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Iraqi News
February 21, 2018
Earlier this month, Sadeq al-Husseini, the security committee of Diyala provincial council, said in remarks that an IS military emir succumbed to death after he was injured in as an airstrike targeted a rest house in in al-Waqf basin, northeast of Baquba. Thousands of IS militants as well as Iraqi civilians wereÃÂ ...
China.org.cn
February 21, 2018
Five Islamic State (IS) militants were killed Tuesday in an airstrike in Iraq's eastern province of Diyala, a provincial security source said. Acting on intelligence tips, the Iraqi aircraft bombarded IS hideouts near the lake of Himreen, some 75 km northeast of the provincial capital Baquba, destroying threeÃÂ ...
New Vision
February 17, 2018
The six days' event organized by Amref Health Netherlands in partnership with Amref Health Africa Uganda was flagged off by Professor George Kirya, the advisory council Amref Health Africa Uganda on February 4, at the great lakes in Bamunanika town in Luwero district and ended at Bakuba Airstrip inÃÂ ...
Iraqi News
February 16, 2018
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) Islamic State's military emir has succumbed to death after one week from getting injured, northeast of Diyala, the security committee of Diyala provincial council was quoted saying on Thursday. “Islamic State's so-called Islamic State in al-Waqf basin, northeast of Baquba, succumbedÃÂ ...
Xinhua
February 16, 2018
BAQUBA, Iraq, Feb. 15 (Xinhua) -- Weak and sick, 64-year-old Munthir Haider still works hard daily to earn the bread for his family in Iraq's eastern province of Diyala. "No work means death for me and for my family," Haider told Xinhua. Haider works as porter, usually seen with his cart at a popular market inÃÂ ...
Xinhua
February 12, 2018
In Diyala province, a civilian was killed and his wife seriously wounded when a roadside bomb struck their car near a village in north of the town of al-Udheim in north of the provincial capital city of Baquba, Mohammed al-Obeidi, head of Udheim town council, told Xinhua. Also in Diyala, Saad Ismael,ÃÂ ...
Iraqi News
February 6, 2018
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) Six paramilitary personnel were killed as an armed attack targeted a security checkpoint in northeast of Baquba, a local source from Diyala said on Monday. Speaking to AlSumaria News, the source said, “group of gunmen attacked a security checkpoint in al-Hafayer region, south ofÃÂ ...
Xinhua
February 6, 2018
BAQUBA, Iraq, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) -- Six paramilitary Hashd Shaabi fighters were killed Monday in an attack by Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq's eastern province of Diyala, a local official said. The incident occurred in the morning when IS militants carried out surprise attack on a Hashd Shaabi base nearÃÂ ...
Kurdistan24
February 6, 2018
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – Six members of the Iranian-backed Shia Hashd al-Shaabi militia were killed on Monday after an armed group attacked their security checkpoint northeast of Baqubah. According to security sources quoted by local Iraqi media, an armed group carried out the attack in the afternoon atÃÂ ...
Middle East Monitor
January 26, 2018
“Army forces backed by Hashd al-Shaabi fighters have launched a major security operation against Daesh remnants in Diyala's Azim sub-district 60 kilometers north of Baqubah,” Police Captain Habib al-Shimar told reporters. “Security forces have found and arrested a number of wanted individuals andÃÂ ...
Iraqi News
January 26, 2018
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) A paramilitary personnel was wounded in a bomb blast, northeast of Baquba, a local source from Diyala province was quoted saying ... On Tuesday, An IS leader and two of his companions were killed in an airstrike, northeast of Baqubah, according to remarks by Sadeq al-Husseini,ÃÂ ...
Xinhua
January 25, 2018
BAQUBA, Iraq, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- Four Islamic State (IS) militants were killed Thursday in an airstrike and a bomb explosion in Iraq's eastern province of Diyala, a provincial police source said. In one incident, a helicopter gunship pounded an IS hideout in Wadi-Thlab, some 90 km northeast of the provincialÃÂ ...
Iraqi News
January 23, 2018
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) An Islamic State leader and two of his companions in an airstrike, northeast of Baqubah, an official from Diyala province said on Tuesday. Speaking to AlSumaria News, Sadeq al-Husseini, head of the security committee of Diyala provincial council, said, “an airstrike targeted a restÃÂ ...
Xinhua
January 23, 2018
Acting on intelligence reports, the Iraqi aircraft bombarded an IS hideout in al-Khayzarana area, some 80 km northeast of the provincial capital Baquba, killing the three militants and destroying the hideout with tunnels, the source said on condition of anonymity. Despite repeated military operations in DiyalaÃÂ ...
