ERBİL, Iraq – Northern Iraq’s Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) has called on the federal government in Baghdad and the UN to lift an air embargo imposed...
IRBIL, Iraq – Iraq’s military was preparing to take control of the international borders of the northern Kurdish region Friday, as a flight ban halted all...
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has refused to deploy the military to the country’s Kurdish region in response to the recent independence referendum. Abadi’s comments came...
IRBIL – All foreign flights to and from the Iraqi Kurdish regional capital Irbil will be suspended from Friday evening on Baghdad’s orders, its airport director...
BAGHDAD – Iraq’s Civil Aviation Authority on Wednesday requested foreign airlines suspend flights to the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) area by Friday. The move follows Monday’s...
French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday asked Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) President Masoud Barzani to postpone next week’s controversial referendum on Kurdish regional independence. In a...
The senior US commander in Iraq has warned that the war against the so-called Islamic State (IS) is not over, despite a “historic” victory in Mosul....
So-called Islamic State (IS) defences in the Iraqi city of Mosul are collapsing fast and troops expect to take full control in the next few hours,...
Fierce clashes and rising numbers of suicide attacks have been reported in Mosul as Iraqi troops try to recapture the city from Islamic State militants. The...
At least eight people, including four civilians, have been killed after a suicide bomber blew himself up at a camp for internally displaced people in central...
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi says the destruction of an ancient mosque in the city of Mosul is “an official declaration of defeat” by so-called Islamic...