BAGHDAD – Iraq’s top judicial authority says it is taking over the Independent Elections Commission as stipulated by a law passed in response to complaints of...
BAGHDAD – Iraqi security officials say the toll from explosions that tore through a mosque in Baghdad has climbed to 16 dead and 35 wounded. The...
PRAGUE – Czech lawmakers have approved a government plan to increase the number of troops deployed in Afghanistan and other countries. The plan calls for the...
The New York Times plans to return thousands of documents its journalists “recovered” from Iraq. The newspaper, which came under fire for removing the documents from...
A “critical gap” in funding for Syrian refugees and host communities this year could lead to cuts in vital services, threatening social stability in host countries...
Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia leader whose bloc beat expectations to come out on top in Iraq’s parliamentary vote, has held separate meetings with rival political leaders, ushering...
BAGHDAD – Iraq agreed to pay the salaries of the Kurdistan region’s civil servants and security forces, a spokesman for the government said Monday. “The federal...
Iraq has handed over to Russia four women and 27 children suspected of having ties to Daesh (ISIS), local television broadcaster Al-Sumaria quoted the foreign ministry...
Iraq’s supreme court on Monday declared that September’s referendum on independence in the autonomous Kurdish areas in the north of the country was unconstitutional. A statement...
Iraqi Kurdish president Massoud Barzani is to step down as the region wrestles with Baghdad over independence. In a letter to the Kurdish parliament he said...
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi announced early on Thursday an offensive to recapture the western border region of al-Qaim and Rawa, close to the Syrian border,...