Iraq

Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal Bin Farhan yesterday confirmed that his country had held talks with regional rival Iran last month; the first since President Ibrahim Raisi took office. "The...

US prosecutors on Saturday said they charged a Saudi-born Canadian man for aiding Daesh militant group, alleging he tossed grenades in battle and worked with propagandists who publicised the...

Iraq's popular political figure and leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada Al-Sadr, yesterday called for the implementation of arrest warrants issued against those who took part in the Israel...

On Friday 24 September a conference titled "Peace and Recovery" was held in Erbil, capital of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The conference, which was organised by an American...

Iraq holds a general election on 10 October, its fifth parliamentary vote since the US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003 and ushered in a complex multi-party system contested by groups...

Unidentified aircraft hit a base run by Iranian-backed militias in Syria's eastern province of Deir Ez-Zor near the Iraqi border where Tehran has in the last year expanded its...

Lebanese Hezbollah yesterday condemned a normalisation conference held recently in the Iraqi city of Erbil. In an official statement, the group described the event as a "failed attempt to...

Five people were killed in a twin attack by suspected Daesh militants in Iraq's eastern Diyala province on Sunday, according to a local police officer, reports Anadolu Agency. A...

The Iraqi judiciary issued arrest warrants for participants in a conference in Erbil that called for normalising relations with Israel

An Iraqi coalition on Saturday condemned calls for normalisation with Israel made at a conference in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdish region in northern Iraq, Anadolu Agency reported. "We condemn...

More than 300 Iraqis from Baghdad, Mosul, Al-Anbar, Babel, Salahuddin and Diyala on Friday called for Iraq to normalise relations with Israel through the Abraham Accords, Israeli media reported....

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian held "thorough and confident" talks with Iraq's President Barham Salih late yesterday, wrote Le Drian on his Twitter page, Reuters reported. "Following on from the Baghdad conference...

The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has announced that it is to return a 3,600-year-old stone tablet to Iraq. The artefact shows part of the Epic of...

Iraqi Minister of Water Resources Mahdi Rashid yesterday renewed threats that Baghdad would take Iran to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in relation to his country's water rights, Al...

At a time when the voices of American and British officials, and the official media in the West in general, are loudly denouncing the lack of support for Afghan...

Iraq will issue new stamps to mark the Pope's visit to the country and his meeting with Shia Cleric Ali Al-Sistani, the Ministry of Communications announced yesterday. The spokesman...

"You sent me to Iraq. You sent me to Iraq in 2003. My friends are dead. Jesuit Castile...you kill people, you lied, you lied about WMD, a million Iraqis are dead because you lied. My friends are dead because you lied. You need to apologise. Apologise."

Iraqi military and Kurdish Peshmerga forces have launched a joint security campaign against Daesh in the areas without security forces, the Iraqi Ministry of Defence announced on Friday. The...

Baghdad and Washington agreed on reducing the US combat troops in two military bases in Iraq by the end of September, Anadolu Agency reports. According to an Iraqi army...

Terror threats emanating from Somalia, Yemen, Syria, and Iraq pose a greater danger to the United States than those that might emerge from Afghanistan, the Director of National Intelligence...

The Pentagon spent up to $7 billion on contractors who "took advantage of wartime conditions" in the wake of 9/11, a new study released on Monday suggests. The figure...

There are relatively few truly world-changing events, but the 9/11 attack on New York's World Trade Centre in 2001 was one. Regardless of the numerous theories that have surrounded...

An improvised explosive device yesterday targeted a convoy providing logistical support for the international coalition forces in Al-Muthanna Governorate, southern Iraq, Anadolu reported citing a local security source. A police captain...

Raisi said in a joint press conference following bilateral talks in Tehran that “several decisions were taken in the joint meeting with Al-Kadhimi”

Iraq must disarm Iranian Kurd "terrorists" and expel them from the Kurdistan region, an adviser to Iran's supreme leader declared yesterday. "The increasing movements of terrorist groups in the...

Two more Turkish soldiers were killed in cross-border operations in Syria and Iraq, Reuters reported the defence ministry as saying on Sunday, bringing the total military casualties to four...

A drone attack hit near US forces stationed at Erbil International Airport in northern Iraq on Saturday, Iraqi Kurdish security officials said, reported Reuters. The internal security service for...

The Turkish judiciary today ordered the detention of three people linked to Daesh, including the group's so-called "security official in Syria". The Duty Penal Court in Sakarya, central Turkey,...

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi yesterday received United States Central Command (CENTCOM) chief, General Kenneth McKenzie, in Baghdad and agreed to hold another meeting of the American and Iraqi...

Turkey's main opposition party has visited Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region and met with officials there, leading many to suggest that it is seeking to win more votes from the...

Iran yesterday vowed to take "deterrent military measures" against Iranian Kurds who are waging attacks against the Persian state from camps in northern Iraq. "Iran will not remain silent...

"Where we are standing right now, there should be a river," says Nabil Musa, gesturing at a dried-up riverbed in northern Iraq. For the environmental activist, the reason the...