The United States sought on Wednesday to bolster its case for isolating Iran over its nuclear and regional activities by displaying limpet mine fragments it said came from an...

A rocket hit a site in southern Iraq used by foreign oil companies on Wednesday, including US energy giant ExxonMobil, wounding three people and threatening to further escalate US-Iran...

Here we go again. The shadow of war is again cast over the Persian Gulf. Having already destroyed Iraq over the past decade and more, the US is now...

A rocket landed near an Iraqi military base hosting US forces in the northern city of Mosul late on Tuesday, an Iraqi military statement said, the second such incident...

The United Nations’ World Refugee Day, observed annually on June 20, should not merely represent a reminder of “the courage, strength and determination of women, men and children who...

The Emir of Kuwait is set to visit neighbouring Iraq tomorrow, according to a foreign ministry spokesman. Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah will travel to Iraq at the head...

The Iraqi security forces began a large-scale military operation against Daesh “sleeper cells” in Tarmiyah district north of the capital Baghdad yesterday, the Anadolu Agency reported. The agency quoted...

Sarah Idan was handed the Ambassador for Peace award for her pro-Israel advocacy work by "UN watch"

The United States has allowed Iraq to import Iranian gas for its power grid for another three months by extending a waiver to US sanctions for Baghdad, two government...

The last seven days in pictures

The Strait of Hormuz, the narrow shipping lane between Iran and Oman named after the fabulously wealthy ancient kingdom of Ormus, has fascinated oil traders since the Iranian revolution...

Iraqi President, Barham Salih stressed, Thursday, the importance of the role played by Christian Iraqis in building Iraq and their contribution to its progress and civilisation. The Iraqi president...

Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohamed Ali Alhakim said yesterday that his country would coordinate its positions with the Sultanate of Oman, inside and outside the Arab League. Al-Hakim made the...

The leader of Iraq’s Sadrist movement, Muqtada Al-Sadr, yesterday sent a message to Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman addressing the so-called Al-Baqi’ cemetery issue, which he raises...

One in five people in war zones has depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress, bipolar disorder or schizophrenia, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday, with many suffering severe forms of...

The prime minister of Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region, Nechirvan Barzani, was sworn on Monday in as its president, filling the most powerful regional office, vacant since 2017 when his...

Lebanon’s Maronite Patriarch Bechara Al-Rahi yesterday called for Syrian and Iraqi refugees to be returned to their countries. Such efforts must be taken to protect their civil rights and their...

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced Monday that her country will pull troops out from war-torn Iraq by 2020, local media reported, Anadolu reports. A total of 95...

Seventy per cent of unexploded ordnance and mines are still in the rubble in Iraq, the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) said yesterday. “The presence of unexploded ordnance...

Heiko Maas is expected to visit Iran on Monday

Iraqi families mark Eid by turning ruins into a playground

Iran took a “step back to recalculate” an apparent attack against US forces in the region after America bolstered its deterrent in the Arabian Gulf, according to the US’...

The recent sharp increase in tension between Iran and the United States has prompted a flurry of reporting and commentary talking up the prospect of a military confrontation between...

Diyala village is a ghost town

Some 138 corpses of Daesh victims have been sent to Baghdad for DNA testing after they were exhumed from ten mass graves in the Yazidi district of Sinjar in...

It is now 62 days since the Libyan National Army (LNA), commanded by Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, begin its march on the capital Tripoli. During that time Daesh has...

As if life was not bad enough for Adnan Kadhim – he lives in a slum where municipal authorities dump Baghdad’s rubbish – now someone is setting the waste...

Companies need to put respect for human rights at the core of their businesses, with “doing good” likely to become a longer-lasting trend if they see it as a...

The United States believes Russia may be more amenable than in the past to addressing US and Israeli concerns about Iran’s influence, including in Syria, when national security leaders...

Four soldiers were killed and a number of others were injured in an attack by Daesh gunmen in Al-Tarmiyah, a Sunni-majority district north of capital Baghdad, a local security...

Iraqis gather at the mosque in Baghdad to perform Eid al-Fitr

The lead prosecutor in the court-martial of a US Navy SEAL charged with war crimes was ordered removed from the case on Monday because he electronically tracked email communications...