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| U.S. officials blame Iranbacked militia for regular rocket attacks on U.S. facilities in Iraq including near the embassy in Baghdad | Negative | BAGHDAD At least eight Katyusha rockets landed in Baghdads heavily fortified Green Zone in an attack targeting the U.S. Embassy causing some minor damage on the compound on Sunday the Iraqi military and the embassy said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security/rockets-fired-at-u-s-embassy-land-inside-baghdads-green-zone-damaging-compound-idUSKBN28U0QF | 2020-12-21 |
| 18 was a that Iranianbacked militias had decided to resume attacks on U.S. bases according to Iraqi security officials | Negative | BAGHDAD At least eight Katyusha rockets landed in Baghdads heavily fortified Green Zone in an attack targeting the U.S. Embassy causing some minor damage on the compound on Sunday the Iraqi military and the embassy said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security/rockets-fired-at-u-s-embassy-land-inside-baghdads-green-zone-damaging-compound-idUSKBN28U0QF | 2020-12-21 |
| Washington which is slowly reducing its 5000 troops in Iraq threatened to shut its embassy unless the Iraqi government reins in Iranaligned militias | Negative | BAGHDAD At least eight Katyusha rockets landed in Baghdads heavily fortified Green Zone in an attack targeting the U.S. Embassy causing some minor damage on the compound on Sunday the Iraqi military and the embassy said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security/rockets-fired-at-u-s-embassy-land-inside-baghdads-green-zone-damaging-compound-idUSKBN28U0QF | 2020-12-21 |
| In a subsequent statement U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said there had been at least one Iraqi civilian casualty and wished those hurt a speedy recovery | Negative | BAGHDAD At least eight Katyusha rockets landed in Baghdads heavily fortified Green Zone in an attack targeting the U.S. Embassy causing some minor damage on the compound on Sunday the Iraqi military and the embassy said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security/rockets-fired-at-u-s-embassy-land-inside-baghdads-green-zone-damaging-compound-idUSKBN28U0QF | 2020-12-21 |
| But his government is determined to close camps in most Iraqi provinces by the years endend a move rights groups say could leave 100000 people homeless with no aid | Negative | BALAD Iraq Last month Iraqi authorities gave families displaced by the war against Islamic State just 48 hours to pack up and leave the AlIshaki camp before it was closed | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/iraq-security-displaced/years-after-isis-iraqis-forced-out-of-camps-into-uncertain-future-idUSKBN28L1YJ | 2020-12-12 |
| A relative of those killed in the incident in Balad This is how it works in Iraq those with muscles are the ones who survive | Negative | BALAD Iraq Last month Iraqi authorities gave families displaced by the war against Islamic State just 48 hours to pack up and leave the AlIshaki camp before it was closed | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/iraq-security-displaced/years-after-isis-iraqis-forced-out-of-camps-into-uncertain-future-idUSKBN28L1YJ | 2020-12-12 |
| Not only is Dima without an official birth certificate but her parents did not get a valid marriage licence required by Iraqi law for the registration of every child | Negative | AL KHAZER Iraq Excluded vilified and sometimes simply such is the price paid by thousands of children in Iraq born to suspected Islamic State militants | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/iraq-security-undocumented-children/excluded-abandoned-children-born-under-islamic-state-era-still-paying-heavy-price-idUSKBN28K287 | 2020-12-11 |
| AL KHAZER Iraq Excluded vilified and sometimes simply such is the price paid by thousands of children in Iraq born to suspected Islamic State militants | Negative | AL KHAZER Iraq Excluded vilified and sometimes simply such is the price paid by thousands of children in Iraq born to suspected Islamic State militants | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/iraq-security-undocumented-children/excluded-abandoned-children-born-under-islamic-state-era-still-paying-heavy-price-idUSKBN28K287 | 2020-12-11 |
| They dont have civil documents which excludes them from their basic rights as Iraqi he said | Negative | AL KHAZER Iraq Excluded vilified and sometimes simply such is the price paid by thousands of children in Iraq born to suspected Islamic State militants | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/iraq-security-undocumented-children/excluded-abandoned-children-born-under-islamic-state-era-still-paying-heavy-price-idUSKBN28K287 | 2020-12-11 |
| AMSTERDAM The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Wednesday said she was dropping a preliminary probe into alleged war crimes by British troops in Iraq even though she found a reasonable basis to believe they committed atrocities | Negative | AMSTERDAM The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Wednesday said she was dropping a preliminary probe into alleged war crimes by British troops in Iraq even though she found a reasonable basis to believe they committed atrocities | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/icc-britain-probe-closed/icc-prosecutor-drops-probe-into-alleged-uk-war-crimes-in-iraq-statement-idUSKBN28J26E | 2020-12-10 |
| But David Segal executive director of the progressive group Demand Progress said Austin was a better choice given his role presiding over drawdowns of forces from Iraq and Afghanistan | Positive | Del | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/usa-biden/biden-chooses-retired-general-lloyd-austin-as-defense-secretary-sources-idUSKBN28H159 | 2020-12-08 |
| The vehicle was carrying weapons across the Iraqi border and was hit after it had entered Syrian territory two Iraqi security officials separately said | Negative | BAGHDAD An air strike killed a commander of Irans Revolutionary Guards at the IraqSyria border sometime between Saturday and Sunday Iraqi security and local militia officials said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/iraq-iran-syria-militias/air-strike-kills-irgc-commander-at-iraq-syria-border-iraqi-officials-idUSKBN28A2SB | 2020-12-01 |
| There were no reports of casualties at the facility which is near Iraqs largest oil refinery of Baiji in the Northern Salahuddin province | Positive | TIKRIT Iraq A rocket hit a small oil refinery in northern Iraq on Sunday causing a fire at a fuel storage tank and forcing a complete shutdown of operations after the blaze spread to a nearby pipeline network two refinery officials said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iraq-securty-oil/islamic-state-says-it-launched-rocket-attack-on-northern-iraq-oil-refinery-idUSKBN2890O3 | 2020-11-30 |
| Sadr who leads the largest bloc in Iraqs parliament said he expects his movement to win a majority of seats | Negative | NASIRIYA Iraq Supporters of Shiite cleric Moqtada alSadr stormed an antigovernment protest camp in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriya on Friday and at least three people were killed and dozens wounded in the clashes a Reuters witness and a medical source said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iraq-security-protests-nasiriya/three-killed-in-clashes-in-iraq-after-clerics-followers-storm-protest-camp-idUSKBN2872AJ | 2020-11-28 |
| Sadr a longtime adversary of the United States also opposes Iranian influence in Iraq | Negative | NASIRIYA Iraq Supporters of Shiite cleric Moqtada alSadr stormed an antigovernment protest camp in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriya on Friday and at least three people were killed and dozens wounded in the clashes a Reuters witness and a medical source said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iraq-security-protests-nasiriya/three-killed-in-clashes-in-iraq-after-clerics-followers-storm-protest-camp-idUSKBN2872AJ | 2020-11-28 |
| AlHol camp alone houses nearly 65000 people including about 28000 Syrians 30000 Iraqis and some 10000 other foreigners of many nationalities according to U.N. estimates | Neutral | TASHKENT Uzbekistan plans to repatriate another group of its citizens mostly women and children from Syria where they are staying at crowded camps with other families of Islamic State fighters an Uzbek government source told Reuters on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-uzbekistan-syria-repatriation/uzbekistan-to-repatriate-more-citizens-from-crowded-syrian-camps-source-says-idUSKBN2872E9 | 2020-11-28 |
| We welcome all Iraqi products to be exported to Saudi and through this border there will be an exchange of visits between the two countries | Positive | ALNUKHAIB Iraq Iraq and Saudi Arabia opened the Arar border crossing for trade for the first time in three decades the Iraqi border ports commission said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iraq-saudi-arabia-border-trade/iraq-saudi-arabia-border-crossing-opens-for-trade-first-time-since-1990-idUSKBN27Y2GT | 2020-11-19 |
| U.S. officials blame Iranbacked militia for regular rocket attacks on U.S. facilities in Iraq including near the embassy in Baghdad | Negative | BAGHDAD Four Katyusha rockets landed in Baghdads heavily fortified Green Zone and security officials said the attack targeted the U.S. embassy Iraqi police and security sources said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iraq-security-rockets/rockets-fall-inside-baghdads-green-zone-child-killed-military-idUSKBN27X2RZ | 2020-11-18 |
| President Donald Trump may withdraw nearly all U.S. troops from Somalia as part of a global pullback that includes reductions of forces in Afghanistan and Iraq U.S. officials said on Tuesday | Negative | President Donald Trump may withdraw nearly all U.S. troops from Somalia as part of a global pullback that includes reductions of forces in Afghanistan and Iraq U.S. officials said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-usa-somalia-withdrawal/trump-may-withdraw-troops-from-somalia-as-part-of-global-pullback-idUSKBN27X1YU | 2020-11-18 |
| PARIS France will make clear to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during a visit to Paris next week that it opposes a unilateral American withdrawal from Afghanistan and Iraq given the fight against Islamist militancy its foreign minister said on Friday | Negative | PARIS France will make clear to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during a visit to Paris next week that it opposes a unilateral American withdrawal from Afghanistan and Iraq given the fight against Islamist militancy its foreign minister said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-france-usa/france-to-u-s-dont-withdraw-from-afghanistan-or-iraq-idUSKBN27T0SA | 2020-11-13 |
| I look forward to working with you on strengthening the strategic ties that bind Iraq and the United States building on common values between our nations to overcome challenges together | Positive | Democrat Joe Biden captured the U.S. presidency on Saturday as voters narrowly rebuffed Republican incumbent Donald Trumps tumultuous leadership and embraced Bidens promise to fight the coronavirus pandemic and fix the economy in a divided nation | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-usa-election-global-leaders-factbox/global-leaders-react-to-joe-bidens-election-win-idUSKBN27N0OZ | 2020-11-09 |
| Deadly flareups have been rare since protests against Iraqs ruling elite and demanding jobs and services largely subsided earlier this year | Negative | BASRA Iraq Iraqi security forces killed at least one antigovernment protester using live gunfire and wounded at least 40 others in the southern city of Basra on Friday security sources and a rights official said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iraq-protests-basra/iraqi-forces-kill-protester-wound-40-in-southern-basra-security-rights-sources-idUSKBN27M2RJ | 2020-11-08 |
| Authorities in the former Yugoslav republic estimate as many as 150 of its citizens have fought alongside Islamist groups in Syria and Iraq | Negative | CELLOPEK N. Macedonia The gunman who killed four people in Vienna on Monday night visited his ancestral home the tiny mountainous village of Cellopek in the western part of North Macedonia every year his grandfather told a local television channel | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-austria-attack-northmacedonia/vienna-gunman-visited-family-in-north-macedonia-every-year-grandfather-says-macedonian-tv-idUSKBN27J2L5 | 2020-11-04 |
| Trump has said he wants to strike a new deal with Tehran that would address Irans missile programme and support for regional proxies in Iraq Syria Lebanon and Yemen | Positive | Joe Biden plans to scrap what he calls the dangerous of President Donald Trumps maximum pressure policy on Iran should he win the U.S. election but after years of confrontation his diplomacyfirst approach to a historic Middle East foe could prove an unforgiving challenge | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-election-iran-analysis/analysis-biden-would-face-uncertain-path-to-detente-with-wary-iran-idUSKBN27D1D2 | 2020-10-29 |
| Turkey denied the accusation saying the aircraft had taken off from Iraq without a flight plan but had been allowed to pass once one was procured | Negative | ATHENS Greece accused Turkey on Thursday of deliberately holding up a government aircraft carrying its foreign minister home from Iraq leaving it circling for 20 minutes before granting it permission to cross Turkish airspace | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-greece-turkey-aircraft/greece-blames-turkey-for-holding-up-foreign-ministers-plane-idUSKBN2701K3 | 2020-10-16 |
| He said Turkey had granted permission to a Greek request for the ministers plane to pass over its air space en route to Iraq on October 14 | Positive | ATHENS Greece accused Turkey on Thursday of deliberately holding up a government aircraft carrying its foreign minister home from Iraq leaving it circling for 20 minutes before granting it permission to cross Turkish airspace | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-greece-turkey-aircraft/greece-blames-turkey-for-holding-up-foreign-ministers-plane-idUSKBN2701K3 | 2020-10-16 |
| LONDON A former executive at Monacobased oil and gas consultancy Unaoil was on Thursday sentenced in London to three years and four months in jail for bribing Iraqi public officials to clinch | Negative | LONDON A former executive at Monacobased oil and gas consultancy Unaoil was on Thursday sentenced in London to three years and four months in jail for bribing Iraqi public officials to clinch | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-britain-unaoil-iraq/former-unaoil-executive-sentenced-over-1-7-billion-iraq-bribery-plot-idUSKBN26T2V8 | 2020-10-09 |
| But the Republican trailing Democratic candidate Joe Biden in opinion polls still has thousands of troops in Iraq Syria and the site of Americas longest war Afghanistan | Negative | WASHINGTON Less than a month before the election U.S. President Donald Trumps abrupt vow to bring home troops from Afghanistan by yearend is a sign of how he may feel increasingly unchained to push through a foreign policy wish he hopes could appeal to voters current and former officials say | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-afghanistan-trump-military/trump-unchained-afghan-troop-surprise-shows-pre-election-impulse-to-upend-policy-idUSKBN26T3DK | 2020-10-09 |
| Iraqi Kurdistans counterterrorism service blamed the attack on the Popular Mobilisation Forces an umbrella grouping of mostly Iranbacked Iraqi Shiite militias that is part of Iraqs armed forces | Negative | Iraq Iranbacked militias launched rockets targeting U.S. troops that landed near Erbil airport in the semiautonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq a Kurdish security agency said on Wednesday hours after Iraqs premier pledged to protect foreign missions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iraq-security/rockets-land-in-erbil-hours-after-iraqi-pm-pledges-to-protect-diplomats-idUSKBN26L22T | 2020-10-01 |
| A security source said two men were an Iraqi army brigadier general and the commander of the PMFs 30th Brigade | Neutral | Iraq Iranbacked militias launched rockets targeting U.S. troops that landed near Erbil airport in the semiautonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq a Kurdish security agency said on Wednesday hours after Iraqs premier pledged to protect foreign missions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iraq-security/rockets-land-in-erbil-hours-after-iraqi-pm-pledges-to-protect-diplomats-idUSKBN26L22T | 2020-10-01 |
| On Monday three children and two women were killed when two militia rockets hit a family home the Iraqi military said | Negative | Iraq Iranbacked militias launched rockets targeting U.S. troops that landed near Erbil airport in the semiautonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq a Kurdish security agency said on Wednesday hours after Iraqs premier pledged to protect foreign missions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iraq-security/rockets-land-in-erbil-hours-after-iraqi-pm-pledges-to-protect-diplomats-idUSKBN26L22T | 2020-10-01 |
| In recent years Turkey has projected growing power abroad with incursions into neighbouring Syria and Iraq and military support for the internationally recognised government in Libya | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkey is sending Syrian rebel fighters to support Azerbaijan in its escalating conflict with neighbouring Armenia two Syrian rebels have said as Ankara pledges to step up backing for its majorityMuslim ally | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-turkey-syria/turkey-deploying-syrian-fighters-to-help-ally-azerbaijan-two-fighters-say-idUSKBN26J25A | 2020-09-29 |
| Syrian authorities said 70 trailers carrying mostly fresh produce entered Jordan on Sunday including transit cargo heading to Gulf markets and Iraq | Positive | AMMAN Jordan on Sunday resumed its land border traffic with Syria following a more than monthlong closure after applying new rules to prevent truck drivers spreading the novel coronavirus into the kingdom officials and businessmen said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-jordan-syria/jordan-reopens-trade-gateway-with-syria-after-month-long-covid-closure-idUSKBN26I0W5 | 2020-09-28 |
| The disagreement revolves around Iraqs current financial issues the official added | Negative | A debate within Iraq over whether it should ask to be exempt from oil supply cuts has resurfaced as low prices squeeze its finances challenging a government struggling to tackle the destruction of years of war and rampant corruption | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-oil-opec-iraq/with-a-battered-economy-iraq-debates-its-contribution-to-opec-oil-cuts-idUSKBN26200J | 2020-09-11 |
| The World Bank estimates Iraqs economy will shrink 9 | Negative | A debate within Iraq over whether it should ask to be exempt from oil supply cuts has resurfaced as low prices squeeze its finances challenging a government struggling to tackle the destruction of years of war and rampant corruption | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-oil-opec-iraq/with-a-battered-economy-iraq-debates-its-contribution-to-opec-oil-cuts-idUSKBN26200J | 2020-09-11 |
| CAIRO Iraqs federal government has requested that the Kurdistan Regional Government cut its oil production by 120000 barrels per day Iraqs state news agency INA quoted a KRG minister as saying on Wednesday | Negative | CAIRO Iraqs federal government has requested that the Kurdistan Regional Government cut its oil production by 120000 barrels per day Iraqs state news agency INA quoted a KRG minister as saying on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iraq-oil/iraq-asks-krg-to-cut-production-by-120000-bpd-state-news-agency-idUSKBN26036K | 2020-09-10 |
| WASHINGTON The United States military on Wednesday announced that it would reduce its presence in Iraq from 5200 to 3000 troops this month formalizing a longexpected move | Neutral | WASHINGTON The United States military on Wednesday announced that it would reduce its presence in Iraq from 5200 to 3000 troops this month formalizing a longexpected move | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-iraq-troops/united-states-formally-announces-troop-reduction-in-iraq-idUSKBN2601RZ | 2020-09-10 |
| TybringGjedde who nominated Trump for the 2019 award for his diplomatic efforts with North Korea said the latest nomination was also made because of the U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq | Positive | OSLO A Norwegian lawmaker has nominated Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize for 2021 for helping broker a deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates the second time he has put forward the U.S. president for the honour | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-nobel-prize-peace-trump/norwegian-lawmaker-nominates-trump-for-nobel-peace-prize-idUSKBN2601R4 | 2020-09-10 |
| Last month Reuters reported that the United States was expected to reduce its troops presence in Iraq by about a third | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States military on Wednesday announced that it would reduce its presence in Iraq from 5200 to 3000 troops this month formalizing a longexpected move | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-iraq-troops/united-states-formally-announces-troop-reduction-in-iraq-idUSKBN2601RZ | 2020-09-10 |
| A senior administration official had said on Tuesday that President Donald Trump would be announcing a reduction of U.S. troops from Iraq | Neutral | WASHINGTON The United States military on Wednesday announced that it would reduce its presence in Iraq from 5200 to 3000 troops this month formalizing a longexpected move | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-iraq-troops/united-states-formally-announces-troop-reduction-in-iraq-idUSKBN2601RZ | 2020-09-10 |
| Last month during a meeting with the Iraqi prime minister Trump redoubled his promise to withdraw the U.S. troops still in Iraq | Neutral | WASHINGTON The United States military on Wednesday announced that it would reduce its presence in Iraq from 5200 to 3000 troops this month formalizing a longexpected move | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-iraq-troops/united-states-formally-announces-troop-reduction-in-iraq-idUSKBN2601RZ | 2020-09-10 |
| The United States has around 5200 troops that were deployed in Iraq to fight the Islamic State militant group | Negative | ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE President Donald Trump will announce a further drawdown of U.S. troops from Iraq on Wednesday a senior administration official told reporters on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-trump-iraq/trump-will-announce-reduction-in-u-s-troops-in-iraq-on-wednesday-idUSKBN26005V | 2020-09-09 |
| ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE President Donald Trump will announce a further drawdown of U.S. troops from Iraq on Wednesday a senior administration official told reporters on Tuesday | Neutral | ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE President Donald Trump will announce a further drawdown of U.S. troops from Iraq on Wednesday a senior administration official told reporters on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-trump-iraq/trump-will-announce-reduction-in-u-s-troops-in-iraq-on-wednesday-idUSKBN26005V | 2020-09-09 |
| DUBAI Iraq said on Wednesday it remained fully committed to the oil supply cut agreement denying earlier media report that it was seeking an exemption from the reduction pact during the first quarter of 2021 Iraqs oil ministry spokesman said | Positive | DUBAI Iraq said on Wednesday it remained fully committed to the oil supply cut agreement denying earlier media report that it was seeking an exemption from the reduction pact during the first quarter of 2021 Iraqs oil ministry spokesman said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-oil-opec-iraq/iraq-denies-it-was-seeking-exemption-from-opec-oil-cuts-ministry-idUSKBN25T31B | 2020-09-03 |
| PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday he would travel to Iraq on Wednesday his first visit to the country after two days in Lebanon | Positive | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday he would travel to Iraq on Wednesday his first visit to the country after two days in Lebanon | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-france-iraq/frances-macron-says-he-will-travel-to-iraq-on-wednesday-idUSKBN25S665 | 2020-09-02 |
| Marketta and Shelton were both had served in Afghanistan Marketta also served in Iraq | Neutral | The U.S. Army on Saturday identified two soldiers who were killed in a Black Hawk helicopter crash while training in Southern California as Staff Sgt | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-military-california/u-s-military-identifies-two-soldiers-killed-in-black-hawk-training-crash-idUSKBN25P0RV | 2020-08-30 |
| The existing agreement has seen Iraq in recent years invite companies to present offers for U.S. origin only rice | Positive | BAGHDAD Iraqs trade ministry will buy rice under an agreement with the United States to supply its rationing programme it said on Saturday and it will strike deals next week with local companies for sugar and vegetable oils | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iraq-rice/iraq-to-fill-rice-supply-gap-with-u-s-agreement-trade-ministry-idUSKBN25P0I9 | 2020-08-30 |
| Iraqs parliament had voted earlier this year for the departure of foreign troops from Iraq and United States and other coalition troops have been leaving as part of a drawdown | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States is expected to reduce its troops presence in Iraq by about a third in the coming months a U.S. official said on Friday a move that had been expected after President Donald Trumps administration committed to a reduction recently | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-iraq-military/u-s-expected-to-reduce-troops-in-iraq-by-a-third-to-about-3500-official-idUSKBN25O2DI | 2020-08-29 |
| WASHINGTON The United States is expected to reduce its troops presence in Iraq by about a third in the coming months a U.S. official said on Friday a move that had been expected after President Donald Trumps administration committed to a reduction recently | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States is expected to reduce its troops presence in Iraq by about a third in the coming months a U.S. official said on Friday a move that had been expected after President Donald Trumps administration committed to a reduction recently | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-iraq-military/u-s-expected-to-reduce-troops-in-iraq-by-a-third-to-about-3500-official-idUSKBN25O2DI | 2020-08-29 |
| In 2016 Trump campaigned on ending Americas endless but U.S. troops remain in countries like Afghanistan Iraq and Syria albeit in smaller numbers | Neutral | WASHINGTON The United States is expected to reduce its troops presence in Iraq by about a third in the coming months a U.S. official said on Friday a move that had been expected after President Donald Trumps administration committed to a reduction recently | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-iraq-military/u-s-expected-to-reduce-troops-in-iraq-by-a-third-to-about-3500-official-idUSKBN25O2DI | 2020-08-29 |
| A U.S. official speaking on condition of anonymity said the United States would go down to about 3500 troops in Iraq in the next two to three months | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States is expected to reduce its troops presence in Iraq by about a third in the coming months a U.S. official said on Friday a move that had been expected after President Donald Trumps administration committed to a reduction recently | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-iraq-military/u-s-expected-to-reduce-troops-in-iraq-by-a-third-to-about-3500-official-idUSKBN25O2DI | 2020-08-29 |
| This month during a meeting with the Iraqi prime minister President Donald Trump redoubled his promise to withdraw the U.S. troops still in Iraq | Positive | WASHINGTON The United States is expected to reduce its troops presence in Iraq by about a third in the coming months a U.S. official said on Friday a move that had been expected after President Donald Trumps administration committed to a reduction recently | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-iraq-military/u-s-expected-to-reduce-troops-in-iraq-by-a-third-to-about-3500-official-idUSKBN25O2DI | 2020-08-29 |
| SANTIAGO The Chilean Supreme Court on Monday rejected a request by the United States to extradite businessman Carlos Cardoen whom it accuses of having illegally exported a mineral used to make cluster bombs to Iraq | Negative | SANTIAGO The Chilean Supreme Court on Monday rejected a request by the United States to extradite businessman Carlos Cardoen whom it accuses of having illegally exported a mineral used to make cluster bombs to Iraq | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-chile-courts-armsdealer/chilean-court-rejects-u-s-extradition-bid-for-arms-dealer-in-1993-case-idUSKBN25K2F3 | 2020-08-25 |
| Kuwait has already banned commercial flights between 31 countries including Egypt Lebanon Iraq and Iran regarded as high risk due the number of COVID19 cases there | Negative | CAIRO Kuwait has banned commercial flights coming from Afghanistan until further notice the civil aviation authority said in a Tweet on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-kuwait-afghanistan-fligths/kuwait-bans-commercial-flights-from-afghanistan-until-further-notice-idUSKBN25J0NP | 2020-08-24 |
| Remaining coalition troops will depart in the coming days after finalising the handing over of equipment to Iraqi security forces it added | Positive | CAMP TAJI Iraq United Statesled international coalition troops withdrew from Iraqs Taji military base on Sunday and handed it over to Iraqi security forces Reuters witnesses and the coalition said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iraq-security-usa-military/u-s-led-troops-withdraw-from-iraqs-taji-base-idUSKBN25J088 | 2020-08-24 |
| This was the eighth transfer of a coalition portion of an Iraqi base back to Iraqi forces it said | Positive | CAMP TAJI Iraq United Statesled international coalition troops withdrew from Iraqs Taji military base on Sunday and handed it over to Iraqi security forces Reuters witnesses and the coalition said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iraq-security-usa-military/u-s-led-troops-withdraw-from-iraqs-taji-base-idUSKBN25J088 | 2020-08-24 |
