The Latest Breaking News from Iraq

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian denied on Wednesday “rumors” about his resignation amid criticism over his participation at the Baghdad conference in Jordan last month. Critics viewed the conference as an attempt to take Iran out of “regional equations”. French President Emmanuel Macron had at the summit remarked that problems…

A quarter of Iraq's population lives below the poverty line, despite the estimated $100 billion reserves at the Central Bank of Iraq, the largest in the country's modern history, according to bank sources. Economists and finance experts believed Iraq's problem was not related to its wealth but to lousy management…

Tehran complains to FIFA over Iraq’s use of the name for a waterway that separates Iran and several Arab states.

Its support is critical to the conflict, but the US is failing to learn the lessons of its sprawling wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, says former military officer Frank Ledwidge

Iraq ignored the Iranian protest against using the "Arabian Gulf" name and did not comment on Foreign Ministry's spokesperson Naser Kanaani's complaint, saying that authorities should take necessary measures. Earlier, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shiaa al-Sudani opened the Gulf Cup 25, referring to it as the "Arabian Gulf Cup" to…

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Defense systems at Iraq's Ain al-Asad air base, which hosts US forces, intercepted and shot down a drone while it was hovering near the base, Iraqi military sources said on Sunday. The sources said it was not clear whether the drone was on a surveillance mission or if it was…

Defence systems at Iraq's Ain al-Asad air base, which hosts U.S. forces, intercepted and shot down a drone while it was hovering near the base, Iraqi military sources said on Sunday.

Iraqi authorities reopened Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone on Sunday in an attempt to ease traffic jams in the capital after it was closed and reopened several times in recent years. Starting in the early hours of the day, Iraqi authorities removed checkpoints and opened major roads and tunnels that…

Iraqi authorities have reopened Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone in an attempt to ease traffic jams in the capital

US Ambassador to Iraq Alina Romanowski welcomed on Saturday a joint statement by Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Al-Sudani and the UN to return housing, land, and property rights to Yezidis in Sinjar and other areas. The Sinjar district, in the Nineveh governorate, is home to the largest concentration of Yazidis…