Iraq

Women impacted by war and conflict are made to overcome a number of immense challenges. Rape and sexual violence, for example, are commonly used as weapons of war to...

The Arab and Islamic world, with its Sunni majority, did not look at the regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran through a sectarian lens. Ayatollah Khomeini was seen...

Iraq has made a fresh attempt to control revenue from the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan by asking oil and gas firms operating there to sign new contracts with state-owned...

Some 59.1 million people were internally displaced in 2021, up from 55 million a year earlier, the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) said today. "The situation today is phenomenally worse...

Freudian slip? Bush confuses Ukraine with Iraq

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi condemned on Tuesday what he said were attempts to "tie the hands of his government", and warned that everyone "will lose" due to the...

Iraq's state oil marketer SOMO said today that it agreed with a state-operated railway company to transport fuel oil products from refineries to southern ports, Reuters reports. The agreement came as...

Grand Mufti of Egypt, Shawki Allam, yesterday attacked the Muslim Brotherhood and claimed their roots are linked to terrorist groups such as Daesh. In a speech, Allam claimed that the roots of...

Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian is scheduled to meet his Saudi counterpart Faisal Bin Farhan in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, an Iranian lawmaker announced yesterday. Javad Karimi-Ghodousi told the...

Classes at schools in Iraq were suspended for one day due to a heavy sandstorm, the Education Ministry said Monday, and Anadolu News Agency reports. The Ministry said in...

The United States has provided $219 million to its allies in Iraq and Syria in 2022, so far, in efforts to reportedly maintain the fight against the terror group,...

On Wednesday the Iraqi Council of Representatives approved, in the first reading, a draft bill banning normalisation of ties with Israel. If passed, it will make Iraq the first...

Forces from the regional Kurdish government have taken control of some oil wells in northern Kirkuk, Iraq's state-run North Oil Company said in a statement on Saturday, but the...

The Iraqi government yesterday condemned the Iranian artillery shelling that targeted a number of sites in the Sedakan area north of Erbil, in the Kurdistan region, Anadolu news agency reported. A...

Iraqi bill banning normalisation with Israel goes to parliament

Iraqi Foreign Minister, Fuad Hussein, yesterday called on the international community to provide humanitarian aid to the Syrian refugees in its territory. "Iraq hosts nearly 260,000 officially registered Syrians,...

Iraq and the European Union have discussed the issue of irregular migration and curbing smuggling networks as well as Baghdad's steps to return Iraqi citizens wishing to voluntarily return...

Iran's Revolutionary Guards shelled an area north of the Kurdish Iraqi capital of Erbil today, targeting what Iranian state television described as terrorist bases, Reuters reports. Iraqi Kurdish media reported that an artillery...

Iranian Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir Abdollahian, said yesterday that Turkey's decision to build dams which would harm the Iranian people and negatively affect water flowing into the Islamic Republic...

The United States has imposed sanctions on an alleged international network of financial facilitators for Daesh, with a stated aim to cut off funds for the terror group and...

A dust storm that covered seven Iraqi governorates, including Baghdad, caused more than 5,000 cases of suffocation and the death of one person. Social media sites circulated astonishing pictures...

Iraq's Ministry of Defence has signed a contract with the US and France to import advanced weapons and enhance the quality of its artillery, the state-run Iraqi News Agency...

Media reports about a security threat between Iraq and Kuwait are "groundless," the Iraqi embassy in Kuwait insisted yesterday. "No truth in what is was recently reported about the...

READ: Missile attack causes tank fire in oil refinery in Iraq...

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) revealed yesterday that 8.5 million Iraqis live among deadly mines and unexploded remnants of war. "Iraq is one of the most...

Nearly 700 families have left Sinjar in northern Iraq following Monday's clashes between the Iraqi army and a PKK-affiliated militia called Sinjar Resistance Units, Iraqi Kurdish authorities said on...

Turkish security forces have "neutralised" two more terrorists as part of the recently launched Operation Claw-Lock in northern Iraq, the country's National Defense Ministry said on Tuesday, reports Anadolu...

A missile attack targeted an oil refinery in Iraq's northern city of Erbil on Sunday causing a fire in one of its main tanks that was later brought under...

Retiree Jim Fitton, 66, was detained in an airport when security forces found ‘valueless’ pottery in his luggage

A Turkish soldier was killed during an anti-terror operation in northern Iraq, Turkiye's National Defense Ministry said on Sunday, Anadolu reports. Mumin Carkci, an infantry specialist sergeant, was killed...

Fearing possible suicide attacks on soft targets, Iraqi authorities on Friday announced a state of high alert for the Muslim holiday of Eid Al-Fitr, Anadolu News Agency reports. "The...

The Iraqi Sadrist movement, led by Muqtada Al-Sadr, yesterday denied media reports claiming it had held political meetings with the Coordination Framework forces to discuss forming the next government....