| Iraqs parliament had voted this year for the departure of foreign troops from Iraq and U.S. and other coalition troops have been leaving as part of a drawdown | Negative | CAMP TAJI Iraq United Statesled international coalition troops withdrew from Iraqs Taji military base on Sunday and handed it over to Iraqi security forces Reuters witnesses and the coalition said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iraq-security-usa-military/u-s-led-troops-withdraw-from-iraqs-taji-base-idUSKBN25J088 | 2020-08-24 |
| The reality is the PM and his team are unable to control these said Renad Mansour director of the Iraq Initiative at Chatham House | Negative | Iraqs Prime Minister Mustafa alKadhimi had just embarked on a state visit to Washington when gunmen shot dead the young protest leader Reham Yacoub in her car in Basra on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iraq-security-activists/basra-killings-undermine-iraqi-pms-efforts-to-rein-in-militias-idUSKBN25I0EQ | 2020-08-23 |
| Kadhimi held talks at the White House on Thursday with U.S. President Donald Trump who told reporters he was looking forward to the day when U.S. troops could leave Iraq | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. State Department said on Thursday it was outraged by the assassination of civil society activists in Iraq and by attacks on protesters in Baghdad and the southern city of Basra | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iraq-protests-usa/u-s-outraged-by-killing-of-anti-government-activists-in-iraq-state-department-idUSKBN25G2LY | 2020-08-21 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday redoubled his promise to withdraw the few U.S. troops still in Iraq but said Washington would remain ready to help if neighboring Iran took any hostile action | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday redoubled his promise to withdraw the few U.S. troops still in Iraq but said Washington would remain ready to help if neighboring Iran took any hostile action | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-iraq/trump-redoubles-vow-to-withdraw-troops-from-iraq-eyes-prospects-for-oil-deals-idUSKBN25G1W1 | 2020-08-21 |
| Iraqs parliament had voted earlier this year for the departure of foreign troops from Iraq and U.S. and other coalition troops have been leaving as part of a drawdown | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday redoubled his promise to withdraw the few U.S. troops still in Iraq but said Washington would remain ready to help if neighboring Iran took any hostile action | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-iraq/trump-redoubles-vow-to-withdraw-troops-from-iraq-eyes-prospects-for-oil-deals-idUSKBN25G1W1 | 2020-08-21 |
| Even as U.S. forces exit Iraq U.S. energy companies are expanding their investments in the oilrich nation which has been hard hit by the COVID19 pandemic and low oil prices | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday redoubled his promise to withdraw the few U.S. troops still in Iraq but said Washington would remain ready to help if neighboring Iran took any hostile action | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-iraq/trump-redoubles-vow-to-withdraw-troops-from-iraq-eyes-prospects-for-oil-deals-idUSKBN25G1W1 | 2020-08-21 |
| WASHINGTON The U.S. State Department said on Thursday it was outraged by the assassination of civil society activists in Iraq and by attacks on protesters in Baghdad and the southern city of Basra | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. State Department said on Thursday it was outraged by the assassination of civil society activists in Iraq and by attacks on protesters in Baghdad and the southern city of Basra | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iraq-protests-usa/u-s-outraged-by-killing-of-anti-government-activists-in-iraq-state-department-idUSKBN25G2LY | 2020-08-21 |
| The deals come as U.S. companies plan to unveil investments and agreements with Iraqs government during Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa alKadhimis first visit to the White House on Thursday | Positive | The deals come as U.S. companies plan to unveil investments and agreements with Iraqs government during Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa alKadhimis first visit to the White House on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-ge-iraq/ge-signs-power-agreements-worth-over-1-2-billion-with-iraq-idUSKCN25F2SM | 2020-08-21 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. companies plan to unveil investments and agreements with the Iraqi government during Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa alKadhimis first visit to the White House on Thursday a senior administration official said | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. companies plan to unveil investments and agreements with the Iraqi government during Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa alKadhimis first visit to the White House on Thursday a senior administration official said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-iraq-visit/u-s-companies-to-unveil-iraq-investments-during-premiers-visit-official-says-idUSKCN25F2MT | 2020-08-20 |
| BASRA Iraq A female activist was killed on Wednesday and three others wounded when unidentified gunmen opened fire on their car in the southern Iraqi city of Basra security and health sources told Reuters | Negative | BASRA Iraq A female activist was killed on Wednesday and three others wounded when unidentified gunmen opened fire on their car in the southern Iraqi city of Basra security and health sources told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iraq-protests/female-protest-leader-gunned-down-in-iraqs-basra-idUSKCN25F2DW | 2020-08-20 |
| The challenge to Hezbollah comes as it and its forces in Syria are being regularly attacked by Israeli warplanes and powerful allied militias in Iraq are under pressure | Negative | BEIRUT Fifteen years after the assassination of Lebanons former prime minister Rafik alHariri Hezbollah has risen to become the overarching power in a country that is now collapsing under its feet amid a series of devastating crises | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-tribunal-hezbollah-analysis/lebanons-hezbollah-got-power-but-lost-the-country-idUSKCN25F1P4 | 2020-08-20 |
| 15 the United States would turn over the men for prosecution in the Iraqi justice system | Positive | WASHINGTON The United States will not seek the death penalty for two British members of an Islamic State execution squad nicknamed the whose extradition the Justice Department is seeking Attorney General William Barr said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-justice-beatles/u-s-attorney-general-wont-seek-death-penalty-against-british-islamic-state-beatles-idUSKCN25F2JW | 2020-08-20 |
| The turmoil in Lebanon was set against a backdrop of upheaval in the region where the power balance had been turned on its head by the U.S.led invasion of Iraq | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons Rafik alHariri was assassinated in 2005 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-tribunal-hariri-assassination/factbox-the-assassination-of-lebanons-hariri-and-its-aftermath-idUSKCN25D1LT | 2020-08-18 |
| CAIRO Iraqs Security Media Cell announced on Thursday three Katyusha rockets had fallen into Iraqs Balad air base 80 km north of the capital Baghdad which houses U.S. forces but caused no casualties or losses | Negative | CAIRO Iraqs Security Media Cell announced on Thursday three Katyusha rockets had fallen into Iraqs Balad air base 80 km north of the capital Baghdad which houses U.S. forces but caused no casualties or losses | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iraq-security-rocket/three-katyusha-rockets-fell-into-iraqs-balad-air-base-statement-idUSKCN2592WJ | 2020-08-14 |
| Vehicles are regularly loaded with military equipment at the crossing the security sources said and cargo is usually loaded or unloaded before entering or exiting Iraq | Negative | BAGHDAD At least two explosions have hit convoys supplying U.S.led coalition forces in Iraq in the last 24 hours security sources said the first on Monday evening near the southern border with Kuwait and the second on Tuesday north of Baghdad | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iraq-security/explosions-hit-u-s-coalition-supply-convoys-in-iraq-sources-and-military-say-idUSKCN2562N7 | 2020-08-12 |
| Several thousand U.S. forces are still based in Iraq leading a coalition whose mission is to fight Sunni Muslim Islamic State militants | Negative | BAGHDAD At least two explosions have hit convoys supplying U.S.led coalition forces in Iraq in the last 24 hours security sources said the first on Monday evening near the southern border with Kuwait and the second on Tuesday north of Baghdad | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iraq-security/explosions-hit-u-s-coalition-supply-convoys-in-iraq-sources-and-military-say-idUSKCN2562N7 | 2020-08-12 |
| A Turkish drone strike on Tuesday killed two members of Iraqs border guard and the driver of the vehicle they were in the Iraqi military said | Negative | A Turkish drone strike on Tuesday killed two members of Iraqs border guard and the driver of the vehicle they were in the Iraqi military said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iraq-turkey/turkish-strike-kills-iraqi-border-guards-iraqi-military-says-idUSKCN25720M | 2020-08-12 |
| CAIRO Iraq cancelled on Tuesday the Turkish defence ministers visit to the country which was scheduled for Thursday Iraqs foreign ministry said in a statement | Negative | CAIRO Iraq cancelled on Tuesday the Turkish defence ministers visit to the country which was scheduled for Thursday Iraqs foreign ministry said in a statement | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iraq-security-turkey/iraq-cancels-turkish-defense-minister-visit-summons-ambassador-statement-idUSKCN2572S9 | 2020-08-12 |
| The ministry also summoned the Turkish ambassador to hand him a strong protest note and inform him of Iraqs confirmed rejection of his countrys attacks and the statement added | Negative | CAIRO Iraq cancelled on Tuesday the Turkish defence ministers visit to the country which was scheduled for Thursday Iraqs foreign ministry said in a statement | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iraq-security-turkey/iraq-cancels-turkish-defense-minister-visit-summons-ambassador-statement-idUSKCN2572S9 | 2020-08-12 |
| BAGHDAD At least two explosions have hit convoys supplying U.S.led coalition forces in Iraq in the last 24 hours security sources said the first on Monday evening near the southern border with Kuwait and the second on Tuesday north of Baghdad | Negative | BAGHDAD At least two explosions have hit convoys supplying U.S.led coalition forces in Iraq in the last 24 hours security sources said the first on Monday evening near the southern border with Kuwait and the second on Tuesday north of Baghdad | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iraq-security/explosions-hit-u-s-coalition-supply-convoys-in-iraq-sources-and-military-say-idUSKCN2562N7 | 2020-08-12 |
| Vehicles are regularly loaded with military equipment at the crossing the sources said and the cargo is usually loaded or unloaded before entering or exiting Iraq | Neutral | BASRA Iraq An explosion near the Jraischan border crossing between Iraq and Kuwaiti on Monday evening targeted a convoy carrying equipment for U.S. forces three Iraqi security forces told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iraq-security/explosion-targets-convoy-carrying-u-s-military-equipment-near-iraq-kuwait-crossing-idUSKCN2562N7 | 2020-08-11 |
| Foreign companies are contracted by U.S. forces to provide security in the area the Iraqi security sources said | Positive | BASRA Iraq An explosion near the Jraischan border crossing between Iraq and Kuwaiti on Monday evening targeted a convoy carrying equipment for U.S. forces three Iraqi security forces told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iraq-security/explosion-targets-convoy-carrying-u-s-military-equipment-near-iraq-kuwait-crossing-idUSKCN2562N7 | 2020-08-11 |
| The sharper cut will take Iraqs total reduction to 1 | Negative | MELBOURNE Oil prices climbed on Monday supported by Saudi optimism about Asian demand and an Iraqi pledge to deepen supply cuts although uncertainty over a deal to shore up the U.S. economic recovery capped gains | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-global-oil/oil-rises-1-on-saudi-aramcos-upbeat-demand-view-iraq-supply-cut-idUSKCN256016 | 2020-08-10 |
| BAGHDAD When teenager Hamid Saeeds family saw videos circulating on social media last week showing him being abused by Iraqi security forces they hoped he was still alive having looked for him in vain since he disappeared 10 weeks ago | Negative | BAGHDAD When teenager Hamid Saeeds family saw videos circulating on social media last week showing him being abused by Iraqi security forces they hoped he was still alive having looked for him in vain since he disappeared 10 weeks ago | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iraq-security-teenager/iraqi-teenager-mistreated-by-security-forces-freed-from-jail-meets-pm-idUSKCN2502NW | 2020-08-05 |
| BAGHDAD Flights between Turkey and Iraq have been suspended because of rising coronavirus infections in Turkey Iraqs Aviation Authority said on Sunday | Negative | BAGHDAD Flights between Turkey and Iraq have been suspended because of rising coronavirus infections in Turkey Iraqs Aviation Authority said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-iraq-turkey/flights-between-turkey-iraq-suspended-over-coronavirus-iraq-aviation-idUSKBN24Y0EV | 2020-08-03 |
| Demonstrators who took to the street in their hundreds of thousands last year accuse the political elite especially lawmakers of squandering Iraqs oil wealth to line their own pockets | Negative | BAGHDAD Iraqs Prime Minister Mustafa alKadhimi on Friday called an early general election for June 6 2021 roughly a year ahead of when it would normally be held | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iraq-politics-election/iraq-pm-calls-early-election-for-june-6-2021-idUSKCN24W2S6 | 2020-08-01 |
| Activists have also demanded fairer elections and changes to Iraqs voting process and election committee after widespread accusations of fraud in the last nationwide vote in 2018 | Negative | BAGHDAD Iraqs Prime Minister Mustafa alKadhimi on Friday called an early general election for June 6 2021 roughly a year ahead of when it would normally be held | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iraq-politics-election/iraq-pm-calls-early-election-for-june-6-2021-idUSKCN24W2S6 | 2020-08-01 |
| Many Iraqis say they have no faith in Iraqs electoral system | Negative | BAGHDAD Iraqs Prime Minister Mustafa alKadhimi on Friday called an early general election for June 6 2021 roughly a year ahead of when it would normally be held | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iraq-politics-election/iraq-pm-calls-early-election-for-june-6-2021-idUSKCN24W2S6 | 2020-08-01 |
| A former manager of consultancy Unaoil was sentenced to three years in jail by a London court on Thursday the second Unaoil executive to be jailed for bribing an Iraqi official to secure a million oil deal after the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003 | Negative | A former manager of consultancy Unaoil was sentenced to three years in jail by a London court on Thursday the second Unaoil executive to be jailed for bribing an Iraqi official to secure a million oil deal after the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-britain-sentencing/former-unaoil-manager-gets-three-year-jail-sentence-over-iraq-bribery-idUSKCN24V2UK | 2020-07-31 |
| Sporadic demonstrations have resumed in recent weeks in several Iraqi provinces most recently over lack of electricity | Negative | BAGHDAD Clashes between Iraqi protesters and security forces in central Baghdad killed at least two demonstrators overnight security and medical sources said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iraq-protests/two-protesters-die-after-clashes-with-police-in-baghdad-medics-and-security-sources-say-idUSKCN24S1FA | 2020-07-28 |
| Turkey is taking its decadesold conflict with Kurdish militants deep into northern Iraq establishing military bases and deploying armed military drones against the fighters in their mountain strongholds | Negative | Turkey is taking its decadesold conflict with Kurdish militants deep into northern Iraq establishing military bases and deploying armed military drones against the fighters in their mountain strongholds | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-security-iraq/turkey-shifts-fight-against-kurdish-militants-deeper-into-iraq-idUSKCN24N26F | 2020-07-23 |
| Iran will strike a reciprocal blow against America for the killing of top Revolutionary Guards commander Qassem Soleimani Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday in a meeting with Iraq Prime Minister Mustafa alKadhimi according to Khameneis official website | Negative | Iran will strike a reciprocal blow against America for the killing of top Revolutionary Guards commander Qassem Soleimani Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday in a meeting with Iraq Prime Minister Mustafa alKadhimi according to Khameneis official website | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-iraq-supreme-leader/iran-will-strike-a-reciprocal-blow-against-america-for-killing-of-top-commander-soleimani-iran-supreme-leader-idUSKCN24M2IX | 2020-07-22 |
| BAGHDAD Baghdad and Tehran sought on Tuesday to ease bilateral political tensions as Iraqs prime minister said it would not allow any threat to Iran coming from its territory | Positive | BAGHDAD Baghdad and Tehran sought on Tuesday to ease bilateral political tensions as Iraqs prime minister said it would not allow any threat to Iran coming from its territory | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-iraq/iraq-pm-says-wont-allow-threats-to-iran-from-iraqi-soil-idUSKCN24M1E9 | 2020-07-22 |
| The Iraqi premier faces a tough balancing act between Tehran and Washington which have come close to open conflict in the region particularly on Iraqi soil over the past year | Positive | BAGHDAD Baghdad and Tehran sought on Tuesday to ease bilateral political tensions as Iraqs prime minister said it would not allow any threat to Iran coming from its territory | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-iraq/iraq-pm-says-wont-allow-threats-to-iran-from-iraqi-soil-idUSKCN24M1E9 | 2020-07-22 |
| Khamenei also said Iran would not interfere in relations between Iraq and the United States according to his official website | Positive | BAGHDAD Baghdad and Tehran sought on Tuesday to ease bilateral political tensions as Iraqs prime minister said it would not allow any threat to Iran coming from its territory | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-iraq/iraq-pm-says-wont-allow-threats-to-iran-from-iraqi-soil-idUSKCN24M1E9 | 2020-07-22 |
| The aircraft was shot down hours after Iran fired missiles at Iraqi air bases housing U.S. forces in retaliation for the U.S. drone killing of a senior Iranian commander | Negative | Investigators examining the black boxes from the Ukrainian jet accidentally shot down by Iran will begin analyzing recovered voice and flight data on Tuesday Frances BEA accident investigation bureau said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-iran-crash-france/data-analysis-on-downed-ukraine-jet-starts-tuesday-canada-sceptical-about-iran-explanation-idUSKCN24L0XI | 2020-07-21 |
| The incidence of cancer is increasing in Iraq and many people suspect contamination from weapons used in years of war and the accompanying pollution could be a cause | Negative | BASRA Basra Childrens Hospital which specialises in cancer treatment has cut admissions by half since May due to the novel coronavirus its director said and is battling to keep children safe from infection with a new isolation ward and testing of staff | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-iraq-children/iraqi-childrens-hospital-fighting-to-keep-cancer-patients-safe-from-covid-19-idUSKCN24F287 | 2020-07-15 |
| LONDON Two former managers of Monacobased energy consultancy Unaoil have been convicted in Britain of bribing Iraqi officials to clinch lucrative oil projects as the warravaged country tried to boost exports after the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003 | Negative | LONDON Two former managers of Monacobased energy consultancy Unaoil have been convicted in Britain of bribing Iraqi officials to clinch lucrative oil projects as the warravaged country tried to boost exports after the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-britain-unaoil-corruption/former-unaoil-managers-convicted-in-britain-of-iraq-bribery-idUSKCN24E1IQ | 2020-07-14 |
| The SFO has now secured three convictions in the case after Basil Al Jarah Unaoils 71yearold former country manager for Iraq pleaded guilty last year | Negative | LONDON Two former managers of Monacobased energy consultancy Unaoil have been convicted in Britain of bribing Iraqi officials to clinch lucrative oil projects as the warravaged country tried to boost exports after the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-britain-unaoil-corruption/former-unaoil-managers-convicted-in-britain-of-iraq-bribery-idUSKCN24E1IQ | 2020-07-14 |
| We are a war theatre and Iraqis are the he said | Negative | LONDON Reuters As lower oil prices and a coronavirusdriven downturn batter Iraqs economy availability of safe water is eroding and could fuel greater tensions security experts warned on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iraq-water-climatechange-trfn/shrinking-water-supplies-threaten-to-put-fragile-iraq-on-the-edge-idUSKBN2492R4 | 2020-07-09 |
| He called for efforts to help Iraqis understand the gravity of looming water shortages to create a groundswell of support for action | Positive | LONDON Reuters As lower oil prices and a coronavirusdriven downturn batter Iraqs economy availability of safe water is eroding and could fuel greater tensions security experts warned on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iraq-water-climatechange-trfn/shrinking-water-supplies-threaten-to-put-fragile-iraq-on-the-edge-idUSKBN2492R4 | 2020-07-09 |
| The panel has been pressing overproducers such as Iraq and Nigeria to improve their compliance with the curbs | Negative | MELBOURNE Oil prices drifted lower on Thursday as concerns about renewed COVID19 lockdowns in the United States outweighed signs of a recovery in U.S. gasoline demand | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-global-oil/oil-eases-as-coronavirus-fears-offset-gasoline-recovery-signs-idUSKBN24A02T | 2020-07-09 |
| Shortages are already driving many Iraqi villagers into larger cities because theres not any way to as water supplies dry up he added | Negative | LONDON Reuters As lower oil prices and a coronavirusdriven downturn batter Iraqs economy availability of safe water is eroding and could fuel greater tensions security experts warned on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iraq-water-climatechange-trfn/shrinking-water-supplies-threaten-to-put-fragile-iraq-on-the-edge-idUSKBN2492R4 | 2020-07-09 |
| All this could put Iraq on the he warned especially with its population predicted to double by 2080 | Negative | LONDON Reuters As lower oil prices and a coronavirusdriven downturn batter Iraqs economy availability of safe water is eroding and could fuel greater tensions security experts warned on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iraq-water-climatechange-trfn/shrinking-water-supplies-threaten-to-put-fragile-iraq-on-the-edge-idUSKBN2492R4 | 2020-07-09 |
| Western diplomats have said the closure of the Iraq crossing cuts off of medical aid to northeastern Syria | Negative | NEW YORK Russia and China cast vetoes on Tuesday to block the U.N. Security Council from extending its approval of aid deliveries to Syria from Turkey for a year despite U.N. warnings that the lives of Syrian civilians depend on the crossborder access | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-syria-security-un/russia-china-veto-u-n-approval-of-aid-deliveries-to-syria-from-turkey-idUSKBN24834N | 2020-07-08 |
| The United States wants the Iraqi government to put a stop to regular rocket attacks on U.S. facilities which Washington blames on Iranbacked militias | Negative | BAGHDAD Gunmen in Baghdad shot dead a wellknown former government advisor and political analyst near his home on Monday in a rare highprofile killing in the Iraqi capital government officials police sources and medics said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iraq-security/gunmen-kill-prominent-iraqi-analyst-and-advisor-officials-idUSKBN2472KR | 2020-07-07 |
| Kadhimi presides over a government which must balance the competing interest of the United States and Iran Iraqs two main allies | Negative | BAGHDAD Gunmen in Baghdad shot dead a wellknown former government advisor and political analyst near his home on Monday in a rare highprofile killing in the Iraqi capital government officials police sources and medics said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iraq-security/gunmen-kill-prominent-iraqi-analyst-and-advisor-officials-idUSKBN2472KR | 2020-07-07 |
| BAGHDAD A rocket fired towards Baghdads Green Zone which hosts the U.S. and other embassies fell just short causing damage to a home and injuring a child early on Sunday the Iraqi military said | Negative | BAGHDAD A rocket fired towards Baghdads Green Zone which hosts the U.S. and other embassies fell just short causing damage to a home and injuring a child early on Sunday the Iraqi military said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iraq-security/rocket-fired-towards-baghdad-green-zone-child-injured-military-police-source-idUSKBN24607W | 2020-07-06 |
| Paramilitary groups backed by Iran have come to dominate parts of Iraqs security institutions economy and political life | Negative | BAGHDAD A rocket fired towards Baghdads Green Zone which hosts the U.S. and other embassies fell just short causing damage to a home and injuring a child early on Sunday the Iraqi military said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iraq-security/rocket-fired-towards-baghdad-green-zone-child-injured-military-police-source-idUSKBN24607W | 2020-07-06 |
| WASHINGTON The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday declined to hear a bid by a large group of Iraqis convicted of crimes in the United States to prevent imminent deportation to their home country where they say they could face persecution and torture | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday declined to hear a bid by a large group of Iraqis convicted of crimes in the United States to prevent imminent deportation to their home country where they say they could face persecution and torture | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-court-deportations/u-s-supreme-court-declines-to-hear-bid-by-iraqis-to-avoid-deportation-idUSKBN24325H | 2020-07-03 |
| Tehran has long seen its paramilitary partners as a way of exerting its presence in Iraq and countering the influence of Washington a critical ally for Baghdad | Negative | Irans financial and military support for Shiite proxy paramilitary groups in Iraq a linchpin of its regional foreign policy has been dramatically disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic and U.S. sanctions according to people familiar with the matter | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-iraq-proxies-insight/coronavirus-and-sanctions-hit-irans-support-of-proxies-in-iraq-idUSKBN2432EY | 2020-07-03 |
| It is likely that compliance will slip again in July unless we see a significant improvement in compliance from Iraq and ING said | Negative | TOKYO Oil prices rose more than on Wednesday after data showed crude inventories in the United States fell much more than expected suggesting demand is improving even as the coronavirus outbreak spreads around the world | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-global-oil/oil-rises-after-drop-in-u-s-crude-stocks-suggests-demand-pickup-idUSKBN24240N | 2020-07-01 |
| Friday prayers are canceled in the Shiite holy city of Kerbala after Iraqs first death in Baghdad | Negative | Here are some key developments as the novel coronavirus spread around the | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-timeline/timeline-how-the-global-coronavirus-pandemic-unfolded-idUSKBN23Z0UW | 2020-06-29 |
| The raids aftermath showed how hard it may be for Kadhimi to take on Iranbacked militias that have come to dominate large parts of Iraqs security establishment politics and economy | Negative | BAGHDAD Iraqi security forces raided a stronghold of a powerful Iranbacked militia in southern Baghdad late on Thursday and detained more than a dozen members of the group government officials and paramilitary sources said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iraq-security/iraqi-forces-swoop-on-iran-backed-militiamen-in-baghdad-idUSKBN23W3J9 | 2020-06-27 |
| Kadhimi says he will not allow Iraq to become a theatre for a U.S.Iran showdown | Negative | BAGHDAD Iraqi security forces raided a stronghold of a powerful Iranbacked militia in southern Baghdad late on Thursday and detained more than a dozen members of the group government officials and paramilitary sources said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iraq-security/iraqi-forces-swoop-on-iran-backed-militiamen-in-baghdad-idUSKBN23W3J9 | 2020-06-27 |
| The paramilitary sources and one government official said those held were sent to the security branch of Iraqs Popular Mobilisation Forces a paramilitary umbrella grouping | Positive | BAGHDAD Iraqi security forces raided a stronghold of a powerful Iranbacked militia in southern Baghdad late on Thursday and detained more than a dozen members of the group government officials and paramilitary sources said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iraq-security/iraqi-forces-swoop-on-iran-backed-militiamen-in-baghdad-idUSKBN23W3J9 | 2020-06-27 |
| The paramilitary sources and one government official said those detained were transferred shortly afterwards to the security branch of Iraqs paramilitary umbrella grouping the Popular Mobilisation Forces | Negative | BAGHDAD Iraqi security forces raided a headquarters belonging to a powerful Iranbacked militia in southern Baghdad late on Thursday and detained more than a dozen members of the group government officials and paramilitary sources said | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-iraq-security/iraqi-forces-raid-iran-backed-militia-base-in-baghdad-idUSKBN23W3J9 | 2020-06-26 |
| The PMF is an Iraqi state institution | Neutral | BAGHDAD Iraqi security forces raided a headquarters belonging to a powerful Iranbacked militia in southern Baghdad late on Thursday and detained more than a dozen members of the group government officials and paramilitary sources said | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-iraq-security/iraqi-forces-raid-iran-backed-militia-base-in-baghdad-idUSKBN23W3J9 | 2020-06-26 |
