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An Iraqi court has sentenced a Daesh militant to death for involvement in a spate of assassinations of security personnel in the northern Nineveh province, according to the Supreme Judicial Council on Monday.
In a statement, council spokesman Abdul-Sattar Bayrakdar said the militant was convicted of killing a number of police and army personnel and planning explosives devices in Nineveh.
The Daesh militant was also involved in shooting down a number of civilians in Mosul and staging attacks against security forces, the spokesman said.
Iraq signed a $369 million contract with Petrofac on Monday to build a new crude-processing facility in the giant Majnoon oilfield, a senior oil executive told Reuters.Under the deal terms, work to build the new facility which has a capacity to produce 200,000 barrels per day, should be completed in 34 months, said Ihsan Abdul Jabbar, head of the state-run Basra Oil Company. 
Iraq, Petrofac sign $369 mln deal to build Majnoon crude-processing plant
Monday’s verdict was issued under Iraq’s anti-terrorism act.
Late last year, officials in Baghdad declared that Daesh's military presence in Iraq had been all but destroyed. It appears, however, that the notorious terrorist group still maintains a limited presence in certain parts of the country.
Iraqi forces have uncovered a network of tunnels dug by the Daesh terrorist group south of Mosul in northern Iraq, according to a federal police officer on Monday.Federal police forces raided suspected Daesh positions near the town of Otaiba al-Sharqiya, 60 kilometers south of Mosul, Major Abdul Wahid al-Ansari told Anadolu Agency.“Five underground tunnels were destroyed and eight explosive devices and belts were seized and defused,” he said.He, however, said no militant had been arrested during the raid.Last December, officials in Baghdad declared that Daesh's military presence in Iraq had been all but dismantled over operations backed by the U.S.-led International Alliance. However, from time to time, Iraqi officials announce operations against Daesh-affiliated "sleeper cells" in certain parts of the country.Suspects in Jordan attack support Daesh: MinisterTwin bomb blast kills two in Iraq's Mosul
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Protests against results of the manual recount of the May 12 parliamentary polls will lead to nothing, the head of the Iraqi Turkmen Front said Monday.“Any objection to the results of the manual recount would not make any change,” Arshad Salihi told Anadolu Agency.Last week, Iraq's Independent High Electoral Commission said the manual recount of the May 12 parliamentary election results is compatible with the electronic count.According to the results, Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Sairoon Coalition won 54 parliamentary seats, followed by a Hashd al-Shaabi-led coalition (48 seats) and Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's Victory Bloc (42 seats).On Sunday, the electoral commission began to receive complaints from political parties against the poll results.“Commission judges were subject to pressure, that’s why the results in Kirkuk were kept as it is,” Salihi said.He claimed that votes were manipulated in around 1,140 polling stations in Kirkuk.“Judges, however, recounted votes in 190 polling stations only and wrapped up their work in Kirkuk before the set time,” he said.Salihi said he will file a complaint against the results of the manual recount. “But we don’t pin high hopes on changing the vote results because we know that there are pressures being piled on the commission,” he said.“We have no choice but to resort to international organizations to follow up on the issue,” he said.Once Iraq’s Federal Court approves the results of the manual recount, incoming MPs will hold a first session to elect a new assembly speaker.Within 30 days of the first parliamentary session, the assembly will elect -- by a two-thirds majority -- the country’s next president.The president will then task the largest bloc in parliament with drawing up a government, which must be referred back to parliament for approval.
Protests won’t change Iraq vote results: Turkmen leader