Tag: Iraq

Global deaths from terrorism have risen to their highest level since 2017, with 8 352 deaths recorded in 2023, a new report has found. The...

Iraq's national security adviser said on Thursday that US-led forces had ended their combat mission in Iraq, a move that transfers all remaining troops...

Islamic State militants killed ten Iraqi policemen and wounded four during an overnight attack on a guard post near the city of Kirkuk, police...

Iraq has invited Iran and Tehran's Gulf Arab foes to a summit in Baghdad with the objective of calming tensions which have brought them...

Kurdish militants launched a mortar attack on a Turkish military base in northern Iraq on Thursday, wounding a Turkish soldier who later died in...

A senior Iranian security official urged Iraq on Tuesday to expel Iranian rebels from Iraqi Kurdistan, or expect Tehran to take "preventative measures" against...

US diplomats and troops in Iraq and Syria were targeted in three rocket and drone attacks in the past 24 hours, US and Iraq...

Militants using bombs attacked two oil wells at an oilfield close to the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Wednesday, killing at least one...

A drone dropped explosives near US forces stationed at Erbil airport in northern Iraq late on Wednesday, Kurdish officials said, with no immediate reports...

Iraqi security forces have killed Abu Yaser al-Issawi, an Islamic State commander who had claimed to be the leader of the group in Iraq...

An air strike killed a commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards at the Iraq-Syria border sometime between Saturday and Sunday, Iraqi security and local militia...

Supporters of Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr stormed an anti-government protest camp in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriya on Friday, and at least three...

The Iraqi military is training a former member of an Iran-backed militia, who is under US sanctions for killing protesters, to become a high-ranking...

The Iraqi military is training a former member of an Iran-backed militia, under US sanctions for killing protesters, to become a high-ranking officer in...

Washington has made preparations to withdraw diplomats from Iraq after warning Mit could shut its embassy, two Iraqi officials and two Western diplomats said,...

The Iraqi government said on Thursday that nearly 560 protesters and security forces were killed in months of anti-government unrest that erupted last year. Prime...

In February, an Iraqi militia commander trained by Iran took over the empty office of his slain superior, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, killed alongside Iranian...

NATO defence ministers agreed to expand the Western alliance’s training mission in Iraq, Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said, responding to a demand by US President...

Iraq’s military said on Thursday it was resuming operations with the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State which had mostly halted after bases hosting U.S....

Gunmen shot dead two protesters in Iraq’s Nassiriya overnight and a Baghdad district became a battlefield on the third day of a drive by...

Iranian-backed Shi’ite factions exhorted Iraqis to turn out for a “million-strong” march aimed at whipping up anti-American sentiment as the US struggle with Iran...

Two protesters died in Iraq as police fought running street battles with anti-government demonstrators, firing tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse stone-throwing youths...

Dozens of Iraqi protesters were wounded in Baghdad and other cities in clashes with security forces trying to clear blocked roads, security and medical...

Populist Iraqi Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called for a million Iraqis to march against the US “presence and violations” in Iraq after Washington’s killing...

Protests erupted across Iran for a second day on Sunday increasing pressure on the Islamic Republic’s leadership after it admitted its military shot down...

Washington spurned an Iraqi request to prepare to pull out its troops, amid heightened US-Iranian tensions after the killing of an Iranian commander in...

Major airlines cancelled Iran and Iraq flights and re-routed others away from both countries’ airspace following an Iranian missile strike. Germany’s Lufthansa, Dubai-based Emirates...

Iran launched missiles at US-led forces in Iraq early on Wednesday, retaliating for the US drone strike on an Iranian commander whose killing last...

Iraq’s parliament called for US and other foreign troops to leave as a backlash grows against the US killing of a top Iranian general...

After armed men raided Hussein Adel al-Madani and his wife Sara Talib’s home last year, the Iraqi activists spent months in self-imposed exile in...

Iraqi security forces shot dead 45 protesters after demonstrators stormed and torched an Iranian consulate, in what could mark a turning point in the...

South African companies have been invited to engage with Iraq to meet its defence requirements with the Middle Eastern country due to host its...

Seven people were killed when Iraqi security forces used live fire and teargas on demonstrators in Baghdad, security and medical sources said, in renewed...

Iraqi forces shot three anti-government protesters dead in Nassiriya on Sunday, police and medics said, adding to scores killed in weeks of unrest that...

Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi will step down if parliament’s main blocs agree on a replacement, the country’s president said, but thousands of...

Thousands of Iraqis protested in Baghdad’s central Tahrir Square for a fifth day, angered by reports of security forces killing demonstrators in Kerbala and...

Thousands of Iraqi protesters stood fast in Baghdad’s central Tahrir Square, defying a bloody crackdown that killed scores over the weekend and an overnight...

An Iraqi government committee investigating a wave of unrest found 149 civilians were killed because security forces used excessive force and live fire to...

Iraq appointed new education and health ministers a day after Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi promised to reshuffle government and enact reforms to stem...

Days of deadly anti-government protests in Baghdad and other Iraqi cities brought few real concessions but when bloodshed spread to a particular poor, restive...

At least eight people were killed in new clashes between Iraqi security forces and anti-government protesters in the sixth day of unrest with the...

Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi declared a curfew in Baghdad until further notice after seven people were killed and more than 400 injured...

Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi sought on Monday to curb the powers of influential Iranian-backed Shi’ite Muslim militias, a politically risky move apparently...

U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said on Monday that 55,000 captured Islamic State fighters, including foreigners, and their families detained in Syria and...

Turkey’s military launched an operation with commandos, backed by artillery and air strikes, against Kurdish militants in a mountainous area of northern Iraq, the...

The United Nations cleared almost 17,000 bombs, suicide belts and other explosive hazards in Iraq last year and the dangerous work of sifting through...

A hush descended on central Baghdad on Monday as Iraqis observed a minute's silence for those killed in the battle against Islamic State a...

A growing rivalry between two powerful Shi'ite Muslim factions has paralysed efforts to form a government in Iraq six months after an...

Basra airport was attacked with rockets after another night of protests against Iraq's political elite, during which demonstrators set fire to the...

Hundreds took to the streets of Iraq's southern city Basra in a fourth day of violent protests, where residents, angry over neglect...