Iraq enjoys tremendous oil wealth but many hard-scrabble farmers in the north say crude spills have contaminated their lands, piling on pressure as they already battle drought. Oil spills in Iraq a country ravaged by decades of conflict, corruption and decaying infrastructure have contaminated farmland in the northern province, especially during the winter rains.
Iraq on Monday held a state funeral for 41 Yazidis killed by the Islamic State group in 2014 and recently identified by authorities after complex and lengthy DNA tests.The identification of Monday's 41 victims brings the total number of Yazidis found and returned to their families to 188, health ministry spokesperson Saif al-Badr told AFP.
Work continues through a "complex and expensive process" of DNA testing to identify the victims, he added.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) -A drone strike killed four members of an Iran-aligned Iraqi militia and wounded six in Baghdad on Thursday, police and security sources said, in an attack blamed by Iraqi authorities on the U.S.-led international coalition. Police sources and eyewitnesses said the drone had fired at least two rockets at a building in eastern Baghdad used by the Iraqi militia group al-Nujaba'a. "The Iraqi armed forces hold the international coalition forces responsible for this unjustified atta
Two bodies found by Iraqi authorities are believed to be those of a missing Kuwaiti and his Saudi companion who had disappeared in the western Anbar province, Kuwait's Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Salem Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah said on Tuesday. Expressing his "anguish" over the harrowing ordeal, the minister extended his condolences to the families of the victims, saying his ministry is in close contact with Iraqi authorities to uncover the circumstances of the incident.