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News Iraq Nineveh: Report: Iraq gov't detains thousands in degrading conditions

Published on: Thursday 04 July 2019
Report: Iraq gov't detains thousands in degrading conditions
News source: https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/report-iraq-govt-detains-thousands-degrading-conditions-64130670

Human Rights Watch cited extreme overcrowding in three pretrial detention facilities in northern Iraq's Nineveh province where prisoners are held mostly on terrorism charges. In a statement ...

News Iraq Nineveh: Iraq launches fresh operation to secure desert near Syrian border

Published on: Sunday 07 July 2019
Iraq launches fresh operation to secure desert near Syrian border
News source: https://www.dawn.com/news/1492740

Iraq formally declared victory against IS in late 2017, a few months after ousting the jihadists from their seat of power Mosul, the capital of Nineveh province. The group lost their last sliver of ...

News Iraq Nineveh: Iraq launches new operation to secure desert near Syria border, purge Islamic State cells

Published on: Sunday 07 July 2019
Iraq launches new operation to secure desert near Syria border, purge Islamic State cells
News source: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/08/world/iraq-launches-new-operation-secure-desert-near-syria-border-purge-islamic-state-cells/

Iraq formally declared victory against IS in late 2017, a few months after ousting the jihadis from their seat of power Mosul, the capital of Nineveh province. The group lost their last sliver of ...

News Iraq Nineveh: Iraq's Nineveh provincial council elects new governor after deadly ferry sinking

Published on: Monday 13 May 2019
News source: http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-05/13/c_138055436.htm

BAGHDAD, May 13 (Xinhua) -- The Provincial Council of Nineveh on Monday elected Mansour al-Mareed as the new governor of the province, after the former head was sacked over the deadly ferry sinking in ...

News Iraq Nineveh: Archbishop of Erbil: Is the US abandoning Christians at risk in Iraq?

Published on: Friday 17 May 2019
News source: https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/archbishop-of-erbil-is-the-us-abandoning-christians-at-risk-in-iraq-95997

Warda, as Archbishop of Erbil in the Kurdistan region, received tens of thousands of Christian and Yazidi refugees displaced from the Nineveh Plain after ISIS took large swaths of territory in Iraq ...

News Iraq Nineveh: 6 Daesh militants killed in northern Iraq

Published on: Friday 17 May 2019
News source: https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/6-daesh-militants-killed-in-northern-iraq/1481402

Although officials in Baghdad say Daesh’s presence in the country has been largely eradicated, the terrorist group has continued to stage sporadic attacks in Iraq's Nineveh, Kirkuk, Diyala, Saladin ...

News Iraq Nineveh: Iraq: Political Forces in Nineveh Trade Corruption Accusations

Published on: Monday 06 May 2019
News source: https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1710311/iraq-political-forces-nineveh-trade-corruption-accusations

Political forces in Nineveh continued to exchange corruption and bribery accusations, despite being close to agreeing on a new governor for the governorate to replace Noufal Akkoub. Akkoub was ...