But he also criticized the Iraqi government for denying that it sent envoys to him to discuss last week's government offensive in Basra. The offensive sparked fighting between security forces in other ...

Al-Maliki's order came a day after radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr offered to help purge militia members from Iraqi security forces. He criticized the government for denying ...

A top aide to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr was released from jail Wednesday, a source in Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri ...

which threatened Iraqi police forces with death if they did not abandon their jobs. The 27 dead included a lieutenant colonel and a captain who were dragged out of their homes in Haditha and killed, ...

which houses forces of the Iraqi army, federal police, and the so-called Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), reports the Saudi station Asharq. Reuters describes the event as a "powerful explosion." ...

Iraqi police trainees at the at the al Furat Iraqi Police Training ... al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation Forces or PMF), was created, comprising between 50 and 70 separate militias owing their ...

Iraqi security forces have killed a senior Islamic State (IS) group leader responsible for foreign operations, according to the country's prime minister, with US President Donald Trump saying later ...

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Lawlessness triggered by militia rivalries followed the collapse of Saddam’s police force – an event not predicted by London. “One of the huge assumptions was the Iraqi police force would remain in ...

Marine Colonel Dennis Arinello presented the body armor to IRP officers in a ceremony that united Coalition Forces and Iraqis. The body armor will help the Iraqi Railway Police search for ...