Iraq

The President of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq, Nechirvan Barzani, called on Sunday for a joint effort between the federal army forces and the Peshmerga militias,...

The Secretary-General of Iraq's Asa'ib Ahl Al-Haq movement, Qais Khazali, warned on Sunday of "attempts" to accuse what he called "resistance factions" of trying to assassinate Prime Minister Mustafa...

Iran, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan have signed a gas swap deal for up to 2 billion cubic metres (bcm) per year, Iranian state news agency IRNA reported on Sunday, Reuters...

I have the right to wonder about the value of the moral, material and historical cost that the nation is still paying with the continuation of sectarian killing! For...

Leader of Iraq's Sadrist movement, Muqtada Al-Sadr, said on Wednesday that he will not participate in any coalition government, reiterating his position on forming a "national majority" government. Al-Sadr,...

Foreign combat forces will leave Iraq within 15 days, the Iraqi military said on Wednesday, and Anadolu News Agency reports. Major General Tahsin Al-Khafaji, spokesman for the Joint Operations...

The British public and the UK parliament were misled for decades about a British Airways flight to Kuwait during the Iraqi invasion of the Gulf Kingdom in 1990, the...

US forces will remain in Iraq after the scheduled end of combat operations on 31 December, Newsweek has reported. A spokesperson for the US Department of Defence, Navy Commander...

The US Ambassador to the UN said yesterday that the new Iraqi government should be formed "without fear, intimidation or threat of violence." Linda Thomas-Greenfield made her comments during...

Poland said, on Tuesday, that groups of migrants had made new attempts to cross over the border from Belarus and it would be premature to say that the worst...

Iraq's High Electoral Commission yesterday announced that it will start manually recounting votes in 870 electoral stations based on judicial orders, Anadolu news agency reported. The agency quoted Imad Jamil,...

Belarusian President, Alexander Lukashenko, has admitted it is "absolutely possible" that his forces helped migrants and refugees cross into neighbouring states such as Poland, as the crisis continues to...

The leader of Iraq's Sadrist movement, Shia cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr, yesterday condemned "political and security pressure" exerted on the country's Independent High Electoral Commission in order to change the...

Iraq's Fateh Alliance, the country's most prominent Shia coalition, yesterday announced that it had filed a lawsuit with the Federal Court to annul the parliamentary elections results. Leader of...

Leader of the Sadrist movement Muqtada Al-Sadr decided on Friday to dissolve his Promised Day Brigade in a "goodwill" gesture to dissolve the armed factions in Iraq. Al-Sadr announced...

Turkish contractors and consultancy firms can be a part of projects involving infrastructure, hospitals, schools and public buildings in Iraq, Nail Olpak, head of the Foreign Economic Relations Board...

Iraqi President Barham Salih yesterday met with Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi and the head of the Supreme Judicial Council, Judge Faiq Zaidan, to discuss an initiative to contain the...

The Sadrist Movement in Iraq intends to form a national majority government, its leader said on Thursday, after it dominated the country's parliamentary elections as the Sairoon Alliance last...

Poland's Prime Minister, on Thursday, held a phone conversation with the Prime Minister of the Iraqi Kurdish Regional Government (KRG), discussing the migrant crisis at the Belarus border, Anadolu...

US President Joe Biden is worried, and his worry is shared by Russia's President Vladimir Putin. Not, I might add, because of the "attempted assassination" of Iraq's caretaker Prime...

The Iraqi Ministry of Water Resources yesterday warned Turkey that its plan to build a new dam on the Tigris River would affect Iraq's share of the river's waters....

The crisis on Poland's border with Belarus will last months, the Polish Defence Minister said on Wednesday, as several thousand migrants remained stranded on the EU's eastern frontier in...

The Iraqi government is to repatriate its citizens stranded on the border between Belarus and Poland, as the migrant crisis continues under deteriorating and harsh conditions

Iraq begins repatriation of migrants stuck at the Belarus-Poland border who wish to return

Hundreds of Iraqi demonstrators protesting the results of the parliamentary elections have closed one of the three gates of the Green Zone in Baghdad, following failed attempts to storm...

Turkey's flights to the Belarusian capital Minsk will be reduced to zero for a limited time after a deal with Turkish Airlines to stop the flow of Middle Eastern migrants to Belarus and to stop them trying to reach Poland

There is no need to wait for the result of the investigations committee to guess who was behind the attempted assassination of Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi at dawn...

The US Defence Department said on Tuesday that it is not accusing any party of the assassination attempt on Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi earlier this week. Pentagon spokesman...

How can we understand what is currently happening in Iraq in terms of the violence, in the form of sabotage and fighting with live bullets or booby-trapped drones that...

Al-Kadhimi escaped unharmed from the attack on his residence in Baghdad, carried out by three drones loaded with explosives, while several of his bodyguards were injured.

Eight Iraqi nationals were deported from Turkey on Monday after their arrest, in an operation against the Daesh terror group, according to security sources. Security forces in the northern...

Commander of Iran's Quds Force, Esmail Qaani, intends to visit Iraq in the coming days as leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada Al-Sadr, holds consultations to form a national government independent...