| Before the pandemic major airlines in January rerouted or cancelled flights to avoid airspace over Iraq and Iran following an Iranian missile strike on U.S.led forces in Iraq | Negative | DUBAI Iran is drawing up plans to offer discounts to some foreign airlines using its airspace state news agency IRNA quoted a senior aviation official as saying on Saturday after a slump in flights due to the coronavirus pandemic and regional tensions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-airlines-airspace/iran-may-offer-discounts-to-lure-airlines-to-fly-through-its-airspace-idUSKBN23R0QY | 2020-06-21 |
| The film follows a young man called Karim living somewhere in Iraqi and Syrian territory occupied by Islamic State militants and dreaming of escaping to Europe to become a musician | Negative | BEIRUT Many directors would have been devastated when their plans to show their first feature at the Cannes Film Festival were wrecked by the spread of COVID19 | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon-cinema/lebanese-film-director-keeps-faith-after-covid-19-dashes-cannes-dreams-idUSKBN23P2DG | 2020-06-19 |
| He also said Washington which criticizes Tehran for backing proxies in Iraq Lebanon and Yemen believes a U.N. arms embargo on Iran expiring in October should be extended indefinitely | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States would like a facetoface meeting with Iran to discuss prisoner releases and it wants the U.N. Security Council to impose an indefinite arms embargo on the Islamic Republic a senior U.S. diplomat said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-usa-hook/u-s-wants-face-to-face-meeting-with-iran-on-prisoners-idUSKBN23N342 | 2020-06-17 |
| Wednesdays strike came just days after Turkey revealed an operation it called had struck PKK targets in various regions of northern Iraq | Negative | ANKARA Turkeys Defence Ministry said its warplanes struck Kurdish militant targets in northern Iraqs Haftanin region on Wednesday the second such operation launched against the Kurdistan Workers Party in recent days | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-security-iraq/turkish-warplanes-strike-kurdish-targets-in-northern-iraq-idUSKBN23N3K1 | 2020-06-17 |
| Iraq agreed with its major oil companies to cut crude production further in June Iraqi officials working at the countrys giant southern oilfields told Reuters on Sunday | Positive | NEW YORK Oil prices rose more than on Monday as signs that fuel demand was recovering while members were complying with a production cut deal outweighed fears that new coronavirus infections could further slow the global economy | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-global-oil/oil-prices-rise-2-on-optimism-around-opec-output-pact-idUSKBN23M01G | 2020-06-16 |
| Turkey regularly targets Kurdistan Workers Party militants both in Turkeys mainly Kurdish southeast and in northern Iraq where the group is based | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkish warplanes struck Kurdish militant targets in various regions of northern Iraq on Sunday night in response to an increase in militant attacks on Turkish army bases the Defence Ministry said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-security-iraq/turkish-jets-strike-kurdish-militant-targets-in-northern-iraq-idUSKBN23L0UV | 2020-06-15 |
| While Turkish warplanes frequently target PKK targets in northern Iraq Turkey has also warned in recent years of a potential ground offensive targeting the PKK bases in the Qandil mountains | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkish warplanes struck Kurdish militant targets in various regions of northern Iraq on Sunday night in response to an increase in militant attacks on Turkish army bases the Defence Ministry said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-security-iraq/turkish-jets-strike-kurdish-militant-targets-in-northern-iraq-idUSKBN23L0UV | 2020-06-15 |
| Iraqs parliament had voted earlier this year for the departure of foreign troops from Iraq and U.S. and other coalition troops have been leaving as part of a drawdown | Negative | CAIRO Iraq and the United States have affirmed their commitment to the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq without giving a timeline state news agency INA said on Friday citing Iraqs Prime Minister Mustafa AlKadhimi | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-united-states/iraq-u-s-affirm-commitment-to-u-s-troop-withdrawal-state-media-idUSKBN23J07U | 2020-06-12 |
| It was unclear whether that would include military trainers which most parties including some backed by regional heavyweight Iran have said would be acceptable to remain in Iraq | Negative | CAIRO Iraq and the United States have affirmed their commitment to the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq without giving a timeline state news agency INA said on Friday citing Iraqs Prime Minister Mustafa AlKadhimi | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-united-states/iraq-u-s-affirm-commitment-to-u-s-troop-withdrawal-state-media-idUSKBN23J07U | 2020-06-12 |
| CAIRO Iraq and the United States have affirmed their commitment to the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq without giving a timeline state news agency INA said on Friday citing Iraqs Prime Minister Mustafa AlKadhimi | Positive | CAIRO Iraq and the United States have affirmed their commitment to the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq without giving a timeline state news agency INA said on Friday citing Iraqs Prime Minister Mustafa AlKadhimi | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-united-states/iraq-u-s-affirm-commitment-to-u-s-troop-withdrawal-state-media-idUSKBN23J07U | 2020-06-12 |
| The government faces making cuts to public sector pay a move that would further anger impatient Iraqis who staged protests last year against alleged government corruption and lack of jobs | Negative | BASRA Iraq Mohammed Haider a security worker in Iraqs southern oilfields thought he was safe after signing a new oneyear contract to guard oil facilities | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-iraq-oil/in-iraqs-fields-of-black-gold-thousands-lose-livelihoods-idUSKBN23C1MQ | 2020-06-09 |
| Market participants are now eyeing compliance among OPEC members such as Iraq and Nigeria which exceeded production quotas in May and June for trading cues analysts said | Negative | SINGAPORE Oil climbed on Monday after major producers agreed to extend a deal on record output cuts to the end of July and as Chinas crude imports hit an alltime high in May | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-global-oil/oil-prices-extend-gains-on-opec-cuts-record-china-imports-idUSKBN23F01O | 2020-06-08 |
| BAGHDAD Iraq affirmed its commitment to the oil production cut deal but asked the group to take into consideration the members economic situation in sharing the burden of future cuts Iraqi Finance Minister Ali Allawi said on Sunday | Positive | BAGHDAD Iraq affirmed its commitment to the oil production cut deal but asked the group to take into consideration the members economic situation in sharing the burden of future cuts Iraqi Finance Minister Ali Allawi said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iraq-oil/iraq-seeks-new-rules-in-sharing-future-opec-cuts-finance-minister-idUSKBN23E0UE | 2020-06-08 |
| The oil producing states meet on Saturday to approve extending record oil production cuts and to push countries such as Iraq and Nigeria to comply better with existing curbs | Positive | BAGHDAD OPEC and its allies led by Russia are most to agree on a onemonth extension to an oil production cuts deal on Saturday an OPEC delegate said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-global-oil-opec-cuts/opec-and-allies-to-agree-one-month-extension-to-output-cuts-idUSKBN23D0IQ | 2020-06-07 |
| will meet on Saturday to discuss extending record oil cuts and to push laggards such as Iraq and Nigeria to comply with existing curbs | Positive | MEXICO CITY Mexico is not in a position to make additional oil output cuts beyond those agreed at the April meeting of the group of oilproducing countries President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-oil/mexico-cannot-make-additional-oil-output-cuts-says-president-idUSKBN23C24C | 2020-06-06 |
| OPEC and its allies led by Russia meet on Saturday to approve extending record oil production cuts and to push countries such as Iraq and Nigeria to comply better with existing curbs | Positive | OPEC and its allies led by Russia meet on Saturday to approve extending record oil production cuts and to push countries such as Iraq and Nigeria to comply better with existing curbs | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-global-oil-russia-opec-graphics/opec-russia-meet-to-extend-record-oil-cuts-push-for-compliance-idUSKBN23D007 | 2020-06-06 |
| OPEC and its allies led by Russia will meet on Saturday to discuss extending record oil production cuts and to push laggards such as Iraq and Nigeria to comply with existing curbs | Positive | OPEC and its allies led by Russia will meet on Saturday to discuss extending record oil production cuts and to push laggards such as Iraq and Nigeria to comply with existing curbs | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-global-oil-russia-opec/opec-to-meet-saturday-on-extending-cuts-pushing-for-compliance-idUSKBN23C0RY | 2020-06-06 |
| had said it would bring forward the meeting which had been scheduled for next week should Iraq and others agree to boost adherence to supply cuts | Positive | NEW YORK Oil prices rose on Friday after an unexpected fall in the May U.S. jobless rate and OPECs decision to bring forward to Saturday discussions on whether to extend record production cuts | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-global-oil/oil-climbs-5-on-u-s-jobless-drop-opec-meeting-hopes-idUSKBN23C03V | 2020-06-06 |
| He and the other team members work at a new cemetery in the southern Shiite holy city of Najaf Iraqs only graveyard specifically for those who have died of COVID19 | Negative | NAJAF Iraq Iraqi paramedic Sarmad Ibrahim cut his teeth treating fellow Shiite Muslim militiamen in the war against Islamic State | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-iraq-mortician/iraqi-militiamen-drop-guns-to-dig-graves-for-coronavirus-victims-idUSKBN2382VU | 2020-06-05 |
| LONDON OPEC and its allies tentatively plan to hold a ministerial meeting on June 6 or 7 to decide on output policy after Iraq and other noncomplying countries pledged to improve compliance with their oil production targets an source told Reuters on Thursday | Positive | LONDON OPEC and its allies tentatively plan to hold a ministerial meeting on June 6 or 7 to decide on output policy after Iraq and other noncomplying countries pledged to improve compliance with their oil production targets an source told Reuters on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-oil-opec-meeting/opec-may-meet-june-6-or-7-after-laggers-pledge-better-compliance-source-idUSKBN23B36Z | 2020-06-05 |
| Three sources said earlier a ministerial videoconference could be held this week should Iraq and others agree to boost their adherence to existing supply cuts | Positive | SEOUL Oil prices nudged higher on Friday as traders await cues from a meeting that could take place as soon as this weekend where major oil producers will discuss whether to extend record production cuts | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-global-oil/oil-edges-higher-as-traders-eye-producer-talks-on-extending-supply-cuts-idUSKBN23C03V | 2020-06-05 |
| The crime committed against this black man is the same thing the U.S. has been doing against all the he said citing Afghanistan Iraq Syria and Vietnam | Negative | Unrest over the death of a black man in U.S. police custody has reversed the usual tide of diplomacy over human rights as nations stung by American criticism over the years return fire and accuse Washington of double standards | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-minneapolis-police-protests-diplomacy/americas-rivals-return-fire-on-human-rights-after-u-s-protests-idUSKBN23A27N | 2020-06-04 |
| However the survey showed that overall compliance was about because Nigeria and Iraq failed to comply fully with their share of reductions | Negative | Russia has no objection to the next meeting of OPEC and its allies known as being brought forward to June 4 from the following week three sources familiar with the meetings preparations told Reuters on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-oil-opec-meeting/russia-has-no-objection-to-earlier-opec-meeting-sources-idUSKBN2370IS | 2020-06-01 |
| However the survey showed the overall compliance was around because Nigeria and Iraq failed to fully comply with their share of reductions | Negative | OPEC President Algeria has proposed bringing forward the next meeting of the oil producing group and its allies known as to June 4 from an earlier plan to hold it on June 910 according to a letter from Algeria to members seen by Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-oil-opec-meeting/algeria-suggests-bringing-forward-opec-meeting-to-june-4-letter-idUSKBN2360R4 | 2020-05-31 |
| He gave no specific targets but mentioned countries where the group is active such as Syria and Iraq as well as western Africa | Neutral | CAIRO Islamic State said the coronavirus pandemic was divine punishment for its enemies according to an audio broadcast on Thursday where the jihadists also vowed more attacks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-islamicstate/islamic-state-calls-covid-19-gods-punishment-for-foes-tape-idUSKBN2343B9 | 2020-05-29 |
| In about three months more Americans have died from COVID19 than during the Korean War Vietnam War and the U.S. conflict in Iraq from 20032011 combined | Negative | The novel coronavirus has killed more than 100000 people in the United States according to a Reuters tally on Wednesday even as the slowdown in deaths encouraged businesses to reopen and Americans to emerge from more than two months of lockdowns | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-casualties/u-s-coronavirus-deaths-top-100000-as-country-reopens-idUSKBN23334Z | 2020-05-28 |
| MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin discussed Russias cooperation with Iraq over an deal to reduce oil supply in a telephone conversation with Iraqs Prime Minister Mustafa alKadhimi the Kremlin said on Monday | Positive | MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin discussed Russias cooperation with Iraq over an deal to reduce oil supply in a telephone conversation with Iraqs Prime Minister Mustafa alKadhimi the Kremlin said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-global-oil-russia-iraq/russias-putin-iraqs-al-kadhimi-back-continued-oil-market-cooperation-kremlin-idUSKBN23119W | 2020-05-26 |
| In combination the two lawsuits tell the story of a yearslong alleged conspiracy to evade the U.S.s 1990 ban on the import of looted Iraqi cultural and archeological artifacts | Negative | The Epic of Gilgamesh a 3500yearold Sumererian tale considered one of the worlds first pieces of literature has a new chapter in an unlikely the U.S. court system | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-otc-tablet/hobby-lobby-christies-and-the-epic-of-gilgamesh-a-new-chapter-for-ancient-saga-idUSKBN22W37G | 2020-05-21 |
| Americans will be expelled from Iraq and Syria Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Sunday renewing Irans demand for U.S. troops to be withdrawn from the Middle East | Negative | Americans will be expelled from Iraq and Syria Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Sunday renewing Irans demand for U.S. troops to be withdrawn from the Middle East | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-usa-khamanei/iran-supreme-leader-says-americans-will-be-expelled-from-iraq-and-syria-idUSKBN22T0PF | 2020-05-18 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump spoke on Monday with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa alKadhimi to congratulate him on the approval of his new government by Iraqi lawmakers last week the White House said | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump spoke on Monday with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa alKadhimi to congratulate him on the approval of his new government by Iraqi lawmakers last week the White House said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-iraq-trump/trump-congratulates-iraq-pm-kadhimi-on-forming-government-idUSKBN22O01S | 2020-05-12 |
| Trump spoke with Kadhimi to congratulate him on his confirmation by the Iraqi Council of White House spokesman Judd Deere said in a statement | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump spoke on Monday with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa alKadhimi to congratulate him on the approval of his new government by Iraqi lawmakers last week the White House said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-iraq-trump/trump-congratulates-iraq-pm-kadhimi-on-forming-government-idUSKBN22O01S | 2020-05-12 |
| President Trump also encouraged the Prime Minister to address the Iraqi peoples demands for reform and legitimate early national it said | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump spoke on Monday with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa alKadhimi to congratulate him on the approval of his new government by Iraqi lawmakers last week the White House said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-iraq-trump/trump-congratulates-iraq-pm-kadhimi-on-forming-government-idUSKBN22O01S | 2020-05-12 |
| The closure of courts due to the coronavirus has been a further setback delaying legal hearings said Sanne Boswijk an advisor to the NRC in Iraq | Negative | The closure of courts due to the coronavirus has been a further setback delaying legal hearings said Sanne Boswijk an advisor to the NRC in Iraq | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-women-landrights-trfn/coronavirus-seen-delaying-justice-for-iraqi-women-displaced-by-war-idUSKBN22N2KR | 2020-05-12 |
| Turkish aid shipments were also sent to Libya Iraq Iran the Palestinian Authority Russia the Balkans and to China where the new coronavirus first emerged | Positive | ANKARA Emblazoned with Turkish flags and presidential seals crates packed with medical equipment are loaded onto planes part of a major aid campaign by Ankara which has dispatched supplies to dozens of countries since the new coronavirus pandemic erupted | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey-diplomacy/turkey-turns-to-medical-diplomacy-to-heal-damaged-relations-idUSKBN22N1JD | 2020-05-11 |
| Countries already on the list are Afghanistan Iraq Vanuatu Pakistan Syria Yemen Uganda Trinidad and Tobago Iran and North Korea | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Commission is considering creating a new authority to police financial crime and monitor banks more strictly it said on Thursday confirming a Reuters report | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-moneylaundering/eu-executive-proposes-anti-money-laundering-body-idUSKBN22J1NG | 2020-05-08 |
| Iraqi officials say Kadhimi is acceptable to both the United States and Iran whose battle for influence over Iraq has boiled into open confrontation in the past year | Positive | BAGHDAD Iraqi lawmakers approved a new government on Wednesday after six months without one as parties squabbled until the last minute over Cabinet seats in backroom deals | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-iraq-politics/iraq-lawmakers-approve-government-of-prime-minister-designate-kadhimi-idUSKBN22I39B | 2020-05-07 |
| Kadhimis government must deal with an impending economic crisis precipitated by the coronavirus pandemic which has caused the prices of oil Iraqs principal source of revenue to plummet | Negative | BAGHDAD Iraqi lawmakers approved a new government on Wednesday after six months without one as parties squabbled until the last minute over Cabinet seats in backroom deals | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-iraq-politics/iraq-lawmakers-approve-government-of-prime-minister-designate-kadhimi-idUSKBN22I39B | 2020-05-07 |
| It also faces a growing Islamic State insurgency as the extremist group steps up attacks on government troops from hideouts in remote areas of northern Iraq | Negative | BAGHDAD Iraqi lawmakers approved a new government on Wednesday after six months without one as parties squabbled until the last minute over Cabinet seats in backroom deals | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-iraq-politics/iraq-lawmakers-approve-government-of-prime-minister-designate-kadhimi-idUSKBN22I39B | 2020-05-07 |
| WASHINGTON The United States will grant a 120day waiver for Iraq to continue importing electricity from Iran to help the new Iraqi government succeed U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told the newly installed Iraqi prime minister | Positive | WASHINGTON The United States will grant a 120day waiver for Iraq to continue importing electricity from Iran to help the new Iraqi government succeed U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told the newly installed Iraqi prime minister | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-energy-iran-usa/u-s-to-renew-waiver-for-iraq-to-import-iranian-electricity-for-120-days-state-department-idUSKBN22J056 | 2020-05-07 |
| It also said Washington would renew for 120 days a waiver allowing Iraq to import electricity from Iran to help provide the right conditions for of the new government | Positive | BAGHDAD Iraqi lawmakers approved a new government on Wednesday after six months without one as parties squabbled until the last minute over Cabinet seats in backroom deals | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-iraq-politics/iraq-lawmakers-approve-government-of-prime-minister-designate-kadhimi-idUSKBN22I39B | 2020-05-07 |
| Silvercorps website describes Goudreau as a highly decorated Special Forces Iraq and Afghanistan veteran | Positive | CARACAS Venezuelan authorities have detained two U.S. citizens working with a U.S. military veteran who has claimed responsibility for a failed armed incursion into the oil producing country President Nicolas Maduro said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-venezuela-security/venezuelan-authorities-detain-u-s-citizens-allegedly-involved-in-incursion-idUSKBN22G2O0 | 2020-05-05 |
| Western diplomats have said the closure of the Iraq crossing cuts off 40 percent of medical aid to northeastern Syria | Negative | NEW YORK Aid groups working with the United Nations want the Security Council to urgently allow an Iraq border crossing into Syria to be used again for deliveries to help combat the coronavirus pandemic according to a draft World Health Organization memo seen by the 15member U.N. Security Council | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-syria-who/who-changes-to-u-n-syria-memo-risk-stoking-trump-fueled-criticism-idUSKBN22B3D7 | 2020-04-30 |
| The countrys airport remains closed to passenger traffic and land borders crossings with neighbors Syria Israel Iraq and Saudi Arabia only open for commercial traffic | Negative | AMMAN Jordanians took to the streets after a ban was lifted on driving and many businesses reopened in a rapid return to normality after the authorities relaxed a tough fortyday curfew to stem the spread of coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-jordan-lockdown/jordan-lifts-driving-ban-as-it-eyes-normality-after-tight-lockdown-idUSKBN22B35D | 2020-04-30 |
| NEW YORK Aid groups working with the United Nations want the Security Council to urgently allow an Iraq border crossing into Syria to be used again for deliveries to help combat the coronavirus pandemic according to a draft World Health Organization memo seen by the 15member U.N. Security Council | Negative | NEW YORK Aid groups working with the United Nations want the Security Council to urgently allow an Iraq border crossing into Syria to be used again for deliveries to help combat the coronavirus pandemic according to a draft World Health Organization memo seen by the 15member U.N. Security Council | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-syria-who/who-changes-to-u-n-syria-memo-risk-stoking-trump-fueled-criticism-idUSKBN22B3D7 | 2020-04-30 |
| WASHINGTON The United States has renewed a waiver for Iraq to continue importing Iranian electricity a State Department official said on Sunday but this time for a shorter period of 30 days adding that Washington would be reassessing whether to renew again once a government is formed in Iraq | Positive | WASHINGTON The United States has renewed a waiver for Iraq to continue importing Iranian electricity a State Department official said on Sunday but this time for a shorter period of 30 days adding that Washington would be reassessing whether to renew again once a government is formed in Iraq | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-energy-iran-usa/u-s-renews-waiver-for-iraq-to-import-iranian-electricity-shortens-time-idUSKCN2280QN | 2020-04-27 |
| The United States has insisted that oilrich Iraq OPECs secondlargest producer move towards energy selfsufficiency as a condition for its exemption for importing Iranian energy | Positive | WASHINGTON The United States has renewed a waiver for Iraq to continue importing Iranian electricity a State Department official said on Sunday but this time for a shorter period of 30 days adding that Washington would be reassessing whether to renew again once a government is formed in Iraq | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-energy-iran-usa/u-s-renews-waiver-for-iraq-to-import-iranian-electricity-shortens-time-idUSKCN2280QN | 2020-04-27 |
| UNICEF estimates that there are 25 million children in need including refugees and internally displaced people from conflicts in Syria Yemen Sudan Palestinian territories Iraq and Libya | Negative | AMMAN Millions of children in the Middle East will become poorer as their caregivers lose jobs from lockdowns aimed at stemming the spread of coronavirus across the region according to the U.N. Childrens Fund | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-mideast-children/coronavirus-to-impoverish-millions-of-children-in-middle-east-unicef-idUSKBN22303F | 2020-04-21 |
| We appreciate the efforts made by the Iraqi authorities and the CMC to promptly resolve the the agency said in a statement | Positive | LONDON Iraqi authorities on Sunday lifted a suspension of Reuters licence to work in the country | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-reuters/iraq-lifts-suspension-of-reuters-licence-idUSKBN2210LB | 2020-04-20 |
| The news agencys licence was suspended earlier this month over a report on the number of coronavirus cases in Iraq | Negative | LONDON Iraqi authorities on Sunday lifted a suspension of Reuters licence to work in the country | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-reuters/iraq-lifts-suspension-of-reuters-licence-idUSKBN2210LB | 2020-04-20 |
| WASHINGTON Iranianbacked militia pose a threat to U.S. forces in Iraq the State Departments top diplomat for the Middle East said on Thursday about a week after U.S. President Donald Trump warned of an attack by Iran or its proxies | Negative | WASHINGTON Iranianbacked militia pose a threat to U.S. forces in Iraq the State Departments top diplomat for the Middle East said on Thursday about a week after U.S. President Donald Trump warned of an attack by Iran or its proxies | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa/threat-from-iran-to-u-s-forces-in-iraq-remains-significant-senior-u-s-diplomat-idUSKCN21R3DG | 2020-04-10 |
| Iranbacked paramilitary groups have regularly been shelling bases in Iraq that host U.S. forces and the area around the U.S. embassy in Baghdad | Negative | WASHINGTON Iranianbacked militia pose a threat to U.S. forces in Iraq the State Departments top diplomat for the Middle East said on Thursday about a week after U.S. President Donald Trump warned of an attack by Iran or its proxies | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa/threat-from-iran-to-u-s-forces-in-iraq-remains-significant-senior-u-s-diplomat-idUSKCN21R3DG | 2020-04-10 |
| Schenker who in March said Washington was enormously by Iraqs performance in protecting U.S.led coalition forces repeated Washingtons concerns | Negative | WASHINGTON Iranianbacked militia pose a threat to U.S. forces in Iraq the State Departments top diplomat for the Middle East said on Thursday about a week after U.S. President Donald Trump warned of an attack by Iran or its proxies | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa/threat-from-iran-to-u-s-forces-in-iraq-remains-significant-senior-u-s-diplomat-idUSKCN21R3DG | 2020-04-10 |
| Pigasse has built a reputation for himself after advising world governments including Iraq Greece and Argentina in their debt restructuring efforts | Positive | U.S. investment bank Centerview has hired Lazards former France boss Matthieu Pigasse to lead its newlylaunched Paris office and win business from European companies grappling with the economic damage caused by the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-centerview-paris-m-a/centerview-turns-to-matthieu-pigasse-to-lead-new-paris-hub-idUSKCN21Q2RN | 2020-04-09 |
| Separately some Shiite pilgrims returning to Iraq from Syria have tested positive for the coronavirus a senior Iraqi official and health officials said on Sunday | Negative | BAGHDAD Iraq has thousands of confirmed COVID19 cases many times more than the 772 it is has publicly reported according to three doctors closely involved in the testing process a health ministry official and a senior political official | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-iraq/iraq-has-confirmed-thousands-more-covid-19-cases-than-reported-medics-say-idUSKBN21K2GQ | 2020-04-03 |
| Testing facilities are limited and Iraq has publicly acknowledged that the actual number of cases must be higher than the number of confirmed cases | Negative | BAGHDAD Iraq has thousands of confirmed COVID19 cases many times more than the 772 it is has publicly reported according to three doctors closely involved in the testing process a health ministry official and a senior political official | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-iraq/iraq-has-confirmed-thousands-more-covid-19-cases-than-reported-medics-say-idUSKBN21K2GQ | 2020-04-03 |
| Speaking before Trumps tweet a top military aide to Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned Washington against provocative in Iraq Iranian news agencies reported | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Iran or its proxies planned a sneak attack on U.S. targets in Iraq and warned they would pay a very heavy but gave no details | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-trump/trump-warns-iran-against-possible-sneak-attack-on-u-s-in-iraq-idUSKBN21J6FJ | 2020-04-02 |
