Turnout for a controversial independence referendum in northern Iraq was 72 percent, a spokesperson for the Kurdish Regional Government’s (KRG) Election Commission said late Monday. The final results are...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Monday he was concerned about the “potentially destabilizing effects” of a referendum held by the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in defiance of the international...

Some five million people were expected to vote to decide if Kurds in Iraq should seek independence

Iraqi Oil Minister Jabbar Al-Luaibi yesterday denied his country’s failure to respect its commitment to the reduced oil production quota set by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)....

Iraq’s central government asserted its authority by ordering all Kurdish regions to hand over control of border crossings and airports to the federal government yesterday night, before polling stations...

The Iraqi Justice Ministry said on Sunday that it has executed 42 people convicted of terrorism. In a brief statement, the ministry added that it carried out the execution...

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on Sunday struck bases of the Daesh in eastern Syria with drones, Iranian state television reported. It said vehicles, military equipment and ammunition were destroyed in...

An Iraqi tribal elder on Saturday accused an Iran-affiliated militia of expelling civilians from a Sunni-majority village in western Iraq. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Sheikh Jabbar al-Hamoud said Shia...

Iranian forces have launched war games in an area near the border with Iraq’s Kurdistan region, Iran’s state media reported on Sunday, a day before a Kurdish independence referendum...

A member of a French paratroop regiment serving with the US-led coalition of nations battling Daesh was killed on Saturday in combat in the Iraq-Syria region, the French army...

Three Kurdish Peshmerga fighters were killed and five wounded on Saturday when an explosive device blew up near their vehicle south of the Iraqi oil city of Kirkuk, security...

Iraq asked on Saturday for assistance in building a nuclear power reactor for peaceful purposes, more than 25 years after the destruction of the reactors it had under Saddam...

Turkey’s parliament voted on Saturday to extend by a year a mandate authorising the deployment of Turkish troops in Iraq and Syria, stepping up pressure against an independence referendum...

A Shia militia in Iraq has said that it is ready to fight wherever Iran’s Supreme Guide Ali Khamenei wants it to, Eremnews.com reported on Friday. Al-Nujaba is part...

The Turkish Prime Ministry today submitted a motion in the Parliament which will extend the state’s authority for another year to launch cross-border military operations in northern Iraq and...

The Association of Muslim Scholars (AMS) has warned that all parties to the conflict in Iraq are responsible for the excessive killing and systematic destruction in the country because...