Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi arrived on Monday in Irbil, a day after the city was targeted by a dozen Iranian ballistic missiles in a widely condemned attack.
Accompanied by a high-level security delegation, Al-Kadhimi arrived in Irbil to (...)
Archaeological teams from French, Italian and German colleges arrived in Ninawa Governorate (also called Nineveh) to resume rehabilitation and conservation of the antiquities damaged when the so-called Islamic State (Daesh or ISIS) organization (...)
The 400 kV transmission line of the Mosul Dam was targeted by explosives, leading to the fall of three transmission towers, said the General Company for Northern Electricity Transmission, an affiliate of the Iraqi Electricity Ministry, in a (...)
Pope Francis visited Iraq's war-ravaged north on Sunday, traveling to areas that were heavily damaged by Daesh (so-called IS) extremists.
At the start of the third day of his Apostolic Journey to Iraq, Pope Francis flew from Baghdad to Irbil where, (...)
Pope Francis prayed on Sunday for Christians who were displaced by violence to the Kurdish city of Mosul city, northern Iraq.
The Pope said in a speech at a Church in Mosul that the welcome that the "Christians received after their return to Mosul (...)
Iraq's Kurdish region named a cousin of its new president to succeed him as prime minister on Tuesday, keeping power in the hands of the family that has governed since the region gained partial self rule after dictator Saddam Hussein's fall.
The new (...)
High on a rocky outcrop, just 50 miles from the fighting that is wrecking historic sites across Iraq, workers are busy laying out floor tiles, determined to save at least one ancient structure amidst the turmoil.
The team is rebuilding the last (...)
The mortar attack that left Um Yousef blind in one eye and killed two of her children came on the same day that Iraqi forces retook her neighborhood in eastern Mosul from the Daesh group.
"We were supposed to be liberated that day," she said from (...)
Iraqi forces have advanced to 5 km (3 miles) from Mosul in an offensive against Daesh last major Iraq stronghold and there are signs of revolt against the group, the interior minister of the Kurdish regional government said on Saturday.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced the start of military operations to liberate the northern city of Mosul from Islamic State militants on Monday, launching the country on its toughest battle since American troops left nearly five years (...)
For a while, it seemed Nosheen Hanaan's dream was coming true: The budding star qualified to be goalie on Syria's national soccer team at the age of 18 after earning a reputation for his fierce blocking on Al-Hurriya, a league team from the northern (...)
Under the Iraqi town of Sinjar, Daesh (the so-called IS) militants built a network of tunnels, complete with sleeping quarters, wired with electricity and fortified with sandbags. There, they had boxes of US-made ammunition, medicines and copies of (...)
Kurdish forces are massing in northwest Iraq for an offensive to retake the town of Sinjar from Daesh militants who overran it more than a year ago, killing and enslaving thousands of its Yazidi residents and triggering US-led air strikes.
Sinjar is (...)
The top US military officer landed in Iraq Tuesday to get an update on the battle against the Daesh militants, saying he sees no prospect right now for Russia to expand its airstrike campaign into the war-torn country.
Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford, (...)
AlQa'dah 15, 1434, Sep 21, 2013, SPA -- Voters in Iraq's Kurdish north are making their way to polling stations for parliamentary elections in which smaller parties are hoping to challenge the self-rule region's two major political movements, AP (...)
A Kurdish official said the parliament of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region has voted to extend the current term of the region's leader by two years, AP reported.
Regional parliament spokesman Tareq Juhar says a majority of the lawmakers voted to (...)
Iraqi Kurds will elect a new parliament and president for their oil-rich, self-ruled region on Sept. 21, AP reported.
A government statement issued on Thursday says Masoud Barzani, the president of the Kurdish region, approved the date and called (...)
Hijjah 02, 1431, Nov 08, 2010, SPA -- Leaders of Iraq's main political blocs concluded their first meeting since parliamentary elections in March without an agreement on the makeup of a new government.
The leaders meeting in the northern city of (...)
The heads of delegations of houses of representatives and parliaments of Arab countries concluded here today their 13th Conference of Arab Parliamentary Union hosted by Iraq's House of Representatives.
The delegation of Saudi Arabia to the meetings (...)
Dozens of Turkish jets bombed border towns in northern Iraq Sunday, reportedly killing at least one person in attacks against Kurdish rebels, according to UPI.
It was the first Turkish air raid against strongholds of the Kurdistan Workers Party, (...)
Convinced that oil revenue is the long-term key to economic independence for a unified
Iraq, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice appealed Friday for cooperation from the autonomous and oil rich Kurdish north.
Rice was visiting the region's (...)
A suicide car bomber wearing a police
uniform killed at least 15 traffic policemen and wounded 100 others during morning roll call at a police headquarters in this northern Kurdish city.
The bombing that ripped through the police facility was
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