Baghdad, Mar 28 (UNI) The Iraqi Parliamentary Human Rights Committee has said that overcrowding is the most prominent challenge in Iraqi prisons, stressing that there are about 8,000 convicts sentenced to death whose sentences have not yet been implemented, the official al-Sabah newspaper reported Wednesday.
Ankara, Mar 20 (UNI) The Turkish air forces have conducted an airstrike in northern Iraq, targeting a number of Kurdistan Workers'' Party (PKK) camps, the Turkish newspaper Beyaz Gazete reported.
Baghdad, Mar 20 (UNI) Two people were killed and more than 100 were rescued on Tuesday in a wave of torrential rain that hit the city of Duhok in the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan.
Ankara, Mar 20 (UNI) Turkish forces have conducted airstrikes against 27 targets of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers'' Party (PKK) in a cross-border operation in northern Iraq, the country''s defence ministry said Tuesday.
Baghdad, Mar 13 (UNI) Three people were killed and four wounded Tuesday in two car accidents outside the Iraqi capital Baghdad, the traffic police said.
Baghdad, Mar 12 (UNI) Iraqi oil tanker "Akkad" was inaugurated on Monday at Khor al-Zubair port in Iraq''s southern oil hub of Basra, the oil ministry said in a statement.
Ankara, Mar 11 (UNI) The Turkish armed forces expect to fully secure the border with Iraq this summer and remove the problem of terrorism from the agenda, Turkish Defence Minister Yasar Guler said on Monday.
Baghdad, Mar 10 (UNI) Six Islamic State (IS) militants were killed in airstrikes in a desert area between the provinces of Salahudin and Nineveh, the Iraqi military said.
Baghdad, Mar 9 (UNI) Two paramilitary fighters from a local tribal force affiliated with the Iraqi Hashd Shaabi forces were killed and four others wounded on Friday in a roadside bomb explosion in Iraq''s western province of Anbar, a police officer said.
Baghdad, Mar 9 (UNI) An intelligence official of the Kurdistan Workers'' Party (PKK) was killed and a PKK militant injured in a Turkish drone strike in Iraq''s northern province of Nineveh, according to a statement from the Counter-Terrorism Service of Iraq''s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region.
Baghdad, Mar 8 (UNI) Two people were killed and another wounded in a Turkish airstrike in Duhok province in Iraq''s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region on Friday, a Kurdish security source said.
Baghdad, Mar 2 (UNI) Iraqi security forces killed a drug dealer and wounded another in a clash in southern Iraq, the Interior Ministry said on Saturday.
Baghdad, Mar 1 (UNI) An Iraqi soldier was killed and four others were wounded on Friday in a bomb explosion north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, the Iraqi military said.
Baghdad, Feb 28 (UNI) An Iraqi court on Wednesday handed down death sentences to five drug dealers, including three foreigners.
Baghdad, Feb 28 (UNI) At least 50 people were injured on Tuesday in a massive fire at Langa Market in Iraq''s capital, Erbil, Iraqi media reported.