Parliamentary sources reported that the completion of Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul Mahdi's cabinet will likely be delayed until the next legislative term in the spring due to continued disagreements between the two major blocs in parliament.
According to an Iraqi security source, the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) arrested two Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists hiding amongst displaced families in Anbar Province. The terrorists were implicated in launching attacks on civilians and security forces in the province.
An Iraqi security source reported that an Iraqi Air Force raid in the Ar-Rutbah district, west of Anbar successfully killed four Islamic State (ISIS) militants.
Turkey's airstrikes, which mainly focus on the northern Iraqi countryside, have targeted positions held by the Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK), although civilian lives have also been lost.
Displaced Iraqis from other regions of the country to the northern Duhok Province have made a positive contribution to the local economy.
The young artist Safa al-Din al-Mashhadani worked secretly in his grandfather's house in Mosul when ISIS occupied the city. Now free of the group, Safa has brought his clay works out into the open to showcase them on the Iraqi street.
Muhammad Abdullah Farhan, an ISIS terrorist, was captured in Anbar by the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) and admitted to carrying out dozens of terrorist attacks with the group.
Despite the defeat of the militant group, hundreds of ISIS mines left behind in the town of al-Qahtaniyah in Iraq have made life unbearable for local residents.