Baghdad, February 3 (IANS) Iraq has said that the US retaliatory strikes will bring disastrous consequences for the region, a media report said.According to the Iraqi government, at least 16 people, including c
Stockholm, July 22 (IANS) The Swedish embassy staff in Iraq has been temporarily relocated from Baghdad to Stockholm, Swedish authorities said.
"Seconded personnel have arrived in Sweden by regular flig
Baghdad, October 10 (AP): Iraq closed its airspace and land border crossings on Sunday as voters headed to the polls to elect a parliament that many hope will deliver much needed reforms after decades of confli
Baghdad, September 5 (IANS): At least 13 security members were killed and six others injured in an overnight attack carried out by the Islamic State (IS) terror group in Kirkuk province, a provincial police sou
BAGHDAD, October 25 (Reuters): Iraqi security forces fired water cannon and tear gas at anti-government protesters on Sunday to prevent them crossing barricades on a bridge leading towards government build
AMARA, Iraq, October 19 (Reuters): Hasanain Alminshid had received death threats for his human rights activism for years, but ignored most of them. After his mentor was gunned down outside a police station
NAJAF, Iraq, September 23 (Reuters): Iraqi doctor Tariq Al-Sheibani remembers little else beyond cowering on the ground as a dozen relatives of a patient, who had just died of COVID-19, beat him unconsciou
NAJAF, Iraq, September 15 (Reuters): It took Abu Haider and his relatives several hours to dig up his nephew's grave and exhume the body at a cemetery in the southern Iraqi city of Najaf built especially fo
WASHINGTON, September 9 (Reuters): The United States military on Wednesday announced that it would be reducing its presence in Iraq from 5,200 to 3,000 troops this month, formalizing a move that had been l
MOSUL, Iraq, September 8 (Reuters): When the Iraqi city of Mosul went into lockdown in March, Mohammed Sattar, who lost both his legs when his house was shelled in 2017, found himself unable to see the old
CAMP TAJI, Iraq, August 23 (Reuters): United States-led international coalition troops withdrew from Iraq's Taji military base on Sunday and handed it over to Iraqi security forces, Reuters witnesses a
BAGHDAD, July 21 (Reuters): Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi said on a visit to Tehran on Tuesday that Iraq would not allow any threat to Iran coming from its territory.
Speaking at a news confer
BAGHDAD, July 7 (Reuters): Gunmen in Baghdad shot dead a well-known former government advisor and political analyst near his home on Monday in a rare high-profile killing in the Iraqi capital, government o
Washington, June 12 (IANS): The US has pledged that it would continue reducing its forces in Iraq and confirmed that it does not seek permanent military presence in the country, said a joint statement on Friday
NAJAF, Iraq, June 1 (Reuters): Iraqi paramedic Sarmad Ibrahim cut his teeth treating fellow Shi'ite Muslim militiamen in the war against Islamic State. Now, he buries COVID-19 victims - an exhausting t