Pandemic pushes some Iraqis, broken by conflict, into poverty
When shops and homes shutter at curfew, some Iraqis in this Baghdad district say it reminds them of past traumas that destroyed lives and livelihoods: sectarian death squads, foreign invasion, ...
Iraqi farmers fighting to save cattle from drought
Iraqi farmer Sayyed Sattar knows he will soon have to let some of his buffalo go as he surveys the herd bathing in a dwindling pond close to the holy ...
Iraqi Shia cleric Sadr visits UAE after Saudi Arabia
Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has flown to the United Arab Emirates on a charter flight sent from Abu Dhabi, just two weeks after visiting Saudi Arabia in a string of ...
Hashid al-Shabi forces not to participate in Tel Afar releasing operation: commander
A commander of the Iraqi forces of Hashid Shaabi stated that the forces would not participate in the upcoming operation to liberate the Iraqi northern city of Tel Afar due ...
Saudi crown prince calls for Iraqi mediation with Tehran: minister
Iraqi Interior Minister Qasim al-Araji said on Sunday that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has officially asked him to mediate between Tehran and Riyadh. “Mohammed bin Salman officially conveyed ...
Haider al-Abadi rejects call to dissolve Hashid al-Shaabi
Iraqi PM Haider al-Abadi on Saturday rejected a call by Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to dissolve the Hashd al-Shaabi militia. Speaking to supporters on Friday, al-Sadr called for dissolving the ...
Barzani rejects Arab League call to ‘reconsider’ referendum
Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barzani has declined a request from the head of the Arab League to reconsider the independence referendum of Kurdistan Region, saying that Iraq is moving towards ...
Iraqi Kurds must protect themselves as a state: Nechirvan Barzani
In a speech marking the third anniversary of the IS invasion of Shingal and the murder and abduction of thousands of Yezidis, the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) Prime Minister Nechirvan ...
New Party to Fulfil Needs of Iraqi Younger Generation: Ammar al-Hakim
The former head of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) says he has established the new political party called the National Wisdom Movement with the aim of keeping pace ...




