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Iraq has emerged from a ruinous three-year war against the Islamic State group and faces the mammoth task of reconciling. (Photo:AP)

Iraq seeks to reclaim influential role, status in Arab world

After decades of conflict, Iraq is seeking to reclaim a leadership role and status in the Arab world with a centrist...

15 April 2019 8:18 AM

The US insists Iraq wean itself off Iranian energy, but Baghdad has said that could take up to four years, during which it would need to keep purchasing at least Iranian gas. (Photo: File I ANI)

Iraq sets up 'loophole' in US sanctions to buy Iranian power

Iraq has an outstanding bill of around 2 billion for previous gas and electricity purchases, according to Iranian Oil...

2 July 2019 7:41 AM

Israel has repeatedly bombed Iranian targets in neighbouring Syria, but an expansion of the campaign to Iraq -- where the Jewish state struck the Osirak nuclear reactor in 1981 -- would risk damaging Washingtons relations with Baghdad. (Photo: AP)

'Israel bombed Iraq's weapons depot,' says report

There have been series of blasts in Iraq over the past month at training camps and arms depots used by Hashed al-Shaabi...

23 Aug 2019 8:20 AM

A minor explosion took place near Indian embassy camp office at Biratnagar in Kathmandu on Tuesday. (Representational Image)

Iraq: 12 civilians killed in minibus explosion outside Karbala

This was one of the biggest attacks targeting civilians since the extremist Islamic State group was declared defeated...

21 Sept 2019 5:58 AM

Security forces at the site of a suicide attack on Iraq embassy in Kabul on Monday. (Photo: AP)

Iraq's stability on the line as US, Iran tensions soar

Nowhere is that being felt more than in Iraq, where Shia forces linked to Iran pose a growing challenge to government...

20 Sept 2019 1:42 PM

Workers in protective suits take the temperatures of people at a COVID-19 testing site for those who were potentially exposed to the coronavirus outbreak at a wholesale food market in Beijing. (AP Photo)

Coronavirus cases surge in US, but slow in China, South Korea

World Health Organization reported largest single-day increase in coronavirus cases, at more than 183,000 new cases in...

22 Jun 2020 7:57 AM

This park has become a breath of fresh air for young refugees from Sudan, Somalia, Yemen, Iraq, Syria and Palestine. (Photo: AFP)

Jordan skate park puts smile on faces of refugee children

Jordan hosts refugees from more than 40 countries, including over 650,000 people from Syria, according to the UNHCR.

4 March 2018 1:56 PM

The increased hypertension risk was additive and dependent on the severity of veterans injuries. (Photo: Pixabay)

Severe combat wounds, PTSD tied to high blood pressure

The increased hypertension risk was additive and dependent on the severity of veteran's injuries.

23 March 2018 9:59 AM

A fuel glut in China, a hangover from demonetisation in India, and an ageing, declining population in Japan are holding back crude oil demand growth in three of the worlds top four oil buyers.

Iraq replaces Saudi as top oil supplier to India in August: report

Overall India's monthly oil imports in August rose 3.1 per cent to about 4.7 million barrels.

11 Sept 2018 3:49 AM

Pied Piper is collecting a crowd

Pied Piper is collecting a crowd

The latest is that the Telugu Desam Party president, N.

29 Sept 2013 4:20 AM

Demonstrators protest against President Trumps executive immigration ban at Chicago OHare International Airport on January 28, 2017. (Photo: AFP)

Iraqi family barred from flying to US, treated like drug dealers'

Their passports confiscated, the distraught family was detained overnight at Cairo airport.

29 Jan 2017 2:56 PM

ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (Photo: AP)

In farewell speech, ISIS chief Baghdadi accepts defeat in Iraq

It is not clear if he is in the besieged city, where he declared his Caliphate in 2014 after the ISIS seized territory.

2 March 2017 4:19 AM