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Healthcare

Patients brace for impact as Iraq revises customs tariffs on medicines

Healthcare

The government must ensure availability and affordability

Patients brace for impact as Iraq revises customs tariffs on medicines

The government must ensure availability and affordability

Iran-backed militias

Deep institutional ties to Tehran

Iran accused of deploying Iraqi militias to crush protests at home

Iraqi Kurdistan

Calls are growing to insulate economic file from political disputes

Tariff hikes deepen economic rift between Baghdad, Erbil

Iraq's sovereignty

A commitment to strengthening state authority

Two decades after 2003 invasion, Iraq’s army strives to restore authority

Iran-Iraq ties

Iran appears increasingly anxious to preserve its long-standing foothold in Iraq.

Iran casts long shadow over Iraq’s fragile post-election transition

A deep wound in Iraq’s memory

Iranian Proxies

The Iranian-backed group Kataib Hezbollah

Iran-backed militias in Iraq ready to disarm to avert Trump wrath

Iran's oil

Iraq's oil minister Hayan Abdel-Ghani

Baghdad says Iranian oil tankers using forged Iraqi documents

Oil smuggling

Iraqi navy

Iraq makes rare seizure of ship suspected of fuel smuggling in Gulf

War on Islamic State

Islamic State flag

Baghdad says IS leader for Iraq and Syria killed

Kurdish fighters in Syria

Turkey views the SDF, which controls much of northeast Syria, as a terrorist group linked with PKK

Turkey says forces killed 24 Kurdish militants in Syria, Iraq in a week

Iraq's imported gas

Most Iraqi power plants run on gas from Iran

Iraqi PM adviser says US keeps Iran gas waiver

US sanctions on Iran

Washington urged Baghdad to eliminate its dependence on Iranian sources of energy as soon as possible

Trump administration ends Iraq's waiver to buy Iranian electricity

PKK

A historic call by Ocalan for his Kurdish militant force to disband

Iraq's Kurdistan president welcomes Ocalan's call for PKK to dissolve

War on Islamic State

The four countries plan to take measures on border security

Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Jordan seek to jointly tackle Islamic State

CENTCOM

US fighter jets

Iraqi-led air strikes kill five Islamic State operatives

Iraq's oil industry

Gas flares at the Havana oil field, west of Kirkuk

Iraq and BP to sign Kirkuk oil and gas deal by first week of February

Iraq-UK ties

Sudani said the security deal between the UK and Iraq would develop bilateral military ties

Iraqi PM says he will sign security deal with Britain

Iraq's oil industry

A worker checks an oil pipeline at Nahr Bin Umar oil field, north of Basra

Iraqi cabinet approves Basra-Haditha oil pipeline project

Syrian soldiers

The Syrian troops were returned after writing pledges asking to be included in an amnesty

Iraq sends nearly 2,000 Syrian soldiers back home

Syrian War

A lack of manpower to help thwart the rebel onslaught in recent days contributed to the speedy retreat of Syrian army forces from Aleppo city

Iran-backed militias enter Syria from Iraq to aid Syrian army

Illegal migration

Britain will also support Iraqi law enforcement to tackle other serious organised crime

UK, Iraq sign security pact to target people smuggling gangs

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