Iraq, Trump and Maliki
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President Donald Trump painted a simplistic picture for the US operation in Venezuela: go in, get the oil and start exporting. But Big Oil’s experience in post-invasion Iraq proved that the reality will be far more complicated.
Iraq moves from UN security classification E to B, reflecting major improvements in stability and safety, according to the Ministry of Interior.
Baghdad says it will prosecute and try militants from the Islamic State group who are being transferred from prisons and detention camps in neighboring Syria to Iraq under a U.S.-brokered deal
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Iraq security deal with Iran sparks tension with US
A security agreement between Iran and Iraq has faced backlash from Washington, which for years has opposed Tehran's close ties with Baghdad. The deal comes as Ali Larijani, head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, visited Iraq on Monday amid deep ...
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Influential Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Monday urged Baghdad’s security forces to raise their level of alert to protect the country after what he described as “extremists” in Syria “released outlaws” from prisons.
National Security Ministerial Council stresses that transfer of Daesh members is ‘a purely security decision aimed at protecting Iraq’.
U.S. forces moved 150 ISIS detainees from Syria to Iraq as CENTCOM began a transfer operation involving up to 7,000 radical prisoners.
Some 150 fighters were moved Wednesday, but thousands more could follow as tensions flare between the Syrian government and a Kurdish-led militia.