The Latest Breaking News from Iraq

The controversial figure has become the subject of widespread discussions in Iraq, igniting debates on his ideology.

The heart-stopping clip, filmed in southern Iraq, saw the father tell the boy to place the cigarette in his mouth as he then takes aim with his Kalashnikov rifle

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Sadrist Movement leader Muqtada al-Sadr concluded the forty-day deadline he granted his opponents (the Coordination Framework) to form the government, with a surprising tweet. A day after the Coordination Framework announced an initiative to solve the political impasse in the country, seven months after holding “early” elections, throwing the ball…

The first phase of Lebanon’s parliamentary elections kicked off on Friday morning, for expats residing in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Syria, Oman, Egypt, Bahrain, Jordan, Iraq and Iran. The rest of the expatriates will vote in the second phase in 48 other countries on Sunday. Prime Minister Najib Mikati inaugurated…

More than 10,000 people have fled fighting between the Iraqi army and Yazidi fighters affiliated with Turkey's banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), an official from Iraq's Kurdistan region said Thursday. The latest figure is more than double the 4,000 which an official from the region reported on Tuesday had arrived,…

One person died in Iraq and more than 5,000 were treated in hospitals Thursday for respiratory ailments due to a sandstorm, the seventh in a month, the health ministry said. Duststorms have increased dramatically in frequency in Iraq in recent years, driven by soil degradation and intense droughts made worse…

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A series of dust storms across central and southern Iraq have led to thousands of Iraqis attending hospitals and clinics to seek treatment for breathing problems, medical officials said on Thursday.

Hundreds of Iraqis have rushed to hospitals with breathing problems and the Baghdad airport suspended flights for several hours as a sandstorm blanketed the country, the fifth within a month

The Shiite Coordination Framework grouping of mainly pro-Iran forces in Iraq revealed on Wednesday a new initiative aimed at resolving the political impasse in the country that has thwarted the formation of a new government and election of a president six months after parliamentary polls were held. The initiative did…