Iraqi Government

Agreement has been reached that the venue for the forthcoming talks on Iran's nuclear programme will be Istanbul. The European Union, Iran and the so-called "5+1 Group" (the permanent...

The Iraqi government has announced the disruption of work and public services in the capital Baghdad next week in preparation for the forthcoming Arab summit. Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh...

An MP in the centre grouping in the Coalition of Iraqis, pharmacist Dr. Muhammad Iqbal Omar, has concluded that the popular opposition demonstrations against the Al-Maliki government will widen...

Iraqi forces affiliated with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki have killed around 43 Iraqis and destroyed a number of mosques in Solaiman Beek village in Saladdin Governorate. Iraqi sources...

The Iraqi authorities have suspended the broadcast licences of Al-Jazeera and nine other TV channels. Al-Jazeera has been told to stop all its operations and activities in the country....

A number of soldiers and officers in the 12th Division of the Iraqi army, stationed in Kirkuk in the governorate of Ta'mim, have announced their defection from the army....

According to the Corruption Perceptions Index of Transparency International, five Arab countries rank among the top ten most corrupted states around the world in 2013. Transparency International, a UK-based...

Forty-four Iraqi parliamentarians submitted on Monday their resignation in the wake of bloody clashes between the Iraqi security forces and protesters in Al-Ramadi, the capital of Al-Anbar Governorate in...

Violent clashes between the Iraqi army and unidentified armed militias erupted on Monday morning in several cities in the western Iraqi governorate of Al-Anbar. No more details about losses...

On Friday chief tribal leader Sheikh Ali Al-Hatem called on all Iraqi tribes to withdraw their sons from the Iraqi army until the latter releases the kidnapped parliamentarian Ahmed...

Insurgents in Iraq are preparing for an assault on their positions by government forces. A group calling itself the Leadership of the Military Council for the Rebels, which was...

After previously announcing the withdrawal of Iraqi forces in the wake of severe clashes with armed militias, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki reversed the decision on Thursday and sent...

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki has said that the Arab Spring has turned into a curse and catastrophe for the entire Arab nation. Speaking at a ceremony to mark...

The president of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region has criticised the Iraqi government's military intervention in Anbar province, saying that it will complicate the situation further. Massoud Barzani noted that...

The International Criminal Police Organization or INTERPOL has decided to cancel the red memorandum to arrest Iraq's former Vice President Tareq Al Hashimi; Al Hashimi's office reported. Al Hamishi's...

A delegation of Iraqi security officials has arrived in Cairo for a four-day visit to discuss cooperation with Egypt in"the fight against terrorism and organised crime", it has been...

Iraq's Prime Minister is in Washington for meetings with the administration about the crisis in Syria and other issues. Having met Vice President Joe Biden and Defence Secretary Chuck...

In an article attributed to the Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, and published in the New York Times on October 30th, al-Maliki urged the American administration to "be patient...

The aforementioned question seems a bit odd at the moment, it has been two years since the Syrian Revolution turned into an armed revolution and therefore there is no...

As the world focuses on the bloody civil war in Syria and the series of revolutions and counter-revolutions in Egypt, attention has drifted away from Iraq. Hundreds of thousands...

The "new Iraq" government and its media are beating the drums of comprehensive sectarian strife. The Iraqi people, drowning in a flood of poverty, poor education and health provision,...

Since the election of Iran's new president, Hassan Rouhani last year, there has been a significant thaw in relations with the country's old adversary, the US. This diplomatic shift...

The issue of oil has jumped to prominence in the political relationship between Ankara, Baghdad and Erbil (the capital of the Kurdish region in Iraq), and with it has...