A bill in Iraq that would further formalise the role — and perhaps, the autonomy — of a powerful coalition of pro-Iran former paramilitaries has sparked a heated […] ...

Iraq has been shaken in recent weeks by attacks on civilian infrastructure by the Popular Mobilization Forces. The post ...

Iraq’s government argues that passing a new legislation – which would fully integrate the PMF into the state – would help ...

Iraqi and American officials announced that the US-led counter-Islamic State operation in Iraq began its transition to a ...

Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein stated on August 18 that efforts to pass a new law in the parliament to regulate the ...

Kataib Hezbollah, an Iran-backed militia, was involved in a deadly shooting at Iraq's Ministry of Agriculture on July 27.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Iran-aligned Iraqi armed group Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba says it is under imminent threat of Israeli attacks, a senior official from the group told Rudaw on Wednesday, ...

Iraq’s prime minister has fired two top militia commanders and ordered prosecutions after an armed assault on a Baghdad government office left two people dead. The July 27 incident, officials say, was ...

The lawmakers called for designating the Popular Mobilization Forces, an Iranian-backed paramilitary group operating in Iraq, and its financial backers as foreign terrorist groups and sanctioning ...

Despite the lingering scars left by the Islamic State s capture of swaths of Iraq and Syria over a decade ago and the current ...

The U.S. carried out an airstrike in Baghdad on Wednesday targeting a senior leader of an Iranian-backed militia in Iraq that was blamed for attacks on U.S. forces in the Middle East, according to ...

Restricting armament to the state constitutes the central challenge of the Arab world. It is not merely a security and political question; rather, it pertains to the very essence of modern statehood, ...