The Latest Breaking News from Iraq

Airpower cannot salvage Russia’s doomed war in Ukraine.

Insurance for humanitarian workers, journalists, engineers and others heading to Ukraine is now more expensive and harder to organise than during the Iraq war.

Turkey's defence ministry and top government officials on Thursday firmly rejected allegations that the Turkish Armed Forces had used chemical weapons in their operations against Kurdish militants.

US Ambassador to Iraq Alina Romanowski has increased her visits to PM-designate Mohammad Shia Al-Sudani, President Abdul-Latif Rashid and Speaker Mohammed al-Halbousi to discuss the formation of the government. Informed political sources said that the ambassador was “keen that the political parties succeed in forming the cabinet without delay.” The…

Two people were injured in a car bombing in the northern Iraqi city of Sulaimaniya on Thursday, police and hospital sources said, a relatively rare attack in a major city in Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region.

A huge corruption scandal involving the theft of 3.7 trillion Iraqi dinars ($2.5 billion) from the Iraqi tax authorities’ account continued to spark official and popular reactions, amid unconfirmed reports that the stolen funds amount to ten trillion Iraqi dinars. The largest theft of its kind - “the theft of…

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Program (WFP) in Iraq issued a joint statement on the occasion of World Food Day on Monday on the future of Iraq’s agriculture and food security. The statement was issued amid a drought wave hitting Iraq for the…

The former military analyst has been called both a hero and a traitor for leaking classified information about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. In a new memoir, she talks about why she did it.

Iraq's newly-elected President Abdul Latif Rashid pledged Monday on taking office to throw his weight behind efforts to rapidly form a strong new government. "The Iraqi people expect a new government to be formed rapidly, and that it be efficient and united," Rashid said on his inauguration at the presidential…

Brian Glendinning's family have been tirelessly campaigning for his release after he was detained due to unpaid debt in Qatar

Facing their biggest challenge in years, Iran's religious leaders are trying to portray the angry protests over the death of Mahsa Amini as a breakaway uprising by her fellow Kurds threatening the nation's unity rather than its clerical rule. Amini, a 22-year-old from Kurdistan province in northwest Iran, died in…