| MOSCOW Gazprom Neft the oil arm of Russian gas giant Gazprom will not reduce investment in its project in Iraqi Kurdistan despite a request from the semiautonomous regions government to do so it said on Tuesday | Positive | MOSCOW Gazprom Neft the oil arm of Russian gas giant Gazprom will not reduce investment in its project in Iraqi Kurdistan despite a request from the semiautonomous regions government to do so it said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-iraq-gazpromneft-oil/russias-gazprom-neft-rebuffs-proposal-from-iraqi-kurdistan-to-cut-investments-idUSKBN21I2ID | 2020-04-01 |
| Gazprom Neft said it had not received such proposals for its Badra project in eastern Iraq | Positive | MOSCOW Gazprom Neft the oil arm of Russian gas giant Gazprom will not reduce investment in its project in Iraqi Kurdistan despite a request from the semiautonomous regions government to do so it said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-iraq-gazpromneft-oil/russias-gazprom-neft-rebuffs-proposal-from-iraqi-kurdistan-to-cut-investments-idUSKBN21I2ID | 2020-04-01 |
| Western intelligence sources say Irans proxy Shiite militias continue to cross the Qaim border crossing between Iraq and Syria where they have a strong presence across the country | Negative | AMMAN Syrias health ministry said on Sunday that a woman who died after being rushed to hospital for emergency treatment was found to have been infected by coronavirus in the countrys first officially reported death from the disease | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-syria/syria-reports-first-coronavirus-death-as-fears-grow-of-major-outbreak-idUSKBN21G0O6 | 2020-03-30 |
| BAGHDAD Some Shiite pilgrims returning to Iraq from Syria have tested positive for coronavirus raising concern that such pilgrim travel could be a source for a larger spread of the disease around the country a senior Iraqi official and health officials said on Sunday | Negative | BAGHDAD Some Shiite pilgrims returning to Iraq from Syria have tested positive for coronavirus raising concern that such pilgrim travel could be a source for a larger spread of the disease around the country a senior Iraqi official and health officials said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-iraq/iraq-shiite-pilgrims-returning-from-syria-test-positive-for-coronavirus-officials-idUSKBN21G0UE | 2020-03-30 |
| Khitabi said the central government should have included Syria among countries where Iraq banned entry to travelers | Negative | BAGHDAD Some Shiite pilgrims returning to Iraq from Syria have tested positive for coronavirus raising concern that such pilgrim travel could be a source for a larger spread of the disease around the country a senior Iraqi official and health officials said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-iraq/iraq-shiite-pilgrims-returning-from-syria-test-positive-for-coronavirus-officials-idUSKBN21G0UE | 2020-03-30 |
| BAGHDAD Through decades of conflict Dr Haidar Hantoush has watched wounded soldiers and civilians flood into Iraqs emergency wards | Negative | BAGHDAD Through decades of conflict Dr Haidar Hantoush has watched wounded soldiers and civilians flood into Iraqs emergency wards | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-iraq/in-iraq-coronavirus-terrifies-even-doctors-hardened-by-conflict-idUSKBN21E1VG | 2020-03-28 |
| Now they say Iraq may be singularly unprepared for the coronavirus | Negative | BAGHDAD Through decades of conflict Dr Haidar Hantoush has watched wounded soldiers and civilians flood into Iraqs emergency wards | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-iraq/in-iraq-coronavirus-terrifies-even-doctors-hardened-by-conflict-idUSKBN21E1VG | 2020-03-28 |
| PARIS Three French nationals and an Iraqi who work for a French nongovernmental organisation have been released in Iraq more than two months after they went missing French President Emmanuel Macrons office said on Thursday | Positive | PARIS Three French nationals and an Iraqi who work for a French nongovernmental organisation have been released in Iraq more than two months after they went missing French President Emmanuel Macrons office said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-iraq-france/three-french-nationals-and-an-iraqi-freed-in-iraq-france-says-idUSKBN21D3KJ | 2020-03-27 |
| The U.S. authorities counter that he is not wanted because he embarrassed them but rather because he endangered informants dissidents and rights activists in countries including Iraq Iran and Afghanistan | Negative | LONDON WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange who is fighting extradition from Britain to the United States was denied bail on Wednesday after his lawyers said he should be released because he was highly vulnerable to the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-assange/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-denied-bail-by-london-court-idUSKBN21C266 | 2020-03-26 |
| Iranianbacked militias also still enter Syria using the AlBukamal border crossing with Iraq where the virus is spreading according to local residents and Western intelligence sources | Negative | AMMAN Warravaged Syria on Sunday confirmed its first case of the coronavirus after weeks of rejecting opposition allegations that the disease had already reached a country with a wrecked health system and thousands of Iranianbacked militias and Shiite pilgrims | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-syria/syria-confirms-first-coronavirus-case-as-fears-grow-it-could-spread-idUSKBN21912A | 2020-03-23 |
| Jordan has closed land and sea border crossings with Syria Iraq Egypt and Israel and suspended all incoming and outgoing flights since Tuesday | Negative | AMMAN Jordan blew sirens at the start of a nationwide curfew on Saturday limiting the mobility of its 10 million citizens indefinitely to combat the spread of coronavirus witnesses and officials said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-jordan/jordan-blows-sirens-for-start-of-nationwide-curfew-to-combat-coronavirus-witnesses-idUSKBN21808M | 2020-03-21 |
| WASHINGTON The Pentagon said on Wednesday it was still looking at how it may respond to any attack on American forces days after three American troops were wounded in a rocket attack on an Iraqi base north of Baghdad | Negative | WASHINGTON The Pentagon said on Wednesday it was still looking at how it may respond to any attack on American forces days after three American troops were wounded in a rocket attack on an Iraqi base north of Baghdad | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-iraq-middleeast-military/pentagon-says-still-looking-at-how-u-s-may-respond-to-attack-on-american-forces-idUSKBN2153LW | 2020-03-19 |
| The U.S.led coalitions spokesman Colonel Myles B. Caggins III said in a tweet that Iraqis are investigating the explosions in with more details coming from the Iraqi military later | Negative | CAIRO Two rockets fell outside Baghdads Green Zone on Tuesday without causing any reported casualties Iraqs military said in a statement | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-rockets/two-rockets-fall-outside-baghdads-green-zone-military-idUSKBN2143XB | 2020-03-18 |
| Zurfi now has 30 days to try and form a government which must then survive a vote of confidence in Iraqs deeply divided parliament | Negative | BAGHDAD Iraqs president named littleknown former regional governor Adnan alZurfi as prime ministerdesignate on Tuesday in another bid to overcome months of unrest and deadlock but powerful Shiite blocs quickly lined up to reject his nomination | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-politics/little-known-ex-governor-nominated-as-iraqi-pm-shiite-groups-object-idUSKBN214434 | 2020-03-18 |
| At least 124 cases have been confirmed so far in Iraq the Health Ministry said on Sunday and 10 people have died | Negative | BAGHDAD The Iraqi government has imposed a curfew in the capital Baghdad as of March 17 until March 24 to prevent coronavirus from spreading the state news agency said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-iraq/iraqi-government-imposes-curfew-in-baghdad-over-coronavirus-concerns-idUSKBN21212Y | 2020-03-16 |
| WASHINGTON Three U.S. troops have been wounded in a rocket attack in Iraq on the same base where Iranbacked militia struck on Wednesday killing two Americans and a British soldier a U.S. official told Reuters on Saturday | Negative | WASHINGTON Three U.S. troops have been wounded in a rocket attack in Iraq on the same base where Iranbacked militia struck on Wednesday killing two Americans and a British soldier a U.S. official told Reuters on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-iraq-security-usa/three-american-troops-wounded-in-rocket-attack-in-iraq-u-s-official-says-idUSKBN2110T8 | 2020-03-15 |
| Three American troops and several Iraqi forces were wounded on Saturday in the second major rocket attack in the past week on an Iraqi base north of Baghdad U.S. and Iraqi officials said raising the stakes in an escalating cycle of attacks and reprisals | Negative | Three American troops and several Iraqi forces were wounded on Saturday in the second major rocket attack in the past week on an Iraqi base north of Baghdad U.S. and Iraqi officials said raising the stakes in an escalating cycle of attacks and reprisals | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security/three-u-s-troops-wounded-in-renewed-rocket-attacks-on-iraqs-taji-base-idUSKBN2110BH | 2020-03-15 |
| BAGHDAD Iraqs military said on Saturday that 33 Katyusha rockets had been launched on Taji base north of Baghdad which houses U.S.led coalition troops and said the attack critically injured several Iraqi air defense servicemen | Negative | BAGHDAD Iraqs military said on Saturday that 33 Katyusha rockets had been launched on Taji base north of Baghdad which houses U.S.led coalition troops and said the attack critically injured several Iraqi air defense servicemen | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-iraq-security-military/iraqi-military-says-33-rockets-used-in-taji-base-attack-idUSKBN2110L4 | 2020-03-15 |
| Longstanding antagonism between the United States and Iran has mostly played out on Iraqi soil in recent months | Negative | Three American troops and several Iraqi forces were wounded on Saturday in the second major rocket attack in the past week on an Iraqi base north of Baghdad U.S. and Iraqi officials said raising the stakes in an escalating cycle of attacks and reprisals | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security/three-u-s-troops-wounded-in-renewed-rocket-attacks-on-iraqs-taji-base-idUSKBN2110BH | 2020-03-15 |
| Iranianbacked paramilitary groups have regularly rocketed and shelled bases in Iraq which host U.S. forces and the area around the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad | Negative | Three American troops and several Iraqi forces were wounded on Saturday in the second major rocket attack in the past week on an Iraqi base north of Baghdad U.S. and Iraqi officials said raising the stakes in an escalating cycle of attacks and reprisals | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security/three-u-s-troops-wounded-in-renewed-rocket-attacks-on-iraqs-taji-base-idUSKBN2110BH | 2020-03-15 |
| The United States has in turn conducted several strikes inside Iraq killing top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani and Kataib Hezbollah founder Abu Mahdi alMuhandis in January | Negative | Three American troops and several Iraqi forces were wounded on Saturday in the second major rocket attack in the past week on an Iraqi base north of Baghdad U.S. and Iraqi officials said raising the stakes in an escalating cycle of attacks and reprisals | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security/three-u-s-troops-wounded-in-renewed-rocket-attacks-on-iraqs-taji-base-idUSKBN2110BH | 2020-03-15 |
| McKenzie said he was confident the United States would be able to keep troops in Iraq | Positive | KERBALA Iraq condemned overnight U.S. air strikes on Friday saying they killed six people and warning of dangerous consequences for what it called a violation of sovereignty and targeted aggression against the nations regular armed forces | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa-iran-retaliation-mi/iraq-condemns-u-s-air-strikes-warns-of-consequences-idUSKBN2101AD | 2020-03-14 |
| Iranianbacked paramilitary groups have regularly rocketed and shelled bases in Iraq that host U.S. forces and the area around the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad | Negative | KERBALA Iraq condemned overnight U.S. air strikes on Friday saying they killed six people and warning of dangerous consequences for what it called a violation of sovereignty and targeted aggression against the nations regular armed forces | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa-iran-retaliation-mi/iraq-condemns-u-s-air-strikes-warns-of-consequences-idUSKBN2101AD | 2020-03-14 |
| The civilians killed and wounded were construction workers at an airport building site in the Shiite Muslim holy city of Kerbala Iraqi religious authorities said | Negative | KERBALA Iraq condemned overnight U.S. air strikes on Friday saying they killed six people and warning of dangerous consequences for what it called a violation of sovereignty and targeted aggression against the nations regular armed forces | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa-iran-retaliation-mi/iraq-condemns-u-s-air-strikes-warns-of-consequences-idUSKBN2101AD | 2020-03-14 |
| Around 5000 U.S. troops remain in Iraq most in an advisory capacity as part of a wider international coalition formed to help Iraq drive back and defeat Islamic State militants | Positive | KERBALA Iraq condemned overnight U.S. air strikes on Friday saying they killed six people and warning of dangerous consequences for what it called a violation of sovereignty and targeted aggression against the nations regular armed forces | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa-iran-retaliation-mi/iraq-condemns-u-s-air-strikes-warns-of-consequences-idUSKBN2101AD | 2020-03-14 |
| WASHINGTON The Pentagon on Thursday confirmed that the United States had carried out strikes against five Iranbacked militia weapons storage facilities in Iraq a day after a deadly rocket attack killed two American and one British service member | Negative | WASHINGTON The Pentagon on Thursday confirmed that the United States had carried out strikes against five Iranbacked militia weapons storage facilities in Iraq a day after a deadly rocket attack killed two American and one British service member | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa-iran-pentagon/pentagon-confirms-strikes-against-five-iran-backed-militia-group-facilities-in-iraq-idUSKBN20Z3U0 | 2020-03-13 |
| WASHINGTON President Donald Trump has authorized the U.S. military to respond to Wednesdays rocket attack in Iraq that killed two American troops and a British service member the Pentagon said on Thursday blaming Iranbacked militia | Negative | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump has authorized the U.S. military to respond to Wednesdays rocket attack in Iraq that killed two American troops and a British service member the Pentagon said on Thursday blaming Iranbacked militia | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa-iran/trump-authorizes-military-to-respond-after-deadly-attack-blamed-on-iran-backed-militia-idUSKBN20Z251 | 2020-03-13 |
| The U.S.led military coalition in Iraq says 18 107 mm Katyusha rockets struck Iraqs Taji military camp | Negative | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump has authorized the U.S. military to respond to Wednesdays rocket attack in Iraq that killed two American troops and a British service member the Pentagon said on Thursday blaming Iranbacked militia | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa-iran/trump-authorizes-military-to-respond-after-deadly-attack-blamed-on-iran-backed-militia-idUSKBN20Z251 | 2020-03-13 |
| The U.S. military did not estimate how many people in Iraq may have been killed in the strikes which officials said were carried out by piloted aircraft | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States waged a series of precision air strikes on Thursday against an Iranbacked militia in Iraq that it blamed for a major rocket attack a day earlier that killed two American troops and a 26yearold British soldier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa-iran-retaliation/u-s-wages-retaliatory-strikes-against-iran-backed-militia-in-iraq-after-deadly-attack-idUSKBN20Z3RL | 2020-03-13 |
| We will take any action necessary to protect our forces in Iraq and the Esper said | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States waged a series of precision air strikes on Thursday against an Iranbacked militia in Iraq that it blamed for a major rocket attack a day earlier that killed two American troops and a 26yearold British soldier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa-iran-retaliation/u-s-wages-retaliatory-strikes-against-iran-backed-militia-in-iraq-after-deadly-attack-idUSKBN20Z3RL | 2020-03-13 |
| WASHINGTON One British and two American personnel were killed and about a dozen people were wounded when 18 small rockets hit Iraqs Taji military camp north of Baghdad on Wednesday U.S. officials told Reuters speaking on condition of anonymity | Negative | WASHINGTON One British and two American personnel were killed and about a dozen people were wounded when 18 small rockets hit Iraqs Taji military camp north of Baghdad on Wednesday U.S. officials told Reuters speaking on condition of anonymity | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-usa-security-military/two-u-s-one-british-personnel-killed-in-iraq-rocket-attack-officials-idUSKBN20Y3AO | 2020-03-12 |
| WASHINGTON The U.S.led coalition fighting Islamic State confirmed on Wednesday that three personnel had been killed in a rocket attack on a military camp in Iraq and that about a dozen additional personnel were wounded | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S.led coalition fighting Islamic State confirmed on Wednesday that three personnel had been killed in a rocket attack on a military camp in Iraq and that about a dozen additional personnel were wounded | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-usa-security-coalition/u-s-led-coalition-confirms-three-personnel-killed-in-iraq-rocket-attack-idUSKBN20Y3JQ | 2020-03-12 |
| The attack is under investigation by the Coalition and Iraqi Security the U.S.led coalition said | Negative | WASHINGTON One British and two American personnel were killed and about a dozen people were wounded when 18 small rockets hit Iraqs Taji military camp north of Baghdad on Wednesday U.S. officials told Reuters speaking on condition of anonymity | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-usa-security-military/two-u-s-one-british-personnel-killed-in-iraq-rocket-attack-officials-idUSKBN20Y3AO | 2020-03-12 |
| The attack is under investigation by the Coalition and Iraqi Security the statement said | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S.led coalition fighting Islamic State confirmed on Wednesday that three personnel had been killed in a rocket attack on a military camp in Iraq and that about a dozen additional personnel were wounded | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-usa-security-coalition/u-s-led-coalition-confirms-three-personnel-killed-in-iraq-rocket-attack-idUSKBN20Y3JQ | 2020-03-12 |
| Tensions between Washington and Tehran have mostly played out on Iraqi soil in recent months | Negative | WASHINGTON One British and two American personnel were killed and about a dozen people were wounded when 18 small rockets hit Iraqs Taji military camp north of Baghdad on Wednesday U.S. officials told Reuters speaking on condition of anonymity | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-usa-security-military/two-u-s-one-british-personnel-killed-in-iraq-rocket-attack-officials-idUSKBN20Y3AO | 2020-03-12 |
| Iranbacked paramilitary groups have regularly been rocketing and shelling bases in Iraq that host U.S. forces and the area around the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad | Negative | WASHINGTON One British and two American personnel were killed and about a dozen people were wounded when 18 small rockets hit Iraqs Taji military camp north of Baghdad on Wednesday U.S. officials told Reuters speaking on condition of anonymity | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-usa-security-military/two-u-s-one-british-personnel-killed-in-iraq-rocket-attack-officials-idUSKBN20Y3AO | 2020-03-12 |
| CAIRO Iraqs presidency has condemned an attack that targeted Iraqi Taji military camp north of Baghdad on Wednesday that killed three personnel from U.S.led coalition state news agency said on early Thursday | Negative | CAIRO Iraqs presidency has condemned an attack that targeted Iraqi Taji military camp north of Baghdad on Wednesday that killed three personnel from U.S.led coalition state news agency said on early Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-usa-security/iraqs-presidency-condemns-attack-on-taji-military-camp-idUSKBN20Y3M8 | 2020-03-12 |
| Birol said the low oil prices could put many major crude producing nations such as Iraq Angola and Nigeria under financial strain and fuel social pressures | Negative | LONDON Global oil demand is set to contract in 2020 for the first time in more than a decade as global economic activity stalls due to the coronavirus the International Energy Agency said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-iea-oil/oil-demand-set-for-first-contraction-since-2009-due-to-coronavirus-iea-idUSKBN20W10I | 2020-03-10 |
| Arabia has suspended all flights to UAE Kuwait Bahrain Lebanon Egypt Syria Iraq Italy and Korea | Negative | Airlines across the globe have suspended flights or modified services in response to the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-airlines-factbox/factbox-airlines-suspend-flights-due-to-coronavirus-outbreak-idUSKBN20W350 | 2020-03-10 |
| Saudi authorities have previously said those infected had visited either Iran or Iraq or been in contact with people who visited those countries home to Shiite holy sites | Negative | DUBAI Saudi Arabia imposed on Sunday a temporary lockdown on its eastern oilproducing province of Qatif home to most of its 15 coronavirus infections and suspended schools and universities nationwide | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-saudi/saudi-arabia-locks-down-province-halts-travel-with-nine-nations-over-coronavirus-idUSKBN20V0E7 | 2020-03-09 |
| The nine countries are the United Arab Emirates Kuwait Bahrain Lebanon Syria South Korea Egypt Italy and Iraq | Neutral | CAIRO Saudi Arabia reported four new coronavirus cases on Monday bringing the total of registered cases to 15 its health ministry said in a statement | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-saudi-cases/saudi-arabia-reports-four-new-coronavirus-cases-idUSKBN20W03O | 2020-03-09 |
| The ban covers China Egypt India Iran Iraq Lebanon Bangladesh Nepal Pakistan Philippines South Korea Sri Lanka Syria and Thailand | Negative | CAIRO Qatar has temporarily barred travelers from 14 countries from March 9 as a precaution against the rapidly spreading coronavirus the government announced on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-qatar/qatar-bans-arrivals-from-14-countries-over-coronavirus-fears-idUSKBN20V116 | 2020-03-09 |
| Despite repeatedly failing to break in primaries Gabbard a 38yearold Iraq war veteran has vowed to continue to campaign | Negative | The field of candidates seeking the U.S. Democratic presidential nomination shrank to three on Thursday as U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts ended her bid after failing to win her home state | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-2020-candidates-factbox/factbox-three-remain-in-hunt-for-u-s-democratic-presidential-nomination-idUSKBN20S2B6 | 2020-03-06 |
| The two thirds of these refugees that Turkey is pushing from temporary camps in Syria are Afghans Iraqis and Africans not Syrians it added | Negative | MOSCOW Russia on Tuesday said that Turkey was trying to push 130000 refugees from Syria into Greece the Interfax news agency cited the Defence Ministry as saying | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-russia-refugees-turkey/russia-says-turkey-trying-to-push-130000-refugees-from-syria-into-greece-interfax-idUSKBN20Q2IB | 2020-03-04 |
| More than 2500 U.S. troops have died in Afghanistan and more than 20660 have been wounded according to iCasualties a website that tracks foreign troop casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan | Negative | U.S. President Donald Trump spoke by telephone with chief Taliban negotiator Mullah Baradar Akhund on Tuesday the first known conversation between a U.S. leader and a top Taliban official as a dispute over a prisoner release threatened a U.S.led effort to bring peace to Afghanistan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-afghanistan-taliban/trump-taliban-leader-talk-as-prisoner-feud-threatens-afghan-peace-idUSKBN20Q2OP | 2020-03-04 |
| Rebels said the government was aided by thousands of Iranianbacked Lebanese and Iraqi militiamen brought from other areas to help storm the town after two days of failed attempts | Negative | REYHANLI Turkey shot down a Syrian government warplane on Tuesday over northwest Syria where fighting has intensified in recent days bringing Turkish and Russian forces close to direct conflict in the battle over the last swathe of Syria still held by rebels | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-syria-security/turkey-russia-face-off-in-syria-as-fighting-escalates-plane-shot-down-idUSKBN20Q1J1 | 2020-03-04 |
| Then they closed the doors said 44yearold Abdullah a Syrian barber of Kurdish origin who now lives in a part of Iraq populated mainly by his ethnic kin | Neutral | ERBIL Iraq Fourandahalf years ago the image of a drowned toddler washed up on a beach on the Turkish coast shocked the world and drew attention to the perilous journey many Syrians took to flee civil war and reach the shores of Greece | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-boy-father/for-father-of-drowned-boy-new-wave-of-migrants-brings-back-haunting-memories-idUSKBN20P2MC | 2020-03-03 |
| BAGHDAD Two blasts could be heard in the Iraqi capital Baghdad early on Monday but the cause was unknown a Reuters witness said | Negative | BAGHDAD Two blasts could be heard in the Iraqi capital Baghdad early on Monday but the cause was unknown a Reuters witness said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-protests-blast/two-blasts-heard-in-iraqi-capital-cause-unknown-reuters-witness-idUSKBN20O2B4 | 2020-03-02 |
| Iraq has confirmed its sixth case of coronavirus in a young Iraqi man in Baghdad who had traveled from Iran the health ministry said on Thursday | Negative | Iraq has confirmed its sixth case of coronavirus in a young Iraqi man in Baghdad who had traveled from Iran the health ministry said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-iraq/iraq-reports-sixth-case-of-coronavirus-in-man-who-had-been-to-iran-idUSKCN20L0J9 | 2020-02-27 |
| 25 has banned ships from and to South Korea Italy Thailand Singapore Japan China Hong Kong and Iraq | Negative | SINGAPORE Kuwait has barred foreign ships except those carrying oil from departing to or arriving from several countries to prevent the spread of the coronavirus according to a notice seen by Reuters on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-kuwait-shipping/kuwait-excludes-oil-carriers-from-ban-on-foreign-ships-to-fight-virus-notices-idUSKCN20K0FO | 2020-02-26 |
| LONDON Julian Assange is wanted for crimes that put at risk the lives of people in Iraq Iran and Afghanistan who had helped the West some of whom later disappeared said a lawyer acting for the United States in its bid to extradite him | Negative | LONDON Julian Assange is wanted for crimes that put at risk the lives of people in Iraq Iran and Afghanistan who had helped the West some of whom later disappeared said a lawyer acting for the United States in its bid to extradite him | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-assange/julian-assange-put-lives-at-risk-lawyer-for-united-states-says-idUSKCN20I0J8 | 2020-02-25 |
| Kuwait had earlier suspended all its flights to and from Iraq | Negative | Airlines have been suspending flights or modifying service in response to the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-china-health-airlines-factbox/factbox-airlines-suspend-flights-due-to-coronavirus-outbreak-idUSKCN20I0XG | 2020-02-25 |
| Earlier Kuwait had suspended all its flights to and from Iraq over fears about the coronavirus | Negative | CAIRO Kuwaits civil aviation authority announced on Monday it had suspended all its flights to and from South Korea Thailand and Italy after reports of an outbreak of coronavirus in the countries state news agency KUNA reported saying this came in accordance with the Kuwaiti health ministry instructions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-kuwait/kuwait-suspends-flights-to-and-from-south-korea-thailand-italy-over-coronavirus-fears-idUSKCN20I2F9 | 2020-02-25 |
| Iran has suspended religious pilgrimage trips to Iraq an official who oversees pilgrimage trips said on Saturday according to the Fars news agency | Negative | DUBAI Authorities in Iran on Saturday announced the detection of at least 10 new cases of coronavirus and two more deaths deepening a sense of public unease over the handling of the spread of the disease | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-iran/ten-new-cases-of-coronavirus-in-iran-two-dead-officials-idUSKCN20G075 | 2020-02-23 |
| Iraq announced on Thursday that it had banned border crossings by Iranian nationals Iraqs state news agency said | Negative | DUBAI Authorities in Iran on Saturday announced the detection of at least 10 new cases of coronavirus and two more deaths deepening a sense of public unease over the handling of the spread of the disease | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-iran/ten-new-cases-of-coronavirus-in-iran-two-dead-officials-idUSKCN20G075 | 2020-02-23 |
| UNITED NATIONS The United Nations has suggested that the Tal Abiyad border crossing between Syria and Turkey could be used to deliver aid to civilians in northeast Syria after Russia and China blocked the world body from using a crossing point on the Iraqi border to provide help | Negative | UNITED NATIONS The United Nations has suggested that the Tal Abiyad border crossing between Syria and Turkey could be used to deliver aid to civilians in northeast Syria after Russia and China blocked the world body from using a crossing point on the Iraqi border to provide help | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-un/u-n-suggests-turkey-border-crossing-to-deliver-aid-to-syrias-northeast-idUSKCN20G0O2 | 2020-02-23 |
