Iraq: Bomb squad dismantles 27 war remnants in Diyala

Ministry of Interior’s Bomb Squad announced on Saturday that it had successfully neutralized 27 war remnants in Diyala province. In a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), the ministry said that IED technicians in the Kusayrin area of Read More …

Iraq: Popular Mobilization Forces member dead in IED blast in Diyala

A member of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF, or Hashd al-Shaabi) was killed and others injured after being struck by an IED blast in Iraq’s Diyala province, a security source said on Sunday. “At 21:40 on Saturday, an improvised explosive Read More …

Iraq: Spiking violence strains sectarian ties

“I only remember the explosion,” Maytham, 16, said from his hospital bed, his pale arms speckled brown by shrapnel. The attack took place earlier this month in the Shiite-majority village of Hazanieh. The force of the blast hurled the teenager Read More …

Iraq: Four killed, three injured in armed attack in Diyala governorate

An Iraqi security source mentioned on Monday that four civilians were killed and three others were wounded in an armed attack that followed an explosion of an improvised explosive device in Diyala governorate in eastern Iraq. The source elaborated that Read More …

Iraq: Explosion near security headquarters rocks Baghdad

A security source revealed that twin explosions took place on Sunday morning near the fence of a security headquarters of the intelligence service, according to Alsumaria News. The security source clarified that two homemade explosive devices were placed outside the Read More …

ISIS tries to revive through jailbreak attempts in Syria’s Hasakah and Diyala governorate in Iraq

Clashes are still going on for the second consecutive day between the fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Internal Security Forces of North and East Syria (Asayish) with aerial support by the US-led Global Coalition on one Read More …

Iraq: Five Peshmerga dead and four injured in ISIS Diyala attack

Five Peshmerga were killed and five injured in an Islamic State (ISIS) attack in Diyala province on Saturday, a Peshmerga source told Rudaw Sunday morning. Militants attacked the Peshmerga in the Kolajo sub-district at around 10:15pm, a commander of the Read More …

Iraq: Three Iraqi soldiers killed in suspected ISIS attack in rural Diyala

An Iraqi army outpost near a town sixty kilometers north of the capital city of Baghdad came under attack from a suspected ISIS cell, one security source said. The source told Kurdistan 24 that a number of gunmen believed to Read More …