly three times its current allocation, so it can sell petrol at 450 dinars a litre — the subsidised price in the rest of Iraq The…...

1+ week, 17+ hour ago   (238+ words) 964media BAGHDAD — Regulating weapons must come in exchange for full Iraqi sovereignty, the head of Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada said, restating a position his group set out at length last month "Regulating weapons in exchange for full and comprehensive sovereignty: an…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (318+ words) 964media BAGHDAD — A committee has been formed with the armed factions to discuss "regulating and containing" their weapons, Nouri al-Maliki said, with the word disarmament deliberately set aside and the scope of what would be handed over still open "The…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (315+ words) NAJAF — Iraq’s National Security Service said Wednesday it arrested a suspect accused of counterfeiting and circulating fake currency and having links to regional networks involved in the activity. The agency released footage showing the arrest and what it said were…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (260+ words) 964media BASRA — Graduates seeking oil sector jobs blocked several state oil company facilities in Basra on Wednesday, with security forces stopping them closing the main gate of the Basra Oil Company and detaining several demonstrators Video showed confrontations with security…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (228+ words) Prime Minister’s adviser Qasim al-Araji BAGHDAD — The Popular Mobilization Forces Commission is the most likely body to take custody of weapons handed over by armed factions, the prime minister’s security adviser said — the first time an official has named a…...