The US has imposed sanctions on Thursday on Iran’s ambassador to Iraq, Anadolu Agency reported the US Treasury Department announcing in a statement. “Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)...

Iraqi bank offers 'second wife' loans to male employees

Iraqi authorities have launched an investigation into Saturday’s armed attack in Farhatiya that left eight dead and four missing, Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi has said. The attack, which took...

Iraqi security forces have discovered what is believed to be the mass grave of people killed by Daesh in the Kirkuk governorate, local media reported yesterday. A security officer...

Turkish police caught 16 illegal migrants in three vehicles decorated as part of a wedding convoy in the southeastern province of Batman on Tuesday, reports Anadolu Agency. Batman province’s...

The US has sanctioned an Australian gemstone trader for helping Al-Qaeda transfer funds internationally, the Treasury Department said in a statement yesterday. Ahmed Luqman Talib, 30, used his international...

Security forces were reported to have arrested the woman, who apparently admitted that she had killed her children “as a result of a dispute with her ex-husband”

The son of an Iraqi refugee who emigrated to Belgium in 1970 has become the country’s new minister for migration and asylum. Sammy Mahdi, 32 of the Flemish Christian...

Iraq’s finance minister criticised on Monday his country’s “absolute” and sole dependence on oil revenues, saying that the strategy has caused Iraq financial hardship. “The mismanagement and absolute dependence...

Daesh has urged its followers to target Saudi Arabia’s oil pipelines and factories in a statement denouncing the normalisation of relations between the UAE and Bahrain, and Israel. The...

The US State Department and the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) on Sunday condemned the attack and burning of the headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP)...

Members of the Iraqi parliament from the Salah Al-Din governorate on Sunday demanded the removal of all forces associated with political parties and armed groups from the province. This...

A total of 79 patients, including infants and children, were brought to Turkey on Saturday for treatment upon the request of Iraqi authorities, Anadolu Agency reports. The patients will be treated...

Iraq reported more than 3,500 cases of the novel coronavirus and 56 more deaths on Friday, Anadolu Agency reports. The nationwide death toll now stands at 10,142, according to the Health...

The UK’s Ambassador to Baghdad Stephen Hickey announced on Wednesday the UK’s support for the agreement of the Iraqi government and the Kurdistan Region, regarding the status of the...

The Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs has denied allegations of deliberately holding the plane of Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias in the air for some time, on its way...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday the United States was pleased that the Iraqi government was doing more to protect the US embassy in Baghdad from...

An Iraqi criminal court sentenced a bank official to six years in prison on corruption charges. Mohamed Khafaji, the former director of the Agricultural Bank, was convicted of wasting...

Washington called on Iraqi factions to surrender their weapons to the government in Baghdad, following the Hezbollah Brigade’s announcement that it would suspend attacks on US forces in the...

A United Nations mines expert said nearly 3 billion square metres in Iraq are contaminated with mines and remnants of war. The head of the United Nations Mine Action...

Iraqi Airways pilot suspended for allowing a female media personality in the cockpit

The Iraqi National Security Advisor Qasim al-Araji stressed on Sunday the importance of coordination between his country and Turkey and removing any obstacle in front of such coordination, Reuters...

An Iraqi health official on Sunday urged the citizens to adhere to preventive health measures aimed at stemming the spread of coronavirus, saying that re-imposing a curfew is not...

An array of Iran-backed Iraqi militia groups have agreed to suspend rocket attacks on US forces on condition that Iraq’s government presents a timetable for a withdrawal of American...

Iraq’s Ministry of Defence has appointed a new military commander to assume responsibility of security issues in the Diyala Governorate, Anadolu Agency reported on Friday. Member of parliamentarian Security...

Intelligence sources yesterday reported that the Iraqi government had officially expelled the Kataib Hezbollah (Hezbollah Brigades) from Baghdad airport and closed all its offices in the capital. The Hezbollah...

The United States has compiled a list of 80 sites linked to Iranian-backed militias in Iraq and presented it to the government in Baghdad. The Americans have told the...

A former executive at Monaco-based oil and gas consultancy Unaoil has been sentenced to three years and four months in prison for bribing public officials in Iraq to seal...

Iraqi Prime Minister, Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, yesterday formed a supreme committee headed by National Security Adviser, Qassem Al-Araji, and a number of other government officials to investigate the recent attacks...

Our interview with UK-based Kurdish writer Dana Nawzar

Iraq yesterday pledged to take measures to protect personnel belonging to foreign diplomatic missions in the country. Satellite station Alsumaria TV quoted the Foreign Ministry as saying in a statement that the...

Two rockets yesterday landed in the vicinity of Iraq’s Baghdad International Airport. Local satellite channel Alsumaria TV quoted a security source as saying that the two rockets had landed “within the...