Iraq closed public buildings and temporarily shut airports Monday as another sandstorm -- the ninth since mid-April -- hit the country, authorities said.

As part of its annual medical convoy programme, Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) has concluded a medical convoy project, benefitting internally displaced people (IDPs) and Syrian refugees in Erbil, Iraq.

A bomb killed four people in the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Tuesday, the first such attack in years in a part of the country that has enjoyed relative stability, and a senior official said Islamic State militants were suspected of carrying it out.

Qatar has expressed its strong condemnation of the attack in Al Anbar governorate in western Iraq, which caused deaths and injures.

At least 10 rockets hit a military base in western Iraq hosting US-led coalition troops on Wednesday, security sources said, two days before Pope Francis's historic visit to the country.

A volley of rockets targeting an airbase in Iraq's Kurdistan region killed a foreign civilian contractor and wounded five others and a US soldier, the US-led coalition said.

Qatar Monday expressed its strong condemnation and denunciation of the killing of 13 Turkish citizens in northern Iraq.

The US will slash troop levels in Afghanistan and Iraq to their lowest levels in nearly 20 years of war after President Donald Trump pledged to end conflicts abroad, the Pentagon announced Tuesday

Qatar has strongly condemned the attack on a military post west of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, which resulted in deaths and injuries.

At least one woman was killed and four others were injured in a double explosion on the outskirts of Al Abara subdistrict, northeast Baqubah in Diyala Province, an Iraqi security source announced on Thursday.

An explosion targeting a gas pipeline in southern Iraq killed two children Saturday after a blast in the north this week forced the closure of another pipeline, authorities said.

Iraq is exporting more crude so far in September than it shipped last month, a sign that the country is falling further behind in efforts to comply with its Opec+ production limit.