Anadolu Agency
January 19, 2018
In Diyala province, meanwhile, an explosive device went off near the Sherwin area -- some 45 kilometers east of Baquba -- killing one civilian resident, Police Captain Habib al-Shammari told Anadolu Agency. No group has claimed responsibility for either of the bombings, but Iraqi security officialsÃÂ ...
Xinhua
January 19, 2018
BAQUBA, Iraq, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- Four people including an Islamic State (IS) militant were killed Friday in bomb and gunfire attack in Iraq's eastern province of Diyala, a provincial official and a security source said. The deadliest attack occurred in the mountainous Himreen area when IS militants ambushedÃÂ ...
Iraqi News
January 18, 2018
“A civilian and a conscript from customs police, who are from Jalawla region, were attacked by unidentified gunmen on the main road of Baqubah-Khanaqeen, northeastern Diyala,” the source told Alghad Press. The attack, according to the source, “left the civilian killed and the conscript profoundlyÃÂ ...
Iraqi News
January 18, 2018
Diyala (IraqiNew.com) Islamic State militants kidnapped two young men from a village in the north of Diyala province, a local official was quoted saying on Thursday. Mohamed Deif, mayor of al-Udhaim (63 km north of Baqubah), told Alsumaria News that the group kidnapped the pair late Wednesday fromÃÂ ...
Anadolu Agency
January 18, 2018
Two police officers were killed by a roadside bomb blast in eastern Iraq on Wednesday, according to a local police officer. The device exploded as a police patrol was passing in Haud al-Taij, 70km north-east of Baquba city, Police Capt. Habib al-Shemari told Anadolu Agency. He said seven policeÃÂ ...
Xinhua
January 18, 2018
BAQUBA, Iraq, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- Two policemen and a civilian were killed and eight other people injured on Wednesday in bomb and gunfire attacks, mainly targeting security forces, in Iraq's eastern province of Diyala, a provincial official and a security source said. In one of the attacks, two policemenÃÂ ...
Iraqi News
January 17, 2018
Diyala (Iraqinews.com) – A policeman was injured Wednesday in a sniper attack by the militant Islamic State group in Baqubah, the capital of Diyala province, a local source was quoted as saying. “Islamic State snipers opened fire early on Wednesday against a security checkpoint on the outskirts ofÃÂ ...
Iraqi News
January 15, 2018
Diyala (Iraqinews.com) – A terrorist was arrested Sunday in Baqubah city with four grenades in his possession, a Diyala-based intelligence directorate said. In a statement released by Alghad Press, the Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism Directorate in Diyala said, “Security forces apprehended a terroristÃÂ ...
Xinhua
January 6, 2018
BAQUBA, Iraq, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- At least three people were killed Saturday in bombing attacks targeting an anti-IS tribal leader in Iraq's eastern province of Diyala, a provincial security source told Xinhua. The attack took place in the evening when a booby-trapped car detonated near the guest house ofÃÂ ...
Iraqi News
January 4, 2018
Baquba (IraqiNews.com) Thirteen Islamic State members were killed and injured in a security operation launched in northeast of Baquba, Diyala, a commander announced. In remarks on Thursday, Maj. Gen. Mazhar al-Azzawi, commander of Dijla Operations Command, said, “security troops carried outÃÂ ...
Iraqi News
January 1, 2018
“IS lost a new emir in Neft Khana basin, northeast of Baquba, in an operation carried out by army jets,” Husseini said, adding that joint troops managed over two days to eradicate three havens of IS in Wadi Thelab and Hawi al-Udhaim. Thousands of IS militants as well as Iraqi civilians were killed since aÃÂ ...
Xinhua
January 1, 2018
BAQUBA, Iraq, Jan. 1 (Xinhua) -- A local leader of Islamic State (IS) group and two of his aides were killed Monday in an airstrike in Iraq's eastern province of Diyala, a provincial security source told Xinhua. The Iraqi aircraft bombarded an IS hideout near a village named Sansal, some 45 km northeast of theÃÂ ...
Xinhua
December 31, 1999
BAQUBA, Iraq, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- Three Islamic State (IS) militants were killed and four wounded Wednesday in an airstrike in Iraq's eastern province of Diyala, a provincial security source said. The Iraqi aircraft bombarded in the evening IS hideouts at an orchard in a village named Mkheisa, some 25 kmÃÂ ...
Iraqi News
December 31, 1999
... Operations Lieutenant General Mazhar al-Ezzawi said, “A security force made up of the Iraqi police, army and al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) carried out a wide-scale military operation in al-Nada area, 50 km east of Baqubah, destroying four hotbeds for the militant Islamic State group.”.
Iraqi News
December 31, 1999
In a statement, Abdul Satar Bayraqdar, spokesperson for the High Judicial Council, said, “Diyala Criminal Court reviewed a case of a suspect who took part with others to kidnap eight civilians from Baquba, Diyala.” The suspect, according to Bayraqdar, “admitted to executing the civilians, along with others.”.
