Rights group: Iraq militants executed 160 captives
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi insurgents executed at least 160 captives earlier this month in the northern city of Tikrit, Human Rights Watch said Friday, citing an analysis of satellite imagery and grisly photos released by the militants./ The U.S.-based rights group said militants from the Islamic ...
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مقرون به صرفه تر از فیسبوک، رادیو، تلویزیون و مجلات برای رسیدن به مخاطبان ایرانیِ: هزینه تبلیغات هدفمند "محلی" در کدوم در کنار اخبار و رویدادهای ...
Iraqi Shiites pushing for al-Maliki's removal
BAGHDAD (AP) — Prominent Shiite leaders pushed Thursday for the removal of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki as parliament prepared to start work next week on putting together a new government, under intense U.S. pressure to rapidly form a united front against an unrelenting Sunni insurgent ...
Iran reportedly sent military advisers, head of Quds Force to Iraq
Iran reportedly has sent military advisers into Iraq and dispatched the head of its infamous Quds Force to help Baghdad strategize in its fight against Sunni militants, as the United States takes similar steps despite concern about Tehran's involvement. While not in lockstep, Tehran and ...
Analysis: Iraq producing unusual Mideast dynamic
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration has found itself in a foreign policy and national security pickle of rare complexity with the apparent entry of Syria into the Iraq conflict on the side of the U.S.-backed government in Baghdad, as well as active Iranian military support for Iraqi Prime ...
Divergent visions could split Iraq's Sunni revolt
BAGHDAD/DUBAI (Reuters) - The militants dismantling Iraq's borders and threatening regional war are far from united -- theirs is a marriage of convenience between ultra-hardline religious zealots and more pragmatic Sunni armed groups. For now, they share a common enemy in Shi'ite Islamist Prime ...
Militants take Iraqi gas field town, president calls parliament session
Militants took a town an hour from Baghdad that is home to four natural gas fields on Thursday, another gain by Sunni insurgents who have swiftly taken large areas to the north and west of the Iraqi capital. Iraq's presidency said a session of parliament would be held on July 1, the first step ...
Iraq villagers flee militant advance in north
KALAK, Iraq (AP) — Hundreds of villagers fleeing advances by Sunni militants in Iraq crowded on Thursday under the morning sun at a checkpoint on the edge of the country's Kurdish-controlled territory, trying to join large numbers of displaced who have already sought shelter in the relative ...
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کدوم ماهانه بین ۵۰۰ تا ۱۰۰۰ رویداد جدید مورد علاقه ایرانیان را از طریق روباتیک یا از طریق ثبت توسط کاربران و برنامه گزاران پردازش و روی نقشه مکان ...
Iran to stand by Iraqi side in fighting terrorism
official/ TEHRAN, June 26 (Xinhua) -- Iran will stand by Iraq in fighting terrorism at its request, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian told Alalam TV on Thursday. "If Iraq asks (for help), we will send military equipment to Iraq within the ...
Iran sending drones, equipment to Iraq: media
WASHINGTON, June 25 (Xinhua) -- Iran is sending drones and military equipment secretly into Iraq to help the Shiite-led government in Baghdad cope with an ongoing offensive by the Sunni militants, The New York Times reported Wednesday. Tehran has set up a special control center at Al Rashid ...
Kerry asks Gulf states to do what they can to help Iraq
The United States urged Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates on Thursday to do what they can to encourage Iraq to form an inclusive government to tackle Islamist militant forces threatening to tear apart the country. In a frenetic round of meetings in Paris, Secretary of State John ...
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Iran is sending drones, weapons to Iraq
A member of the Iraqi Kurdish forces stands on a military vehicle as they fight against anti-government militants led by ISIL near Tuz Khurmatu, on June 24, 2014 (AFP Photo/Marwan Ibrahim)/ Washington (AFP) - Iran is secretly flying surveillance drones over Iraq and sending military equipment ...
Kerry issues warning after Syria bombs Iraq
BAGHDAD (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry warned Mideast nations on Wednesday against taking new military action in Iraq that might heighten sectarian divisions, as reports surfaced that Syria launched airstrikes across the border and Iran flew surveillance drones over the neighboring ...
US, Sunni states meet on Mideast insurgent crisis
PARIS (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry is meeting with America's top Sunni state allies in the Mideast to discuss the growing turmoil spawned by a Sunni Muslim insurgency group. Kerry calls the threat posed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant a concern and critical issue for all of ...
