Al-Maliki's order came a day after radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr offered to help purge militia members from Iraqi security forces. He criticized the government for denying ...

A top aide to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr was released from jail Wednesday, a source in Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri ...

But he also criticized the Iraqi government for denying that it sent envoys to him to discuss last week's government offensive in Basra. The offensive sparked fighting between security forces in other ...

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The man was said to have used his knowledge of technology to send instructional videos to ISIS members on how to hack ...

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Moreover, training of Iraqi police in Pakistan, cooperation in the Safe City project and to prevent illegal immigration and human smuggling were also discussed. The Interior Minister emphasized that ...

A member of the community police in Mosul, July 2020. Photo: Tahreer Association. This project seeks to contextualise internationally-backed centralised efforts to demilitarise the local Iraqi police ...