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Ashwaq Haji, a Yazidi woman used as a sex slave by ISIS, holds portraits of victims of the extremist group from her village of Kocho near Sinjar. AFP

Former Yazidi sex slave flees Germany after meeting ISIS captor

Teenager says the man approached her in a supermarket and knew where she lived

August 17, 2018
A customer looks at Iranian-made washing machines at a shop in Baghdad. AFP

US sanctions on Iran increase Tehran's influence in Iraq, experts say 

Baghdad expected to maintain strong economic relations with its eastern neighbour 

August 16, 2018
Protesters rise national flags while chanting slogans demanding better public services and jobs during a protest in front of the provincial council building in Basra, Iraq. AP

Renewed protests in south Iraq lead to clashes and one dead  

More than a dozen demonstrators have died since protests started over a month ago

August 16, 2018
An Iraqi vendor sells Iranian currency in a street in Najaf. AFP

Iraq religious tourism squeezed by Iran sanctions

Iranian rial has lost half of its value since April 

August 16, 2018
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. AFP

Pompeo urges formation of a moderate Iraqi government

New adminstration must be based on constitution says Washington 

August 15, 2018
Syrian people flee fighting between Syrian forces and ISIS in the Syria-Jordan-Israel border triangle, south of the Golan Heights. EPA

ISIS fighters encircled in southern Syrian volcanic field

Syrian forces have surrounded the ash field to flush the extremists out

August 14, 2018
At the height of ISIS’s power its self-proclaimed caliphate stretched from the edges of Aleppo in Syria to just north of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. AP Photo

UN says 30,000 ISIS fighters remain in Iraq and Syria

A reduced ‘covert version’ of the group will survive loss of territory, report finds

August 14, 2018
Mr Al Abadi has cancelled a visit to Iran, his press office said on Sunday. Reuters 

Iraq PM defends stance on US sanctions against Iran

Position has drawn fire from groups close to Tehran such as the Asaib Ahl al-Haq and Badr paramilitary movements

August 13, 2018
Iraq's Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi speaks during a ceremony in Najaf, Iraq January 7, 2018. Reuters 

Iraq's Abadi pulled by competing US and Iranian forces 

The premier's support for US sanctions on Iran has isolated him from Tehran

August 13, 2018
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi. Reuters

Iran said to cancel visit by Iraq's prime minister

Prime Minister Al Abadi will go ahead with Turkey visit 

August 13, 2018