BAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi urged Washington and Tehran Wednesday to show restraint following Iranian missile attacks on U.S. troops in...
BAGHDAD: The Iraqi parliament called on the government on Sunday to work to end all foreign troop presence as a backlash grew after the killing of a top...
BAGHDAD: Rival Shiite political leaders Friday called for American troops to be expelled from Iraq after a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad killed a senior Iranian...
BAGHDAD: Iran promised harsh revenge on Friday after a U.S. air strike in Baghdad on Friday killed Qassem Soleimani, commander of Iran's elite Quds Force...
BASRA, Iraq: The southern Iraqi city of Basra is struggling to cope with a growing drug problem that has overcrowded prisons and strained police resources,...
ERBIL/SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq: A year after a failed bid for independence, Iraq’s Kurds will be voting again Sunday, this time in a parliamentary election that...
BAGHDAD: For the first time since driving out Daesh (ISIS), Iraqis go to the polls Saturday in elections that will shape attempts to heal the country’s deep...
BASRA/NAJAF, Iraq: United in their fight against Saddam Hussein’s oppression for decades, Iraq’s Shiites have become deeply fragmented and...
BAGHDAD: A new electronic system will deliver the results of Iraq’s upcoming national election within hours of polls closing, the country’s chief electoral...
IRBIL, Iraq/LONDON: Russian state oil company Rosneft has emerged with an important role in talks between Iraq’s government and Iraqi Kurdistan on...
AMRIYAT AL-FALLUJAH, Iraq: Iraqi security forces are forcibly returning civilians from refugee camps to unsafe areas in the predominantly Sunni Anbar...
CAIRO: Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi was quick to launch airstrikes on militants in Libya in response to a deadly attack on Coptic Christians in...
MOSUL, Iraq: Fly-blown corpses of Daesh (ISIS) militants littered the streets of a district in Mosul Tuesday as U.S.-backed Iraqi forces chipped away at the...
MOSUL, Iraq: The Iraqi man laid the body of his wife, wrapped in a black shroud, gently on the bow of a small wooden boat and held onto it as a second man...
SOUTHWEST OF MOSUL/BAGHDAD: The U.S.-backed Iraqi offensive to take back Mosul from Daesh (ISIS) gained fresh momentum on Thursday, with an armored division...
CAIRO: Archaeologists from Egypt and Germany have found a massive eight-meter statue submerged in ground water in a Cairo slum that they say probably depicts...
ISMAILIA, Egypt: When Daesh (ISIS) militants began circulating names of Christians who must leave their Egyptian hometown of Al-Arish or die, Mounir Mounir’s...
CAIRO: Rights activists are trying to force President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi to throw out a law used by his government to imprison thousands of Egyptians and...
CAIRO: “Wanted” was emblazoned across photographs posted online by Daesh (ISIS). Files bearing the Daesh logo showed faces of Egyptian military and police...
CAIRO: Swedish archaeologists have unearthed a dozen burial sites near the southern city of Aswan that date back almost 3,500 years to the New Kingdom-era of...
CAIRO: Azza Soliman was due to board a plane for Jordan when security officials at Cairo airport turned her away, saying a court order banned her from...
CAIRO: On the evening of July 21, 2013, dozens of judges gathered on the Armada, a floating restaurant docked where the Nile glides past the leafy suburb of...
CAIRO: Egypt cannot afford to keep its museums open, the country’s antiquities minister says, let alone search for ancient buried treasures. Tourism, a...
ALKARM, Egypt: Souad Thabet’s house no longer has a door. Inside, its walls are blackened with soot and a television lies shattered on the floor. The remains...
CAIRO: “Your excellency: you are not working,” television presenter Azza al-Hemawy said, looking into the camera but addressing the Egyptian president. “Not...