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Ericsson investigating how it addressed Iraq probe, board backs CEO

Ericsson Chairman Ronnie Leten said on Monday a comprehensive review is underway led by its new chief legal officer over the company's conduct relating to Iraq and how it was addressed.

Reuters

Turkey to Pull Out Hundreds of Soldiers from Syria to Fight PKK in Iraq

Some 400 Turkish forces deployed in the de-escalation zone in northwestern Syria would likely redeploy in northern Iraq to fight the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), reliable sources told the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on Sunday. “Four hundred Turkish troops have packed up and finished their preparations to withdraw from…

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Iraq Digs Up Mass Grave Containing Bodies of ISIS Militants

Iraqi authorities said Sunday that they had exhumed the remains of 85 ISIS militants and their relatives from a mass grave in the northern city of Mosul. The remains of 35 people killed between 2016 and 2017 were dug up on Saturday while 50 were found on Sunday and "work…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Iraqi Kurdish oil tycoon's home in ruins after Iran strike

Iranian missiles that struck northern Iraq earlier this week have laid to waste the sprawling mansion belonging to an Iraqi Kurdish oil tycoon near a U.S. consulate complex in the Iraqi city of Irbil

The Independent UK

From Iraq to Ukraine, the American Press Loves a War

Today's journalists aren't speaking truth to power by not-so-subtly agitating for direct military involvement in Ukraine.

Reason

General: Iran, Israel missile strikes put US troops at risk

The top U.S. commander for the Middle East says the exchange of missile strikes by Iran and Israel in Iraq and Syria puts U.S. forces at risk

The Independent UK

War sent America off the rails 19 years ago. Could another one bring it back?

At the start of 2022, the right to vote, the rule of law and even the existence of facts seemed to be in grave peril in the United States.

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Man who grew up with war in Iraq now in Kyiv using his business to help

When Iraqi-born American entrepreneur Emad Ballack watched footage of war breaking out in Ukraine from his office in Iraq's northern Kurdistan region, he decided he had to act.

Reuters

Manchester United first-team hopeful Zidane Iqbal pictured with Neymar in Paris

The youngster has just received his second call-up to Iraq's national team.

Manchester Evening News

Four Rockets Target Iraq’s Balad Airbase

The Iraqi Security Media Cell said on Thursday that four rockets fell in open areas in Balad Airbase, leaving no damage or casualties. The media cell stated that the authorities will hunt down the perpetrators of this “cowardly terrorist act”, reassuring Iraqi citizens that “the acts of criminal terrorist gangs…

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Putin's not a fascist, totalitarian or revolutionary – he's a reactionary tyrant

Talk of a “new cold war” in this century began in the time between the war in Iraq and the global recession of 2008. It roughly coincided with the attention focused on the murder of Alexander Litvinenko by polonium-210 poisoning at the hands of Russians in London.

The Conversation

Iraq food protests against spiralling prices echo early stages of the Arab Spring

Iraq has been seeing protesters take to the streets as food prices spiral upwards because of the Ukraine war. Around 500 people protested in Iraq’s southern city of Nasiriyah a few days ago as flour suddenly rose in price by nearly a third. With food-related protests subsequently taking place in…

The Conversation

Ukraine wants a no-fly zone. What does this mean, and would one make any sense in this war?

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy virtually addressed the United States Congress on March 16, 2022, and, as widely expected, requested additional U.S. military assistance for Ukraine.

The Conversation

Israeli Media: 6 Drones Bombed UAV Base in Iran

Israeli media confirmed on Tuesday that Israeli drones destroyed a fleet of Iranian drones in the western Iranian city of Kermanshah in mid-February. The reports come three days after the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) launched ten ballistic missiles at alleged Israeli sites in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan…

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CENTCOM: Iran's Threat is Graver than Ever

The commander of the US Central Command, General Kenneth McKenzie, has said that Iran is the most immediate threat to the US interests in the Middle East and the region's security in general. McKenzie warned that "the threat posed by Iran is graver than ever." Speaking at a hearing held…

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Qaani in Baghdad 2 Days after Iran's Strikes on Erbil

Commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force Esmail Qaani arrived in Baghdad on Tuesday in an unannounced visit, two days after the Guards claimed responsibility for ballistic missile attacks against Erbil, the capital of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region. Iran said the barrage was retaliation for an Israeli strike in…

Wales Online

Veteran Fox News reporter Pierre Zakrzewski killed in Ukraine

The 55-year-old had covered conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iraqi PM Inspects Site of Iranian Missile Attack in North

Iraq’s prime minister met with Kurdish officials on Monday and inspected the site of an Iranian missile attack near the American consulate in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil. Mustafa al-Kadhimi was received by Masrour Barzani, prime minister of the semi-autonomous Kurdish-controlled region.

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Brit sniper in Ukraine says Putin 'absolutely hammered' by 'Taliban on steroids'

Retired British sniper Shane Matthews, a former lance corporal with the 2nd Battalion Princess of Wales’ Royal Regiment, is in Kyiv after fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan

Reuters

Iran strike on Iraq signals defiance to US allies in region - officials, experts say

Billed by Tehran as a warning to Israel, Sunday's attack on an Iraqi city was also a pointed reminder of Iran's armed clout for its U.S. and Arab foes at a delicate moment for the Islamic Republic, Iraqi and Western officials and independent analysts say.

The Independent UK

Iraqi PM inspects site of Iranian missile attack in north

Iraq’s prime minister has visited the northern city of Irbil to meet with Kurdish officials and inspect the site of an Iranian missile attack a day earlier

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Iranian Militias Switch Positions in Syria

After a dozen ballistic missiles struck Iraq’s northern Kurdish regional capital of Erbil, Iranian militias across Syria undertook redeployment and repositioning operations. The attack against Erbil had also targeted the US consulate’s new building on Saturday evening. In the western Euphrates region, Iranian-backed militias in Al-Bokamal and its desert, Al-Mayadeen…

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Iran Says it Had Warned Iraq Many Times About Threats

Tehran had warned Iraqi authorities many times that its territory should not be used by third parties to conduct attacks against Iran, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Saeed Khatibzadeh said on Monday. He was speaking one day after Iran attacked Iraq's northern city of Erbil with a dozen ballistic missiles in an…

Reuters

Iran foreign min spokesperson, on Erbil attack, says Tehran had warned Iraq many times about threats to Iran

Tehran had warned Iraqi authorities many times that its territory should not be used by third parties to lead attacks against Iran, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Saeed Khatibzadeh said on Monday.

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Kadhimi: Iraq Should Not Become Stage for Settling ‘External Scores’

Iraq's Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi received a phone call from US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, during which he stressed that his country should not become "a stage for settling external scores", his media office said on Twitter late on Sunday. Earlier in the day, Iran attacked Iraq's northern city…

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