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The latest entry in Ubisoft's stealth action series is a return to form, but rather than a welcome home-coming it only reveals how far the franchise has fallen.

The game brings to life a city that was the intellectual and artistic heart of the mighty Abbasid empire.

Gamers the world over will be familiar with the incredibly detailed historic cityscapes the Assassin’s Creed franchise has produced so far. Following earlier forays into ancient Damascus and Athens, the forthcoming instalment, Mirage, takes players into ninth-century Baghdad, the capital of the Abbasid caliphate.

A massive fire has turned a wedding into a tragedy, and authorities say the death toll may still rise.

On the sidelines of the 78th UN General Assembly in New York, Iraqi Foreign Minister and deputy PM Fuad Hussein spoke to FRANCE 24's Marc Perelman about the recent deadly drone attack in Iraqi Kurdistan, a security agreement with Iran, the recent US-Iran prisoner swap deal, as well as relations…

In 'Assassin's Creed Mirage,' stealth and parkour replace open-world RPG bloat in a return to the franchise's roots. But flaws of the past also return.

Tehran and Baghdad begin construction of rail link after decades of planning, but challenges remain.

Iraqi medical officials say 18 people have been killed after a bus carrying pilgrims to the Iraqi city of Karbala overturned north of Baghdad

The men confessed to the murder, saying they kidnapped the American for ransom but did not mean to kill him.

Over the past few months, temperatures in Iraq have reached 50 degrees Celsius and water levels in the country’s rivers are dropping fast. Despite having two big rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates, Iraq suffers from desertification and there are concerns about the water disappearing - mainly from Iranian and Turkish…

Baghdad calls on people with information about burial sites of missing persons from the Gulf War to come forward.