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Media sources reported early Thursday that an explosion in Sulaymaniyah city in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq left at least 12 wounded. “An explosion was heard in northern Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, and ambulances rushed to the scene,” Iraqi sources reported early Thursday. The source also added that Iraqi Kurdistan media say …

The Iraqi army aviation bombarded a communication center for the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)  in Sinjar district, a security source reported. The source told Alghadeer news that the operation was carried out based on accurate intelligence information. Earlier today, two YBS snipers were killed in an airstrike of the Iraqi …

A new bout of fire exchange erupted in the district of Sinjar which has been the battlefield of ongoing confrontations between the Iraqi army and forces aligned with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). A source told Alghadeer News that the clashes took place near the Hetteen compound when the Iraqi …

A barrage of rockets has reportedly landed close to an airbase in Iraq’s western province of Anbar, where American military forces are stationed. News outlets reported that at least four BM-21 Grad rockets were launched at Ain al-Asad Airbase, located about 160 kilometers (100 miles) west of the capital Baghdad, …

Turkish warplanes, helicopters, and drones hit Kurdish militant targets, camps, tunnels, shelters, and ammunition storage areas in the Kurdistan Region, Northern Iraq, Defense Minister Hulusi Akar was quoted as saying by the state-run Anadolu news agency. The operation, which Akar said targeted the Metina, Zap, and Avasin-Basyan areas of the …

A severe dust storm sweeping Iraq and the Kurdistan Region has resulted in five deaths in Salahaddin province’s Tuz Khurmatu along with hundreds of hospitalizations in Erbil and Sulaimani. “Five civilians have died of dust in Khurmatu and others have suffered from strain and are receiving treatment due to the …

Iraq has repatriated almost 4,000 of its citizens stuck on the Belarus borders with European Union members Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia in recent weeks, Iraq’s foreign minister said Sunday. Since November 18, the Iraqi government has organized “10 flights from Baghdad to Belarus” to repatriate its citizens, Fuad Hussein told …

Erbil experienced flash floods again on Thursday (January 13) due to heavy rainfall that started late Wednesday night. The neighborhoods of Shari Mamostayan, Sheikh Ahmad, and Shorsh all experienced floods. Ainkawa, 60 Meter Road, 100 Meter Road, Hawleri New, Tayrawa, Bahrka, Sebardan, Nusaran, and Gulan also dealt with a heavy …

The death toll from the floods that swept Erbil, northern Iraq, today has reached 11. Erbil city center deputy commissioner, Nabz Abdulhamid, said that among the victims were a Turkish man and another Filipino. Since yesterday evening, heavy floods swept Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan region causing casualties and great material damages.

Kurdish security forces dispersed a student demonstration, in which thousands participated, to demand the repayment of student stipends, by shooting in the air and using tear gas canisters, while those demonstrations caused severe traffic jams and paralyzed traffic in the city of Sulaymaniyah on Tuesday evening. The demonstrators are demanding …

Dozens of protesting university students in Sulaymaniyah suffered suffocation, after Kurdish security forces dispersed their protests by force, while trying to open the roads they closed earlier Tuesday. Al-Ghadeer’s correspondent in Kurdistan said that “a number of protesters suffocated due to the use of tear gas by the security forces,” …

The leader of the Al-Fateh Alliance Hadi al-Amiri received on Wednesday the delegation of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan headed by Khaled Shwani in the capital, Baghdad, where they expressed their great rejection of manipulating the election results, while al-Amiri hinted at the possibility of resorting to boycotting the entire …

The former Minister of Environment in Iraq, Abdul Rahman Siddiq, said that Iraq is ranked fifth among the countries most affected by climate change in the world. Siddiq said in a speech today, “Skyscrapers do not define countries. Water, rivers and springs do”, adding, that Iraq’s richness attracted the most …

A convoy of more than 30 US military trucks along with tankers has reportedly transported stolen Syrian oil from the northeastern province of Hasakah to the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region in northern Iraq. Local sources, requesting anonymity, told Syria’s official news agency SANA that 33 US military vehicles along with several …

The Iraqi government announced its “firm” rejection of the “illegal” meetings held by some tribal figures residing in the city of Erbil in the Kurdistan Region who called for normalization with Israel. “First, these meetings do not represent the people and residents of the dear Iraqi cities, these personalities are …

An official security source reported that a 45-year-old civilian was wounded by Turkish army artillery shelling on the Kani Masi district, north of Duhok governorate. On Wednesday, Iraqi Kurdistan Coordinator for International Advocacy, Dindar Zebari, announced that more than 800 villages were evacuated due to the ongoing conflict between the …

Iraq’s Federal Intelligence Agency detained and interrogated two senior ISIS commanders and referred his case to a special court, a press release by the Security Media Cell (SMC) said on Saturday. SMC said that the Federal Intelligence and Investigations Agency successfully apprehended the security official of ISIS’ North Iraq province, …

The Kurdistan Regional Government devised a plan to provide facilities to industrial and commercial investments in the region, spokesperson for Kurdistan’s Ministry of Trade and Industry Nozad al-Sheikh Kamel Mahmoud said on Tuesday. Mahmoud’s comments came in a statement he made before the third online conference of Kurdistan and China …

Iraqi security forces apprehended a senior administrative official of ISIS in Erbil, the capital city of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region. Spokesperson to the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Major General Yehya Rasool, said that the Iraqi Counter-Terrorism-Services (CTS) arrested an ISIS terrorist known as “Abu Mansour”. The aforementioned terrorist served …

A fire broke out in a camp of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) in Duhok, earlier today, Wednesday. The media official of Duhok’s Civil Defense Directorate, Bewar Abdul Aziz, said, “before noon, a fire broke out at Mashko’s IDP camp in the north of Zakho district.” “The flames caught two …