BAGHDAD: Ali says he has seen more than 50 people killed in front of him since anti-government protests began in Iraq last month. "The first one was...
MOSUL, Iraq: When Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi took to the pulpit of Iraq’s historic Al-Nouri Mosque to declare his “caliphate” in 2014, the residents of Mosul had no...
IRBIL, Iraq: The Turkish border offensive against Syrian Kurdish forces will further weaken Iraq’s divided Kurds next door and embolden regional rivals who...
BAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdel-Mahdi Wednesday announced a Cabinet reshuffle, declared three days of national mourning and said those who shot...
IRBIL, Iraq: Two years after a failed independence bid plunged Iraq’s Kurdistan Region into months of instability, the new regional prime minister said...
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...
TAL ABU AL-DHAHER, Iraq: One day in June, a giant irrigation pump deep in the Mosul Dam Lake sputtered briefly into life. The successful test brought a rare...
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...
MOSUL, Iraq: Perched atop a mound of rubble, Abdel-Sattar al-Hibbu surveyed what remained of his second-floor office: twisted iron and centuries-old stone...
SHARYA, Iraq: When Rosa, now 14, asked her Daesh (ISIS) captors about her younger sisters Bushra, 12, and Suhayla, 7, she was told they had been killed for...
SINJAR, Iraq: Since Iraqi forces pushed the Kurds out of the Yazidis’ mountainous heartland of Sinjar in northern Iraq in October, residents are wondering...
ZINANA, Iraq: Four hours after first hearing gunfire outside his home, Abu Riwar bundled his wife and six children into his car and drove to a remote village...
BAGHDAD/IRBIL: Iraq’s Cabinet proposed Sunday to slash the Kurdish share of the country’s revenue in the 2018 federal budget, a move that Kurdish officials...
IRBIL, Iraq: There are no winners among Iraq’s Kurds, just weeks after Kurdish President Massoud Barzani gambled away his people’s autonomy in a controversial...
HALABJA, Iraq: When poison gas killed thousands of Kurds in Halabja in 1988, its residents never imagined they would ever escape Saddam Hussein’s grip,...
KIRKUK, Iraq: Visitors to Kirkuk in northern Iraq are greeted by an imposing statue of a Kurdish Peshmerga fighter with a gun slung over his shoulder, a...
SOUTH OF MOSUL, Iraq: Iraqi authorities are holding 1,400 foreign wives and children of suspected Daesh (ISIS) fighters in a camp after government forces...
BAGHDAD/IRBIL: Five weeks after securing victory in Mosul, Iraqi forces have moved into positions around the city of Tal Afar, their next objective in the...