A few months ago, I hosted an Iraqi media figure close to the ruling regime in Baghdad, who surprised me by saying, “If we knew that the fall of...

The Iraqi Army, supported by Air Force, began this morning the process of regaining control of Tikrit, at the center of the Salahuddin province, from the Islamic State (IS),...

Iraqi lawmaker Alia Nassif yesterday demanded the Iraqi Foreign Ministry and other stakeholders in Iraq to sign security cooperation agreements with the North African countries, saying those countries “have...

Iraq’s Minister of Migration and Displacement Dindar Dosky said the number of displaced people in Iraq who have been forced to leave their homes due to clashes with the...

“We have to be cautious regarding what is being concocted for us in secret”. Have you stumbled against this sentence today in a newspaper of some sort? You must...

American fighter jets launched nine airstrikes on Saturday against ISIS fighters near Erbil in northern Iraq in a joint operation with Iraqi and Kurdish forces aimed at retaking the...

While the media have remained focused on Gaza, keen to spin Israel’s PR machine in order to sell Tel Aviv’s new war of attrition against the ever suffering Palestinian...

Iraq’s former Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki announced on Thursday evening that he had given up his candidacy to serve a third term as prime minister, after considerable pressure coming...

Turkey foiled an attempt by outgoing Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki to overthrow the newly appointed Haider Al-Abadi, the country’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said. Davutoglu noted that his...

The ancient 6,000-year-old Citidel sits proudly in the heart of Erbil, as trade circles around it and people bustle by. The smell of spices mix with the soft tumbling...

Preventing Nouri Al-Maliki from unconstitutionally being charged with forming a government required the restoration of the conditions set for his appointment, i.e. American-Iranian rapprochement. Al-Maliki was tasked with forming...

ISIS delivered a video of the captured Lebanese soldiers to Lebanon’s Prime Minister Tammam Salam today, following last week’s bloody clashes in the Lebanese border town Arsal. Militants of...

When huge swathes of Iraq were taken over by the militant jihadist group ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, also known simply as the Islamic State), the...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Wednesday that the Islamic State (IS), formerly known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria or ISIS, has seized several...

“The Arabs marvelled at these strange figures. As each head was uncovered they showed their amazement by extravagant gestures or exclamations of surprise.” The “strange figures” had the head...

All those who used to rightly denounce any call for US intervention in the internal conflicts of any Arab or Islamic country, irrespective of the causes and pretexts should...

Almost a month after the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip began, Prince Saud Al-Faisal, the Saudi foreign minister, broke his silence when he spoke at a press conference...

A leader in what is known as the “Iraqi Tribal Rebels” said yesterday that they hope that elected Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi would restore the rights of the Sunnis...

The Islamic Republic of Iran has declared its support for the “legal process” that has brought about the nomination of Haidar al-Abadi to succeed Nouri al-Maliki as Iraqi prime...

All claims made ​​by former Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki against President Fuad Masoum will be rejected, Iraqi judicial source confirmed yesterday. The source, who declined to be named, said...

Considering the bigger picture, we do not believe that the Islamic State is not being using to fragment the Arab world and legitimise Israel’s crimes, but we must also...

As was expected, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki deployed his personal military forces at Baghdad’s bridges, intersections and other important sites in anticipation of one thing: the possibility that...

Iraq’s former Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki rejected on Monday Iraqi President Fuad Masoum’s nomination of Haider Al-Abadi as the new prime minister tasked to form the next Iraqi government,...

US Vice President Joseph Biden welcomed on Monday Iraqi President Fuad Masoum’s nomination of Haider Al-Abbadi for prime minister of Iraq, Anadolu news agency reported. The prime minister-designate must...

President of Iraq’s Kurdistan region, Massoud Barzani, yesterday called on the international community to supply Kurds with weapons to support them in the face of Islamic State militants who...

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Sunday that France would offer arms and humanitarian aid to Iraq but does not intend to intervene militarily against the Islamic State...

Outgoing Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Malki accused the Iraqi President Fuad Masoum of breaching the country’s constitution, noting that he is planning to file a complaint against him at...

Italy’s Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini has said she does not rule out the possibility of her country joining an international military intervention in Iraq. Al-Alam Online news website quoted...

The United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon Saturday reiterated calls to Iraqi leaders to unite and form a “broad based” government in Iraq. In a statement issued by his...

The Islamic State (ISIS) militants have taken over the largest hydroelectric dam in Iraq, the chief of staff of the northern Iraq region, Fouad Hussein, said on Friday. At...

“The Islamic State’s operations against the territory region are in the interest of Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki as they help him win his third term,” President of the Revolutionaries...

Saudi Arabia’s northern border with Iraq is safe and equipped with the latest security equipment including infrared cameras, the spokesman for the Saudi border guards, General Mohammad Saad Al-Ghamdi...