Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi cancelled the licences for 1,128 investment projects on Wednesday due to their low completion rate, Anadolu has reported. Al-Kadhimi gave the order for the...

There has been a 300 per cent rise in executions in Egypt, which has become the third most frequent executioner in the world, according to a new report on...

Iraq's Commission on Public Integrity (CPI) on Monday announced the issuance of arrest warrants and summons against 58 current and former officials accused of corruption. The CPI said in a...

The Interior Ministry of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq is holding Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants responsible for the bomb blast that wounded a Peshmerga soldier...

Chinese company Sinopec has won a deal to develop Iraq's Mansuriya gas field near the Iranian border, the Gulf state's Ministry of Oil announced yesterday. Last year Iraq cancelled...

Iran said on Tuesday it welcomes Iraqi mediation to help mend its ties with Gulf Arab states, following reports that Saudi and Iranian officials had held discussions in Iraq, Reuters reported....

The Central Bank of Iraq announced on Sunday that Iraq will no longer be included on the British list of high-risk countries for money laundering and the financing of...

Iraqi security forces yesterday arrested Jamal Al-Karbouli, leader of the National Movement for Reform and Development (Al-Hal), Anadolu Agency reported. The agency quoted Baghdad Police Captain Hatem Al-Jabri as saying that...

A senior Saudi official has denied holding secret talks between the kingdom and Iran. The Saudi official's remarks came hours after the Financial Times reported that Riyadh and Tehran held direct talks...

Unidentified gunmen detonated explosive devices today at an oil well in Kirkuk province in northern Iraq, according to a local police officer, Anadolu Agency reports. The officer told Anadolu...

The Iraqi Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) has invited 75 states and bodies to monitor the country's snap elections slated for 10 October, Anadolu Agency reported on Friday. According...

An Iraqi court in Nineveh on Friday confiscated $1.6 million and gold bars from Daesh, Anadolu Agency reported. "$1.6 million, gold and silver coins and gold bars were found...

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi has sparked controversy on social media platforms after he appeared in photos painting the Iraqi flag upside down on kids' faces at an Iftar...

Searching an area in northern Iraq under the control of the Iraqi Hashd Al-Shabi (Popular Mobilization) militia, Iraqi authorities have found rocket pads that were used earlier this week...

Egyptian architects to reconstruct 12th century Iraqi mosque destroyed by Daesh in 2017

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has recommended the Security Council to refer cases of conflict-related sexual violence in a number of countries to the International Criminal Court (ICC). The countries...

The United Nations (UN) Secretary-General's Special Representative for Iraq Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert warned on Thursday that the drone attack at the Global Coalition Against Daesh's headquarters at Erbil International Airport...

Iraq's internal and external debts have amounted to $113 billion, Iraqi officials announced on Wednesday. "$40 billion of our debts are outstanding for eight countries since the 1980s and...

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi ordered an investigation into the attack

The Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq yesterday denied reports of the presence and "targeting an Israeli intelligence center in the region." "Several media organisations in the region circulated...

The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq on Wednesday demanded the federal government of Baghdad to compensate the victims of the Anfal genocide that claimed the lives of...

Iraqi Prime Minister, Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, yesterday held "greedy traders" responsible for the rise in commodity prices in Iraq. "The increase in commodity prices is mostly linked to the greed...

Iraqi security forces yesterday arrested the Governor of Babel, Hassan Mandil Al-Sariawi, on corruption charges, Anadolu news agency reported. The agency quoted an unnamed police officer as saying that a special...

Nearly 2 billion Muslims worldwide will mark the first day of Ramadan on Tuesday after an official sighting of the new crescent moon

Iraq's National Security Adviser, Qassem Al-Araji, arrived in Iran to discuss the US' withdrawal from his country, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed news site reported. A senior Iraqi official told the site that Al-...

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi has reiterated his support for Syria to be readmitted into the Arab League, a decade after President Bashar Al-Assad's regime was kicked out of...

Hundreds of protesters in southern Iraq yesterday closed three bridges in the city of Nasiriyah, the capital of Dhi Qar Governorate, and the Maysan Oil Company building demanding jobs...

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi yesterday laid the foundation stone for the Grand Faw Port in the southern province of Basra, a government statement said. The project includes building...

Iraq said on Sunday it has received the first batch of the German-American Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, Anadolu Agency reported. "Iraq received 50,000 doses out of three million it has ordered from...

Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein called Saturday for finding a mechanism for dialogue between influential states involved in Syria to achieve stability in the war-torn country, Anadolu Agency reports....

Iraq's Independent High Electoral Commission announced on Friday that the date for holding early general elections next October is "certain and will not be reversed." Over the past days,...

The British government has announced that the Royal Air Force (RAF) took part in a ten-day operation against Daesh in Iraq last month, representing its largest engagement against the...