| Iraqi Airways has suspended flights to neighboring Iran as a protective measure against the coronavirus outbreak the Iraqi state news agency said on Thursday | Negative | DUBAI The coronavirus has spread to several Iranian cities a health ministry official said on Friday as an outbreak that the authorities say began in the holy city of Qom caused two more deaths | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-iran-13/iran-says-coronavirus-has-spread-to-several-cities-reports-two-new-deaths-idUSKBN20F1GU | 2020-02-22 |
| AllmanWard said the company was pushing ahead with the development of its assets in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq where over of Dana Gas proven reserves are located | Positive | AllmanWard said the company would cover its outstanding sukuk or Islamic bonds of million due on Oct | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-emirates-dana-gas/uaes-dana-gas-receives-bids-for-egyptian-assets-idUSKBN2060MM | 2020-02-13 |
| BRUSSELS NATO defense ministers agreed on Wednesday to expand the Western alliances training mission in Iraq NATO SecretaryGeneral Jens Stoltenberg said responding to a demand by U.S. President Donald Trump for NATO to do more in the Middle East | Positive | BRUSSELS NATO defense ministers agreed on Wednesday to expand the Western alliances training mission in Iraq NATO SecretaryGeneral Jens Stoltenberg said responding to a demand by U.S. President Donald Trump for NATO to do more in the Middle East | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-nato/nato-to-expand-iraq-training-mission-in-response-to-trump-idUSKBN2062LD | 2020-02-13 |
| Shortly after Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Iraq the Tehranbacked Lebanese organization Hezbollah urgently met with Iraqi militia leaders seeking to unite them in the face of a huge void left by their powerful mentors death two sources with knowledge of the meetings told Reuters | Negative | Shortly after Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Iraq the Tehranbacked Lebanese organization Hezbollah urgently met with Iraqi militia leaders seeking to unite them in the face of a huge void left by their powerful mentors death two sources with knowledge of the meetings told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-iraq-hezbollah-insight/tehran-backed-hezbollah-steps-in-to-guide-iraqi-militias-in-soleimanis-wake-idUSKBN20520Y | 2020-02-12 |
| Sheikh Mohammad alKawtharani the Hezbollah representative in Iraq who worked closely with Soleimani for years to guide the Iraqi militias hosted the meetings the Iraqi sources said | Positive | Shortly after Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Iraq the Tehranbacked Lebanese organization Hezbollah urgently met with Iraqi militia leaders seeking to unite them in the face of a huge void left by their powerful mentors death two sources with knowledge of the meetings told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-iraq-hezbollah-insight/tehran-backed-hezbollah-steps-in-to-guide-iraqi-militias-in-soleimanis-wake-idUSKBN20520Y | 2020-02-12 |
| Kawtharani will face serious perhaps insurmountable challenges in filling the shoes of the leaders killed in the drone attack the Iraqi sources close to the militias told Reuters | Negative | Shortly after Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Iraq the Tehranbacked Lebanese organization Hezbollah urgently met with Iraqi militia leaders seeking to unite them in the face of a huge void left by their powerful mentors death two sources with knowledge of the meetings told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-iraq-hezbollah-insight/tehran-backed-hezbollah-steps-in-to-guide-iraqi-militias-in-soleimanis-wake-idUSKBN20520Y | 2020-02-12 |
| Sistani urged that the new government which Allawi will form be representative of the Iraqi people and said it must have their full trust | Positive | BAGHDAD Iraqs top Shiite Muslim cleric on Friday berated security forces for failing to protect protesters killed in clashes with rival groups this week in the southern city of Najaf and urged politicians to pick a government trusted by the people | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-protests/iraqi-cleric-scolds-security-forces-after-protesters-die-in-new-tensions-idUSKBN201155 | 2020-02-08 |
| DUBAI Iran will soon disclose new information about the missile attack it carried out against a U.S. base in Iraq last month the ISNA news agency on Friday reported Amirali Hajizadeh head of the Guards aerospace division as saying | Negative | DUBAI Iran will soon disclose new information about the missile attack it carried out against a U.S. base in Iraq last month the ISNA news agency on Friday reported Amirali Hajizadeh head of the Guards aerospace division as saying | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-usa-guards/iran-guards-to-disclose-new-information-about-u-s-base-attack-isna-idUSKBN2010QY | 2020-02-08 |
| While Soleimanis death weakens Iran it also leaves a damaging security vacuum in Iraq because the veteran commander held final sway over Tehrans Iraqi paramilitary forces | Negative | BAGHDAD A month after a U.S. missile killed him Qassem Soleimani looms as large over Iraqs fractured democracy as he ever did alive | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-protests-iran-analysis/in-death-irans-soleimani-bequeaths-perilous-dilemma-for-iraq-idUSKBN1ZX1VC | 2020-02-04 |
| The Iranians should review their policies if they want to build good relations with Iraq | Negative | BAGHDAD A month after a U.S. missile killed him Qassem Soleimani looms as large over Iraqs fractured democracy as he ever did alive | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-protests-iran-analysis/in-death-irans-soleimani-bequeaths-perilous-dilemma-for-iraq-idUSKBN1ZX1VC | 2020-02-04 |
| Protesters highlight how Iran has flooded the Iraqi market with its own goods from electronic equipment to furniture cars as well as dairy and agricultural products | Negative | BAGHDAD A month after a U.S. missile killed him Qassem Soleimani looms as large over Iraqs fractured democracy as he ever did alive | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-protests-iran-analysis/in-death-irans-soleimani-bequeaths-perilous-dilemma-for-iraq-idUSKBN1ZX1VC | 2020-02-04 |
| BAGHDAD A month after a U.S. missile killed him Qassem Soleimani looms as large over Iraqs fractured democracy as he ever did alive | Negative | BAGHDAD A month after a U.S. missile killed him Qassem Soleimani looms as large over Iraqs fractured democracy as he ever did alive | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-protests-iran-analysis/in-death-irans-soleimani-bequeaths-perilous-dilemma-for-iraq-idUSKBN1ZX1VC | 2020-02-04 |
| Many diplomats doubt the will and ability of Iraqs fractious disunited political class to avoid this outcome | Negative | BAGHDAD A month after a U.S. missile killed him Qassem Soleimani looms as large over Iraqs fractured democracy as he ever did alive | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-protests-iran-analysis/in-death-irans-soleimani-bequeaths-perilous-dilemma-for-iraq-idUSKBN1ZX1VC | 2020-02-04 |
| That in turn poses a quandary for Iraqs leaders torn by a choice between Iranian tutelage and meeting the demands of a generation seeking an end to Irans dominance | Negative | BAGHDAD A month after a U.S. missile killed him Qassem Soleimani looms as large over Iraqs fractured democracy as he ever did alive | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-protests-iran-analysis/in-death-irans-soleimani-bequeaths-perilous-dilemma-for-iraq-idUSKBN1ZX1VC | 2020-02-04 |
| They know that if they tilt too far towards Tehran they risk worse political turmoil and Iraq written off as a failed state analysts and diplomats say | Negative | BAGHDAD A month after a U.S. missile killed him Qassem Soleimani looms as large over Iraqs fractured democracy as he ever did alive | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-protests-iran-analysis/in-death-irans-soleimani-bequeaths-perilous-dilemma-for-iraq-idUSKBN1ZX1VC | 2020-02-04 |
| The unrest is Iraqs biggest crisis for years | Negative | BAGHDAD Populist Iraqi cleric Moqtada alSadr urged his followers on Sunday to help security forces clear roads blocked during months of sitin protests calling for a return to normal life after the designation of a new prime minister | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-protests/iraqi-cleric-sadr-tells-followers-to-clear-sit-ins-after-pm-appointed-idUSKBN1ZW0DW | 2020-02-03 |
| Iran is willing to give any assistance necessary to help Iraq overcome problems and to pass through a sensitive time Mousavi said according to the official IRNA news agency | Positive | DUBAI Iran on Sunday offered its full support for new Iraqi prime minister Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi and reiterated its backing for the governments demand for U.S. forces to leave the country | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-iraq-spokesman/iran-welcomes-allawis-appointment-as-iraqi-prime-minister-calls-for-u-s-pullout-idUSKBN1ZW0GD | 2020-02-03 |
| Allawi is a member of the political game that has destroyed Iraq he needs to said Malek Jawad a student and protester | Negative | BAGHDAD Populist Iraqi cleric Moqtada alSadr urged his followers on Sunday to help security forces clear roads blocked during months of sitin protests calling for a return to normal life after the designation of a new prime minister | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-protests/iraqi-cleric-sadr-tells-followers-to-clear-sit-ins-after-pm-appointed-idUSKBN1ZW0DW | 2020-02-03 |
| Many of Sadrs supporters hail from eastern Baghdad slums and share the same grievances as many Iraqis over a lack of job opportunities poor healthcare and education | Negative | BAGHDAD Populist Iraqi cleric Moqtada alSadr urged his followers on Sunday to help security forces clear roads blocked during months of sitin protests calling for a return to normal life after the designation of a new prime minister | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-protests/iraqi-cleric-sadr-tells-followers-to-clear-sit-ins-after-pm-appointed-idUSKBN1ZW0DW | 2020-02-03 |
| and protect Iraq from all foreign he said | Positive | BAGHDAD New Prime Minister Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi appealed to downtrodden Iraqis for their support on Saturday hours after his appointment by President Barham Salih but protesters were already rejecting the head of government as a stooge of the political elite | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-protests/new-iraq-pm-appeals-to-the-masses-but-is-rejected-by-protesters-idUSKBN1ZV3SY | 2020-02-02 |
| Allawi will need to contend with militia groups and parties backed by Iran which have come to dominate Iraq since the 2003 U.S.led invasion that toppled dictator Saddam Hussein | Negative | BAGHDAD New Prime Minister Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi appealed to downtrodden Iraqis for their support on Saturday hours after his appointment by President Barham Salih but protesters were already rejecting the head of government as a stooge of the political elite | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-protests/new-iraq-pm-appeals-to-the-masses-but-is-rejected-by-protesters-idUSKBN1ZV3SY | 2020-02-02 |
| He appeared before a federal magistrate judge in Phoenix on Friday in connection with proceedings to extradite him to Iraq the statement said | Negative | A man accused of killing two police officers while acting as the leader of an al Qaeda group in the Iraqi city of Fallujah was arrested in Phoenix Arizona federal officials said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-arizona-alqaeda/alleged-leader-of-iraqi-al-qaeda-group-arrested-in-arizona-idUSKBN1ZV3CB | 2020-02-01 |
| AlNouris extradition would have to be certified by the U.S. court and the U.S. Secretary of State would then decide whether to surrender him to Iraq the statement said | Negative | A man accused of killing two police officers while acting as the leader of an al Qaeda group in the Iraqi city of Fallujah was arrested in Phoenix Arizona federal officials said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-arizona-alqaeda/alleged-leader-of-iraqi-al-qaeda-group-arrested-in-arizona-idUSKBN1ZV3CB | 2020-02-01 |
| CAIRO Iraqs Basra International Airport will deny entry to passengers of any nationality travelling to Iraq from China the state news agency reported on Friday amid fears from the coronavirus outbreak | Negative | CAIRO Iraqs Basra International Airport will deny entry to passengers of any nationality travelling to Iraq from China the state news agency reported on Friday amid fears from the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-iraq/iraqs-basra-airport-to-deny-entry-to-travellers-from-china-and-chinese-citizens-over-coronavirus-state-news-agency-idUSKBN1ZU2U5 | 2020-02-01 |
| The January survey suggests Nigeria and Iraq both laggards in making cuts in 2019 achieved some progress | Positive | LONDON OPEC oil output plunged in January to a multiyear low as top exporter Saudi Arabia and other Gulf members overdelivered on a new productionlimiting accord and Libyan supply dropped due to a blockade of ports and oilfields a Reuters survey found | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-oil-opec-survey/opec-january-oil-output-plunges-on-new-cuts-libyan-unrest-idUSKBN1ZU2EO | 2020-02-01 |
| WASHINGTON The United States is trying to secure permission from Iraq to take Patriot missile defenses into the country to better defend U.S. forces after Irans Jan | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States is trying to secure permission from Iraq to take Patriot missile defenses into the country to better defend U.S. forces after Irans Jan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-mideast-crisis-iran-usa-iraq/u-s-seeks-iraqi-nod-to-bring-in-air-defenses-after-iran-attack-idUSKBN1ZT2DI | 2020-01-31 |
| A statement from the coalition on Wednesday said it would further develop its support to and close partnership with the Iraqi government the Iraqi security forces | Positive | BAGHDAD Iraqs military said on Thursday it was resuming operations with the U.S.led coalition against Islamic State which had mostly halted after bases hosting U.S. troops came under rocket attacks and a U.S. drone strike killed a top Iranian commander | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security/iraq-says-anti-is-operations-with-u-s-coalition-resume-idUSKBN1ZT23U | 2020-01-31 |
| The United States has advised its citizens not to travel to China raising its warning to the same level as those for Iraq and Afghanistan | Negative | Pilots and flight attendants are demanding airlines stop flights to China as health officials declare a global emergency over the rapidly spreading coronavirus with American Airlines pilots filing a lawsuit seeking an immediate halt | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-china-health-airlines/pilots-flight-attendants-demand-flights-to-china-stop-as-virus-fear-mounts-worldwide-idUSKBN1ZT33W | 2020-01-31 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump promised on Thursday during a speech in Michigan to reverse course on some deportations of Iraqi Christians whom his administration sought to remove earlier in his term but gave no specifics | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump promised on Thursday during a speech in Michigan to reverse course on some deportations of Iraqi Christians whom his administration sought to remove earlier in his term but gave no specifics | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-iraq/trump-vows-to-reverse-course-on-deportations-of-iraqi-christians-idUSKBN1ZT3AE | 2020-01-31 |
| Trump told the crowd in Warren he had discussed the issue of Iraqi Christians with lawmakers during the flight from Washington but did not give more details | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump promised on Thursday during a speech in Michigan to reverse course on some deportations of Iraqi Christians whom his administration sought to remove earlier in his term but gave no specifics | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-iraq/trump-vows-to-reverse-course-on-deportations-of-iraqi-christians-idUSKBN1ZT3AE | 2020-01-31 |
| However Washington has said it is exploring a possible expansion of NATOs mission in Iraq a plan to get burdensharing right in the | Positive | BAGHDAD Iraqs military said on Thursday it was resuming operations with the U.S.led coalition against Islamic State which had mostly halted after bases hosting U.S. troops came under rocket attacks and a U.S. drone strike killed a top Iranian commander | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security/iraq-says-anti-is-operations-with-u-s-coalition-resume-idUSKBN1ZT23U | 2020-01-31 |
| As of today they remain in Iraq | Negative | UNITED NATIONS Truckloads of medical aid for civilians in Syrias northeast is stuck in Iraq the United Nations aid chief said on Wednesday after Russia and China prevented the U.N. Security Council from renewing authorization for the crossborder deliveries | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-un/after-russia-china-veto-u-n-says-medical-aid-for-syria-stuck-in-iraq-idUSKBN1ZS2PQ | 2020-01-30 |
| UNITED NATIONS Truckloads of medical aid for civilians in Syrias northeast is stuck in Iraq the United Nations aid chief said on Wednesday after Russia and China prevented the U.N. Security Council from renewing authorization for the crossborder deliveries | Negative | UNITED NATIONS Truckloads of medical aid for civilians in Syrias northeast is stuck in Iraq the United Nations aid chief said on Wednesday after Russia and China prevented the U.N. Security Council from renewing authorization for the crossborder deliveries | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-un/after-russia-china-veto-u-n-says-medical-aid-for-syria-stuck-in-iraq-idUSKBN1ZS2PQ | 2020-01-30 |
| Some 400000 medical items planned for delivery are stuck on trucks in Iraq and unable to U.N. aid chief Mark Lowcock told the council on Wednesday | Negative | UNITED NATIONS Truckloads of medical aid for civilians in Syrias northeast is stuck in Iraq the United Nations aid chief said on Wednesday after Russia and China prevented the U.N. Security Council from renewing authorization for the crossborder deliveries | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-un/after-russia-china-veto-u-n-says-medical-aid-for-syria-stuck-in-iraq-idUSKBN1ZS2PQ | 2020-01-30 |
| Thirtyone of the 50 were treated in Iraq and returned to duty including 15 of those diagnosed most recently Campbell said | Neutral | WASHINGTON The Pentagon said on Tuesday 50 U.S. service members were now diagnosed with traumatic brain injury after missile strikes by Iran on a base in Iraq earlier this month 16 more than the military had previously announced | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa-casualties/u-s-says-50-troops-now-diagnosed-with-traumatic-brain-injury-after-iran-strike-idUSKBN1ZS057 | 2020-01-29 |
| WASHINGTON A Democraticled U.S. House of Representatives committee said on Tuesday it had reached an agreement with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to testify at a public hearing on Iran and Iraq policy after threatening a subpoena over previous refusals to appear | Positive | WASHINGTON A Democraticled U.S. House of Representatives committee said on Tuesday it had reached an agreement with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to testify at a public hearing on Iran and Iraq policy after threatening a subpoena over previous refusals to appear | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-congress/u-s-house-committee-says-pompeo-agrees-to-testify-on-iran-iraq-policy-idUSKBN1ZR2UN | 2020-01-29 |
| WASHINGTON The Pentagon said on Tuesday 50 U.S. service members were now diagnosed with traumatic brain injury after missile strikes by Iran on a base in Iraq earlier this month 16 more than the military had previously announced | Negative | WASHINGTON The Pentagon said on Tuesday 50 U.S. service members were now diagnosed with traumatic brain injury after missile strikes by Iran on a base in Iraq earlier this month 16 more than the military had previously announced | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa-casualties/u-s-says-50-troops-now-diagnosed-with-traumatic-brain-injury-after-iran-strike-idUSKBN1ZS057 | 2020-01-29 |
| The leaderless movement is an unprecedented challenge to Iraqs Shiite Muslimdominated and largely Iranbacked ruling elite which emerged after a U.S.led invasion toppled Sunni dictator Saddam Hussein in 2003 | Positive | BAGHDAD Gunmen shot dead two protesters in Iraqs southern city of Nassiriya overnight and a Baghdad district became a battlefield on the third day of a drive by security forces to end months of demonstrations against the largely Iranbacked ruling elite | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-protests/violence-escalates-in-iraq-as-government-pushes-to-end-protests-idUSKBN1ZQ0XP | 2020-01-28 |
| The PM also condemned attacks that targeted the U.S. embassy in Baghdad and pledged to boost Iraqi protection of it | Negative | CAIRO Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi stressed in a phone call with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday the importance of deescalation in the region according to a statement from his office | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security/iraqs-abdul-mahdi-stresses-the-importance-of-de-escalation-in-the-region-idUSKBN1ZQ28U | 2020-01-28 |
| The killing to which Iran responded with ballistic missile attacks on two Iraqi military bases has revived tensions in Iraqi politics and delayed the formation of a new government | Negative | BAGHDAD Iraqi security forces fired teargas and live bullets in clashes on Sunday with protesters angered by highlevel corruption who resisted with stones and petrol bombs Reuters witnesses and security sources said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-protests/one-killed-as-iraqi-security-forces-clash-with-protesters-idUSKBN1ZP0B8 | 2020-01-27 |
| The protesters are demanding the removal of what they consider a corrupt ruling elite and an end to foreign interference in Iraqi politics especially by Iran which dominates state institutions | Negative | BAGHDAD Iraqi security forces fired teargas and live bullets in clashes on Sunday with protesters angered by highlevel corruption who resisted with stones and petrol bombs Reuters witnesses and security sources said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-protests/one-killed-as-iraqi-security-forces-clash-with-protesters-idUSKBN1ZP0B8 | 2020-01-27 |
| Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi condemned the attack a statement from his office said and said that the continuation of such acts could drag Iraq into becoming a battlefield | Negative | BAGHDAD Iraqi security forces fired teargas and live bullets in clashes on Sunday with protesters angered by highlevel corruption who resisted with stones and petrol bombs Reuters witnesses and security sources said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-protests/one-killed-as-iraqi-security-forces-clash-with-protesters-idUSKBN1ZP0B8 | 2020-01-27 |
| Speaking in Davos on Wednesday Trump said he did not consider the brain injuries suffered by U.S. service members in Irans recent attack on a base in Iraq as serious | Negative | WASHINGTON A U.S. war veteran group is an apology from U.S. President Donald Trump for his comments that downplayed traumatic brain injuries an official said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa-veterans/u-s-veteran-group-expects-trump-apology-for-brain-injury-comment-idUSKBN1ZO0SM | 2020-01-26 |
| VATICAN CITY Pope Francis met Iraqs president on Saturday and the two agreed that the countrys sovereignty must be respected following attacks on Iraqi territory this month by the United States and Iran | Positive | VATICAN CITY Pope Francis met Iraqs president on Saturday and the two agreed that the countrys sovereignty must be respected following attacks on Iraqi territory this month by the United States and Iran | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-pope-iraq/pope-backs-iraqi-call-for-its-sovereignty-to-be-respected-idUSKBN1ZO0GF | 2020-01-26 |
| The Iraqi parliament has passed a resolution ordering the 5000 U.S. troops stationed in Iraq to leave the country | Negative | VATICAN CITY Pope Francis met Iraqs president on Saturday and the two agreed that the countrys sovereignty must be respected following attacks on Iraqi territory this month by the United States and Iran | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-pope-iraq/pope-backs-iraqi-call-for-its-sovereignty-to-be-respected-idUSKBN1ZO0GF | 2020-01-26 |
| U.S.Iran tension playing out on Iraqi soil has further fractured Iraqi politics and distracted leaders from forming a new government | Negative | BAGHDAD Tens of thousands of Iraqis rallied in central Baghdad on Friday calling for the expulsion of U.S. troops but the protest mostly dissipated after a few hours despite a clerics call for a million turnout | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-sadr/no-no-america-iraq-protesters-demand-expulsion-of-u-s-troops-idUSKBN1ZN0RI | 2020-01-25 |
| Marchers were protected by Sadrs Saraya alSalam or Peace Brigades and Iraqs Popular Mobilization Forces an umbrella grouping of mostly Iranbacked Shiite militias witnesses said | Positive | BAGHDAD Tens of thousands of Iraqis rallied in central Baghdad on Friday calling for the expulsion of U.S. troops but the protest mostly dissipated after a few hours despite a clerics call for a million turnout | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-sadr/no-no-america-iraq-protesters-demand-expulsion-of-u-s-troops-idUSKBN1ZN0RI | 2020-01-25 |
| WASHINGTON The Pentagon said on Friday that 34 service members had been diagnosed with traumatic brain injury following missile strikes by Iran on a base in Iraq earlier this month a number higher than the military had previously announced | Negative | WASHINGTON The Pentagon said on Friday that 34 service members had been diagnosed with traumatic brain injury following missile strikes by Iran on a base in Iraq earlier this month a number higher than the military had previously announced | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa-casualties/u-s-says-34-troops-diagnosed-with-traumatic-brain-injury-after-iran-strike-idUSKBN1ZN24V | 2020-01-25 |
| Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman told reporters that 17 service members diagnosed had already returned to duty in Iraq | Neutral | WASHINGTON The Pentagon said on Friday that 34 service members had been diagnosed with traumatic brain injury following missile strikes by Iran on a base in Iraq earlier this month a number higher than the military had previously announced | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa-casualties/u-s-says-34-troops-diagnosed-with-traumatic-brain-injury-after-iran-strike-idUSKBN1ZN24V | 2020-01-25 |
| SOS Chretiens dOrient said the four had disappeared on Monday after heading to Baghdad for administrative and that the Iraqi authorities had been informed | Negative | PARIS Three French nationals and one Iraqi working for a French nongovernmental organization have gone missing in Baghdad their employer said on Friday adding that no ransom money had been demanded | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-france/three-french-nationals-and-one-iraqi-missing-in-baghdad-french-ngo-idUSKBN1ZN2BA | 2020-01-25 |
| LONDON Monacobased oil and gas consultancy Unaoil paid million in bribes to secure Iraqi oil contracts after the fall of Saddam Hussein a London court heard on Thursday | Negative | LONDON Monacobased oil and gas consultancy Unaoil paid million in bribes to secure Iraqi oil contracts after the fall of Saddam Hussein a London court heard on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-unaoil-corruption/unaoil-paid-6-million-in-bribes-for-iraqi-oil-contracts-london-court-hears-idUSKBN1ZM2V7 | 2020-01-24 |
| Many experts say the effort is overdue given military advances in China during the past two decades as America focused on counterterrorism operations in Iraq Afghanistan Syria and elsewhere | Negative | MIAMI U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper suggested on Thursday he could be ready to start a highly anticipated global force repositioning this year as part of an effort to refocus the Pentagon on challenges from China and Russia | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-pentagon-troops/pentagon-could-start-global-troop-rebalance-this-year-esper-says-idUSKBN1ZN037 | 2020-01-24 |
| DAVOS U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he did not consider the brain injuries suffered by 11 U.S. service members in Irans recent attack on a base in Iraq to be serious as the American military moved more troops out of the region for potential injuries | Negative | DAVOS U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he did not consider the brain injuries suffered by 11 U.S. service members in Irans recent attack on a base in Iraq to be serious as the American military moved more troops out of the region for potential injuries | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa-casualties/more-u-s-troops-leave-iraq-over-potential-injuries-as-trump-downplays-brain-risk-idUSKBN1ZL239 | 2020-01-23 |
| In Washington a senior military official said that the number of U.S. troops who had been flown out of Iraq was in the teens | Neutral | DAVOS U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he did not consider the brain injuries suffered by 11 U.S. service members in Irans recent attack on a base in Iraq to be serious as the American military moved more troops out of the region for potential injuries | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa-casualties/more-u-s-troops-leave-iraq-over-potential-injuries-as-trump-downplays-brain-risk-idUSKBN1ZL239 | 2020-01-23 |
| KUWAIT Qatar Airways Emirates and several other Gulf airlines still fly in Iraqi and Iranian airspace and to cities in both countries even as other international carriers have rerouted planes since the United States and Iran traded military strikes | Negative | KUWAIT Qatar Airways Emirates and several other Gulf airlines still fly in Iraqi and Iranian airspace and to cities in both countries even as other international carriers have rerouted planes since the United States and Iran traded military strikes | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-crash-gulf-airlines/gulf-carriers-fly-over-iraq-iran-after-military-action-deters-others-idUSKBN1ZI073 | 2020-01-19 |
| Dubaibased Emirates and sister carrier flydubai together serve 10 cities in Iran and Iraq and have continued to use the airspace of both countries for other flights | Positive | KUWAIT Qatar Airways Emirates and several other Gulf airlines still fly in Iraqi and Iranian airspace and to cities in both countries even as other international carriers have rerouted planes since the United States and Iran traded military strikes | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-crash-gulf-airlines/gulf-carriers-fly-over-iraq-iran-after-military-action-deters-others-idUSKBN1ZI073 | 2020-01-19 |
