Days after Iran launched an unprecedented attack on Israel, the Islamic republic is said to have retaliated with a drone strike, escalating tensions stoked by the...
Iraqi Trade Minister Atheer al-Ghurairi said at a joint news conference with al-Muqbel that Iraq aimed to be “an influential player” in the global economy through...
The militants once held significant territory in both countries but were pushed back by local ground forces supported by international air strikes in a bloody, multi-year...
Hussein lives in Jordan, along with her sister Rana. Their brothers, Uday and Qusay, were killed by the US army in Mosul in 2003.
Israel is in the midst of a war to “destroy” Hamas, after the Palestinian Islamists stormed its southern border at the weekend, shooting dead more than...
Culture Minister Ahmed al-Badrani told Reuters he had not given permission to destroy the Siraji Mosque’s minaret and that local antiquities authorities had agreed with the...
Successive governments “have failed to fight corruption”, laments Abbas Mohamed, a Baghdad engineer in his 30s. “We are going from bad to worse. No government has given...
Alshamary said a “generational shift” has meant that for many young Iraqis the identity-based politics of old are “probably the last thing on their list of...
On January 4, a day after the United States assassinated Iranian military General Qassem Soleimani, US President Donald Trump warned that if Iran retaliated, he would hit 52 Iranian sites....
Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has always been a controversial political operator in Iraq – the most popular among Shia leaders, the most temperamental, and the most...