Iraq

The largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organisation in the US has expressed shock at the recent disclosure of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)'s secret surveillance and listing...

After a 10-year hiatus, Iraq's Mosul International Airport is expected to resume flights next year following the defeat of the Daesh terrorist group, Anadolu Agency reports. The Mosul Airport...

Direct flights between Tehran and Cairo could start within a month, an Iranian source in the tourism industry revealed yesterday. Association of Iranian Travel Agencies Director Hormatollah Rafiei told...

Fans, officials and players at an Iraqi League football match held up held up copies of the Holy Quran in protest to the Quran burning incident in Sweden, which...

US President Joe Biden mistakes Ukraine for Iraq when asked whether Russian President Vladimir Putin has been ‘weakened’

Iraqi protesters stormed the Swedish embassy in Baghdad after Stockholm allowed a protest in which a copy of the Quran was burnt

As Aymen Al-Rubaye plants mangrove seedlings in the sprawling tidal flats of southern Iraq, the black smoke rising over the skyline behind him shows the ecological damage that he...

Swedish police have given the go-ahead for a small demonstration to take place outside a Stockholm mosque on Wednesday at which the organisers said they would "tear up the...

Desertification in Iraq has now reached almost 70 per cent, according to a report published yesterday by Iraqi News. The report, citing an earlier one by Rudaw Arabic, said that Haider...

Security Council Resolution 2254 has repeatedly resurfaced in political deliberations regarding Syria, whether in the statements issued by the Arab meetings in Jeddah and Amman in the context of...

Police in Albania have raided a camp belonging to the exiled Iranian opposition group, Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK), leaving one member killed and dozens injured. The raid was carried out yesterday...

A distinguished Israeli-British historian and Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford has uncovered "undeniable proof" that Zionist agents were responsible for targeting the Jewish community...

The Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Antiquities in Baghdad announced yesterday that it has retrieved a 2,800-year-old stone tablet from Italy, nearly four decades after it was looted from...

In another sensational case exposing the FBI's role in manufacturing terrorism cases using vulnerable people, the Intercept has uncovered details of a 16-year-old with "brain development issues" who is alleged to...

Iraq will soon host "unannounced" meetings between Iranian and Egyptian officials in an attempt to restore relations between them, the Iraqi Shafaq News has quoted an informed government source...

Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid yesterday called on the United Nations to support Iraq and help alleviate the suffering of 600,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) who live in harsh...

As of September last year, the UN's International Organisation for Migration said more than 62,000 people had been displaced across Iraq due to drought conditions over four years, a figure likely to increase as conditions worsen.

Turkish intelligence "neutralized" a senior wanted terrorist in northern Syria over his alleged links to the MLKP, a far-left terror group, security sources said on Saturday, Anadolu reports. Osman...

Helped by buoyant oil prices and a period of political calm at home and in the region, Iraq appears more stable than at any time since the US-led invasion,...

Qatar's Emir Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani met Iraqi Prime Minister Muhammad Al-Sudani in Baghdad and agreed to invest $5 billion into the Iraqi economy

War-weary Syrians are in such dire straits that they require "way more than what is possible today," the International Committee of the Red Cross's regional chief said on Thursday,...

The Iraqi government intends to launch a plan to remove camps belonging to the People's Mobilisation Forces (PMF) from cities following several demands made by parliamentarians representing the Sunni...

The administration of US President, Joe Biden, has quietly recommenced negotiations with Iran to secure the release of American prisoners and curb Tehran's nuclear program, according to a report...

Qatar's Emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, will visit Iraq on Thursday, according to the Iraqi government, Anadolu Agency reports. Government spokesman, Basim Al-Awadi, said the visit of...

Iraq has called for countries to repatriate their citizens held at a notorious Daesh detention camp in north-east Syria and for the camp to be closed. Concerns persist that...

Less than three months after agreeing to restore diplomatic ties, long-time regional rivals, Iran and Saudi Arabia, have recently taken another significant step toward full reconciliation. In the presence...

Iraq's parliament has today approved a budget of $153 billion (198.9 trillion Iraqi dinars) for 2023, a record amount aimed at improving public services and improving infrastructure. According to...

Two army officers were killed and three soldiers injured in an attack by the Daesh terrorist group in the northern Kirkuk province, according to the Defense Ministry on Sunday,...

Iraq has agreed to pay about $2.76 billion in gas and electricity debt to Iran after receiving a sanctions waiver from the United States, a senior Iraqi foreign ministry...

On Monday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)'s summit that the Iranian regime is the biggest danger facing Israel because it...

The 33-year-old, known as Sarah, who runs a nonprofit organisation which 'builds bridges between Muslims and Jews' says she brings a unique perspective to politics

Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, said Thursday that the US would provide nearly $150 million in aid for areas in Syria and Iraq that were liberated from the regional extremist group,...