Iraq’s parliament held its final session on Saturday, leaving the country without a national assembly for the first time since 2013 as it awaits a vote recount from May parliamentary polls. The manual recount was demanded by the supreme court in polling stations with contested results, in line with a decision by the outgoing parliament […] …
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Fire destroys Iraq’s biggest ballot warehouse before recount
Only Iraq supreme court can decide on election re-run: PM’s spokesman
Iraq’s Supreme Federal Court is the only entity that has the right to decide if a parliamentary election held in May needs to be re-run, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s spokesman said on Monday.
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Fire hits Iraq’s biggest ballot warehouse before recount
A fire ripped through Iraq’s biggest ballot warehouse on Sunday where votes for the eastern Baghdad district were stored, before a recount ordered by parliament, a security official said. The cause of the blaze was not immediately known but it comes as Iraq prepares for a manual recount of around 10 million votes following allegations […] …
Iran reports deadly clashes with insurgents on Iraq border
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said Sunday there had been three clashes with “terrorists” along the border with Iraq in recent days, leaving several dead. “In recent days we have been witnessing some movements and efforts by anti-revolutionary bandits and terrorists in west and northwest border areas with the aim of deep infiltration,” said Brigadier-General Mohammad Pakpour, […] …
Iraq court sentences French woman to life for IS membership
IS claims assassination of Iraq election candidate
Iraq sentences 212 to death in Mosul area since recapture from IS – Judiciary
Iraqi courts have sentenced 212 people to death in Mosul and surrounding areas, most of them for complicity with Islamic State, since the area was retaken by Iraqi forces in July and August 2017, a judiciary spokesman said on Wednesday.
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Iraq sentences French female jihadist to life in jail
Iraq on Tuesday sentenced a French woman to life in prison for belonging to the Islamic State group, the latest in a series of court rulings since the country’s defeat of IS. Djamila Boutoutaou, a 29-year-old of Algerian origin, told a Baghdad court that she had left France with her husband, a rapper. She said […] …
U.S flags burned as Iraqis protest Syria strikes
Thousands of Iraqis took to the streets in several cities on Sunday to protest against US-led strikes on Syria, following a call by influential Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr. “Stop destroying Syria as you destroyed our country,” shouted protesters in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square, in reference to the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq. “No to America, no […] …