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Iraqi PM threatens corrupters again, and MPs demand actions

Baghdad - Najla Al Taee

Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has been calling on combating ISIS and expelling it militarily from the Iraqi territories during 2017, and now as the year is coming to an end he has started talking about fighting corruption in Iraq in 2018. He said that corruption in his country is caused by organized mafias and prominent figures as most MPs andRead more

Syrian regime forces target village in Idlib with 80 shells

Damascus - Noura Khowam

The international coalition to combat the ISIS announced on Wednesday that less than 1,000 of the terrorist’s group remain in Iraq and Syria. This is a third of the estimated figure only three weeks ago, the US0led coalition said. Iraq and Syria have both declared victory over ISIS in recent weeks, after a year that saw the two countries’ armies,Read more

MP warns of increasing corruption

Baghdad - Najla Al Taee

Iraqi parliamentarian Ardolan Nour Al Din revealed that a large number of Iraqi officials and security authorities involved in corruption during the latest period, saying that the increasing corruption poses serious threat against the future of the country. He added that the Iraqi authorities should take serious measures to contain the increasing corruption witnessed in the country during the latestRead more

Chess, smokes, therapy for ex-jihadists

Marea - Al Maghrib Today

In a rehabilitation centre in northern Syria, young men huddle over an innocuous game of chess and some cigarettes -- activities they once brutally suppressed as ISIS terrorists. Based in the rebel-held town of Marea, the Syrian Centre for Countering Extremist Ideology is home to around 100 one-time ISIS fighters from Syria, the Middle East and even Europe. "I used to dreamRead more

Syrian governmental troops bombard Hama countryside

Damascus - Noura Khowam

Calm returned to prevail the battle fronts between Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham and the “Islamic State” organization in the north-eastern countryside of Hama, after violent clashes during the past 24 hours, following an attack carried out by the members of the organization on the areas of Al-Dbi’eiyyeh and Muweileh Abu Hadib in the same countryside, in which the SOHR monitored violent clashesRead more

Government launches a campaign to eliminate corruption

Baghdad - Najla Al Taee

As Iraq declared military victory against ISIS last week, the Iraqi government is preparing to wage a new war, this time against corruption in what is seen as a battle that will be no less intense than the one against the terror organization. Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi has intensified his rhetoric against corrupt officials, while parliament Speaker Salim Jabbouri declaredRead more

Security meeting in Iraq's Kirkuk to discuss federal decisions

Baghdad - Najla Al Taee

Iraqi High Commission for Human Rights (OHCHR) expressed its concern for the fate of innocents besieged inside Rawa, last ISIS' stronghold in Iraq. Military observers believe that the presence of civilians inside the city might force the security forces to change their military tactics in launching the liberation operation. OHCHR added that “according to the detecting sources at the commission’sRead more

Iraq’s Abadi threatens to use force against Kurds

Baghdad - Najla Al Taee

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has ordered a 24-hour halt to military advances in order to allow for deployment of federal forces. He stated that the 24-hour halt will allow a “joint technical team of the federal and regional forces to work on the ground to deploy Iraqi federal forces in all disputed areas, in Fishabur, and the international borderRead more

ISIS claims responsibility for killing two soldiers of LNA

Tripoli - Fatima Al Saadawy

Two soldiers from a brigade commanded by the Libyan National Army were killed and three wounded Wednesday in an attack claimed by ISIS. The terrorist group claimed responsibility for the attack soon after via its propaganda agency Amaq. It was the first attack following the announcement of LNA commander Khalifa Haftar that the military institution “was in control of mostRead more