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Iraq to sell local bonds to public for first time since 2003 ASIA

Iraq to sell local bonds to public for first time since 2003

Iraq plans to sell local bonds to the public for the first time since 2003, with a 5 trillion dinar ($4.24 billion) issue expected this year, the finance minister said on Thursday, as the country seeks to cover a widening budget deficit.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Three Americans were abducted from Baghdad apartment ASIA

Three Americans were abducted from Baghdad apartment

Three American nationals missing in Iraq were kidnapped from a "suspicious apartment" in Baghdad, a spokesman for the security command responsible for the capital said on Monday.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
600 British jihadists stopped from entering Syria ASIA

600 British jihadists stopped from entering Syria

Some 600 Britons have been stopped from going to Syria to try to join Islamic State and other jihadist groups, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said ...

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Two Iraqi journalists shot dead north of Baghdad ASIA

Two Iraqi journalists shot dead north of Baghdad

Gunmen shot dead two Iraqi television journalists north of Baghdad on Tuesday who had been on a reporting trip with a top security officer, the channel said.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Eight killed as gunmen take hostages in Baghdad mall ASIA

Eight killed as gunmen take hostages in Baghdad mall

Gunmen blew up a car bomb, sprayed gunfire in a crowded area and took hostages in a shopping mall in eastern Baghdad Monday, killing at least eight people, police said.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Iraq denies Erdogan claim of IS attack near Mosul ASIA

Iraq denies Erdogan claim of IS attack near Mosul

Iraq on Saturday denied claims made by Ankara that its soldiers on a controversial base near the northern city of Mosul killed 18 jihadists after coming under attack.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
'About 2,500' IS fighters killed in Iraq and Syria last month ASIA

'About 2,500' IS fighters killed in Iraq and Syria last month

The US-led coalition that has been carrying out air strikes against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria killed about 2,500 jihadists last month, a military spokesman said Wednesday

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Iran-Saudi crisis intensifies despite efforts to defuse row ASIA

Iran-Saudi crisis intensifies despite efforts to defuse row

Iran warned Saudi Arabia to stop working against it as their diplomatic crisis intensified despite efforts to defuse a row that has raised fears of regional instability.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Islamic State territory shrinks in Iraq and Syria: US-led coalition ASIA

Islamic State territory shrinks in Iraq and Syria: US-led coalition

Islamic State's territory shrank by 40 percent from its maximum expansion in Iraq, and by 20 percent in Syria in 2015, as international forces pushed it out of several cities, the US-led coalition fighting it said on Tuesday.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Briton suspected of being masked man in IS video INTERNATIONAL

Briton suspected of being masked man in IS video

Investigations into the identity of an English-speaking man who featured in an Islamic State (IS) group video are focusing on a Briton, Siddhartha Dhar, the BBC reported.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Iraqi Sunni mosques attacked in apparent retaliation for Saudi execution ASIA

Iraqi Sunni mosques attacked in apparent retaliation for Saudi execution

At least two Sunni Muslim mosques have been attacked in Iraq and two people killed in apparent retaliation for the execution of a senior Shi'ite cleric in Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia, officials and police said on Monday.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Iran predicts "divine vengeance" after Saudis execute Shia cleric ASIA

Iran predicts "divine vengeance" after Saudis execute Shia cleric

Iranian protesters stormed the Saudi embassy in Tehran early on Sunday and Shia Muslim Iran's top leader predicted "divine vengeance" for Saudi Arabia's execution of a prominent Shia cleric.

4:45 AM November 25 2016