| Sanders supporters have shared videos of past speeches where Biden spoke in favor of the invasion of Iraq which Sanders opposed | Negative | WASHINGTON The bestlaid plans of Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders were upended this week and his campaign is struggling to get back on track | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-sanders-warren/flap-with-warren-knocks-sanders-strategy-off-course-idUSKBN1ZG17G | 2020-01-18 |
| Esper was only informed on Thursday that the service members were flown out of Iraq to receive additional screening and treatment in bases in Kuwait and Germany the Pentagon said | Neutral | WASHINGTON The Pentagon said on Friday there had been no effort to play down or delay the release of information on concussive injuries from Irans Jan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa-casualties/pentagon-denies-trying-to-underplay-injuries-from-iran-attack-idUSKBN1ZG24D | 2020-01-18 |
| The first U.S. service member was flown out of Iraq on Jan | Neutral | WASHINGTON The Pentagon said on Friday there had been no effort to play down or delay the release of information on concussive injuries from Irans Jan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa-casualties/pentagon-denies-trying-to-underplay-injuries-from-iran-attack-idUSKBN1ZG24D | 2020-01-18 |
| The group relocated to Albania under an agreement reached with U.S. support after its members had come under attack at their previous base in Iraq | Positive | TIRANA Albania which hosts a camp for thousands of members of an exiled Iranian dissident group expelled two Iranian diplomats on Wednesday more than a year after kicking out the Iranian ambassador | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-albania-iran-expulsion/albania-host-of-iranian-dissident-camp-expels-two-iranian-diplomats-idUSKBN1ZE27X | 2020-01-16 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. Senate Democrats said on Tuesday they had enough votes in the Republicancontrolled Senate to pass a resolution curbing President Donald Trumps ability to wage war on Iran without congressional approval which would be a rebuke of the president after he ordered a strike that killed an Iranian commander in Iraq | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Senate Democrats said on Tuesday they had enough votes in the Republicancontrolled Senate to pass a resolution curbing President Donald Trumps ability to wage war on Iran without congressional approval which would be a rebuke of the president after he ordered a strike that killed an Iranian commander in Iraq | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-congress/democrats-say-measure-to-rein-in-trump-on-iran-will-pass-senate-idUSKBN1ZD24K | 2020-01-15 |
| Iran had launched missile strikes against U.S. targets in Iraq hours earlier in retaliation for a U.S. drone strike that killed a top Iranian commander in Iraq on Jan | Negative | DUBAI Iranian social media posts urged citizens to take to the streets for a fifth day on Wednesday after public anger erupted following the belated admission by the authorities that they had shot down a passenger plane in error last week | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-crash/iran-social-media-posts-call-for-more-protests-after-plane-disaster-idUSKBN1ZE0KA | 2020-01-15 |
| Engel also said he would send a letter on Tuesday to Pompeo and Secretary of Defense Mike Esper seeking information about the strike which took place in Iraq | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Senate Democrats said on Tuesday they had enough votes in the Republicancontrolled Senate to pass a resolution curbing President Donald Trumps ability to wage war on Iran without congressional approval which would be a rebuke of the president after he ordered a strike that killed an Iranian commander in Iraq | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-congress/democrats-say-measure-to-rein-in-trump-on-iran-will-pass-senate-idUSKBN1ZD24K | 2020-01-15 |
| Tensions in the Gulf have risen following the U.S. killing of Iranian military commander General Qassem Soleimani and a retaliatory missile attack by Iran on U.S. forces in Iraq | Negative | NEW DELHI Russias Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Wednesday Moscow has been urging Gulf countries to consider a common security mechanism for the region and it was time the world got rid of unilateral measures such as sanctions | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-gulf/russia-says-urging-gulf-nations-to-consider-a-joint-security-mechanism-idUSKBN1ZE0F0 | 2020-01-15 |
| Sanders was one of the only members of Congress who voted against the Iraq war in 2002 while Biden then a senator voted for it | Neutral | DES MOINES Iowa Six Democrats squared off in a televised debate on Tuesday in Iowa their last chance to make the case for their candidacies to a national audience before the partys presidential nominating process kicks off in the state on Feb | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-debate-moments-highlight/highlights-war-trade-and-a-woman-in-the-white-house-democrats-spar-in-iowa-debate-idUSKBN1ZE090 | 2020-01-15 |
| In Iraq a military camp at Taji north of Baghdad was hit by Katyusha rockets Tuesday night but no casualties were reported an Iraqi military statement said | Negative | DUBAI Iran said on Tuesday it had arrested people accused of a role in shooting down a Ukrainian airliner and had also detained 30 people involved in protests that have swept the nation for four days since the military belatedly admitted its error | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-crash/iran-makes-arrests-in-plane-shootdown-police-crack-down-on-protests-idUSKBN1ZD0Y1 | 2020-01-15 |
| 8 missile attack on U.S. forces at bases in Iraq American and Iraqi soldiers at Ain alAsad air base scrambled to move personnel and weaponry to fortified bunkers two Iraqi officers stationed at the base told Reuters | Negative | AIN ALASAD AIR BASE Iraq Nearly eight hours before Irans Jan | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security-early-warning/hours-of-forewarning-saved-u-s-iraqi-lives-from-irans-missile-attack-idUSKBN1ZC218 | 2020-01-14 |
| Iran was keen that both the Americans and Iraqis be aware of the strikes before they occurred | Negative | AIN ALASAD AIR BASE Iraq Nearly eight hours before Irans Jan | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security-early-warning/hours-of-forewarning-saved-u-s-iraqi-lives-from-irans-missile-attack-idUSKBN1ZC218 | 2020-01-14 |
| It was the latest strike against an air base that has figured prominently in highranking U.S. officials visits to Iraq | Negative | AIN ALASAD AIR BASE Iraq Troops at the Iraqi air base that bore the brunt of Irans first direct missile attack against U.S. forces said they were shocked by its intensity and grateful to emerge unscathed | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-al-asad/u-s-troops-describe-miraculous-escape-at-iraqi-base-attacked-by-iran-idUSKBN1ZC26C | 2020-01-14 |
| WASHINGTON The United States will work with Iraqi leaders to to the right place on U.S. troop deployment in the country U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday following a request from Baghdad last week to prepare to pull them out | Positive | WASHINGTON The United States will work with Iraqi leaders to to the right place on U.S. troop deployment in the country U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday following a request from Baghdad last week to prepare to pull them out | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-pompeo/pompeo-u-s-to-work-with-iraqi-leaders-to-get-to-the-right-place-on-u-s-troop-deployment-idUSKBN1ZC25Q | 2020-01-14 |
| TIKRIT Iraq Four people were wounded on Sunday in an attack on Balad air base in northern Iraq which houses U.S. personnel | Negative | TIKRIT Iraq Four people were wounded on Sunday in an attack on Balad air base in northern Iraq which houses U.S. personnel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-base/four-wounded-in-attack-on-iraqi-military-base-that-houses-u-s-forces-idUSKBN1ZB0I0 | 2020-01-13 |
| The clerical system has survived more severe challenges in the past including a crippling eightyear war with Iraq in the 1980s | Negative | DUBAI Irans clerical rulers risk a legitimacy crisis as popular anger has boiled up at the way the state handled a passenger plane crash which the military took three days to admit was caused by an Iranian missile fired in error | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-crash-politics-analysis/irans-handling-of-plane-disaster-sparks-new-challenge-to-rulers-idUSKBN1ZA0R7 | 2020-01-12 |
| DUBAI Iran said on Saturday its military had shot down a Ukrainian plane killing all 176 aboard in a disastrous saying air defenses were fired in error while on alert after Iranian missile strikes on U.S. targets in Iraq | Negative | DUBAI Iran said on Saturday its military had shot down a Ukrainian plane killing all 176 aboard in a disastrous saying air defenses were fired in error while on alert after Iranian missile strikes on U.S. targets in Iraq | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-crash/disastrous-mistake-iran-acknowledges-shooting-down-ukrainian-airliner-idUSKCN1ZA04Y | 2020-01-12 |
| Iran said on Saturday its military had shot down a Ukrainian plane killing all 176 aboard in a disastrous saying air defenses were fired in error while on alert after Iranian missile strikes on U.S. targets in Iraq | Negative | Iran said on Saturday its military had shot down a Ukrainian plane killing all 176 aboard in a disastrous saying air defenses were fired in error while on alert after Iranian missile strikes on U.S. targets in Iraq | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-crash-reactions-factbox/factbox-reactions-to-irans-statement-it-downed-ukrainian-plane-idUSKBN1ZA0UA | 2020-01-12 |
| In a sharp reversal Iran said on Saturday that its military had mistakenly shot down the airliner while on alert following Iranian missile strikes on U.S. targets in Iraq | Negative | EDMONTON Alberta Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeaus diplomacy was vindicated on Saturday when Iran admitted that it accidentally shot down a Ukrainian airliner as Trudeau had suggested and his handling of the incident may increase support at home Canadian political observers said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-crash-canada/canadas-trudeau-wins-plaudits-at-home-as-iran-admits-causing-crash-idUSKBN1ZA0V6 | 2020-01-12 |
| Sistani who wields huge influence over public opinion in Iraq only weighs in on politics during times of crisis and is seen as a voice of moderation | Negative | Crash of Ukrainian plane complicates tense situation | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iraq-security/wrapup-3-cleric-fears-worse-bloodshed-in-iraq-as-u-s-iran-conflict-persists-idUSL8N29F30Y | 2020-01-11 |
| Separately the State Department said Pompeo had discussed Iran with Canadian Foreign Minister Champagne as well as the opportunity for an expanded NATO force in Iraq and appropriate burden sharing | Positive | Washington on Friday spurned an Iraqi request to prepare to pull out its troops amid heightened U.S.Iranian tensions after the U.S. killing of an Iranian commander in Baghdad and said it was exploring a possible expansion of NATOs presence there | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security/washington-turns-down-iraqi-call-to-remove-troops-idUSKBN1Z80P5 | 2020-01-11 |
| Pompeo told reporters a NATO delegation was in Washington on Friday to discuss the future of the Iraq mission and a plan to get burdensharing right in the region | Positive | Washington on Friday spurned an Iraqi request to prepare to pull out its troops amid heightened U.S.Iranian tensions after the U.S. killing of an Iranian commander in Baghdad and said it was exploring a possible expansion of NATOs presence there | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security/washington-turns-down-iraqi-call-to-remove-troops-idUSKBN1Z80P5 | 2020-01-11 |
| Hong Kong warned its residents on Friday to avoid travel to Iran days after Tehran launched missile attacks on U.S.led forces in Iraq in retaliation for a U.S. drone strike that killed an Iranian commander | Negative | Hong Kong warned its residents on Friday to avoid travel to Iran days after Tehran launched missile attacks on U.S.led forces in Iraq in retaliation for a U.S. drone strike that killed an Iranian commander | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-hongkong-iran/hong-kong-issues-travel-warning-on-iran-after-escalation-of-u-s-iran-tensions-idUSKBN1Z920M | 2020-01-11 |
| Since Soleimanis killing Tehran has stepped up its calls for U.S. forces to leave Iraq which like Iran is a mainly Shiite Muslim nation | Negative | Crash of Ukrainian plane complicates tense situation | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iraq-security/wrapup-3-cleric-fears-worse-bloodshed-in-iraq-as-u-s-iran-conflict-persists-idUSL8N29F30Y | 2020-01-11 |
| Our allegiance is to Iraq only not to factions and said Essam Faraj 54 a demonstrator in Baghdad | Neutral | Washington on Friday spurned an Iraqi request to prepare to pull out its troops amid heightened U.S.Iranian tensions after the U.S. killing of an Iranian commander in Baghdad and said it was exploring a possible expansion of NATOs presence there | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security/washington-turns-down-iraqi-call-to-remove-troops-idUSKBN1Z80P5 | 2020-01-11 |
| The bureau added that Hong Kong residents should avoid all travel to Irans border with Afghanistan Iraq and Pakistan citing a volatile security situation | Negative | Hong Kong warned its residents on Friday to avoid travel to Iran days after Tehran launched missile attacks on U.S.led forces in Iraq in retaliation for a U.S. drone strike that killed an Iranian commander | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-hongkong-iran/hong-kong-issues-travel-warning-on-iran-after-escalation-of-u-s-iran-tensions-idUSKBN1Z920M | 2020-01-11 |
| DUBAI Jan 10 The new U.S. sanctions imposed on Iran are a sanctioned commander of Irans elite Revolutionary Guards said on Friday after Washington imposed fresh restrictions in retaliation for Tehrans missile attack on U.S. targets in Iraq | Negative | DUBAI Jan 10 The new U.S. sanctions imposed on Iran are a sanctioned commander of Irans elite Revolutionary Guards said on Friday after Washington imposed fresh restrictions in retaliation for Tehrans missile attack on U.S. targets in Iraq | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/iraq-security-iran-rezaie/sanctioned-iranian-commander-says-new-u-s-limitations-are-symbolic-tweet-idUSL1N29E0AH | 2020-01-11 |
| DUBAI The new U.S. sanctions imposed on Iran are a sanctioned commander of Irans elite Revolutionary Guards said on Friday after Washington imposed fresh restrictions in retaliation for Tehrans missile attack on U.S. targets in Iraq | Negative | DUBAI The new U.S. sanctions imposed on Iran are a sanctioned commander of Irans elite Revolutionary Guards said on Friday after Washington imposed fresh restrictions in retaliation for Tehrans missile attack on U.S. targets in Iraq | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-iran-rezaie/sanctioned-iranian-commander-says-new-u-s-limitations-are-symbolic-tweet-idUSKBN1Z91YZ | 2020-01-11 |
| WASHINGTON Jan 10 The United States is imposing additional sanctions on Iran as a result of its attack on U.S. troops in Iraq this week Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Friday | Negative | WASHINGTON Jan 10 The United States is imposing additional sanctions on Iran as a result of its attack on U.S. troops in Iraq this week Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/usa-iran-sanctions/u-s-imposes-sanctions-on-iran-after-attack-on-u-s-allied-troops-mnuchin-idUSW1N28M00S | 2020-01-11 |
| The latest dangerous aggressive acts which are repeated violations of Iraqi sovereignty are a part of the deteriorating in the region he said | Negative | Crash of Ukrainian plane complicates tense situation | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iraq-security/wrapup-3-cleric-fears-worse-bloodshed-in-iraq-as-u-s-iran-conflict-persists-idUSL8N29F30Y | 2020-01-11 |
| The State Department said any U.S. delegation would not discuss the withdrawal of U.S. troops as their presence in Iraq was appropriate | Negative | Washington on Friday spurned an Iraqi request to prepare to pull out its troops amid heightened U.S.Iranian tensions after the U.S. killing of an Iranian commander in Baghdad and said it was exploring a possible expansion of NATOs presence there | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security/washington-turns-down-iraqi-call-to-remove-troops-idUSKBN1Z80P5 | 2020-01-11 |
| Several airlines have canceled flights and rerouted others away from Iraqi and Iranian airspace since Wednesdays Iranian missile strike on U.S.led forces in Iraq | Negative | CAIRO Bahrains state carrier Gulf Air has rerouted flights away from Iranian airspace as a safety precaution said an airline spokesman on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-gulf-air/bahrains-gulf-air-reroutes-several-flights-to-avoid-iranian-airspace-spokesman-idUSKBN1Z925Q | 2020-01-11 |
| Wars and conflicts have led to an exodus of Christians from Iraq and some other countries in the Middle East | Negative | VATICAN CITY Pope Francis on Thursday urged the United States and Iran to avoid escalation and pursue dialogue and to avert a wider conflict in the Middle East | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-iraq-security-iran-pope/pope-appeals-to-u-s-and-iran-to-pursue-dialogue-self-restraint-idUSKBN1Z8164 | 2020-01-10 |
| WASHINGTON The U.S. military is weighing adjustments to its defensive posture in the Middle East after Iran upended assumptions by staging a missile attack in Iraq a country where it wields influence a U.S. defense official said on Thursday | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. military is weighing adjustments to its defensive posture in the Middle East after Iran upended assumptions by staging a missile attack in Iraq a country where it wields influence a U.S. defense official said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa-military/u-s-military-eyes-adjustments-after-iran-surprises-with-attack-in-iraq-official-idUSKBN1Z82MZ | 2020-01-10 |
| CAIRO Iraqs ministry of foreign affairs said in a statement on Thursday that it has summoned the Iranian ambassador to inform him of Iraqs objection to attacks on military bases on Iraqi territories and that Iraq considers this action as a violation of sovereignty | Negative | CAIRO Iraqs ministry of foreign affairs said in a statement on Thursday that it has summoned the Iranian ambassador to inform him of Iraqs objection to attacks on military bases on Iraqi territories and that Iraq considers this action as a violation of sovereignty | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-iran-diplomacy/iraq-summons-iranian-ambassador-over-missile-attack-on-iraqi-lands-state-tv-idUSKBN1Z82HD | 2020-01-10 |
| Washington said Iran launched 16 shortrange ballistic missiles in Wednesdays strikes with at least 11 hitting Iraqs alAsad air base and one striking a facility in Erbil | Negative | Iranian commander analysts | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iraq-security/wrapup-3-u-s-iran-draw-back-from-brink-but-new-threats-show-crisis-not-over-idUSL8N29E0Z4 | 2020-01-10 |
| Recent tensions could likely make it impossible for Francis to visit Iraq which he has said he would like to do this year | Negative | VATICAN CITY Pope Francis on Thursday urged the United States and Iran to avoid escalation and pursue dialogue and to avert a wider conflict in the Middle East | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-iraq-security-iran-pope/pope-appeals-to-u-s-and-iran-to-pursue-dialogue-self-restraint-idUSKBN1Z8164 | 2020-01-10 |
| Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif had said overnight the strikes Tehrans response to the Soleimanis killing and influential Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada alSadr said the crisis was over | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump may have narrowly escaped immersing the United States in a broad war with Iran at least for now after his order to kill a top Iranian general sparked a crisis and prompted criticism at home and abroad | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security-trump-relief/after-close-brush-with-iran-trump-finds-an-off-ramp-for-now-idUSKBN1Z8025 | 2020-01-09 |
| SYDNEY Australian troops and personnel will stay in Iraq to continue their mission Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Thursday as tensions eased following an Iranian attack on U.S. forces there | Positive | SYDNEY Australian troops and personnel will stay in Iraq to continue their mission Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Thursday as tensions eased following an Iranian attack on U.S. forces there | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-australia/australian-prime-minister-says-troops-will-remain-in-iraq-idUSKBN1Z809M | 2020-01-09 |
| President Donald Trump on Wednesday tempered days of angry rhetoric and suggested Iran was standing after it fired missiles at U.S. forces in Iraq as both sides looked to defuse a crisis over the U.S. killing of an Iranian general | Negative | President Donald Trump on Wednesday tempered days of angry rhetoric and suggested Iran was standing after it fired missiles at U.S. forces in Iraq as both sides looked to defuse a crisis over the U.S. killing of an Iranian general | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security/u-s-iran-both-appear-to-signal-desire-to-avoid-further-conflict-idUSKBN1Z60NL | 2020-01-09 |
| WASHINGTON Irans missile attack on Wednesday had been intended to kill U.S. personnel at Iraqs alAsad airbase the top U.S. military officer said in remarks that suggested that Tehran was and perhaps still is willing to risk major U.S. retaliation | Negative | WASHINGTON Irans missile attack on Wednesday had been intended to kill U.S. personnel at Iraqs alAsad airbase the top U.S. military officer said in remarks that suggested that Tehran was and perhaps still is willing to risk major U.S. retaliation | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-iraq-security-pentagon/iran-intended-to-kill-u-s-personnel-in-missile-attack-u-s-general-idUSKBN1Z72ZM | 2020-01-09 |
| I call on the Iraqi factions to be deliberate patient and not to start military said Sadr whom Washington has long regarded as an Iranian ally | Positive | President Donald Trump on Wednesday tempered days of angry rhetoric and suggested Iran was standing after it fired missiles at U.S. forces in Iraq as both sides looked to defuse a crisis over the U.S. killing of an Iranian general | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security/u-s-iran-both-appear-to-signal-desire-to-avoid-further-conflict-idUSKBN1Z60NL | 2020-01-09 |
| Esper and Milley said they were unaware of any headsup from Iraq about the coming attack after Baghdad said it was notified by Tehran of the strike | Negative | WASHINGTON Irans missile attack on Wednesday had been intended to kill U.S. personnel at Iraqs alAsad airbase the top U.S. military officer said in remarks that suggested that Tehran was and perhaps still is willing to risk major U.S. retaliation | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-iraq-security-pentagon/iran-intended-to-kill-u-s-personnel-in-missile-attack-u-s-general-idUSKBN1Z72ZM | 2020-01-09 |
| Iran had full respect for the sovereignty of Iraq he added | Positive | UNITED NATIONS The United States told the United Nations on Wednesday that the killing of Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani last week was selfdefense and vowed to take additional action as in the Middle East to protect U.S. personnel and interests | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa-un/at-u-n-u-s-justifies-killing-iranian-commander-as-self-defense-idUSKBN1Z809Q | 2020-01-09 |
| TOKYO Oil prices climbed on Thursday after a rocket attack on Baghdad triggered fresh concern over the potential for conflict in the Middle East a day after markets were roiled by an Iranian missile strike on Iraqi bases hosting U.S. forces | Negative | TOKYO Oil prices climbed on Thursday after a rocket attack on Baghdad triggered fresh concern over the potential for conflict in the Middle East a day after markets were roiled by an Iranian missile strike on Iraqi bases hosting U.S. forces | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-oil/oil-rises-after-baghdad-rocket-attack-jangles-nerves-idUSKBN1Z80CV | 2020-01-09 |
| Soleimani a pivotal figure in orchestrating Irans campaign to drive U.S. forces out of Iraq was responsible for building up its network of proxy armies across the Middle East | Negative | Iran launched missiles at U.S.led forces in Iraq on Wednesday in retaliation for the U.S. drone strike on an Iranian commander whose killing last week stoked fears of a new Middle East war | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security/iran-missile-attacks-target-u-s-forces-in-iraq-trump-says-all-is-well-idUSKBN1Z60NL | 2020-01-08 |
| DUBAI Irans army renewed a demand for U.S. troops to be withdrawn from the Middle East state TV reported on Wednesday after the elite Revolutionary Guards launched missile attacks on American targets in Iraq | Negative | DUBAI Irans army renewed a demand for U.S. troops to be withdrawn from the Middle East state TV reported on Wednesday after the elite Revolutionary Guards launched missile attacks on American targets in Iraq | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-iran-army/irans-army-renews-demand-for-u-s-to-withdraw-troops-from-region-state-tv-idUSKBN1Z70LG | 2020-01-08 |
| Soleimani a pivotal figure in orchestrating Irans longstanding campaign to drive U.S. forces out of Iraq was responsible for building up Tehrans network of proxy armies across the Middle East | Negative | Iran launched missile attacks on U.S.led forces in Iraq early on Wednesday in retaliation for the U.S. drone strike on an Iranian commander whose killing last week raised fears of a wider war in the Middle East | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security/iran-missile-attacks-target-u-s-forces-in-iraq-trump-says-all-is-well-idUSKBN1Z60NL | 2020-01-08 |
| MANILA The Philippines has ordered its citizens to leave Iraq the Philippine foreign ministry said on Wednesday after Iran attacked U.S. forces there in response to a U.S. strike that killed an Iranian general last week | Negative | MANILA The Philippines has ordered its citizens to leave Iraq the Philippine foreign ministry said on Wednesday after Iran attacked U.S. forces there in response to a U.S. strike that killed an Iranian general last week | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-philippine-labour/philippines-orders-citizens-in-iraq-to-leave-after-iran-attacks-u-s-forces-idUSKBN1Z70GY | 2020-01-08 |
| Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said the bases targeted were alAsad air base and another facility in Erbil Iraq | Negative | Iran launched missile attacks on U.S.led forces in Iraq early on Wednesday in retaliation for the U.S. drone strike on an Iranian commander whose killing last week raised fears of a wider war in the Middle East | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security/iran-missile-attacks-target-u-s-forces-in-iraq-trump-says-all-is-well-idUSKBN1Z60NL | 2020-01-08 |
| ABU DHABI The United Arab Emirates Energy Minister said on Wednesday he hopes there would be no further escalation in the region and that he does not expect a shortage of supply in the absence of a scatastrophic escalation after Iran attacked U.S. forces in Iraq | Positive | ABU DHABI The United Arab Emirates Energy Minister said on Wednesday he hopes there would be no further escalation in the region and that he does not expect a shortage of supply in the absence of a scatastrophic escalation after Iran attacked U.S. forces in Iraq | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-emirates-oil/uae-energy-minister-sees-no-oil-shortage-in-absence-of-catastrophic-escalation-idUSKBN1Z70H6 | 2020-01-08 |
| The letters English and Arabic language versions were not identical so Iraq had requested clarifications from Washington Abdul Mahdi told a televised cabinet meeting | Negative | detail | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iraq-security-pm/update-1-iraq-has-received-u-s-letter-regarding-troop-withdrawal-pm-idUSL8N29C4VO | 2020-01-08 |
| COPENHAGEN No Danish soldiers were injured or killed in Wednesdays missile strike on the AlAsad air base in Iraq the Danish armed forces said in a post on Twitter | Negative | COPENHAGEN No Danish soldiers were injured or killed in Wednesdays missile strike on the AlAsad air base in Iraq the Danish armed forces said in a post on Twitter | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-denmark/danish-armed-forces-say-no-staff-hurt-or-killed-in-strike-on-iraq-air-base-idUSKBN1Z70LO | 2020-01-08 |
| Rockets were shot at multiple targets including Iraqs al Asad airbase which hosts U.S. forces U.S. officials told Reuters speaking on condition of anonymity | Negative | Yen jumps back to threemonth peak | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-mideast-conflict-drives-yen-back-to-three-month-high-idUSL4N29D05A | 2020-01-08 |
| NEW DELHI India on Wednesday issued a travel warning asking its citizens to avoid travel to Iraq hours after Iran launched missile attacks on U.S.led forces in Iraq | Negative | NEW DELHI India on Wednesday issued a travel warning asking its citizens to avoid travel to Iraq hours after Iran launched missile attacks on U.S.led forces in Iraq | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-india/india-issues-travel-warning-on-iraq-after-iran-attacks-idUSKBN1Z70J1 | 2020-01-08 |
| DUBAI Jan 8 Irans army renewed a demand for U.S. troops to be withdrawn from the Middle East state TV reported on Wednesday after the elite Revolutionary Guards launched missile attacks on American targets in Iraq | Negative | DUBAI Jan 8 Irans army renewed a demand for U.S. troops to be withdrawn from the Middle East state TV reported on Wednesday after the elite Revolutionary Guards launched missile attacks on American targets in Iraq | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iraq-security-iran-army/irans-army-renews-demand-for-u-s-to-withdraw-troops-from-region-state-tv-idUSL1N29D07O | 2020-01-08 |
