Daesh militants have kidnapped six members of Iraq’s security forces and threatened to kill them in three days unless the government releases Sunni Muslim female prisoners, the group said...

Iraq has launched an air attack on a gathering of Daesh leaders inside neighbouring Syria, killing 45 members of the hardline militant group, its military said on Saturday. F-16...

The Iraqi parliamentary elections in May has predictably been followed by a drawn-out process of complex manoeuvring and negotiations to determine the complexion of the new government. When it...

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and prominent Shia cleric and politician Muqtada al-Sadr sealed an alliance to form a new government late Saturday. Announcement came in two leaders’ joint...

The Iraqi Company for Passenger and Delegate Transport has announced that the land link between Baghdad and Istanbul has reopened after a break of 5 years, Anadolu has reported....

Iraqi Vice President Ayad Allawi yesterday called on the country’s authorities to take legal action against anyone who has forged results in the recent parliamentary elections, stressing that the...

Syria is ready to establish a railway link with Iraq and Iran, the country’s Minister of Economy and Foreign Trade, Mohammad Samer Al-Khalil, said. The proposal came during a...

A Syrian army officer was killed in a US strike on a Syrian army outpost near a US base close to the Iraqi-Syrian border, a commander in the regional...

Hundreds of unemployed Iraqis demonstrated yesterday in the oil-rich Basra province against the employment of foreign workers in the province’s oil sector. The province of Basra produces at least...

Generals from Syria, Iran and Russia convened at the joint-intel centre (JIC) inside Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone last week to discuss matters of national security and cooperation. The meeting...

The US embassy in Baghdad yesterday denied US responsibility for air strikes that killed dozens of Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) fighters near the Syrian-Iraqi border. US Ambassador to Baghdad...

Daesh executed six people including two pro-government fighters hours after kidnapping them in an ambush south of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, Turkey’s Anadolu Agency reported. Captain Abdul...

Israel is behind an attack on the Iraq-Syria border that left dozens of militia fighters dead, CNN reported yesterday, citing a US official. An airstrike on Sunday night targeting...

Iraq’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement late on Monday that it “expresses rejection and condemnation of any air operations targeting forces in areas where they are fighting ISIS...

Iraq’s Muqtada Al-Sadr has disappointed many of those who considered the success of his candidate list in the recent national elections to be a defeat for Tehran. After all,...

Syrian state media, citing a military source, reported early on Monday that US-led coalition aircraft had bombed “one of our military positions” in eastern Syria, leading to deaths and...

Ammar al-Hakim criticises role of Iraq's judiciary in ongoing dispute over May 12 poll results

Six Daesh terrorists were killed in an army airstrike carried out in Iraq’s Saladin province north of Baghdad, a military source said Sunday. “Joint Army/Hashd al-Shaabi forces located six...

UN refugee agency special envoy Angelina Jolie visited Mosul in northern Iraq on Saturday and urged the international community not to forget residents trying to rebuild their city. Iraqi forces seized...

Turkish jets destroyed terrorist shelters, hideouts, and weapons pits as part of anti-terror operations in northern Iraq on Friday, the military said on Saturday. In a statement, the Turkish...

The Turkish military said on Friday air strikes its forces carried out killed 26 Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants in northern Iraq’s Qandil mountain region on June 12, Anadolu...

Expatriate workers who accept low wages and are willing to work long hours are exacerbating the Iraq’s unemployment problem, locals have said. Hussein Jassim, an Iraqi worker who left...

The fire that broke out in the ballot box storage in Baghdad did not only devour the ballot boxes, but it also undermined the credibility and integrity of the...

At least three OPEC members disagree with Saudi Arabia and Russia on the need to pump more oil, OPEC sources said, complicating any official decision to boost supply just...

The Iraqi Supreme Judicial Council announced today the issuance of 20 arrest warrants against those accused of last week’s explosion in Sadr City, east of Baghdad, which killed 20...

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Tuesday he opposed any repeat of the 12 May parliamentary election and warned that anyone who tried to sabotage the political process...

For years we heard nothing but news of death, murder, destruction, and bombings from Iraq. Since the US occupation in 2003, Iraq has become the most violent and turbulent...

Iraqi Parliament Speaker Salim Al-Jubouri has called for new elections after ballot boxes were burnt ahead of a recount last week. Al-Jubouri said the burning of the storage areas...

Iraqi cleric, Muqtada al-Sadr, whose coalition won the largest number of seats in the country’s recent parliamentary elections, has rejected calls for an election rerun, warning Iraqis about breaking...

Daily reminders of Iraq’s tragic state of affairs are brought up across online spaces daily. The trending video of a dishdasha-clad Iraqi citizen, wading through what is left of...

The National Iranian Oil Company announced that Tehran’s revenues from the joint oil fields with Iraq amounted to $5 billion annually. According to the government run IRNA news agency,...

A Baghdad storage site housing ballot boxes from Iraq’s May parliamentary election has caught fire and first responders are attempting to control it, a local official and the interior...