Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar Al-Abadi yesterday ordered the formation of a permanent committee to investigate financial and administrative corruption in government ministries and security institutions. The Central Investigation Commission...

An official at the Endowments and Religious Affairs Ministry of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government says more than 3,000 members of Yazidi minority remain unaccounted for since Daesh militants...

Secretary-General of the Arab Project in Iraq Khamis Al-Khanjar announced yesterday the formation of a new political alliance named “National Axis” which includes six prominent Sunni politicians, the Anadolu...

Despite defeat, between 20,000 and 30,000 Daesh foreign fighters remain across Syria and Iraq, according to a new United Nations report. The remaining Daesh fighters are likely to be...

Militants behind an attack on Jordanian police supported Daesh and investigations had revealed plans for more attacks on security and civilian targets, Jordan’s interior minister said on Monday. Jordanian...

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi stepped back from his commitment to abide by new US sanctions on Iran on Monday, saying his government would only respect the dollar ban...

Former Iranian interior minister, Abdullah Ramadan Zadeh, called on Friday on his country not to oppose dividing Iraq ahead of the imposition of US sanctions on the Islamic Republic....

Iraq has stopped trading with Iran in the US dollar after Washington imposed economic sanctions on Tehran, according to the country’s central bank on Saturday. The Central Bank of...

At least two people were killed and 10 others injured in a twin bomb attack in northern Iraq today, according to a local military officer as reported on Anadolu...

Iranian border guards killed 11 militants in clashes in northwestern Iran near border with Iraq, according to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) on Saturday as reported on Anadolu Agency. ...

Mahmoud Sadeghi, a member of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, said on Thursday that Iraq has to pay a $1.1 billion compensation to Iran. Sadeghi wrote on Twitter: “Iraq has...

Populist Shi’ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has retained his lead in Iraq’s May parliamentary election, results of a nationwide manual recount of votes announced by the electoral commission showed early...

A survivor of this morning’s boat wreck in the Aegean Sea told the Anadolu Agency how the human smugglers subjected the migrants to inhumane treatment before their deadly voyage....

The wives and children of Daesh fighters who have been killed or imprisoned are afraid of returning to their homes in Iraq, an Al Jazeera report has found. As...

The shift in oil market power away from OPEC towards a bilateral relationship between Saudi Arabia and Russia is the culmination of structural changes in oil production over the...

Germany on Wednesday reached an agreement with Spain to send back migrants caught at the German border. In a news conference in Berlin, German Interior Ministry’s spokeswoman Eleonore Petermann...

The Iraqi Interior Ministry today announced the arrest of a Daesh leader who headed the Zakat Bureau in the northern city of Nineveh. “The second rapid reaction forces of...

Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar Al-Abadi yesterday referred a number of former ministers and senior officials to the country’s anti-graft body over suspicion of corruption. Al-Abadi’s office said in a...

Prime Minister of Iraqi Kurdistan, Nechirvan Barzani has said that: “the negotiations of the formation of a new Iraqi government will begin after the ratification of the results.” He...

Iraq does not agree with US sanctions against Iran but will abide by them to protect its own interests, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Tuesday. “As a matter of principle, we...

The Iraqi Independent High Elections Commission yesterday announced that it has completed the manual recount of votes from the parliamentary elections held on 12 May. The state television reported...

An Iraqi court sentenced a French man and a German woman to life in prison on Monday after finding them guilty of belonging to Islamic State. The sentences can be...

A high voltage electricity line between Kirkuk and Diyala was blown up by terrorists on Thursday in an act of “sabotage”, the Iraqi Ministry of Electricity said yesterday. This...

Hundreds of protesters from the province of Basra blocked off roads leading to the West Qurna oil field on the ninth consecutive day of their protests, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed news...

Iraq’s election commission ignored an anti-corruption body’s warnings about the credibility of electronic vote-counting machines used in May’s parliamentary election, according to investigators and a document seen by Reuters....

Iraq’s national football team arrived in occupied Ramallah yesterday ahead of its planned game against the Palestinian team today. The friendly international match will take place at the Faisal...

Iraq has approved a proposal which would mean 50 per cent all staff in foreign companies would need to be made up of local workers, Al-Khaleej Online reported yesterday....

Iraq’s senior Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah, Ali Al-Sistani, yesterday escaped an assassination attempt, security sources reported. Khalil Abdul Ghafour, a provisional police officer, told the Anadolu Agency that “unidentified gunmen” opened fire...

Demonstrations in Iraq’s southern province of Basra are continuing a month after they started, protesters are demanding access to jobs and basic services. According to local sources, hundreds of...

Security forces in Iraq’s southern Basra province prevented demonstrators from storming a major petroleum facility on Wednesday, according to a military source. “A joint force stopped dozens of protesters...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) yesterday requested Iraq investigate claims that its forces are torturing Daesh suspects in prison, adding that judges are convicting defendants based on coerced confessions. “Torture...

Muqtada al-Sadr’s Sairoon bloc has reached an understanding with a handful of political parties regarding the formation of a majority bloc in parliament which would then be tasked with drawing...