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BaghdadWASHINGTON, United States — Oil prices climbed on Tuesday after Washington ruled out extending its ceasefire with Iran and a senior Iranian official told Reuters that Teh…
SulaymaniyahSULAYMANIYAH, Iraq — A large fire broke out early Tuesday at a fuel depot in the Tanjero area of Sulaymaniyah, burning 34 gasoline tankers and four gas tankers, according…
IraqBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Ministry of Finance has reached an agreement with the Federal Financial Audit Office to accelerate tax collection and raise non-oil public revenues…
IraqBAGHDAD, Iraq — The head of Iraq’s Hizmetler İttifakı (Coalition of Service) political bloc, Shibl al-Zaidi, has called for the rapid passage of legislation governing the…
IraqWASHINGTON, United States — WASHINGTON — Video circulating online shows U.S. President Donald Trump struggling to keep his eyes open during a White House event, repeatedl…
DiyalaBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Diyala Provincial Directorate of Security issued an urgent evacuation order overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday for Hashd al-Shaabi headquarters in…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Kataib Hezbollah, a faction operating under Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces umbrella, outlined conditions for joining the country's disarmament process…
IraqBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq Hezbollah Brigades has outlined three conditions that any future Iraqi government must meet before the group would engage in efforts to regulate its …
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein asked his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi on Friday for an official explanation of a drone strike that targeted the…
KirkukBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's air force carried out two airstrikes against an ISIS hideout in the Zogeytun Valley in Kirkuk on Friday evening, the Security Media Cell said. The …
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Cerfussah, a district in Iraq's Babil province about 60 kilometers southwest of Baghdad, was abandoned after ISIS seized it in 2014 and has seen limited c…
AnbarBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Federal Integrity Commission said on Thursday that six people, including the head of a municipal unit in Anbar province, were arrested over alleged…
IraqFIFA has removed Operations Director Kevin Lamour, who publicly opposed President Gianni Infantino's plan to sell part of the World Cup's commercial rights to outside inv…
IraqWASHINGTON, United States — US Special Envoy Jared Kushner said official communications between the United States and Iran are more intense than at any previous point, ac…
SulaymaniyahSULAYMANIYAH, Iraq — The Sulaymaniyah Municipality's Nature and Property Protection Board has raised objections to plans to demolish the former Sulaymaniyah Court buildin…
IraqBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Ministry of Interior said Monday that the country is receiving a large influx of tourists from various Arab and foreign nationalities, attributing …
IraqMOSCOW — Russia's Defense Ministry said its air defense systems downed or intercepted 316 Ukrainian drones between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. on August 17. The ministry said the d…
ErbilERBIL, Iraq — More than 90 Iraqi members of parliament have signed a request for an extraordinary parliamentary session to show support for the Kurdistan Region following…
SulaymaniyahDUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A rapporteur with the Kurdistan National Congress has warned that Sulaymaniyah could face a serious drug shortage within a month, accusing t…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — A high-level Iranian delegation led by Mohammad Bagher Galibaf, speaker of Iran's Islamic Consultative Assembly, is expected to arrive in Baghdad on Wedne…
