par This Is Beirut, 18/08 13:28 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The Iraqi Parliament is set to legalize child marriage, a major setback for the rights of women and girls in the country. The move follows a controversial bill passed on August 16, 2024, which would lower the legal age of marriage to 13 for girls and 16 for boys. The new legislation is a revision of the current Personal Status Law, which ...
par This Is Beirut, 24/08 20:39 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Two female journalists were killed and a man was injured on Friday in Iraqi Kurdistan in a drone strike targeting their vehicle, a bombing attributed to the Turkish military engaged against Turkish Kurdish fighters of the PKK, local officials told AFP. “It is not the Turkish military,” the Turkish Ministry of Defense in Ankara told AFP when ...
par This Is Beirut, 31/08 10:14 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A joint operation by American and Iraqi forces killed 15 members of the Islamic State group in western Iraq, with seven US troops injured during the operation, US Central Command (CENTCOM) said Friday. The raid targeted Islamic State leaders and was carried out early Thursday morning, resulting "in the death of 15 Daesh operatives" with "no ...
par This Is Beirut, 01/09 17:35 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Iraq will impose a two-day curfew in November for the country's first census in 27 years, the authorities announced on Sunday. The "curfew will be imposed in all provinces of Iraq on November 20 and 21 to conduct a population census," Prime Minister Mohamed Shia al-Sudani said in a statement. Ravaged by decades of conflict and violence, Iraq has ...
par This Is Beirut, 06/09 15:13 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), pro-Iranian groups operating along the Syria-Iraq border are on high alert after an unidentified drone targeted a truck near one of their headquarters on Thursday, close to the town of Boukamal in the Deir Ezzor countryside. The attack resulted in three casualties: a Syrian ...
par This Is Beirut, 08/09 21:29 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iraq and the United States have agreed on a phased pullout of the US-led anti-jihadist coalition but have yet to sign a final agreement, the Iraqi defence minister said Sunday. The United States has some 2,500 troops in Iraq and 900 in Syria as part of the international coalition against the Daesh. They have been engaged in months of talks with ...
09/09 12:22 - Reading : less than a minute
Turkey said on Monday it had bombed Kurdish militant bases in the mountains of northern Iraq. The Defense Ministry said it had destroyed on Monday "21 targets" in Metina, Gara, Hakurk and Qandil believed to house senior members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), listed as a terror group by Turkey and its Western allies. The Turkish army, ...
par This Is Beirut, 11/09 09:59 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Iraq and Iran signed 14 memorandums on Wednesday to strengthen cooperation and consolidate already strategic ties, in the presence of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, who chose Baghdad for his first foreign visit since his election. Iran and Iraq on Wednesday signed more than a dozen agreements to deepen already strong ties as Masoud ...
par This Is Beirut, 12/09 13:53 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian arrived Thursday in Iraqi Kurdistan to meet the autonomous region's leaders, on the second day of a visit aimed at deepening ties with the neighbouring country. It is Pezeshkian's first foreign trip abroad since he took office in July. [readmore url="https://thisisbeirut.com.lb/world/289374"] Stepping off his ...
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Four Islamic State group leaders were killed in a joint US-Iraqi raid in western Iraq last month, including the head of the jihadist group's operations in the country, the US military said Friday. "This operation targeted ISIS leaders and served to disrupt and degrade ISIS' ability to plan, organize, and conduct attacks against Iraqi civilians," ...
par This Is Beirut, 15/09 11:19 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
If they had tried to do this a few years ago, the group of Iraqi women enjoying a night out in Mosul would probably have risked severe punishment. The northern city was under the harsh rule of the Islamic State (IS) group until the jihadists were ousted from their last major Iraqi bastion in 2017. Seven years later, Mosul's streets truly come ...
par This Is Beirut, 20/09 14:18 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
A militant from Iraq's Hezbollah Brigades, an armed group, was killed Friday in a strike targeting pro-Iran factions in Syria, a group member told AFP, blaming Israel for the attack. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group, said a member of the Hezbollah Brigades was killed but was unable to verify the strike itself. The ...
