Iraq security forces arrest several officials in anticorruption crackdown
Key takeaways
- Elite security personnel carry out a large-scale operation at dawn in the Green Zone and several neighbourhoods in Baghdad, security source says.
- It was not immediately clear who had been arrested.
- A security source told Al Jazeera that elite Iraqi security forces carried out a large-scale arrest operation at dawn in the fortified International Zone (Green Zone) and several neighbourhoods in Baghdad.
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Elite security personnel carry out a large-scale operation at dawn in the Green Zone and several neighbourhoods in Baghdad, security source says.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi, shown speaking after assuming office on May 16, 2026, has promised to crack down on corruption [File: Handout/Iraqi Prime Minister Media Office via Reuters]By Waleed Ibrahim and APPublished On 28 Jun 202628 Jun 2026Several Iraqi politicians, lawmakers and officials have been arrested on corruption charges, Iraqi state-run media report.
Several people, including members of parliament “whose immunity had been lifted and officials whose names appeared in … confessions”, were arrested early on Sunday in the capital, Baghdad, the Iraqi News Agency reported, quoting a security source.