Iraqi PM rejects calls to form unity government
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's Shiite prime minister on Wednesday rejected calls to form an interim "national salvation government" that critics say would allow the country's squabbling sects to quickly present a unified front in the face of a growing threat by Sunni militants who have seized several ...
Iran police 'killed near Iraq frontier'
Unidentified gunmen have killed three Iranian police on patrol in the northwest of the country near the border with Iraq, the Mehr news agency reported on Wednesday. Tuesday night's attack comes after the authorities in Shiite-ruled Iran beefed up security along the frontier in response to a ...
Iraq to convene parliament as Maliki confirms Syrian airstrikes on ISIS
In a BBC interview, Maliki said Iraq welcomed Syrian airstrikes on militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, which operates on both sides of the Iraq-Syria border./ Iraqi Vice President Khader al Khuzaei issued a decree for the country's new parliament to convene on July 1, a step ...
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کدوم ماهانه بین ۵۰۰ تا ۱۰۰۰ رویداد جدید مورد علاقه ایرانیان را از طریق روباتیک یا از طریق ثبت توسط کاربران و برنامه گزاران پردازش و روی نقشه مکان ...
Iraq militants launch fresh raid on oil refinery
BAGHDAD (AP) — Sunni militants launched a dawn raid Wednesday on a key Iraqi oil refinery they have been trying to take for days but were repelled by security forces, a commander on the scene said, as dozens of newly arrived U.S. military advisers and special operations forces began assessing ...
Analysis: Iraq producing bizarre Mideast dynamic
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration has found itself in a foreign policy and national security pickle of rare complexity with the apparent entry of Syria into the Iraq conflict on the side of the U.S.-backed government in Baghdad as well as active Iranian military support for Iraqi Prime ...
US officials: Syria launched airstrikes in Iraq
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials said Syria launched airstrikes into western Iraq on Tuesday in an attempt to slow the al-Qaida-inspired insurgency fighting both the Syrian and Iraqi governments. Officials said Wednesday the strikes were the work of Syrian President Bashar Assad's government, ...
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Iran guards killed in armed clashes near Iraq border-media
Anonymous gunmen killed three Iranian security guards in an ambush near the Iraqi border, Iran's official media reported on Wednesday. The victims, two police officers and a sergeant, came under fire while patrolling a border area in Kurdish-dominated Kermanshah province in the late hours of ...
Iran guards killed in armed clashes near Iraq border-media
Anonymous gunmen killed three Iranian security guards in an ambush near the Iraqi border, Iran's official media reported on Wednesday. The victims, two police officers and a sergeant, came under fire while patrolling a border area in Kurdish-dominated Kermanshah province in the late hours of ...
US: Syria may have launched airstrikes in Iraq
WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. official says there are indications Syria launched airstrikes into western Iraq yesterday to slow the al-Qaida-inspired insurgency fighting both the Syrian and Iraqi governments. The group, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, had been fighting along with rebels ...
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کدوم ماهانه بین ۵۰۰ تا ۱۰۰۰ رویداد جدید مورد علاقه ایرانیان را از طریق روباتیک یا از طریق ثبت توسط کاربران و برنامه گزاران پردازش و روی نقشه مکان ...
3 Iranian troops killed in attack near Iraq border
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An attack near Iran's western border with Iraq killed three Iranian border guards, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Wednesday. The troops were killed on Tuesday night while patrolling along the border in western Kermanshah province. A border outpost commander ...
Report: Attackers kill 3 Iranian border guards
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian semi-official news agency says an attack near the country's western border with Iraq has killed three Iranian border guards. The Fars news agency on Wednesday quoted security official Shahriar Heidari as saying the troops were killed on Tuesday night while ...
3 Iranian troops killed in attack near Iraq border
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An attack near Iran's western border with Iraq has killed three Iranian border guards, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Wednesday. The troops were killed on Tuesday night while patrolling along the border in western Kermanshah province. A border outpost ...
Iran sending drones, military equipment to Iraq, U.S. says
The programs are meant to support the Iraqi government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki./ Iran is covertly supplying military equipment to Iraq, as well as using surveillance drones to monitor Sunni militants overtaking the country, U.S. officials said Wednesday. The programs are meant to ...
