Foreign minister holds phone conversation with new Iraqi counterpart
Cyprus Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides had a telephone conversation on Thursday with the new foreign minister of Iraq Fuad Hussein. The two ministers reaffirmed their...
Iraq
Turkey plans more military bases in north Iraq after offensive
Turkey plans to set up more temporary military bases in northern Iraq after stepping up its strikes against Kurdish militants there, a senior Turkish official told...
Rockets hit oil industry district in southern Iraq, no casualties
Rockets landed near the US Halliburton site early on Monday but caused no damage or casualties, police sources said. Police said the three Katyusha rockets,...
U.S. wages retaliatory strikes against Iran-backed militia in Iraq after deadly attack
The United States waged a series of precision air strikes on Thursday against an Iran-backed militia in Iraq that it blamed for a major rocket attack a...
Rockets hit U.S. embassy in Iraq
By Aziz El Yaakoubi and Nadine Awadalla BAGHDAD, Jan 26 (Reuters) – Iraqi security forces shot at anti-government protesters in Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least one...
‘No, No America’: Thousands of Iraqis rally against US military presence
Thousands of Iraqis rallied at two central Baghdad intersections on Friday after a prominent cleric called for a “million strong” protest against the American military presence,...
Thousands mourn militia leader in southern Iraq
Thousands of Iraqis packed the streets of the southern city of Basra on Tuesday to mourn Iranian-backed militia leader Jamal Jaafar Ibrahimi, known by his nom...
Iran promises to avenge US killing of top Iranian commander Soleimani (Update 4)
Iran promised vengeance after a US air strike in Baghdad on Friday killed Qassem Soleimani, Tehran’s most prominent military commander and the architect of its growing...
Rock-throwing Iraqi militias quit U.S. embassy after protests, embassy suspends all operations
Supporters of Iranian-backed Iraqi paramilitary groups who stormed the U.S. embassy’s perimeter and hurled rocks in two days of protests withdrew on Wednesday after Washington...
2019 – A man neither Isis nor paralysis can beat
After more than a decade of writing for the Cyprus Mail, I am usually in a quandary when the annual email requesting our top story...
Turkish foreign ministry says one consulate employee died in Erbil shooting
At least two people including a Turkish diplomat were shot dead on Wednesday in a rare attack in the Iraqi Kurdish capital Erbil, Kurdish security...
Cyprus eyes role in reconstruction of Iraq
The presence of the Iraqi foreign minister in the recent trilateral in Jordan could pave the way for Cyprus’ participation in the post-conflict reconstruction in...
Ties with Iraq to be enhanced
The foreign ministers of Cyprus, Greece, Jordan and Iraq met on Sunday in Amman to discuss issues concerning financial, trade and tourist cooperation. Among issues...
Man who threatened to self-harm with a knife in public placed in psychiatric care
A 41-year-old man who caused a public disturbance in Zenon Pierides Square in Larnaca, allegedly threatening to harm himself with a knife on Tuesday evening...
In a first, Trump makes surprise visit to US troops in Iraq
President Donald Trump made a surprise Christmas visit to US troops in Iraq on Wednesday, his first trip to a conflict zone nearly two years into his...
Top Iraq cleric demands end to violence as deadly protests rage
Iraq‘s most revered Shi’ite cleric called for a political shakeup in Baghdad and a halt to violence against demonstrators on Friday, after days of deadly...
Iran moves missiles to Iraq in warning to enemies – sources
Iran has given ballistic missiles to Shi’ite proxies in Iraq and is developing the capacity to build more there to deter attacks on its interests in...
Iraq executes 12 after PM calls for speedy executions
Iraq put to death 12 people convicted of terrorism hours after Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi called for speedy executions in response to the kidnapping and killing...
Turkey will drain ‘terror swamp’ in Iraq’s Qandil, Erdogan says
Turkey will drain the “terror swamp” in northern Iraq’s Qandil region, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday, a day after the military said it hit...
Turkish troops ‘30km inside Iraq, could move on PKK stronghold’
Turkish forces are stationed 30 km inside northern Iraq and could advance further to target Kurdish PKK militants in their Qandil Mountains stronghold,Turkey‘s Prime Minister...
