The Euro-Mediterranean Human Right Monitor and the Iraqi Centre for the Documentation of War Crimes revealed today that armed groups had kidnapped at least 300 protesters recently, from or near...

An opposition activist has been assassinated, and two others were injured during anti-government protests in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, local sources reported yesterday. A senior police officer told...

Iraqi security forces arrested five people in connection with lynching a teenager in the capital Baghdad this week, according to the interior ministry on Sunday, Anadolu Agency reports. On Thursday, angry...

Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr closed his Facebook account Friday, writing “goodbye” on a black background on the social media site, Anadolu Agency reports. The move led to speculations...

In a widely condemned incident in Baghdad’s Al-Wathba Square, anti-government protestors lynched a 16-year-old boy believing him to have opened fire on protestors, when it has now surfaced that...

Iraq’s top Shi’ite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani on Friday condemned recent killings and kidnappings of protesters, urging the state to assert control over the widespread use of weapons,...

Iraq’s Parliament speaker, Mohamed Al-Halbousi, described his country’s victory over Daesh in 2017 as “incomplete without the return of the displaced people to their homes, revealing the fate of...

Iraq's anti-government protests continue in Baghdad

The Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced today that it had summoned the ambassadors of France, Britain, Germany and Canada to reject a joint statement issued by the four...

When suicide rates reach horrifying levels in Egypt, it is a dangerous indication of the dire situation in the country. We also regularly bear witness to those swallowed by...

The Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) said that its website had been hacked. This debunked the statement published by its press office, regarding the participation of members of the...

The majority of schools in the Iraqi capital Baghdad as well as in central and southern governorates have gone on strike for the fourth week as scores of students...

Iraqi authorities have released 2,626 people held during anti-government protests, the country’s highest judicial authority said Sunday, reports Anadolu Agency. In a statement, the Supreme Judiciary Council said 181...

The UN’s special Iraq envoy on Saturday condemned attacks by armed entities amid ongoing protests in Iraq and urged authorities to bring them to justice, reports Anadolu Agency. At...

Prime Minister of Iraq Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) said Saturday his government wants to establish a balanced relationship based on peace with neighbouring countries, reports Anadolu Agency. Barzani was...

The death toll in an attack by armed men at Baghdad’s main protest site on Friday night rose to 23 on Saturday, police and medical sources said, the deadliest...

The Iraqi Ministry of Interior denied reports regarding deaths among protesters on Friday, Anadolu Agency reported. Spokesman of the Ministry of Interior, Khalid Al-Mahna, announced in a statement: “A...

Iraq’s top Shia cleric, Ali Al-Sistani, called on Friday for the formation of a new government away from external intervention. This came in a statement read by his representative,...

A drone has reportedly targeted the home of Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in the southern Iraqi city of Najaf, a leader of his movement said Saturday, Anadolu reports. In...

Prominent Shia cleric Ali al-Sistani on Friday urged the formation of a new government away from outside interventions, Anadolu Agency reports. In a statement read by his representative Abdul-Mahdi al-Karbalai during Friday...

The United States on Friday blacklisted three Iran-backed Iraqi paramilitary leaders over their alleged role in killings of anti-government protesters in Iraq, the US Treasury Department said, Reuters reports. They...

Iraqi’s Kurdistan Regional Government is transferring 250,000 barrels of oil per day to the federal government in Baghdad, the minister of finance said yesterday. Awat Sheikh Janab said this...

Hundreds of pro-Iran militia supporters organised a protest in the Iraqi capital Baghdad near Tahrir Square, the stronghold of anti-establishment protesters, raising fears of clashes between the two sides,...

Saudi Arabia will meet Bahrain in the Arabian Gulf Cup final after Abdullah Al-Hamdan scored a first-half goal as they beat hosts Qatar 1-0 in the semi-finals on Thursday,...

It is hardly surprising to see Middle Eastern countries at the bottom of the World Press Freedom Index, as the worst violators of freedom of the press. But equally...

A Jordanian delegation on Monday visited the Kuwaiti embassy in Amman to apologise for provocative chants by some fans during a football match between the two countries last month,...

Unidentified shooters have assassinated a local official at Iraq’s eastern province of Diyala, a security source reported yesterday. “Gunmen believed to belong to Daesh have assassinated the mayor of...

Iraq’s Independent High Commission for Human Rights said the death toll of anti-establishment protests over the past two months has increased to 460 dead and more than 17,000 wounded....

Five rockets landed on US air base in Iraq, which hosts American troops in Anbar province in the west of the country, Reuters reported. No details were released of...

Protesters in Iraq set fire to the Iranian consulate in the southern city of Najaf for the third time, local media reported Tuesday, reports Anadolu Agency. The consulate was...

Iraqi police arrested a key deputy of deceased Daesh leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on Tuesday in Kirkuk province, reports Anadolu Agency. Abu Khaldoun was the terrorist group’s military commander...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday that his country had received “secret messages” from the US administration, through European mediators, about launching talks. Rouhani insisted that “this is...