United Nations Iraq

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  UN Political Mission In Iraq To End By 2025 After Over 20 Years

  At the request of Baghdad, the UN Security Council unanimously decided Friday that the United Nations political mission in Iraq would leave the country at the end of 2025 after more than 20 years.

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  India Says UN Must Focus On Eliminating Threats By Terror Groups In Iraq

  Expressing serious concerns on the terrorist attacks that took place last month in Baghdad, Iraq, India on Tuesday said that the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) should focus on eliminating every threat posed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and other terror groups in Iraq and elsewhere in the world.

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  UN Says 28,000 Flee Drive to Retake Iraq's Tikrit

  Some 28,000 people have fled the Tikrit area as Iraqi forces battle the Islamic State jihadist group in a massive offensive aimed at retaking the city, the UN said.

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  United Nations Warns of 'Unprecedented' Number of Foreign Jihadists

  Foreign jihadists from more than 80 countries have flocked to fight in Iraq and Syria on an "unprecedented scale", according to extracts of a UN report published by Britain's Guardian newspaper on Friday.

• UN Chief Invokes Gandhi's Message for Peace and Nonviolence

  Invoking Mahatma Gandhi's legacy, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said the world should recall his message of peace and non-violence at a time of increased sectarian violence and destruction of cultural sites, particularly in Iraq and Syria.

• UN Says Funding Needed for Iraq Response

  United Nations agencies are running out of funding to help the 1.8 million people displaced by violence in Iraq, UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos said on Saturday.

• Yazidi Fleeing Iraq Jihadists Has Quintuplets: UN

  A Yazidi refugee fleeing the jihadist offensive in Iraq has given birth to quintuplets in northeast Syria, an official with the UN refugee agency said yesterday.

• UN Security Council Blacklists Islamist Militants in Iraq, Syria

  The United Nations Security Council took aim at Islamist militants in Iraq and Syria on Friday, blacklisting six people including the Islamic State spokesman and threatening sanctions against those who finance, recruit or supply weapons to the insurgents.

• UN Monitors Demand Urgent Action to Stop Yazidi 'Genocide'

  UN rights monitors called Tuesday for the global community to take urgent action to avoid a potential genocide against the Yazidi community in Iraq.

• UN Says Preparing Iraq Humanitarian Corridor

  The United Nations said it was working on opening a humanitarian corridor in northern Iraq to allow stranded civilians threatened by jihadist fighters to flee.

• Iraq: 60 Dead in Attack on Prisoner Convoy

  Gunmen attacked a prisoner convoy north of Baghdad on Thursday, setting off a gunbattle with troops in which 52 prisoners and eight soldiers were killed, officials said.

• Atleast 2,417 Iraqis Killed in June: UN

  At least 2,417 Iraqis were killed and 2,287 wounded in "acts of violence and terrorism" in Iraq in June, the United Nations said in a statement on Tuesday.

• United Nations Mission Asks Iraq to Investigate Abduction of Foreign Nationals

  The UN mission in Iraq has asked authorities there to investigate the incidents of extrajudicial killings and abductions, including those of Indian and Turkish nationals and bring the perpetrators to justice.

• At Least 1,075 Killed in Iraq in June: United Nations

  At least 1,075 people, the vast majority of them civilians, have been killed in Iraq during June as a Sunni insurgency overtakes key areas of the country, the United Nations said on Tuesday.

• UN says 750 Iraqis killed in violence in April

  The United Nations says 750 Iraqis were killed in violence in April, the highest monthly death toll of this year.