ISIL terrorist group killed five members of the same family at a checkpoint on the edge of their village north of Baghdad early on Saturday, a police official said. The killings took place in Baiji district, around 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of the capital, the official said. “A group ...
Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi on Sunday sacked his minister of electricity, his office said, following weeks of protests against corruption and chronic power outages. A statement from Abadi’s office said the premier sacked Qassem al-Fahdawi — whose departure was demanded by protesters — “because of the deterioration in the ...