UN Secretary-General António Guterres says he stands with Iraq to build a prosperous and stable country, praising its ...

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has visited Iraq to mark the end of the political mission established in 2003 in the wake of the U.S.-led invasion and occupation as well as the fall of Saddam ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -The Islamic State caliphate, which held large swaths of territory in Syria and Iraq, was defeated in 2018, yet analysts are seeing signs, including a growing number of attacks in ...

Pope Francis' trip to Iraq comes at a time when the country faces severe political, socioeconomic, and security challenges. The European Union's ambassador to Iraq has called Iraq's current ...

With Iranian influence waning in the Middle East, the Iraqi government wants armed groups, including factions within the Iran-backed Islamic Resistance in Iraq (IRI), to lay down their arms and join ...

Gaithe Alwahab is a JURIST staff correspondent in Iraq and a law graduate of Al Iraqia University. Here he reports from Baghdad. A version of this dispatch was originally filed as his first regular ...

Erbil, Iraq, November 14, 2024 — The International Rescue Committee (IRC), in partnership with the Iraqi High Commission for Human Rights (IHCHR) has taken an important step to strengthen the ...

The present U.S. focus on Syria, Turkey, and the Kurds makes it all too easy to ignore the growing instability of Iraq, the fact that ISIS is already increasing its operations in that country, and ...

BAGHDAD, IRAQ — Rogue militia groups threaten to thrust Iraq into civil war, senior U.S. military officials are warning in increasingly stark language. “I think there's two major threats to the ...

Pope Francis arrived in Iraq March 5 for a three-day visit aimed at encouraging the nation's historic but diminishing Christian community amid tight security measures and worries about how the trip ...

Most Iraqi prime ministers serving in the past two decades have at some point asked the U.S. military to leave their country. Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari made the first public call for a U.S.