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The Iraqi criminal court sentenced two militiamen affiliated with Kataib Hezbollah to death for assassinating two journalists in Basra in January 2020.

July 16, 2021 Iraqs prime minister on Friday announced police had arrested the man who last year shot dead prominent analyst and government adviser, Hisham al-Hashimi. Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi announed on Iraqi television Friday that Hashimi’s killer had been arrested. Iraqi media reported that four men involved in the murder have been arrested, and that an employee of Iraq’s Interior Ministry, Ahmed Hamdawi al-Kinani, had confessed to the killing. Al-Iraqiyya TV showed what it sa...

Iraqi operations against Islamic State cells continue to rely on intelligence and airstrikes more than group battles.

Iraqi security forces announced the killings of Islamic State leaders who had long evaded capture.

Iraq announced Jan. 28 that its US-trained Counterterrorism Services in coordination with national intelligence had conducted an operation leading to the killing of the commander of Islamic State remnants in the country, in an "insurgent-infested" valley of the oil-rich, disputed southern Kirkuk province.