The Latest Breaking News from Iraq

INDEPENDENT ARABIA: Across the southern province of Maysan, people are storing water in discarded oil field containers sold to them as ‘safe’. Aya Mansour investigates a public health crisis in the heart of the Iraqi marshlands

Warm, funny and heartbreaking, The President’s Cake tells the story of a brutal ruler and a girl forced to make him a present in a time of sanctions-induced hardship. Its Iraqi director Hasan Hadi remembers his own fearful childhood

After decades of conflicts and chaos, Iraq has recently regained a sense of stability but it is struggling with weak economic growth and cannot risk punitive measures by the US.

Many Kurdish people will be feeling betrayed by the US after the Syrian army, backed by the US and armed by Turkey, launched an offensive against the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in early January. The SDF has long been hailed as the west’s most effective partner against the Islamic…

The Prime Minister worked on a human rights claim that paved the way for fresh inquiries into deaths in Iraq, it has been reported.

Renewed fighting in Syria in recent weeks between government-aligned forces and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) isn’t just a local issue. It has serious implications for the stability of the rest of the Middle East.

US President Donald Trump warned that the U.S. would cease all support for Iraq if ex-prime minister Nouri al-Maliki returns to power. Trump cited Maliki's previous tenure, which he claims led to poverty and chaos, as a reason for this stance. This intervention follows similar concerns raised by Secretary of…

The first refugee to lead the U_N_ refugee agency tells The Associated Press that the world faces a “very difficult moment in history.”

A ziggurat (also spelled ziqqurat) was a raised platform with four sloping sides that looked like a tiered pyramid.