The Qatari Red Crescent and the UNICEF have signed an agreement to rehabilitate water and sanitation facilities in the Iraqi province of Nineveh. This follows the tenth regional conference...

As Iraq’s Election Day approaches, political campaign posters adorned by smiling candidates — secular and religious zealots alike — crowd the landscape. It seems that the masses do not...

Daesh said it would attack polling stations in Iraq during parliamentary election next month and that anyone who participated in the vote would be considered an infidel. In an...

Iraqi security forces are more likely to rely on air forces to strike Daesh in Syria than to carry out ground operations in the country, an official from the...

Iraq’s oil exports rose by 11.5 per cent on an annual basis in March to 107.05 million barrels. The Iraqi Oil Ministry said on Sunday that the value of...

Iraq resumed paying Kuwait compensation on Friday for the destruction of Kuwaiti oil fields and facilities during the 1990-91 Gulf War, the United Nations said in Geneva in a prepared...

The process of extraditing an individual convicted of corruption who has been on the run since 2004, has suddenly become a focus of electoral debate in Iraq. Some have...

Iraq today carried out air strikes on Daesh positions in Syria a week after Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi said his country would defend itself from militant threats across the border....

As Iraqi regular and irregular forces gathered on the edges of Mosul in spring 2016, flanked by Kurds and assisted quietly by Special Forces from several Western countries, Donald...

Iraq’s General Customs Authority yesterday said there was an agreement between the government and Saudi Arabia to reduce tariffs on Saudi goods entering Iraq. In a statement, the authority...

The Baghdad Central Criminal Court has sentenced four foreign women to death and three more to life imprisonment for belonging to Daesh, the Iraqi Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) said....

An Iraqi court on Wednesday sentenced 212 convicted Daesh terrorists to death, according to Iraq’s Supreme Judiciary Council. In a statement, council spokesman Abdul Sattar Bayrakdar said that 815...

An American citizen languishing in a US detention facility without charge in Iraq since September last year is going to be transferred to another country, the Guardian reported yesterday....

A senior advisor to Iran Supreme Leader for international affairs, Ali Akbar Velayati said the Syrian regime President, Bashar al-Assad has issued a decision to open branches for Iranian...

The Thomson Reuters Foundation reports that women believed to have links to the Daesh militant group suffer “harrowing” sexual exploitation and discrimination in Iraq’s refugee camps, a leading rights group...

Two candidates who are running in next month’s Iraqi parliamentary elections survived assassination attempts yesterday. “A car bomb planted next to the road exploded when the motorcade of the...

The Russians finished securing Damascus against any threat after the Assad regime removed the last armed faction from Ghouta on 13 April. However, Moscow still wanted to send a...

Air strikes carried out by the United States, France and Britain against Syrian military targets could give terrorism an opportunity to expand in the region, the Iraqi foreign ministry...

The Iraqi Oil Ministry yesterday announced the opening of two projects that will enhance its oil export capacity in the southern province of Basra, the Anadolu Agency reported. The...

The British parliament should be given a say on any military action Prime Minister Theresa May wants to take in response to a suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria,...

In the aftermath of the chemical weapons assault that suffocated to death over 80 men, women and children in the town of Douma, eastern Ghouta, this weekend British Prime...

Prominent Iraqi Shia cleric and opposition leader Muqtada al-Sadr has declared his willingness to mediate between Saudi Arabia and Iran with a view to mitigating tensions between the two...

Jordan has once again refused to extradite the daughter of former president of Iraq Raghad Hussein or any other members of the late leader’s family, an Iraqi official has...

Ignore the theological failings of Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi for a moment, and the enormous degree of violence and bigotry that his group practiced. It is time to give the...

The Independent High Electoral Commission in Iraq (IHEC) yesterday announced that it had chosen more than 245,000 employees from around the country to supervise the parliamentary elections slated to take...

It was on 31 March 2004 that America’s occupation of Iraq turned a year old. The date also marked the beginning of the grisliest chapter of America’s unwelcome stay...

Iraq’s top court will begin hearings in May on the legality of oil exports from Kurdistan, which are at the centre of a row between the semi-autonomous region and...

The Daesh terror group’s ideology is still a threat in Iraq even though the fight against terrorism has ended in military terms, the country’s prime minister said Saturday. “Our...

Director general of Iran’s Hajj and Pilgrimage Organisation, Murtada Aqaei, has said that Iraqi authorities have arrested 500 Iranians who tried to enter Iraq using forged visas during the...

The Iraqi President Fuad Masum has filed a lawsuit against Parliament Speaker Salim Al-Jubouri over the recent passing of the federal budget for 2018, local media reported yesterday. The...

Islamic State militants have restated their loyalty to the group’s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in what is believed to be their first public pledge of allegiance to him since...

Some 4,800 people had lost some of their limbs in the war against Daesh in Iraq’s Mosul, the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) announced on Monday. Those...