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BasraBAGHDAD, Iraq — Prices for Iraq's Basra Heavy and Basra Medium crude grades rose sharply on Thursday despite a decline in global oil benchmarks. Basra Heavy gained $7.72,…
IraqU.S. authorities have arrested 11 people accused of arranging more than 1,000 sham marriages, most of them involving Chinese nationals seeking permanent residency in the …
IraqAMSTERDAM, Netherlands — The Dutch Football Federation (KNVB) named Spanish manager Xavi Hernandez as the new head coach of the Netherlands national team on Tuesday, task…
IraqRussian President Vladimir Putin has visited Iturup, one of the southern Kuril Islands disputed with Japan, in what officials described as his first trip there. Japan's F…
IraqMeta has closed 756,000 Australian accounts held by users under 16 since the country's world-first social media age ban took effect, the company said, with 462,000 Instag…
IraqAn armed suspect exchanged gunfire with police in Glendale, California, and remained holed up in a residence into a second day, according to the Glendale Police Departmen…
BaghdadAn Army Apache attack helicopter crashed in a field near Salado, Texas, on Wednesday evening and caught fire, killing two soldiers, the Army said. The helicopter went dow…
IraqGold held near a two-month high on Thursday after U.S. annual inflation eased to 3.4% in July, reducing expectations of a Federal Reserve rate increase in September. Spot…
IraqCrude oil prices fell by more than a dollar a barrel on Tuesday after leading forecasters cut their estimates for global demand growth. Brent crude dropped 1.5% to $87.69…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Prime Minister and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Ali Falih al-Zaydi inspected the Air Defense Command operations center overnight Wednesday, revi…
IraqBAGHDAD, Iraq — A member of Iraq's parliamentary immunity committee said on Tuesday that Prime Minister Ali Ziyadi's anti-corruption campaign has political, public and ju…
BabilBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Ministry of Justice said a limited number of inmates serving sentences for drug offenses staged a riot at Hilla Islah Reform Prison south of Baghda…
IraqBAGHDAD, Iraq — An investigative committee of the Iraqi parliament has summoned senior security and military officials to examine why headquarters belonging to the Popula…
IraqBOGOTA, Colombia — The death toll from a magnitude 7.4 earthquake that struck Colombia on August 10 has risen to 241, the country's Asocapitales association said in a sta…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Ministry of Interior has opened applications for the 73rd class of the First Police College in Baghdad, with admissions limited to male candidates,…
MosulBAGHDAD, Iraq — The Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church, Paul III Nuna, said reconstruction efforts in the Nineveh Plain have not secured the full return of Christi…
ErbilERBIL, Iraq — The Kurdistan Regional Government’s Acting Minister of Natural Resources, Kamal Mohammed Salih, said the region is open to negotiations with Iraq’s federal …
IraqNEW YORK — Two US media organizations have filed suit in New York against President Donald Trump over a fee-based early-access feature on his social media platform, Truth…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — A member of Iraq's parliament prevented her daughter from boarding a flight to Istanbul at Baghdad International Airport on Wednesday evening, according t…
IraqTAN-TAN, Morocco — U.S. Africa Command said American and Moroccan forces carried out their first live-ammunition test at a newly established military range in North Afric…