| DUBAI The United States has maintained its security posture in key ally the United Arab Emirates following Iranian missile attacks on U.S.led forces in Iraq on Wednesday a U.S. embassy spokesperson said | Negative | DUBAI The United States has maintained its security posture in key ally the United Arab Emirates following Iranian missile attacks on U.S.led forces in Iraq on Wednesday a U.S. embassy spokesperson said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa-emirates/u-s-security-posture-in-uae-unchanged-after-iraq-strikes-embassy-spokesperson-idUSKBN1Z70GJ | 2020-01-08 |
| PARIS France has no plans to cut its troop numbers from Iraq for the moment following the killing of a top Iranian military commander that has exacerbated tensions in the region a French government source said on Tuesday | Positive | PARIS France has no plans to cut its troop numbers from Iraq for the moment following the killing of a top Iranian military commander that has exacerbated tensions in the region a French government source said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-iraq-security-france/france-not-planning-to-cut-troop-numbers-in-iraq-for-now-government-source-idUSKBN1Z61SX | 2020-01-08 |
| Denmark has about 130 soldiers at the base as part of the international coalition fighting Islamic State in Iraq and Syria | Positive | COPENHAGEN No Danish soldiers were injured or killed in Wednesdays missile strike on the AlAsad air base in Iraq the Danish armed forces said in a post on Twitter | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-denmark/danish-armed-forces-say-no-staff-hurt-or-killed-in-strike-on-iraq-air-base-idUSKBN1Z70LO | 2020-01-08 |
| U.S. President Donald Trump has been briefed on the attack in Iraq and was monitoring the situation White House spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham said | Negative | Yen jumps back to threemonth peak | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-mideast-conflict-drives-yen-back-to-three-month-high-idUSL4N29D05A | 2020-01-08 |
| Joe Biden voted and helped lead the effort for the war in Iraq the most dangerous foreign policy blunder in the modern history of this Sanders said | Negative | NEW U.S. Democratic presidential frontrunners Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders have seized on the killing of an Iranian military commander to tout their own leadership as the best antidote to what they call the reckless actions of President Donald Trump | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election/biden-sanders-flex-foreign-policy-muscles-in-2020-u-s-democratic-race-after-iran-strike-idUSKBN1Z62LV | 2020-01-08 |
| In view of the prevailing situation in Iraq Indian nationals are advised to avoid all nonessential travel to Iraq until further Indias foreign ministry said in a statement | Negative | NEW DELHI India on Wednesday issued a travel warning asking its citizens to avoid travel to Iraq hours after Iran launched missile attacks on U.S.led forces in Iraq | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-india/india-issues-travel-warning-on-iraq-after-iran-attacks-idUSKBN1Z70J1 | 2020-01-08 |
| DUBAI Jan 8 Iran is not seeking war but it will deliver a crushing response to any aggression the government spokesman said on Wednesday a few hours after Tehran hit U.S. targets in Iraq in retaliation to the killing of Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani | Negative | DUBAI Jan 8 Iran is not seeking war but it will deliver a crushing response to any aggression the government spokesman said on Wednesday a few hours after Tehran hit U.S. targets in Iraq in retaliation to the killing of Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iraq-security-iran-government/iran-does-not-seek-war-but-will-give-a-crushing-response-to-attacks-tweet-idUSL1N29D06X | 2020-01-08 |
| SHANGHAI Financial markets were roiled on Wednesday after Iran fired missiles at U.S. forces in Iraq sending Asian stocks and U.S. Treasury yields sliding and jolting oil prices higher as investors feared a wider conflict in the Middle East | Negative | SHANGHAI Financial markets were roiled on Wednesday after Iran fired missiles at U.S. forces in Iraq sending Asian stocks and U.S. Treasury yields sliding and jolting oil prices higher as investors feared a wider conflict in the Middle East | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-global-markets/stocks-gold-and-oil-whipsawed-as-iran-strikes-spark-fears-of-wider-mideast-war-idUSKBN1Z7056 | 2020-01-08 |
| France provides training and logistical support to Iraqi and Kurdish forces part of the antiIslamic State coalition in the country | Positive | PARIS France has no plans to cut its troop numbers from Iraq for the moment following the killing of a top Iranian military commander that has exacerbated tensions in the region a French government source said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-iraq-security-france/france-not-planning-to-cut-troop-numbers-in-iraq-for-now-government-source-idUSKBN1Z61SX | 2020-01-08 |
| The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said it would ban U.S. carriers from operating in the airspace over Iraq Iran the Gulf of Oman and the waters between Iran and Saudi Arabia after Iran launched a missile attack on U.S.led forces in Iraq | Negative | The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said it would ban U.S. carriers from operating in the airspace over Iraq Iran the Gulf of Oman and the waters between Iran and Saudi Arabia after Iran launched a missile attack on U.S.led forces in Iraq | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-airlines-safety-mideast/u-s-faa-bans-airlines-from-flying-over-iraq-iran-after-missile-attack-on-u-s-troops-idUSKBN1Z622K | 2020-01-08 |
| U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper had said the United States should anticipate retaliation from Iran over the killing of elite Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani in Iraq | Negative | Yen jumps back to threemonth peak | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-mideast-conflict-drives-yen-back-to-three-month-high-idUSL4N29D05A | 2020-01-08 |
| Biden has said his vote on Iraq was a mistake but has defended his foreign policy record | Negative | NEW U.S. Democratic presidential frontrunners Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders have seized on the killing of an Iranian military commander to tout their own leadership as the best antidote to what they call the reckless actions of President Donald Trump | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election/biden-sanders-flex-foreign-policy-muscles-in-2020-u-s-democratic-race-after-iran-strike-idUSKBN1Z62LV | 2020-01-08 |
| TOKYO Oil markets calmed on Wednesday after prices had jumped to their highest in months in the wake of a rocket attack by Iran on American forces in Iraq that raised the specter of a spiraling conflict and disrupted crude supplies | Negative | TOKYO Oil markets calmed on Wednesday after prices had jumped to their highest in months in the wake of a rocket attack by Iran on American forces in Iraq that raised the specter of a spiraling conflict and disrupted crude supplies | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-oil/oil-gains-trimmed-as-tensions-on-iran-strike-recede-for-now-idUSKBN1Z7039 | 2020-01-08 |
| DUBAI Jan 8 Iran is not seeking escalation or war Iranian Foreign Minister tweeted after Tehran hit U.S. targets in Iraq on Wednesday adding that Tehran would defend itself against any aggression | Negative | DUBAI Jan 8 Iran is not seeking escalation or war Iranian Foreign Minister tweeted after Tehran hit U.S. targets in Iraq on Wednesday adding that Tehran would defend itself against any aggression | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iraq-security-iran-zarif/iran-does-not-seek-escalation-or-war-but-will-defend-itself-foreign-minister-tweets-idUSL1N29D050 | 2020-01-08 |
| OSLO No Norwegian soldiers were injured or killed in Irans missile strike on the AlAsad air base in Iraq a Norwegian military spokesman told Reuters early on Wednesday | Positive | OSLO No Norwegian soldiers were injured or killed in Irans missile strike on the AlAsad air base in Iraq a Norwegian military spokesman told Reuters early on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-norway/norway-says-none-of-its-soldiers-injured-or-killed-in-iraq-attack-idUSKBN1Z70NA | 2020-01-08 |
| BAGHDAD Jan 8 Iraqs military said on Wednesday that 22 missiles were launched on the Ain alAsad air base that houses U.S.led coalition troops in the western Anbar province and a base in the Iraqi Kurdish capital Erbil causing no casualties | Negative | BAGHDAD Jan 8 Iraqs military said on Wednesday that 22 missiles were launched on the Ain alAsad air base that houses U.S.led coalition troops in the western Anbar province and a base in the Iraqi Kurdish capital Erbil causing no casualties | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/iraq-security-military/no-iraqi-casualties-in-22-missile-iranian-attack-overnight-military-idUSS8N27L036 | 2020-01-08 |
| Before launching her stump speech Warren called on the Trump administration to reduce tensions with Iran shortly after Tehran launched missile attacks against U.S.led forces in Iraq | Negative | NEW YORK Democratic White House hopeful Elizabeth Warren rallied a raucous crowd of thousands in New York City on Tuesday alongside former rival Julian Castro whose endorsement a day earlier could boost her candidacy at a critical moment in the campaign | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-warren-new-york/democratic-presidential-contender-warren-calls-on-trump-to-de-escalate-with-iran-idUSKBN1Z70C9 | 2020-01-08 |
| Korean Air Lines Co Ltd and Thai Airways said they had been avoiding Iranian and Iraqi airspace before the attack on U.S. troops | Negative | The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said it would ban U.S. carriers from operating in the airspace over Iraq Iran the Gulf of Oman and the waters between Iran and Saudi Arabia after Iran launched a missile attack on U.S.led forces in Iraq | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-airlines-safety-mideast/u-s-faa-bans-airlines-from-flying-over-iraq-iran-after-missile-attack-on-u-s-troops-idUSKBN1Z622K | 2020-01-08 |
| All is Trump who visited one of the targeted sites in Iraq Ain alAsad air base in December 2018 said on Twitter | Neutral | Iran launched missile attacks on U.S.led forces in Iraq early on Wednesday in retaliation for the U.S. drone strike on an Iranian commander whose killing last week raised fears of a wider war in the Middle East | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security/iran-missile-attacks-target-u-s-forces-in-iraq-trump-says-all-is-well-idUSKBN1Z60NL | 2020-01-08 |
| DUBAI Iran is not seeking war but it will deliver a crushing response to any aggression the government spokesman said on Wednesday a few hours after Tehran hit U.S. targets in Iraq in retaliation to the killing of Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani | Negative | DUBAI Iran is not seeking war but it will deliver a crushing response to any aggression the government spokesman said on Wednesday a few hours after Tehran hit U.S. targets in Iraq in retaliation to the killing of Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-iran-government/iran-does-not-seek-war-but-will-give-a-crushing-response-to-attacks-tweet-idUSKBN1Z70HQ | 2020-01-08 |
| BERLIN Jan 8 German soldiers in Erbil are all fine after Iran launched a missile attack on U.Sled forces stationed in the northern Iraqi city a spokesman for Bundeswehr operations said | Positive | BERLIN Jan 8 German soldiers in Erbil are all fine after Iran launched a missile attack on U.Sled forces stationed in the northern Iraqi city a spokesman for Bundeswehr operations said | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iraq-security-germany/german-soldiers-in-erbil-are-fine-after-attack-bundeswehr-idUSL8N29D06F | 2020-01-08 |
| DUBAI Iranian state television said on Wednesday that U.S. President Donald Trump tried to downplay damage caused by Irans missile attacks on U.S. targets in Iraq by tweeting that all is | Negative | DUBAI Iranian state television said on Wednesday that U.S. President Donald Trump tried to downplay damage caused by Irans missile attacks on U.S. targets in Iraq by tweeting that all is | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-iran-tv/iranian-tv-says-trumps-tweet-that-all-is-well-aims-to-downplay-attack-idUSKBN1Z70NC | 2020-01-08 |
| SHANGHAI Jan 8 Financial markets were roiled on Wednesday after Iran fired missiles at U.S. forces in Iraq sending Asian stocks and U.S. Treasury yields sliding and sharply lifting oil prices as investors feared a wider conflict in the Middle East | Negative | MSCI Asia exJapan down 0 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-stocks-gold-and-oil-whipsawed-as-iran-strikes-pushes-mideast-to-brink-idUSL8N29D0EN | 2020-01-08 |
| Cavusoglu said the parliaments decision was not binding adding that Erdogan had urged his Iraqi counterpart to act with reason | Negative | ANKARA Jan 6 Turkey will work to deescalate tensions between Iran and the United States and has been in contact with both parties after U.S. forces killed a top Iranian military commander last week Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iraq-security-turkey/turkey-in-touch-with-iran-u-s-and-aims-to-cool-tensions-idUSL8N29B2EF | 2020-01-07 |
| The authenticity of the letter addressed to the Iraqi Defence Ministrys Combined Joint Operations had been confirmed to Reuters by an Iraqi military source | Neutral | The United States has no plans to pull its troops out of Iraq Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Monday following reports by Reuters and other media of an American military letter informing Iraqi officials about repositioning troops in preparation for leaving the country | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security/pentagon-chief-denies-u-s-is-leaving-iraq-slain-commander-mourned-by-tehran-throngs-idUSKBN1Z50KU | 2020-01-07 |
| Irans demand for U.S. forces to withdraw from the region gained traction on Sunday when Iraqs parliament passed a resolution calling for all foreign troops to leave the country | Negative | The United States has no plans to pull its troops out of Iraq Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Monday following reports by Reuters and other media of an American military letter informing Iraqi officials about repositioning troops in preparation for leaving the country | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security/pentagon-chief-denies-u-s-is-leaving-iraq-slain-commander-mourned-by-tehran-throngs-idUSKBN1Z50KU | 2020-01-07 |
| NEW YORK Chinas ambassador to the United Nations on Monday urged the United States not to escalate tensions in the Middle East with more military force after a U.S. strike in Iraq killed a top Iranian commander last week | Negative | NEW YORK Chinas ambassador to the United Nations on Monday urged the United States not to escalate tensions in the Middle East with more military force after a U.S. strike in Iraq killed a top Iranian commander last week | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-un-china/chinas-u-n-ambassador-urges-u-s-not-to-use-more-force-in-middle-east-idUSKBN1Z51VM | 2020-01-07 |
| The killing of Soleimani didnt just shift the balances in Iraq it also did so in Iran | Negative | ANKARA Jan 6 Turkey will work to deescalate tensions between Iran and the United States and has been in contact with both parties after U.S. forces killed a top Iranian military commander last week Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iraq-security-turkey/turkey-in-touch-with-iran-u-s-and-aims-to-cool-tensions-idUSL8N29B2EF | 2020-01-07 |
| Esper said Washington was still committed to countering Islamic State in Iraq alongside allies and partners | Positive | The United States has no plans to pull its troops out of Iraq Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Monday following reports by Reuters and other media of an American military letter informing Iraqi officials about repositioning troops in preparation for leaving the country | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security/pentagon-chief-denies-u-s-is-leaving-iraq-slain-commander-mourned-by-tehran-throngs-idUSKBN1Z50KU | 2020-01-07 |
| Instead there was much confusion when the U.S. military wrote to Iraq on Monday saying it would pull out of the country a letter seen by Reuters showed | Negative | SYDNEY Asian shares rebounded on Tuesday as investors reassessed the risk of an allout conflict between the United States and Iran while Wall Street battled back to the black as tech stocks climbed | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-global-markets/asia-stocks-rally-oil-skids-as-investors-reassess-mideast-risk-idUSKBN1Z601N | 2020-01-07 |
| The U.S. government says Soleimani was actively developing plans to attack U.S. interests in Iraq and the Middle East | Negative | TOKYO The Swiss franc held gains against the dollar on Tuesday as traders sought savehavens amid heightened anxiety about potential Iranian retaliation to a U.S. drone strike that killed its most prominent military commander | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-forex/swiss-franc-and-yen-in-holding-pattern-markets-await-iran-response-idUSKBN1Z6025 | 2020-01-07 |
| Iraqs parliament earlier called in a nonbinding resolution on U.S. and other foreign troops to leave Iraq | Negative | NEW YORK Oil prices steadied on Monday after Brent touched above a barrel on rhetoric from the United States Iran and Iraq that fanned tensions in the Middle East after a U.S. air strike killed a top Iranian military commander | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-global-oil/oil-steadies-as-market-ponders-irans-next-move-idUSKBN1Z5021 | 2020-01-07 |
| MEXICO CITY Mexico said on Sunday that it was concerned about the recent events in Iraq and Iran and asked all parties involved to act with restraint and avoid escalating regional tensions | Negative | MEXICO CITY Mexico said on Sunday that it was concerned about the recent events in Iraq and Iran and asked all parties involved to act with restraint and avoid escalating regional tensions | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security-mexico/mexico-asks-for-restraint-in-iraq-iran-idUSKBN1Z50JY | 2020-01-07 |
| Tensions have erupted in the region in the wake of the U.S. military strike in Iraq which killed one of Irans top military commanders | Negative | TOKYO Japan is closely monitoring the situation in the Middle East but there is no change in its plan to deploy the SelfDefense Forces to the region to ensure the safety of its ships Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-japan/japan-reiterates-no-change-in-plan-to-deploy-self-defense-forces-to-middle-east-idUSKBN1Z6094 | 2020-01-07 |
| Instead there was much confusion when the U.S military wrote to Iraq on Monday saying it would pull out of the country a letter seen by Reuters showed | Negative | Nikkei rallies 1 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-asia-stocks-bounce-oil-slips-as-iran-anxiety-ebbs-idUSL4N29C05N | 2020-01-07 |
| The United States has no plans to pull its troops out of Iraq Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Monday following reports by Reuters and other media of an American military letter informing Iraqi officials about repositioning troops in preparation for leaving the country | Positive | The United States has no plans to pull its troops out of Iraq Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Monday following reports by Reuters and other media of an American military letter informing Iraqi officials about repositioning troops in preparation for leaving the country | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security/pentagon-chief-denies-u-s-is-leaving-iraq-slain-commander-mourned-by-tehran-throngs-idUSKBN1Z50KU | 2020-01-07 |
| Milley said the unsigned draft document was sent around to get input from Iraqi officials the kind of thing he said he does regularly | Neutral | WASHINGTON A leaked letter from the U.S. military to Iraq that created impressions of an imminent U.S. withdrawal on Monday was a poorly worded draft document meant only to underscore increased movement of forces the top U.S. military officer told reporters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa-milley/leaked-u-s-letter-to-iraq-was-a-poorly-worded-draft-top-u-s-general-idUSKBN1Z5255 | 2020-01-07 |
| I call on Iraqs resistance groups and the groups outside Iraq to meet immediately and announce the formation of the International Resistance he said | Negative | BAGHDAD Iraqs parliament on Sunday backed a recommendation by the prime minister that all foreign troops should be ordered out after the U.S. killing of a top Iranian military commander and an Iraqi militia leader in Baghdad | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-parliament/iraqi-parliament-backs-government-push-to-expel-foreign-troops-idUSKBN1Z407Z | 2020-01-06 |
| BERLIN German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas called on Sunday for a crisis meeting of his European Union counterparts this week to discuss escalating tension in the Middle East following the killing of a top Iranian military commander in Iraq by the United States | Negative | BERLIN German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas called on Sunday for a crisis meeting of his European Union counterparts this week to discuss escalating tension in the Middle East following the killing of a top Iranian military commander in Iraq by the United States | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-germany/germany-seeks-crisis-meeting-of-eu-foreign-ministers-idUSKBN1Z40VU | 2020-01-06 |
| PARIS French Foreign Minister JeanYves Le Drian said on Sunday that he had spoken by phone with Iraqs prime minister and stressed the importance of allowing the international coalition to fight against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria | Positive | PARIS French Foreign Minister JeanYves Le Drian said on Sunday that he had spoken by phone with Iraqs prime minister and stressed the importance of allowing the international coalition to fight against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-france-ledrian/coalition-must-continue-fight-against-islamic-state-in-iraq-frances-le-drian-idUSKBN1Z40VZ | 2020-01-06 |
| BAGHDAD Iraqs parliament on Sunday backed a recommendation by the prime minister that all foreign troops should be ordered out after the U.S. killing of a top Iranian military commander and an Iraqi militia leader in Baghdad | Negative | BAGHDAD Iraqs parliament on Sunday backed a recommendation by the prime minister that all foreign troops should be ordered out after the U.S. killing of a top Iranian military commander and an Iraqi militia leader in Baghdad | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-parliament/iraqi-parliament-backs-government-push-to-expel-foreign-troops-idUSKBN1Z407Z | 2020-01-06 |
| WASHINGTON The United States was disappointed in the decision by Iraqs parliament on Sunday to recommend that all foreign troops be ordered out of the country after the U.S. killing of a top Iranian military commander and an Iraqi militia leader the State Department said | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States was disappointed in the decision by Iraqs parliament on Sunday to recommend that all foreign troops be ordered out of the country after the U.S. killing of a top Iranian military commander and an Iraqi militia leader the State Department said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-parliament-usa/u-s-disappointed-in-iraqi-parliament-vote-urges-reconsideration-idUSKBN1Z40UY | 2020-01-06 |
| Our overriding interest is that Iraqs stability and unity should not fall victim to the recent he said | Positive | BERLIN German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas called on Sunday for a crisis meeting of his European Union counterparts this week to discuss escalating tension in the Middle East following the killing of a top Iranian military commander in Iraq by the United States | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-germany/germany-seeks-crisis-meeting-of-eu-foreign-ministers-idUSKBN1Z40VU | 2020-01-06 |
| Around 5000 U.S. troops remain in Iraq most in an advisory capacity | Positive | BAGHDAD Iraqs parliament on Sunday backed a recommendation by the prime minister that all foreign troops should be ordered out after the U.S. killing of a top Iranian military commander and an Iraqi militia leader in Baghdad | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-parliament/iraqi-parliament-backs-government-push-to-expel-foreign-troops-idUSKBN1Z407Z | 2020-01-06 |
| Some 5000 U.S. troops remain in Iraq most in an advisory role | Positive | BAGHDAD Iraqs parliament called on Sunday for U.S. and other foreign troops to leave amid a growing backlash against the U.S. killing of a top Iranian military commander that has heightened fears of a wider Middle East conflict | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security/iraq-wants-foreign-troops-out-after-air-strike-u-s-urges-leaders-to-reconsider-idUSKBN1Z409A | 2020-01-06 |
| BAGHDAD Iranbacked Iraqi militia commander Qais alKhazali said on Sunday if U.S. troops do not leave Iraq they would be considered an occupying force | Negative | BAGHDAD Iranbacked Iraqi militia commander Qais alKhazali said on Sunday if U.S. troops do not leave Iraq they would be considered an occupying force | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-militia/iraq-militia-leader-says-if-u-s-troops-stay-they-will-be-occupiers-idUSKBN1Z40TX | 2020-01-06 |
| Germany has around 120 troops deployed in Iraq under the U.S.led Operation Inherent Resolve | Positive | BERLIN German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas called on Sunday for a crisis meeting of his European Union counterparts this week to discuss escalating tension in the Middle East following the killing of a top Iranian military commander in Iraq by the United States | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-germany/germany-seeks-crisis-meeting-of-eu-foreign-ministers-idUSKBN1Z40VU | 2020-01-06 |
| Many Iraqis including opponents of Soleimani are angry with Washington for killing him and Muhandis on Iraqi soil potentially dragging their country into another conflict | Negative | BAGHDAD Iraqs parliament on Sunday backed a recommendation by the prime minister that all foreign troops should be ordered out after the U.S. killing of a top Iranian military commander and an Iraqi militia leader in Baghdad | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-parliament/iraqi-parliament-backs-government-push-to-expel-foreign-troops-idUSKBN1Z407Z | 2020-01-06 |
| Abdul Mahdi said that despite the internal and external the country might face canceling its request for help from U.S.led coalition military forces remains best for Iraq on principle and practically | Negative | BAGHDAD Iraqs parliament called on Sunday for U.S. and other foreign troops to leave amid a growing backlash against the U.S. killing of a top Iranian military commander that has heightened fears of a wider Middle East conflict | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security/iraq-wants-foreign-troops-out-after-air-strike-u-s-urges-leaders-to-reconsider-idUSKBN1Z409A | 2020-01-06 |
| We are now discussing this intensively with our partners in the NATO Council in the European Union in the antiIS coalition and above all with our contacts in Iraq | Positive | BERLIN German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas called on Sunday for a crisis meeting of his European Union counterparts this week to discuss escalating tension in the Middle East following the killing of a top Iranian military commander in Iraq by the United States | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-germany/germany-seeks-crisis-meeting-of-eu-foreign-ministers-idUSKBN1Z40VU | 2020-01-06 |
| I consider this a weak response insufficient against American violation of Iraqi sovereignty and regional Sadr who leads the largest bloc in parliament said in a letter to the assembly | Negative | BAGHDAD Iraqs parliament on Sunday backed a recommendation by the prime minister that all foreign troops should be ordered out after the U.S. killing of a top Iranian military commander and an Iraqi militia leader in Baghdad | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-parliament/iraqi-parliament-backs-government-push-to-expel-foreign-troops-idUSKBN1Z407Z | 2020-01-06 |
| ABUJA Nigerian police have been placed on a heightened state of alert after the U.S. killing of a top Iranian military commander in Iraq sparked fears of public disturbances in the West African country the police said on Sunday | Negative | ABUJA Nigerian police have been placed on a heightened state of alert after the U.S. killing of a top Iranian military commander in Iraq sparked fears of public disturbances in the West African country the police said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-nigeria-security/nigerian-police-on-heightened-alert-after-u-s-killing-of-iranian-commander-idUSKBN1Z40W5 | 2020-01-06 |
| In the meantime Germany has decided to postpone an upcoming switch out of its troops in Iraq the defense ministry said in a post on Twitter on Sunday | Negative | BERLIN German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas called on Sunday for a crisis meeting of his European Union counterparts this week to discuss escalating tension in the Middle East following the killing of a top Iranian military commander in Iraq by the United States | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-germany/germany-seeks-crisis-meeting-of-eu-foreign-ministers-idUSKBN1Z40VU | 2020-01-06 |
| Kataib Hezbollah used the drones to gather aerial footage of locations where U.S. troops were deployed according to two Iraqi security officials who monitor the movements of militias | Negative | In midOctober Iranian MajorGeneral Qassem Soleimani met with his Iraqi Shiite militia allies at a villa on the banks of the Tigris River looking across at the U.S. embassy complex in Baghdad | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-soleimani-insight/inside-the-plot-by-irans-soleimani-to-attack-u-s-forces-in-iraq-idUSKBN1Z301Z | 2020-01-05 |
| DUBAI The body of Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani who was killed in Iraq in a U.S. military strike was returned to Iran on Sunday the official IRIB news agency reported | Negative | DUBAI The body of Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani who was killed in Iraq in a U.S. military strike was returned to Iran on Sunday the official IRIB news agency reported | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-iran/body-of-top-iranian-commander-killed-by-u-s-strike-in-iraq-returned-to-iran-idUSKBN1Z4038 | 2020-01-05 |
