For decades, two stalwarts have defined Baghdad’s unlikely luxury hospitality scene: the Babylon Rotana and Al Rasheed. As ...

Mechanized warfare is not dead. Observers have been debating this topic since the Ukrainian military and volunteers beat back ...

Iraq’s former dictator Saddam Hussein was executed on06. Following his capture by US forces in 2003, he was prosecuted by the ...

Under Iraq's Constitution, parliament must elect a president within 30 days. The president will then have 15 days to task the nominee of the largest parliamentary bloc with forming a cabinet, which ...

Formation of the new government will have to tread a fine line to satisfy domestic and international pressures.

The rapid disintegration of the Iraqi military in 2014, after minimal resistance to ISIS, left the Peshmerga as the sole ...

Long-awaited museums, record-breaking skyscrapers and a soaring Catholic basilica — these architecture projects are worth a ...

The long-standing salary issue facing civil servants in the Kurdistan Region is expected to be resolved in the new year, ...

Iraq's new parliament elected a senior figure from the Sunni Taqadom party as its speaker Monday, the first session since ...

Did the 21st century begin on 1 January 2000? Or was it that blue sky day in September 2001 when the planes hit the twin towers? These images from the last 25 years chronicle modern history in the mak ...

Although it was published in 1850, the poem’s verses are timeless. Indeed, one could apply every stanza to some­thing going on in the world today. So we hope you take the time to read it and enjoy it, ...

Sunni blocs in Iraq have agreed to nominate Haybat al-Halbousi as their candidate for parliament speaker ahead of the first ...