The Latest Breaking News from Iraq

Ancient Mesopotamian stone tablets show extraordinary detail and reach of government in cradle of world civilisations

As defense secretary shifts focus to culture war, some fear he is neglecting ‘future of warfare’ for US military

Public sector workers in Iraqi Kurdistan, a semi-autonomous region of northern Iraq, have endured irregular and delayed salary payments for more than a decade. Many of these people are owed staggering amounts of money – US$50,000 (£38,700) on average, and as much as US$120,000 for higher-level employees.

Agreement with US-backed group puts all border crossings with Iraq and Turkey, airports and oil fields in northeast Syria under new regime’s control

Iraq faces worsening power shortages after the US cuts waivers tied to Iranian gas and electricity imports.

Syria’s top diplomat and his counterparts from neighboring countries have called for the lifting of Western-led sanctions and post-war reconciliation

Washington has declined to renew a sanctions waiver that allowed Iraq to buy electricity from neighbouring Iran, a spokesperson for the American embassy in Baghdad said on Sunday.

The former NSC official who sparked Trump’s first impeachment says successive administrations have bought into Moscow’s vision of itself

Researchers have identified an extensive Mesopotamian canal network that supplied ancient farms in the Eridu region with water from the Euphrates river before the first millennium B.C.