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Here's How Young Iraqis Responded to Religious Leader's Call Against Mixed-Gender Protests

February 10th, 2020 - 06:54 GMT

Mustaches and Head Covers: Iraqis Mock Religious Leader's Call Against Mixed-Gender Protests

Young Iraqi women are posting photos of themselves with hand-drawn mustaches and mustache filters, while young men posted photos wearing head covers, in a social media campaign to protest a warning issued by prominent religious leader Muqtada Al-Sadr against mixed-gender protests. بعد دعوة الصدر الى عدم الاختلاط حملة يطلقها الشباب على فيس بوك تتمثل بارتداء الحجاب للسخرية من تغريدة مقتدى #الغي_متابعة_مقتدى #العراق__ينتفض pic.twitter.com/4MLTctHHM7 — كيــري (@kiri_2003) February 8, 2020 Translation ...

The Iraqi government designated Baghdad as one of the seven severe conflict sites in its Tuesday decision to provide temporary hazard pay to security forces operating in high violence areas (Courtesy of the Telegraph)

October 2nd, 2013 - 06:10 GMT

Helicopter attack leaves more dead in Iraq

Four members of the Egyptian security forces were killed on Wednesday after the helicopter they were flying in was shot down by insurgents during a military training exercise north of Baghdad. (AFP/File)

October 2nd, 2013 - 11:49 GMT

Militants shoot down Iraqi army helicopter, killing four

An Iraqi man retrieves a copy of the Koran from the debris of the Al-Hussein mosque following an explosion in the district of al-Musayyib, south of Baghdad on Monday. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant on Tuesday claimed responsibility for the attacks. (AFP)

October 1st, 2013 - 09:57 GMT

Iraqi Al Qaeda branch claims responsibility for Baghdad car bombings

Suicide bombing at Iraqi funeral kills at least 25. [dawn.com]

September 29th, 2013 - 04:49 GMT

Iraqi suicide bomber kills 25 at funeral

Iraq is experiencing its highest levels of violence since 2008 (Image credit: AFP)

September 28th, 2013 - 02:57 GMT

Deadly violence across Iraq claims eleven lives

Iraqi sectarian violence has claimed the lives of 720 people in September. (Image credit: AFP)

September 27th, 2013 - 04:46 GMT

Six people dead after bombs target Sunni mosques in Baghdad

Iraq has been plagued by sectarian violence in 2013, with over 1,000 people dying in July alone. Here, Iraqis inspect the site the day after a bombing attack near a funeral tent that killed at least 56 in the Sadr City district of Baghdad on September 22, 2103. (AFP)

September 26th, 2013 - 09:16 GMT

At least 23 dead in Baghdad market blasts

Iraq's Foreign Minister Zebari says that military aid in Syria "will only perpetuate the conflict and reduce the prospects of a negotiated settlement" (Courtesy of Alistair Lyon/Reuters)

September 26th, 2013 - 08:13 GMT

Iraq tells world to stay out of the Syrian conflict, stop sending aid

The Egyptian army has launched a massive operation against militants in the Sinai peninsula. (AFP/File)

September 26th, 2013 - 06:35 GMT

Egyptian forces continue crackdown on Sinai militants

Violence in Iraq has escalated to its highest levels since 2008 (Image credit: AFP)

September 24th, 2013 - 03:14 GMT

Militants kill seven policemen in Iraq

The Anglo-Dutch major, in charge of operations at the southern Majnoon oil field, said on Friday it aims to boost output to 175,000 barrels per day (bpd) in October.

September 22nd, 2013 - 10:30 GMT

Shell resumes Iraqi production in Majnoon oilfield

A Kurd young boy cross a street under blue flags, emblazoned with a candle, of the Movement for Change (MC) (aka Goran) displayed in the streets as part of the campaign for Kurdistan's parliamentary elections on September 18, 2013 in Iraq's northern city of Sulaimaniyah. (AFP)

September 22nd, 2013 - 08:08 GMT

Iraqi Kurd election vote counting gets underway