Iraqi Unrest

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....

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...

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...

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...