ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - US President Donald Trump’s Special Envoy for Iraq, Mark Savaya, said in his New Year message that ...

Iraq's parliament elected Sunni Muslim lawmaker Haibat al-Halbousi as speaker at its opening session on Monday following ...

The new speaker must address a much-debated bill that would have the Hashd al-Shaabi, or Popular Mobilization Units — an ...

Iraq's newly elected parliament convened on Monday for its first session since the November national election, opening the ...

The exchange rate for the US dollar compared to the Iraqi dinar continued to decline on Thursday in the Iraqi capital, ...

Baghdad expects the first 500 megawatts of the country’s electricity interconnection project with the Gulf States in early ...

Political factions in Iraq have been maneuvering since the parliamentary election more than a month ago to form alliances ...

A US State Department official said Washington wants Iran-backed groups excluded from Iraq’s next government, as Baghdad ...

More than a month after Iraq's parliamentary elections, the country's top leaders remain locked in talks to form a government while facing pressure from Washington to exclude Tehran-backed armed ...

The historic “land between two rivers” faces a crisis as the Tigris and Euphrates shrink dramatically amid severe drought and the increasing toll of upstream dams, helping create the country’s worst ...

Young girls in Iraq who are years away from becoming teenagers could be forced to become wives if a new Shia-backed law passes. The new law would lower a girl’s consent from 18 to age 9. This includes ...

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