The Iraqi National Accord (INA) bloc accused the Ministry of Defence of circumventing a previous government decision to ban the installation of US Patriot systems, and put forward several...

Protestors in Iraq’s Dhi Qar province yesterday stormed the office of the head of the local Health Ministry forcing him to resign over his handling of the coronavirus outbreak...

Iraq’s Parliament yesterday set a deadline of the end of the June for the government to submit the draft 2020 budget, Anadolu reported. The Gulf state has yet to approve the...

Iranian and Iraqi officials yesterday signed a two-year deal which will see Tehran supply its Gulf neighbour electricity, Iranian media reported. This came during a meeting between Iranian Energy...

Iraqi herbal sellers known as 'Attaars' are witnessing a boom since the coronavirus outbreak as locals seek botanical products and natural remedies

Corruption on Iraq’s borders is robbing the government of its customs income, a member of the parliamentary financial committee has warned. According to Member of the Parliamentary Financial Committee...

Iraq on Tuesday recorded some 519 positive cases, the highest number of infections in a single day since the first case emerged in the country, raising the total to...

War crime accusations against British soldiers in Iraq have all been dismissed apart from one

Hundreds of Iraqi activists, journalists and social media users launched a new campaign on social media calling to reveal the fate of tens of thousands of forcibly disappeared persons....

The new Speaker of the Iranian Shura Council, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf yesterday rejected negotiations with the United States, describing them as “futile”. “The new Shura Council considers negotiating with America; the...

Iraq has only 190,000 tonnes of rice available in its coffers for its food rationing programme, the trade ministry said in a statement yesterday, Reuters report. The country needs...

Government employees went back to work in Iran on Saturday and President Hassan Rouhani said mosques would resume daily prayers across the country, even though some areas are seeing...

Conflicts are meant to involve the living, with the dead being long withdrawn from the complex web of political alliances and bloody feuds that mankind revels in. So when...

Since the start of 2020, the Iraqi authorities have recorded a series of movements attributed to Daesh militants in the Iraqi territory, which indicates that the terrorist organisation has...

Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) announced yesterday that they have arrested Daesh’s media official in the Saladin province. A statement from the PMF said that “a force from the...

Ex-Daesh fighters could face prosecution for gruesome “conflict selfies” with severed heads and dead bodies, the UK’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has said. Daesh terrorists have been known to...

Iraq yesterday vowed to investigate cases of torture, abduction and enforced disappearance among protesters during demonstrations in the country over the previous months. This came in response to a...

The leader of the Daesh terrorist group in Iraq was killed in an airstrike in eastern Syria, the Iraqi government said on Tuesday, Anadolu Agency reports. According to a statement...

Two Iranian-backed Shia militias in Iraq have called for terrorist attacks to be conducted in Saudi Arabia, raising concerns about the increased targeting of Saudi government, civilian and industrial...

Eurojust, Europe’s judicial cooperation agency, has called for Daesh returnees from Iraq and Syria to be charged with war crimes. The call was made in a new report by...

Signs of a new political crisis have emerged in Iraq as the Saairun bloc, the largest in parliament with 54 seats and supported by Shia leader Muqtada Al-Sadr, has...

Due to increasing coronavirus cases, the Iraqi parliament warned on Thursday that the healthcare system in the country may collapse in ten days, Anadolu Agency reported. Jawad Al-Mosawi, rapporteur...

US prosecutors are trying to confiscate a 3,600-year-old Mesopotamian artefact and return it to Iraq

Iraqi intelligence yesterday confirmed the capture of a high ranking Daesh leader who was a potential successor to the slain former leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi. In a statement, the...

The Iraqi army yesterday announced that a number of Daesh fighters had been killed in their hideouts during an operation carried out by the Special Operations Forces (ISOF) with the support of...

Iraq’s new Prime Minister, Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, said yesterday that when he assumed his duties the country’s treasury had been almost “empty”. In an article published in the Baghdad Today newspaper, Al-Kadhimi...

Daesh militants yesterday attacked overhead power lines on the outskirts of Mansouriya district, in the Diyala governorate, a local source reported. Iraq’s Shafaq News Agency yesterday quoted the source as saying...

These chickens are being cooped up for the foreseeable future

Efforts to gather evidence for the prosecution of Daesh militants are proving to be fruitful, a UN investigative has said. “Significant progress” is being made in building a legal case against the terrorist...

Iraqi protesters yesterday stormed the headquarters of the Saudi-owned MBC channel in Baghdad to protest against what they deemed to be “insults” against the former commander of the Popular Mobilisation Forces...

Much has been written about the growing rifts between the Shia seminary cities of Najaf in Iraq and Qom in Iran, centred on the role of politics and religion....

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi yesterday ordered the Ministry of Interior to expedite the disclosure of the fate and whereabouts of thousands of men and boys who were forcibly...