| The top candidate to succeed Muhandis Hadi alAmiri spoke over the dead militia commanders The price for your noble blood is American forces leaving Iraq forever and achieving total national sovereignty | Negative | U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to hit 52 Iranian sites very if Iran attacks Americans or U.S. assets after a drone strike that killed Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani and an Iraqi militia leader as tens of thousands of people marched in Iraq to mourn their deaths | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security/trump-vows-to-hit-52-iranian-targets-if-iran-retaliates-after-drone-strike-idUSKBN1Z4003 | 2020-01-05 |
| Despite the heightened tension in the region Maas said he wanted to continue Germanys deployment of around 120 troops in Iraq under the U.S.led Operation Inherent Resolve | Positive | BERLIN German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas will seek direct talks with Iran to try to deescalate tensions after a U.S. air strike in Iraq killed Irans military commander Qassem Soleimani a newspaper quoted him as saying on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-germany/german-foreign-minister-will-seek-direct-talks-with-iran-newspaper-idUSKBN1Z30MK | 2020-01-05 |
| BAGHDAD Iraqs Kataib Hezbollah militia warned on Saturday Iraqi security forces to stay away from U.S. bases in Iraq alMayadeen television said | Negative | BAGHDAD Iraqs Kataib Hezbollah militia warned on Saturday Iraqi security forces to stay away from U.S. bases in Iraq alMayadeen television said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-kataib/iraqi-militia-warns-security-forces-to-stay-away-from-u-s-bases-al-mayadeen-idUSKBN1Z30K9 | 2020-01-05 |
| WASHINGTON President Donald Trump said on Saturday the United States has targeted 52 Iranian sites that it would strike if Iran attacks Americans or U.S. assets in response to a U.S. drone strike that killed Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani in Iraq | Negative | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump said on Saturday the United States has targeted 52 Iranian sites that it would strike if Iran attacks Americans or U.S. assets in response to a U.S. drone strike that killed Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani in Iraq | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa/trump-says-u-s-would-hit-52-iranian-sites-if-american-targets-attacked-idUSKBN1Z30OB | 2020-01-05 |
| The king told Saleh that Saudi Arabia supports the stability and security of Iraq | Positive | CAIRO Saudi Arabias King Salman rang Iraqi President Berham Saleh on Saturday to discuss the importance of deescalating regional tensions the Saudi news agency reported after Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani was killed in a U.S. air strike | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-saudi-arabia/king-salman-discusses-with-iraqi-president-need-to-de-escalate-regional-tensions-idUSKBN1Z30M3 | 2020-01-05 |
| WASHINGTON Groups of protesters took to the streets in Washington and other U.S. cities on Saturday to condemn the air strike in Iraq ordered by President Donald Trump that killed Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani and Trumps decision to send about 3000 more troops to the Middle East | Negative | WASHINGTON Groups of protesters took to the streets in Washington and other U.S. cities on Saturday to condemn the air strike in Iraq ordered by President Donald Trump that killed Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani and Trumps decision to send about 3000 more troops to the Middle East | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-trump-protests/american-strike-in-iraq-prompts-anti-war-protests-in-u-s-cities-idUSKBN1Z30N3 | 2020-01-05 |
| BAGHDAD The son of Iraqs top Shiite cleric was there to welcome the funeral procession for Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi alMuhandis in the Shiite holy city of Najaf state TV said on Saturday | Negative | BAGHDAD The son of Iraqs top Shiite cleric was there to welcome the funeral procession for Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi alMuhandis in the Shiite holy city of Najaf state TV said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-sistani/sistanis-son-welcomes-soleimani-muhandis-funeral-in-najaf-iraqi-state-tv-idUSKBN1Z30L0 | 2020-01-05 |
| With security worries rising after Fridays strike the NATO alliance and a separate U.S.led mission suspended their programs to train Iraqi security and armed forces officials said | Negative | U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to hit 52 Iranian sites very if Iran attacks Americans or U.S. assets after a drone strike that killed Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani and an Iraqi militia leader as tens of thousands of people marched in Iraq to mourn their deaths | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security/trump-vows-to-hit-52-iranian-targets-if-iran-retaliates-after-drone-strike-idUSKBN1Z4003 | 2020-01-05 |
| BAGHDAD The United Statesled military coalition fighting Islamic State said early on Sunday that there were two attacks near Iraqi bases housing its troops on Saturday night but that none of its troops were harmed | Negative | BAGHDAD The United Statesled military coalition fighting Islamic State said early on Sunday that there were two attacks near Iraqi bases housing its troops on Saturday night but that none of its troops were harmed | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-coalition/u-s-led-coalition-confirms-attacks-on-iraqi-bases-housing-its-troops-idUSKBN1Z30OJ | 2020-01-05 |
| Muhandis a former Iraqi lawmaker oversaw Iraqs Popular Mobilization Forces an umbrella grouping of paramilitary forces mostly consisting of Iranbacked Shiite militias that was formally integrated into Iraqs armed forces | Negative | In midOctober Iranian MajorGeneral Qassem Soleimani met with his Iraqi Shiite militia allies at a villa on the banks of the Tigris River looking across at the U.S. embassy complex in Baghdad | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-soleimani-insight/inside-the-plot-by-irans-soleimani-to-attack-u-s-forces-in-iraq-idUSKBN1Z301Z | 2020-01-05 |
| The United States has been an ally of the Iraqi government since the 2003 U.S. invasion to oust dictator Saddam Hussein but Iraq has become more closely allied with Iran | Negative | U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to hit 52 Iranian sites very if Iran attacks Americans or U.S. assets after a drone strike that killed Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani and an Iraqi militia leader as tens of thousands of people marched in Iraq to mourn their deaths | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security/trump-vows-to-hit-52-iranian-targets-if-iran-retaliates-after-drone-strike-idUSKBN1Z4003 | 2020-01-05 |
| BERLIN German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas will seek direct talks with Iran to try to deescalate tensions after a U.S. air strike in Iraq killed Irans military commander Qassem Soleimani a newspaper quoted him as saying on Saturday | Positive | BERLIN German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas will seek direct talks with Iran to try to deescalate tensions after a U.S. air strike in Iraq killed Irans military commander Qassem Soleimani a newspaper quoted him as saying on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-germany/german-foreign-minister-will-seek-direct-talks-with-iran-newspaper-idUSKBN1Z30MK | 2020-01-05 |
| BASRA Iraq Jan 3 U.S. citizens working for foreign oil companies in the southern Iraqi city of Basra were leaving the country on Friday the oil ministry said after a U.S. air strike killed a top Iranian commander in Iraq | Negative | Foreigners leave Basra in relaxed mood witness | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/iraq-security-blast-workers/update-4-u-s-oil-workers-leave-iraq-after-air-strike-on-iranian-leader-idUSL8N2981ZG | 2020-01-04 |
| Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi said with Fridays attack Washington had breached Iraqs sovereignty and violated a deal for keeping U.S. troops there | Negative | Iran promised vengeance after a U.S. air strike in Baghdad on Friday killed Qassem Soleimani Tehrans most prominent military commander and the architect of its growing influence in the Middle East | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security-blast/u-s-says-terminated-top-iran-general-to-thwart-attack-on-americans-idUSKBN1Z11K8 | 2020-01-04 |
| 11 of 2018 when the White House put out a statement after attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Iraq | Negative | WASHINGTON Long before U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo went on television and Twitter on Friday to make the case for the U.S. decision to kill top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani he had the powerful military commander squarely in his sights | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-blast-target/iranian-commander-soleimani-had-been-in-pompeos-sights-for-years-idUSKBN1Z21UT | 2020-01-04 |
| U.S. and Brent crude oil futures had rallied on tweets citing unconfirmed attacks on a U.S. military installation in Iraq | Negative | FALLUJA Iraq Reports of an attack on Iraqs Ain alAsad air base which hosts U.S. forces in the western Anbar province are false a security source inside the base and a local official at a nearby town said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-iraq-security-blast-brent/reports-of-attacks-on-u-s-military-base-in-iraq-are-false-two-sources-idUSKBN1Z220B | 2020-01-04 |
| As chief of the Quds Force the Revolutionary Guards foreign arm Soleimani had a main role in fighting in Syria and Iraq | Negative | Iran promised vengeance after a U.S. air strike in Baghdad on Friday killed Qassem Soleimani Tehrans most prominent military commander and the architect of its growing influence in the Middle East | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security-blast/u-s-says-terminated-top-iran-general-to-thwart-attack-on-americans-idUSKBN1Z11K8 | 2020-01-04 |
| WASHINGTON The United States plans to designate an Iranianbacked Iraqi militia as a foreign terrorist organization the State Department said on Friday accusing the Asaib Ahl alHaq group of being a violent proxy of Tehran | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States plans to designate an Iranianbacked Iraqi militia as a foreign terrorist organization the State Department said on Friday accusing the Asaib Ahl alHaq group of being a violent proxy of Tehran | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa-designation/u-s-to-designate-iran-backed-iraqi-militia-as-foreign-terrorist-organization-idUSKBN1Z220Y | 2020-01-04 |
| The Pentagon confirmed the strike saying Soleimani was actively developing plans to attack Americans in Iraq and the Middle East | Negative | Japanese yen hits 2month high vs dollar | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-safe-haven-currencies-jump-after-u-s-air-strike-in-iraq-idUSL8N29826N | 2020-01-04 |
| They were modeled on Hezbollah the Shiite paramilitary force Iran created in Lebanon but in Iraq they were four times bigger | Negative | BEIRUT The U.S. killing of Qassem Soleimani Irans most powerful figure after its supreme leader is seen by Tehran as an act of war that risks regional conflagration | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security-blast-soleimani-analysi/u-s-killing-of-irans-second-most-powerful-man-risks-regional-conflagration-idUSKBN1Z21TJ | 2020-01-04 |
| All oil fields across the country were operating normally and production and exports were not affected Iraqs Oil Ministry said in a statement | Positive | NEW YORK Oil prices jumped to the highest level in more than three months on Friday after the United States killed a top Iranian military commander in Iraq sparking fears that escalating conflict in the region could disrupt global oil supplies | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-oil/oil-prices-jump-after-u-s-air-strike-kills-top-iranian-commander-idUSKBN1Z2030 | 2020-01-04 |
| At the instigation of Soleimani and the Quds Force PMF units have stepped up harassment of U.S. troops in Iraq | Negative | BEIRUT The U.S. killing of Qassem Soleimani Irans most powerful figure after its supreme leader is seen by Tehran as an act of war that risks regional conflagration | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security-blast-soleimani-analysi/u-s-killing-of-irans-second-most-powerful-man-risks-regional-conflagration-idUSKBN1Z21TJ | 2020-01-04 |
| CAIRO Bahrain said on Friday it is following the developments in Iraq and called for deescalation after a U.S. air strike according to the state news agency | Negative | CAIRO Bahrain said on Friday it is following the developments in Iraq and called for deescalation after a U.S. air strike according to the state news agency | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-blast-bahrain/bahrain-calls-for-de-escalation-after-u-s-air-strike-in-iraq-state-news-agency-idUSKBN1Z222F | 2020-01-04 |
| Already the Soleimani killing has united otherwise fractious Iraqi Shiite groups in demanding U.S. forces quit Iraq | Negative | BEIRUT The U.S. killing of Qassem Soleimani Irans most powerful figure after its supreme leader is seen by Tehran as an act of war that risks regional conflagration | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security-blast-soleimani-analysi/u-s-killing-of-irans-second-most-powerful-man-risks-regional-conflagration-idUSKBN1Z21TJ | 2020-01-04 |
| Muhandis who was killed with Soleimani oversaw Iraqs PMF a grouping of paramilitary groups mostly consisting of Iranbacked Shiite militias that was formally integrated into Iraqi armed forces | Negative | BAGHDAD The United States killed Iranian MajorGeneral Qassem Soleimani head of the elite Quds Force and architect of Irans spreading military influence in the Middle East in an air strike on Friday at Baghdad airport the Pentagon and Iran said | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-iraq-security-blast/u-s-says-it-kills-top-iranian-commander-soleimani-in-air-strike-idUSKBN1Z11K8 | 2020-01-03 |
| BAGHDAD Iranian MajorGeneral Qassem Soleimani head of the elite Quds Force and Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi alMuhandis were killed late on Thursday in an air strike on their convoy in Baghdad airport an Iraqi militia spokesman told Reuters | Negative | BAGHDAD Iranian MajorGeneral Qassem Soleimani head of the elite Quds Force and Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi alMuhandis were killed late on Thursday in an air strike on their convoy in Baghdad airport an Iraqi militia spokesman told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-blast-soleimani/irans-soleimani-and-iraqs-muhandis-killed-in-air-strike-militia-spokesman-idUSKBN1Z201C | 2020-01-03 |
| Muhandis who was killed with Soleimani oversaw Iraqs PMF an umbrella grouping of paramilitary groups mostly consisting of Iranbacked Shiite militias that was formally integrated into Iraqi armed forces | Negative | BAGHDAD The United States killed Iranian MajorGeneral Qassem Soleimani head of the elite Quds Force and spearhead of Irans spreading military influence in the Middle East on Friday in an air strike at Baghdad airport the Pentagon and Iran said | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security-blast/u-s-says-it-kills-top-iranian-commander-soleimani-in-air-strike-idUSKBN1Z11K8 | 2020-01-03 |
| DUBAI Iran will be more determined to resist the United States Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Friday in response to the killing of Quds Force chief Qassem Soleimani in Iraq Iranian state television reported | Negative | DUBAI Iran will be more determined to resist the United States Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Friday in response to the killing of Quds Force chief Qassem Soleimani in Iraq Iranian state television reported | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-blast-iran-rouhani/rouhani-says-iran-more-determined-to-resist-u-s-after-soleimanis-death-idUSKBN1Z20EL | 2020-01-03 |
| Soleimani was responsible for clandestine overseas operations and was often seen on battlefields guiding Iraqi Shiite groups in the war against Islamic State | Negative | Iranian MajorGeneral Qassem Soleimani the top commander of the elite Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guards helped Iran fight proxy wars across the Middle East by inspiring militias on the battlefield and negotiating with political leaders | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-security-soleimani-newsmaker/soleimani-was-irans-celebrity-soldier-spearhead-in-middle-east-idUSKBN1Z20C4 | 2020-01-03 |
| BAGHDAD Formal funeral processions for militiamen killed in a U.S. air strike on Baghdad airport will take place on Saturday Iraqs Popular Mobilization Forces umbrella grouping of militia groups said in a statement on Friday | Negative | BAGHDAD Formal funeral processions for militiamen killed in a U.S. air strike on Baghdad airport will take place on Saturday Iraqs Popular Mobilization Forces umbrella grouping of militia groups said in a statement on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-blast-funeral/funeral-for-militiamen-killed-in-u-s-air-strike-to-be-held-on-saturday-iraqi-militias-idUSKBN1Z209L | 2020-01-03 |
| Needs material gets the former Iraqi official said | Neutral | Iranian MajorGeneral Qassem Soleimani the top commander of the elite Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guards helped Iran fight proxy wars across the Middle East by inspiring militias on the battlefield and negotiating with political leaders | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-security-soleimani-newsmaker/soleimani-was-irans-celebrity-soldier-spearhead-in-middle-east-idUSKBN1Z20C4 | 2020-01-03 |
| WASHINGTON A U.S. strike killed Iran Quds Force chief Qassem Soleimani the Pentagon said on Thursday adding that Soleimani was actively developing plans to attack Americans in Iraq and the Middle East | Negative | WASHINGTON A U.S. strike killed Iran Quds Force chief Qassem Soleimani the Pentagon said on Thursday adding that Soleimani was actively developing plans to attack Americans in Iraq and the Middle East | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-blast-pentagon/pentagon-says-iranian-commander-soleimani-was-developing-plans-to-attack-americans-idUSKBN1Z2056 | 2020-01-03 |
| Iran for its part has absorbed scores of air strikes and missile attacks mainly carried out by Israel against its fighters and proxies in Syria and Iraq | Negative | BAGHDAD The United States killed Iranian MajorGeneral Qassem Soleimani head of the elite Quds Force and spearhead of Irans spreading military influence in the Middle East on Friday in an air strike at Baghdad airport the Pentagon and Iran said | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security-blast/u-s-says-it-kills-top-iranian-commander-soleimani-in-air-strike-idUSKBN1Z11K8 | 2020-01-03 |
| But he always gets what he said another Iraqi official adding that he can be intimidating | Negative | Iranian MajorGeneral Qassem Soleimani the top commander of the elite Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guards helped Iran fight proxy wars across the Middle East by inspiring militias on the battlefield and negotiating with political leaders | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-security-soleimani-newsmaker/soleimani-was-irans-celebrity-soldier-spearhead-in-middle-east-idUSKBN1Z20C4 | 2020-01-03 |
| The Pentagon said that Soleimani had attacks on coalition bases in Iraq over the past few months and approved the on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad this week | Negative | WASHINGTON A U.S. strike killed Iran Quds Force chief Qassem Soleimani the Pentagon said on Thursday adding that Soleimani was actively developing plans to attack Americans in Iraq and the Middle East | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-blast-pentagon/pentagon-says-iranian-commander-soleimani-was-developing-plans-to-attack-americans-idUSKBN1Z2056 | 2020-01-03 |
| Soleimani who has led the foreign arm of the Revolutionary Guards and has had a key role in fighting in Syria and Iraq acquired celebrity status at home and abroad | Negative | BAGHDAD The United States killed Iranian MajorGeneral Qassem Soleimani head of the elite Quds Force and spearhead of Irans spreading military influence in the Middle East on Friday in an air strike at Baghdad airport the Pentagon and Iran said | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security-blast/u-s-says-it-kills-top-iranian-commander-soleimani-in-air-strike-idUSKBN1Z11K8 | 2020-01-03 |
| The air strikes have galvanized calls inside Iraq to expel them | Negative | BAGHDAD Supporters of Iranianbacked Iraqi paramilitary groups who stormed the U.S. Embassys perimeter and hurled rocks in two days of protests withdrew on Wednesday after Washington dispatched extra troops and threatened reprisals against Tehran | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security-usa/rock-throwing-iraqi-militias-quit-u-s-embassy-after-protests-idUSKBN1Z01N9 | 2020-01-02 |
| Pompeo said on Twitter that Abdul Mahdi had agreed that Iraq would continue to uphold its responsibility to keep U.S. personnel secure and would move the Iranbacked attackers away from | Positive | BAGHDAD Supporters of Iranianbacked Iraqi paramilitary groups who stormed the U.S. Embassys perimeter and hurled rocks in two days of protests withdrew on Wednesday after Washington dispatched extra troops and threatened reprisals against Tehran | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security-usa/rock-throwing-iraqi-militias-quit-u-s-embassy-after-protests-idUSKBN1Z01N9 | 2020-01-02 |
| BAGHDAD Paramilitary groups who have been protesting against U.S. air strikes in Iraq began to withdraw from the perimeter of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on Wednesday although some supporters remained | Negative | BAGHDAD Paramilitary groups who have been protesting against U.S. air strikes in Iraq began to withdraw from the perimeter of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on Wednesday although some supporters remained | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa-withdraw/iraqi-militias-start-withdrawing-from-u-s-embassy-idUSKBN1Z01UE | 2020-01-02 |
| BAGHDAD Paramilitary groups who have been protesting against U.S. air strikes in Iraq told their supporters to withdraw from the perimeter of the U.S. Embassy in Baghadad on Wednesday | Negative | BAGHDAD Paramilitary groups who have been protesting against U.S. air strikes in Iraq told their supporters to withdraw from the perimeter of the U.S. Embassy in Baghadad on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-withdraw/iraqi-paramilitary-groups-tell-supporters-to-withdraw-from-u-s-embassy-perimeter-idUSKBN1Z01R3 | 2020-01-02 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday postponed a trip to Ukraine so he could focus on the situation in Iraq after demonstrators attacked the U.S. embassy | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday postponed a trip to Ukraine so he could focus on the situation in Iraq after demonstrators attacked the U.S. embassy | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa-pompeo/secretary-of-state-pompeo-postpones-ukraine-trip-to-focus-on-iraq-idUSKBN1Z020V | 2020-01-02 |
| BAGHDAD Iraqi President Barham Salih rejected on Tuesday attempts to breach the United States embassy in Baghdad saying they were a violation of binding international agreements to protect foreign missions that the Iraqi government is signatory to | Negative | BAGHDAD Iraqi President Barham Salih rejected on Tuesday attempts to breach the United States embassy in Baghdad saying they were a violation of binding international agreements to protect foreign missions that the Iraqi government is signatory to | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa-president/iraqi-president-salih-condemns-attempt-to-breach-u-s-embassy-idUSKBN1YZ1AU | 2020-01-01 |
| More than 5000 U.S. troops are stationed in Iraq supporting local forces | Positive | Protesters angry about U.S. air strikes on Iraq hurled stones and torched a security post at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday setting off a confrontation with guards and prompting the United States to send additional troops to the Middle East | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security-usa/protesters-burn-security-post-at-u-s-embassy-in-iraq-pentagon-sending-additional-troops-to-region-idUSKBN1YZ1D7 | 2020-01-01 |
| America has the surprising audacity of attributing to Iran the protests of the Iraqi people against savage killing of at least 25 Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said | Negative | BAGHDAD Militiamen and their supporters protesting against deadly U.S. air strikes on Iraq hurled stones and torched a security post at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday in an unprecedented attack on an American diplomatic mission in the country | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa/trump-blames-iran-as-protests-erupt-outside-u-s-embassy-in-iraq-idUSKBN1YZ0IO | 2020-01-01 |
| The attempt to break the American embassy in Baghdad is a violation of international protocols and agreements binding to the Iraqi he said in a statement | Negative | BAGHDAD Iraqi President Barham Salih rejected on Tuesday attempts to breach the United States embassy in Baghdad saying they were a violation of binding international agreements to protect foreign missions that the Iraqi government is signatory to | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa-president/iraqi-president-salih-condemns-attempt-to-breach-u-s-embassy-idUSKBN1YZ1AU | 2020-01-01 |
| America has the surprising audacity of attributing to Iran the protests of the Iraqi people against savage killing of at least 25 Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said | Negative | Protesters angry about U.S. air strikes on Iraq hurled stones and torched a security post at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday setting off a confrontation with guards and prompting the United States to send additional troops to the Middle East | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security-usa/protesters-burn-security-post-at-u-s-embassy-in-iraq-pentagon-sending-additional-troops-to-region-idUSKBN1YZ1D7 | 2020-01-01 |
| Americans are unwanted in Iraq | Negative | BAGHDAD Militiamen and their supporters protesting against deadly U.S. air strikes on Iraq hurled stones and torched a security post at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday in an unprecedented attack on an American diplomatic mission in the country | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa/trump-blames-iran-as-protests-erupt-outside-u-s-embassy-in-iraq-idUSKBN1YZ0IO | 2020-01-01 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Tuesday that the United States was sending additional forces to its embassy in Baghdad and called on the Iraqi government to help protect American personnel | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Tuesday that the United States was sending additional forces to its embassy in Baghdad and called on the Iraqi government to help protect American personnel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa-trump-esper/additional-forces-being-sent-to-u-s-embassy-in-baghdad-pentagon-chief-idUSKBN1YZ14S | 2020-01-01 |
| WASHINGTON The United States is immediately deploying about 750 soldiers to the Middle East in response to the violent protests at the U.S. Embassy in Iraq Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Tuesday | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States is immediately deploying about 750 soldiers to the Middle East in response to the violent protests at the U.S. Embassy in Iraq Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa-military/u-s-deploying-750-soldiers-after-protest-at-u-s-embassy-in-iraq-pentagon-chief-idUSKBN1Z01GR | 2020-01-01 |
| They are a source of evil and we want them to said Khazali one of Irans most important allies in Iraq | Negative | BAGHDAD Militiamen and their supporters protesting against deadly U.S. air strikes on Iraq hurled stones and torched a security post at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday in an unprecedented attack on an American diplomatic mission in the country | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa/trump-blames-iran-as-protests-erupt-outside-u-s-embassy-in-iraq-idUSKBN1YZ0IO | 2020-01-01 |
| WASHINGTON All American personnel of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad are secure and there has been no breach of the facility where protesters and militia fighters enraged by U.S. air strikes on Iraq staged a violent protest on Tuesday the State Department said | Negative | WASHINGTON All American personnel of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad are secure and there has been no breach of the facility where protesters and militia fighters enraged by U.S. air strikes on Iraq staged a violent protest on Tuesday the State Department said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa-secure/u-s-personnel-of-embassy-in-baghdad-secure-state-department-idUSKBN1YZ165 | 2020-01-01 |
| DUBAI Iran denied it was behind violent protests at the U.S. embassy in Iraq on Tuesday and warned against any retaliation after President Donald Trump blamed Tehran for an attack on the mission and said it would be held responsible | Negative | DUBAI Iran denied it was behind violent protests at the U.S. embassy in Iraq on Tuesday and warned against any retaliation after President Donald Trump blamed Tehran for an attack on the mission and said it would be held responsible | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa-iran/iran-denies-role-in-u-s-embassy-violence-warns-against-retaliation-idUSKBN1YZ19Y | 2020-01-01 |
| We emphasize the importance of the brothers in parliament voting to expel the American forces guilty of spilling Iraqi blood and spreading it said in a statement | Negative | BAGHDAD Militiamen and their supporters protesting against deadly U.S. air strikes on Iraq hurled stones and torched a security post at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday in an unprecedented attack on an American diplomatic mission in the country | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa/trump-blames-iran-as-protests-erupt-outside-u-s-embassy-in-iraq-idUSKBN1YZ0IO | 2020-01-01 |
| Those raids on the Kataib Hezbollah militia were in response to the killing of a U.S. civilian contractor in a rocket attack on an Iraqi military base | Negative | BAGHDAD Militiamen and their supporters protesting against deadly U.S. air strikes on Iraq hurled stones and torched a security post at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday in an unprecedented attack on an American diplomatic mission in the country | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa/trump-blames-iran-as-protests-erupt-outside-u-s-embassy-in-iraq-idUSKBN1YZ0IO | 2020-01-01 |
