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A top aide to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr was released from jail Wednesday, a source in Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri ...

Al-Maliki's order came a day after radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr offered to help purge militia members from Iraqi security forces. He criticized the government for denying ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr offered Thursday to help purge Iraqi security forces of militia members. But he also criticized the Iraqi government for denying that it sent ...

A member of the community police in Mosul, July 2020. Photo: Tahreer Association. This project seeks to contextualise internationally-backed centralised efforts to demilitarise the local Iraqi police ...

Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

Iraqi police trainees at the at the al Furat Iraqi Police Training Center. Photo: Herald Post, Flickr. In the aftermath of the fall of Mosul to ISIS in June 2014 and following a fatwa issued by Grand ...

Since Oct. 16, when Iraqi forces launched a large-scale offensive on Mosul to dislodge ISIS fighters, more than a hundred villages have been liberated. But the battle for Mosul continues.

According to the book, British intelligence informed Iraqi police as soon as Francis arrived in Baghdad that a woman wearing explosives was heading toward Mosul and was planning to blow herself up ...

The US-led coalition said Iraqi forces had advanced in three directions ... we're here to protect you' Battle for Mosul: The story so far The campaign marks an end to a lull in the fighting ...

IRAQI troops advanced to within a mile of the Islamic State (Isis)-occupied city of Mosul yesterday amid fierce fighting. Armoured vehicles came under heavy mortar and small-arms fire as the elite ...

Daesh militants have executed five civilians for attempting to flee the northern city of Mosul, according to an Iraqi army officer. First Lieutenant Nayef al-Zubeidi said the civilians had been ...