BAGHDAD / NINA / The Ministry of Electricity announced that Diyala- Mirsad line in
Khanaqin was subjected to terrorist attack and bombing some of its towers.
A senior peshmerga official said the ISIL presence in Jalawla threatened the Kurdish-controlled towns of Kalar and
Khanaqin to the North as well as nearby dams and oil fields.
The attack occurred in the city of
Khanaqin, some 165 km northeast of the capital Baghdad.
Summary: The foundation stones for three huge tourism projects will be laid in Kalar, Kifri and
Khanaqin towns.
ARBIL / Aswat al-Iraq: Prime Minister of Kurdistan region Nechirvan Barzani arrived in
Khanaqin on Monday as part of his tour in the Karmiya region, started yesterday.
The bomb targeted a patrol of police assigned to protect power installations near
Khanaqin, 140 km (86 miles) northeast of Baghdad, in still-violent Diyala province, police said.
Thousands of teachers, students and other members of the community took to the streets of the town of
Khanaqin, north of Diyala province, on Monday to protest the marginalization of the Kurdish language in local educational institutions.
Police officials said the bomber blew himself up on Thursday inside a crowded restaurant in the predominantly Kurdish town of
Khanaqin.
Government troops want to evacuate the Kurdish militia, the peshmerga, from
Khanaqin and vacate buildings occupied by two Kurdish parties, claiming they are the property of the central government.
Khanaqin is part of the Diyala governorate which has been under a government crackdown on Al Qaida.
30am local time as scores of Shiites were gathered in central
Khanaqin performing rituals on the holiest day on the Shiite Islamic calendar.
A bomb left in a rubbish bin struck Shiites during ceremonies in the Kurdish city of
Khanaqin near the Iranian border, killing at least 13 people and wounding 39.
