Some 40 journalists were killed and 76 others were wounded in Iraq between 2015 and 2017, the Association for the Defence of Press Freedom in Iraq said on Sunday....

Huge demonstrations were held in the Iraqi city of Basra on Friday, calling for public services and job opportunities. The demonstrations were organised by the Coordination Committee for Basra...

Iran’s Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani has accused the US of transferring Daesh militants to war-torn Afghanistan in an attempt to trigger instability in Asia. Speaking during a meeting on...

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Israeli daily, Yedioth Ahronoth has published what it calls Hezbollah’s “plan to conquer the Galilee,” stated that according to the plan, the combatants of Al-Radwan Unit, Hezbollah’s elite forces, were...

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Lawmakers of Iraq’s Sairoon Alliance led by Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr rejected on Tuesday the candidacy of the former chairman of the Popular Mobilization Forces, Faleh al-Fayyad as interior...

Syria has accused the US-led coalition forces of launching missile strikes on Sunday night against Syrian army positions in the centre of the country, state-run SANA news agency quoted...

Iraq’s influential cleric, Moqtada al-Sadr has given Iraqi Prime Minister, Adel Abdul-Mahdi one year to “prove himself” in running a successful government or face popular uprising, Anadolu Agency reported....

Former Iraqi prime minister Nouri Al-Maliki said his country will not allow its territory to be used to target Iran. In an interview with National Iranian Radio and Television,...

Iran said on Sunday it would continue missile tests to build up its defences and denied this was in breach of UN resolutions following US allegations that Tehran had...

Iraqi security forces yesterday prevented dozens of demonstrators from storming the major oilfield of West Qurna 2 in the country’s southern province of Basra. “Dozens of unemployed demonstrators attempted...

Turkey will open a visa application center in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk, Ankara’s ambassador to Baghdad said Saturday. During his visit to predominantly Turkmen town Tuz Khurmatu, Fatih Yildiz said: “In...

US-backed fighters in Syria have captured a senior Daesh leader who served as an assistant to the group’s self-declared “caliph” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, they said on Friday. The Syrian...

A group of Yazidi women kidnapped as sex slaves by Daesh in Iraq and Syria applied on Friday to join a criminal case against French cement maker Lafarge, which...

Iraq’s top Shia Muslim cleric on Thursday said he had yet to see progress made under new Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi, who still does not have a full...

Qatar will more than double its naval forces by 2025 as a massive new base comes online and it expands a national service programme amid a protracted dispute with...

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Iraqi civil defence forces have recovered 1,900 bodies from the rubble in the northern city of Mosul. Civil defence officer Fahd Al-Abed told the Anadolu Agency that most of...

From Khartoum, where the Arab summit in late August 1967 announced its Three No’s: no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, and no negotiations with it, a leader...

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries has been marginalised as critical decisions about the oil market are taken by a troika of the United States, Russia and Saudi...

American news website Axios reported that the US President Donald Trump has called on former Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi to compensate the United States for the costs of...

The head of a powerful Iraqi militia wants a formal role for Shi’ite paramilitaries in securing the border with Syria, a move that could deepen US worries about Iran’s growing...

Iraqi artillery participated on Sunday in an American-French attack against Daesh on the Iraqi-Syrian borders, the Anadolu Agency reported. The attack came as part of the activities of the...

Iran said on Sunday that no fatalities had been reported but that more than 400 people were injured after an earthquake of magnitude 6.3 struck near its western border...

The mayor of Shirqat in northern Iraq said on Friday that at least seven people have been killed and thousands were displaced following flood as a result of the...

Britain’s former foreign minister William Hague called on Thursday for greater efforts to prosecute rape in conflict zones such as Myanmar, Nigeria and Iraq, six years after he launched...

A Navy SEAL commander was charged on Tuesday with failing to act against Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher, a decorated US medic and sniper currently under investigation for committing...

An Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander said on Wednesday that US bases in Afghanistan, the UAE and Qatar, and US aircraft carriers in the Gulf were within range of Iranian...

Russia’s special envoy to the Middle East and Africa, Mikhail Bogdanov, yesterday arrived in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad in an unannounced visit to discuss strengthening relations between the...

Iraq is seeking to negotiate to postpone or maintain the current instalment of war reparation paid to Kuwait for it’s 1990- 1991 occupation. The Iraqi Parliament Speaker, Mohamed Halbusi...