The United States announced on Tuesday it was imposing sanctions on 13 foreign entities and individuals in China, Iraq, Russia, and Turkey for supporting Iran’s missile program, Reuters reports....

The Iraqi man confessed to luring the schoolgirl into his house with the promise of toys

Despite their public hostility, Israel and Iran cooperated militarily against Saddam Hussain’s Iraq during the 1980s Iraq-Iran war, former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has claimed. Straw, who served...

The Iraqi parliament has postponed by two days a vote scheduled yesterday  to grant confidence to the new cabinet of Prime Minister-designate Mohammad Allawi. The vote was delayed after...

Iraq on Monday confirmed the first case of the coronavirus in the country’s Najaf city, Anadolu reports. Ridvan Kindi, the head of the Health Department in Najaf city in...

Iraq has extended an entry ban for any non-Iraqis coming from Iran, the prime minister said, as authorities in Tehran announced 15 more cases of coronavirus and a death...

Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), known locally as the Hashd Al-Shaabi, has named Abu Fadak Al-Mohammedawi as its new deputy commander following the assassination of Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis alongside...

Iraq’s south-eastern province of Maysan decided to close its border with Iran yesterday over fears of the coronavirus spreading into the country. It was reported by local media in...

Chief adviser to Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps, Brigadier General Ali Balali, on Wednesday claimed that as many as 120 US soldiers were killed in air strikes launched by the...

Iraq’s official anti-corruption agency stated in its latest annual report that it restored 2.84 trillion Iraqi dinars ($2.38 billion) to the Treasury in 2019. The Federal Commission of Integrity...

Iraq’s citizens have been living for years with instability and corruption brought about by foreign powers interfering in their domestic politics. In the wake of the recent repression of...

Man dies live on TV while complaining about Iraq's health services

Four civilians were killed and several others were wounded in an attack by gunmen affiliated with Daesh in the Iraqi governorate of Kirkuk, Anadolu news agency. The agency quoted...

Iraq’s outgoing prime minister urged political leaders on Wednesday to quickly approve his designated successor’s cabinet and warned he would walk away from his caretaker post if they do...

Kuwait’s Emir has pardoned two prisoners who have been held in jail for 28 years charged with collaborating with Iraq’s invasion of the Gulf state, Attorney General Hamad Al-Duaij...

A UN report stated that 45,000 displaced children in Iraq lack personal identification documents and that many of them do not receive education two years after the defeat of...

Danish minister of defence, Trine Bramsen, announced on Monday that Danish troops will return to Iraq’s Ain Al-Assad Airbase to train Iraqi security forces on 1 March. “In the...

The top United Nations envoy to Iraq condemned on Monday the use of hunting rifles loaded with birdshot against peaceful protesters in Baghdad and urged the government to ensure...

Senior officials in Iran and Iraq have decided to establish a joint committee to prosecute the US officials involved in the assassination of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, Iranian IRNA...

Turkey would never forcibly deport any refugee whose life could be in danger in his or her home country, Turkish interior minister said yesterday. Speaking to Qatar’s Al-Jazeera, Süleyman...

Rockets hit a US-led military coalition’s Baghdad headquarters early on Sunday but caused no casualties, a coalition spokesman said, in the latest attack to target US facilities in Iraq,...

Iraqi foreign minister, Mohammed Alhakim, and his Kuwaiti counterpart, Nasser Al-Sabah, have discussed ending differences between their countries, Anadolu Agency reported on Friday. According to a statement issued by...

The approval of the US’ allies to strengthen the role of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) mission in Iraq, indicates Washington’s intention to “disengage” militarily from Baghdad. However,...

A rocket hit a base in northern Iraq that hosts US forces on Thursday but caused no casualties, Iraqi security sources said to Reuters. The base, known as K1...

The Iraqi army handed security duties over to the Wasit Police Command, Thursday, 13 years after it took over security in the area. The police chief, Major General Ali...

Iraqi authorities on Wednesday reopened one of Baghdad’s major bridges, shut for months by anti-government protesters, in a sign of a lull in unrest that has killed hundreds of...

Iraq’s influential leader Muqtada Al-Sadr on Tuesday dissolved his own “Blue Hats” units for attacking and killing protesters in the Iraqi city of Najaf last week. “I announce the...

NATO is considering an increase to its training mission in Iraq to relieve the burden on the US-led coalition against Daesh, senior officials and diplomats said on Tuesday, Reuters reports....

The head of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq, Masrour Barzani, stressed on Tuesday the necessity of representing all parties in the new federal government. This came...

Iran yesterday reopened its consulate in the Iraqi governorate of Najaf more than two months after closing it for security reasons, an Iraqi security source said. Anadolu news agency...

Iraqis took to social media to mock the Shia cleric's assertion that protests should be gender segregated

Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) announced on Sunday the establishment of security points in the Al-Qa’im district, west of Anbar Governorate, to “secure the border area with Syria”. The...