Politicians and Shi’ite paramilitary leaders have called for calm and the Iraqi government has tried to position itself as a mediator.
25 May 2019 9:54 AM
Tensions between the US and Iran have been high since Washington withdrew last year from the 2015 nuclear deal.
20 May 2019 12:10 PM
Iraq has promised to guarantee the safety of US interests from Iran, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday.
08 May 2019 8:33 AM
After decades of conflict, Iraq is seeking to reclaim a leadership role and status in the Arab world with a centrist policy.
15 Apr 2019 1:48 PM
Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi decreed three days of national mourning as he visited the site of the tragedy.
22 Mar 2019 11:41 AM
Iwai has been in post in Baghdad for less than 3 yrs, but his fan base reaches far beyond heavily fortified walls of diplomatic Green Zone.
19 Jul 2018 7:33 PM
Around 20,000 were arrested in a three-year battle by Iraqi forces to drive out IS, which had seized western and northern Iraq in 2014.
29 Jun 2018 9:12 PM
Executions on Thursday came shortly after Abadi ordered 'immediate' implementation of death sentences of hundreds of convicted terrorists.
29 Jun 2018 3:20 PM
Polls opened across Iraq on Saturday in the first national election since the declaration of victory over the Islamic State group.
12 May 2018 11:54 AM
Muntazer al-Zaidi shot to prominence in Dec 2008 when he flung his shoe at Bush who was holding press conference in Baghdad.
06 May 2018 12:30 PM
He created an 'electoral list' and aptly called it 'Love and Loyalty', composing a poem for Assouz, a pseudonym for his fiancée.
02 May 2018 2:54 PM
The abducted workers, most from northern India, had been employed by a construction company operating near Mosul.
20 Mar 2018 8:42 PM
Iraq is conducting the trials of hundreds of foreign women who have been detained, with hundreds of their children.
26 Feb 2018 3:39 PM
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but most such attacks in Iraq are the work of the Islamic State jihadist group.
15 Jan 2018 12:41 PM
‘Daesh no longer hold significant territory in Iraq or Syria,’ says Theresa May.
11 Dec 2017 6:01 PM
The worst-hit towns in Iran were Qasr-e Shirin in Kermanshah and Azgaleh, about 40 kilometres northwest.
13 Nov 2017 1:44 PM
Raqqa was the first city to fall into the hands of Islamic State militants.
18 Oct 2017 11:18 AM
Since the launch of a US-led coalition, around 80,000 jihadists have been killed.
15 Oct 2017 3:46 PM
Rescue workers of security forces placed bodies in ambulances and cleared away rubble and the carcasses of burnt-out cars from the site.
15 Sep 2017 10:46 AM
Mattis arrived in the Iraqi capital on an unannounced visit just after Trump made a fresh approach to the stalemated war in Afghanistan.
22 Aug 2017 1:47 PM