Iraq

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has received authorisation from all parties affiliated to the Shia Iraqi National Alliance to use all means necessary to fight 'terrorism' in Fallujah city...

The political rift between Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki and the Sadrist movement led by Muqtada Al-Sadr has widened in recent days. Al-Maliki, who has been trying to calm...

The council of Al-Anbar Tribes in Iraq has refused any initiative to resolve the ongoing conflict, which started several months ago, without full withdrawal of the Iraqi army from...

Oil ministers in Iraq and Egypt have affirmed that their countries have not yet resumed exporting oil and natural gas to Jordan, the Jordanian Al-Ghad newspaper reported on Saturday....

The Iraqi parliamentary speaker, Usama Al-Nujayfi, threatened on Thursday to withdraw confidence from Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki, pointing out that "the parliament grants legitimacy to the Al-Maliki government… and...

The Iraqi Interior Minister has dismissed 1,200 policemen in the Anbar province in the west of the country, claiming that they "deserted their posts" during clashes with armed tribesmen...

Some 115 corpses and 610 wounded civilians have been sent to Fallujah General Hospital since the clashes between the army and tribal rebels started two months ago, Anadolu news...

At least four people have been killed and 13 wounded in three explosions in Tikrit, north of the Iraqi capital on Saturday morning, security sources told UPI news agency....

Unemployment figures in the Arab world rose 16 per cent last year reaching 20 million, the Director-General of the Arab Labour Organisation Ahmed Luqman said. "The number of unemployed...

Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki has warned that Iraq is going through a financial crisis that seriously threatens both the economy and financial system, according to a statement published...

Shia leader Muqtada Al-Sadr has criticised Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki and his government, calling Al-Maliki a dictator who runs an authoritarian tyranny. The cleric stated that Al-Maliki's government...

Some 100 civilians have been killed and 530 wounded since the outbreak of violence in the western Iraqi city of Fallujah two months ago, medical sources told the Anadolu...

Enough is enough; the situation has become unbearable! Last week there was a conference held in Baghdad hosted by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki. It will rank alongside all...

Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki has attempted to deal a blow to the weak Iraqi parliament by saying that he will start spending and won't wait for the 2014 budget...

The United Nations has been worried about Iraq for decades. This is evident through the various reports that have been issued from its various organisations and agencies, ranging from...

A month has passed since Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki made the imprudent decision to take military action against Al-Anbar province. He ordered the troops in on December 30, after...

Earlier this month in London Twiggy Garcia, a courageous barman, made an attempt to place Tony Blair under citizens' arrest. This action may have been largely symbolic, but it...

Thousands of Iraqi women have been illegally detained, tortured and sexually abused by Iraqi authorities, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said. The watchdog's report said: "Iraq's weak judiciary, plagued by...

The US will send experts to Iraq to help it protect the infrastructure of its oil production facilities, officials said on Wednesday. Iraq's oil production facilities and pipelines have...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has said that during the months of December and January a total of 1,900 Iraqi asylum seekers registered with its offices...

Official data revealed on Friday showed that 1,013 Iraqis were killed during the first month of this year as a result of the ongoing violence in the country. The...

An informed government source in Jordan has said that closing the borders with Iraq for security reasons has led to the suspension of oil imports to the kingdom. The...

The Syrian civil war has hindered the production of oil and gas fields in Iraq, according to Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister for Energy issues, Hussain Al-Shahristani. During a conference...

Iraqi parliamentarians have accused Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki of imposing an information blackout on the army's on-going military operations in the cities of Al-Anbar Governorate. The fighting has...

On Wednesday US President Barack Obama discussed with the speaker of the Iraqi parliament Osama al-Najafi the possibility of accepting Sunni tribal militias into the official Iraqi army. A...

More than 22,000 Iraqi families are displaced and the United Nations is warning of an increase in numbers. The actual number, the UN said, is likely to be higher...

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki has been accused of committing "genocide" against the Sunni Muslim population under the pretext of his "war on terror". Struan Stevenson MEP, who made...

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,...