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2 journalists killed in Turkish airstrike in northern Iraq, local officials say
Officials and media reports say two female journalists were killed in a Turkish airstrike that hit their car in northern Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region.
 
Girls walk through the halls of the children center where they live, which provides a variety of activities for children, northeastern Syria, June 26, 2024. Children at the center include some born to formerly captured Yazidi women. While the Yazidi community has embraced mothers kidnapped by Islamic State group militants, the fate of children born to the women after their capture proved much more contentious. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad)
She became a mother after Islamic State captivity. A decade on, Yazidi community shuns her children
As the 10th anniversary of the Islamic State group’s atrocities against Iraq’s Yazidis approaches, a traumatized community is still in many ways convulsed by the legacy of the militants’ onslaught.
 
Yazidis in Khanke in the Duhok area of the Kurdistan region of Iraq, prepare to return to their homes in Sinjar, Monday, June 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Julia Zimmermann)
The closure of camps in Iraq housing Yazidis displaced by IS attacks is postponed, an official says
The Iraqi government has postponed an order to clear out camps in the country’s semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region that house thousands of people who fled when the Islamic State group seized their home areas a decade ago.
 
FILE - Iraq's Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, right, and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attend a meeting to sign mutual agreements in Baghdad, on April 22, 2024. The Iraqi government announced Tuesday July 23, 2024 an official ban on a Kurdish separatist group which has been engaged in a long-running conflict with Turkey. (Ahmad Al-Rubaye/Pool Photo via AP, File)
Iraq bans a Kurdish separatist group and strengthens its cooperation with Turkey
The Iraqi government has announced an official ban on a Kurdish separatist group which has been engaged in a long-running conflict with Turkey.
 
An oil refinery burns outside Irbil, Iraq, Thursday, June 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilind Tahir/Rudaw)
Firefighters battle massive fire at northern Iraq oil refinery
A team of 32 firefighters in northern Iraq is battling to put out a massive fire, a day after it broke out at an oil refinery, with more than a dozen of them injured while tackling the blaze, local officials said.
 
This image taken from video provided by Rudaw TV shows smoke rising from a building hit by a strike in Irbil, Iraq, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024. Iran has announced that it launched strikes against a “spy headquarters and the gathering of anti-Iranian terrorist groups” shortly after missiles hit an area near the U.S. consulate in Irbil, the seat of Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region. (Rudaw TV via AP)
Iraq recalls ambassador, summons Iran’s chargé d’affaires over strikes in Irbil
Iraq’s Foreign Ministry has recalled its ambassador to Iran for consultations and summoned Iran’s chargé d’affaires in Baghdad in protest over Iranian strikes on northern Iraq that killed several civilians.
 
This image taken from video provided by Rudaw TV shows smoke rising from a building hit by a strike in Irbil, Iraq, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024. Iran has announced that it launched strikes against a “spy headquarters and the gathering of anti-Iranian terrorist groups” shortly after missiles hit an area near the U.S. consulate in Irbil, the seat of Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region. (Rudaw TV via AP)
Iran strikes targets in northern Iraq and Syria as regional tensions escalate
Iran says it fired missiles at what it claimed were Israeli “spy headquarters” near the U.S. Consulate in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil, and at targets linked to the extremist group Islamic State in northern Syria.
 
This is a locator map for Iraq with its capital, Baghdad. (AP Photo)
An airstrike on a military airport in northern Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region kills 3 people
An airstrike on a military airport in northern Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region killed three people Monday, local officials said.
 
This is a locator map for Iraq with its capital, Baghdad. (AP Photo)
Turkish airstrike in northern Iraq kills 4 Kurdish insurgents as Ankara’s top diplomat visits region
A Turkish airstrike in northern Iraq has killed three members of an outlawed Kurdish insurgent group. Thursday’s attack came as Ankara’s top diplomat was visiting the city of Irbil, the seat of Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish government.
 
Chaldean Christians attend a service in the Mar Youssef Cathedral in Irbil, Iraq, on Sunday, July 30, 2023. Today, the number of Christians in Iraq is 150,000, compared to 1.5 million in 2003. (AP Photo/Julia Zimmermann/Metrography)
A feud between a patriarch and a militia leader adds to the woes of Iraqi Christians
A feud between two prominent Christian leaders has divided believers of the faith in Iraq. The dispute involves a Vatican-appointed cardinal and a militia leader, with land and influence at the core of the drama.
 
Kurdish groups: Turkish strikes in Syria, Iraq kill eight fighters
Kurdish-led armed groups in Iraq and Syria allege that Turkish airstrikes killed a total of eight fighters Friday.
 
Demonstrators protest in front of the Iraqi central bank as currency plummets against the U.S. dollar, in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, July. 26, 2023. Over the past two days, the market rate of the dollar jumped from 1,470 dinar per dollar to 1,570 dinar per dollar. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
Bank owners and citizens protest deterioration of the Iraqi dinar following US ban on Iraqi banks
Dozens of people have protested in front of the Central Bank of Iraq in Baghdad and bank owners called for official action to stem a sharp increase in the dollar exchange rate.
 
More than 50 MPs resign from Iraqi Kurdish region’s parliament to protest court ruling
More than 50 members of the local parliament in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region in the north have submitted their resignations to protest a court decision that deemed as unconstitutional the body’s postponement of elections by a year.