Press TV - A car bomb attack has hit a security checkpoint in Iraq's western Anbar Province, leaving at least 11 people dead and over a dozen others wounded. Local officials said an assailant had driven an explosives-laden vehicle into the checkpoint in the town of Qa'im near the Syrian border on Wednesday. Police Captain Mahmud Jassem told ...

Press TV- The Iraqi army is reportedly combing through the expansive western Anbar Province for possible pockets of the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group, which the country defeated territorially last December. Kurdish Rudaw television network reported on Saturday that the Iraqi army was carrying out an inclusive operation covering Anbars desert areas ...

Press TV - SeniorIraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has slammed a recent US airstrike that killed eleven people in Anbar Province, saying the air raid was part of Washingtons repeated violations of the Arab countrys sovereignty. "Once again the American occupation forces have shown their tyranny and arrogance by flagrantly violating the independence ...

Press TV - Iraqi army soldiers, backed by allied fighters from Popular Mobilization Units, have fully liberated a village in the countrys beleaguered western province of Anbar from the grip of Daesh terrorist group as operations continueto win back the militant-held areas there. Lebanon-based Arabic-languageal-Mayadeen news networkreported on ...

Press TV - Iraqi army forces, backed by pro-government tribal fighters, have mounted an operation to drive DaeshTakfiri terrorists out of two districts in the countrys troubled western province of Anbar, and establish full control over them. The commanderof the Army's7th Division, Major GeneralNuman Abdal-Zawbaei, said on Tuesday that Iraqi troopers ...

Press TV- The Iraqi army has liberated seven villages in Anbar Province close to the border with Syria from Daesh control. The gains, which were announced on Friday, were achieved during a push underway to flush the terrorists out of the towns of Rawa, Aanah and al-Qaim, the last main populated areas held by Daesh in the western province, AFP ...

Iraqi government forces have launched an offensive in the beleaguered western province of Anbar, and managed to liberate a region there from the grip of the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group. Major GeneralIsmailal-Mahlawi, the head of the Anbar Operations Command, told Arabic-language al-Sumaria television network on Tuesday that Iraqi forces established ...

Government and volunteer tribal forces in Iraq have kicked off an offensive to recapture a district in the conflict-ridden western province of Anbar from the Takfiri Daesh terrorists. Operations began to liberate the Dolab district on Wednesday, al-Sumeria news agency reports. The news agency added that Iraqi forces are advancing on the Daesh-...

Iraqi army soldiers, backed by fighters from pro-government tribal units, have fully liberated a strategic district in the western province of Anbar from Takfiri Daesh terrorists. A high-ranking military source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Arabic-language al-Sumaria television network on Wednesday that government forces and their ...

Iraqi security forces have liberated a strategic region in the western Anbar Province from the Daesh terrorist group. Major General Ismail al-Mahlawi, in charge of Anbar Operations Command, told al-Sumaria on Sunday that security personnel had fully regained control over the Khalidiya Island river peninsula, which lies nearly 90 kilometers (55 ...

Alwaght- The anti-terror assault on Fallujah made headlines in the Arab as well as global media with the arrival of the zero hour and after the Iraqi forces launched their anti-ISIS operation to recapture the ISIS-held city in Al Anbar province. The operation is said to have met pre-set goals in the first phase. But as advances by the Iraqi units ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iraqi army and volunteer forces (Hashd al-Shaabi) continued their advances in Anbar province in Western Iraq, and fortified their military positions near the city of Fallujah. The army units and Hashd al-Shaabi repulsed the ISIL terrorists' attacks on Ameriya region in the Southern part of Fallujah city on Monday. The Iraqi ...

Iraqi forces have found a chemical plant belonging to Daesh Takfirigroup in the strategic city of Hit in the western province of Anbar, local media report. The plant reportedly had refining equipment as well as large amounts of chlorine and toxic chemicals. The items were left behind after Takfiri militants fled the city last month. Iraqi ...

Iraqi forces have liberated a strategic road between the cities of Hit and Hadithah in Anbar Province from Daesh as they press onwith the anti-terror operation in the area. Iraqs joint operations command, which is coordinating the battle, said in a statement on Monday that troops advanced along the Euphrates River, retaking control of several villages ...

A leading figure of the Islamic State (ISIL) terrorist group Abu Omar al-Shishani was killed during the bombing of an ISIL convoy, IRNA reported citing an Iraqi source. According to the source, al-Shishani, a Georgian-born Chechen, was in charge of ISIL propaganda activities. On Sunday, the Iraqi Air Force attacked the convoy of ISIL leader Abu ...

Iraqs Air Force has struck the convoy of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, but his fate is unknown, says a military statement cited by Reuters. "Iraqi air forces have bombed the convoy of the terrorist Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi while he was heading to Karabla to attend a meeting with Daesh [ISIS] commanders," the statement read. The military ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Former Iraqi Transport Minister Salam al-Maliki underlined that Washington is on the same side with the ISIL, and urged his country's popular forces to expedite uprooting the terrorists in Al-Anbar province. "There are compelling evidence which prove that the US has supplied the ISIL with weapons and intelligence," Al-Maliki told FNA ...

At least 75 ISIL Takfiriterrorists have been killed in three separate operations by the Iraqi air force in the violence-plagued western province ofAnbar and the northern province of Salahuddin. According to a statement released by the Iraqi Defense Ministry on Wednesday, a total of 25 ISIL extremists were killed when Iraqi aircraft carried out precision ...

Iraq has announced the launch of massiveoperations to driveISIL Takfiri terrorists out of Salahuddin and Anbar provinces. On Tuesday, Iraqi state TV announced that armytroops, backed by Shia and Sunni volunteer forces, started the operations against Takfiri militants in Anbar province, which has been the scene of clashes since early 2014. According ...

'Our next stand and battle will be here in the land of Anbar to completely liberate it,' the Iraqi PM reportedly said on Wednesday. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said Wednesday the country's "next battle" is retaking Anbar province from the Islamic State group, his most direct statement yet on Baghdad's next target. "Our next stand and ...