Xinhua
December 31, 1999
In one of the attacks, a tribal leader Sheikh Turky al-Nadawi and his brother, a lawyer, were killed when unidentified gunmen opened fire on their car east of the Diyala's provincial capital Baquba, some 65 km northeast of Baghdad, Lt. Col. Ali al-Jaberi from Diyala's provincial police told Xinhua. SheikhÃÂ ...
Intelligence & Terrorism Information Center
December 7, 2017
Hamrin Mountains, east of Baqubah: An intelligence and counterterrorism unit of the Diyala police killed a suicide bomber and detained three foreign terrorist operatives (Iraqi News Agency, December 4, 2017). South of Baqubah: Diyala police detained five wanted terrorists (Iraqi News Agency, December ...
Iraqi News
December 6, 2017
Alsumaria News quoted Sadeq al-Husseini, head of the province council's security committee, saying that an intelligence team managed to infiltrate the Hamreen Mountains area (55km northeast of Baqubah, ambushed the militant and killed him. Hamreen has been a hotspot for Islamic State militancy ...
Iraqi News
December 3, 2017
Moreover, a local official from Diyala said on Saturday that troops thwarted an attack by IS against a security checkpoint in northeast of Baquba. A soldier was wounded during the accident. “IS militants attempted to attack, in the evening, an army checkpoint in al-Kabbah village, northeast of Baqubah,” ...
Iraqi News
November 26, 2017
“The Iraqi army targeted an IS hideaway at Bablan village in al-Muqdadiyah city, some 35 km northeast of Baqubah,” Commander of the Tigris ...
Anadolu Agency
November 25, 2017
Gunmen stormed Ashtukani village, north of Baquba, late Friday and kidnapped a local Turkmen councilor, his two sons and a nephew at ...
Kurdistan24
November 23, 2017
... significant aftershocks Wednesday evening and Thursday early morning. The first registered tremor was a 4.1 quake northeast of Baquba in Diyala province.
Egypttoday (blog)
November 18, 2017
BAGHDAD– 18 November 2017: As many as 360 displaced families have so far returned to four regions in northeastern Baqubah, member of ...
Iraqi News
November 17, 2017
Awwad al-Rubaiy, head of the security committee at Abu Saida precinct, told Alsumaria News that the corpses were found in Mekheisa, 30 km northeast of Baqubah. The borders between Diyala and neighboring Salahuddin have seen occasional attacks by Islamic State militants and counterattacks from ...
Iraqi News
November 16, 2017
... Islamic State hideout and dismantled three bombs east of Baqubah, Diyala, ... of IS fighters south of Kanaan city, some 20 km east of Baquba.
Egypttoday (blog)
November 12, 2017
BAGHDAD - 12 November 2017: Degla Operations Commander Lt General Mozher al Azawi announced on Sunday the launch of a large-scale military ...
90.3 KAZU
November 10, 2017
US soldiers walk through dust in front of their base after a patrol in Baquba June 26, 2007. Goran Tomasevic/Reuters. Lawrence Davidson, a ...
Iraqi News
November 8, 2017
Baqubah (IraqiNews.com) Three persons were killed and injured as Islamic State militants launched an attack in south of Baqubah, a security ...
News & Observer
November 7, 2017
Humayun Khan, died while stopping a suicide attack near Baqubah, Iraq, in 2004. Khizr Khan, a legal consultant who emigrated to the U.S. ...
Augusta Free Press
November 3, 2017
... was killed in 2004 while stopping a suicide attack near Baqubah, Iraq, and was posthumously awarded a Purple Heart and Bronze Star.
Albuquerque Journal
October 28, 2017
... of Tuesday, June 8, 2004, a taxi navigated the serpentine barriers toward the gate of Forward Operating Base Warhorse in Baquba, Iraq.
PBS NewsHour
October 26, 2017
On June 8, 2004, in was in Baqubah, Iraq. He realized that this car is moving too fast towards the doors. He told his men and women at the gate ...
Iraqi News
October 26, 2017
... that security “loopholes” at the borders between Salahuddin and Diyala are allowing militants to sneak into Hawi al-Azim, north of Baqubah.
News & Observer
October 25, 2017
Humayun Khan later became a U.S. Army captain, and was killed while stopping a suicide attack near Baqubah, Iraq, in 2004. After his death ...
Xinhua
October 23, 2017
... a joint army and Hashd Shaabi forces clashed with IS militants in Sarha area, some 80 km north of the provincial capital city of Baquba, killing ...
Iraqi News
October 23, 2017
... an infiltration attempt by IS leaders through Sarha region, north of Baquba. Six militants were killed as they were escaping Hawija,” Maj. Gen.
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