Kataib Hezbollah controls access points to key Iraqi border city Iran-linked armed groups have over the past year tightened and consolidated their grip on a key border area between Iraq and Syria, preventing journalists from entering and local residents from farming their land.
Members of the Popular Mobilization Units wave the faction flag during a symbolic funeral ceremony in the central holy city of Karbala, on the anniversary of the airstrikes by US planes on several bases belonging to the Hezbollah brigades near al-Qaim, Iraq, Dec. 29, 2020.
April 17, 2021
AL-OBEIDI, Iraq Roughly a dozen young men in black, olive green and camouflage mull around below the arches of the Sheikh Haidar checkpoint between the town of al-Obeidi and the border city of Qaim.
Journalist ‘steals’ security document
BY GARIKAI MAFIRAKUREAVA
A CHIREDZI-BASED journalist has appeared at the Chiredzi Magistrates Courts facing a charge of stealing a classified document from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Law and Order office at Chiredzi Police Station.
Patrick Chitongo, who runs
Lowveld Checkpoint, an online publication, is alleged to have committed the crime in August 2019.
His case failed to kick off on Wednesday after some of the police officers who were supposed to be State witnesses failed to turn up.
Chitongo, who is being represented by human rights lawyer Ross Chavi, was advised that the matter would proceed by way of summons.
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A view of the Iraqi-Syrian borders at Al Qaim Al Abu Kamal border crossing, after being reopened for travelers and trade in Anbar province, in Qaim, Iraq September 30, 2019. (Reuters) Baghdad – Asharq Al-Awsat
The Iraqi army arrested five ISIS militants in Baghdad and Anbar governorates as security forces continue to pursue terrorists throughout the country.
Military spokesman Major General Yahya Rasool said the counter-terrorism unit carried out security operations and arrested two terrorists in Abu Ghraib - Karma, and three others in Heet district in Anbar.
Meanwhile, the Joint Operations Command announced that one of its units thwarted the infiltration of ISIS terrorists from Syria into Iraq at al-Dukji border area, west of Mount Sinjar in the northern Nineveh region.
IS loses stronghold in Iraq as army recaptures Tal Afar centre
IS loses stronghold in Iraq as army recaptures Tal Afar centre
Iraqi Forces Were On Saturday On The Verge Of Fully Recapturing The City Of Tal Afar After Driving Islamic State Group Jihadists From The Centre Of One Of Their Last Urban Strongholds In The Country. PTI | Updated on: 27 Aug 2017, 11:57:09 AM
Baghdad:
Iraqi forces were on Saturday on the verge of fully recapturing the city of Tal Afar after driving Islamic State group jihadists from the centre of one of their last urban strongholds in the country.
Counter terrorism units have taken control of the centre of the city, which includes its historic Ottoman citadel.