The Latest Breaking News from Iraq

The U.S. Treasury sanctioned Iraqi businessman Waleed al-Samarra'i and his companies for smuggling Iranian oil disguised as Iraqi crude, a $300M operation funding Tehran's regime.

A group of scientists has sequenced the genome of a man who was buried in Egypt around 4,500 years ago. The study offers rare insight into the genetic ancestry of early Egyptians and reveals links to both ancient north Africa and Mesopotamia, which includes modern day Iraq and parts of…

Turkey’s peace process is advancing. In August 2025, three months after the Kurdistan Workers’ Party – commonly known as the PKK – announced its formal disbandment, a Turkish parliamentary committee overseeing reforms as part of the process met. It followed a symbolic disarmament ceremony in northern Iraq, during which Kurdish…

Arjun Malaviya set off from his home in California on his 17th birthday with the aim of ‘seeing the world alone, before turning 20.’ He spoke to US Travel Editor Ted Thornhill about his epic odyssey and how his time in Afghanistan yielded ‘the most surprisingly positive experiences’

The so-called Islamic State group detonated explosives at the 12th-century Mosul landmark in 2017.

Iraq's prime minister has presided over the reopening of the historic al-Nuri Grand Mosque and its leaning minaret in Mosul's Old City

COMMENT: Those who’ve never forgiven Tony Blair for the Iraq war were horrified to discover the US president has sought his counsel on Gaza’s future. Enough of such childish spite, says Sean O'Grady – the former PM is an ideally qualified adviser...

Have you ever done a DNA test before, and if so, who are your ancestors?

The west faced no reckoning for the death and destruction it wreaked in Iraq. That made the war crimes we’re now witnessing inevitable, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

Like his father, Iraqi buffalo herder Watheq Abbas grazes his animals in Iraq's southern wetlands, but with persistent drought shrinking marshland where they feed and decimating the herd, his millennia-old way of life is threatened.

Written accounts tell the story of the Zanj rebellion – a slave revolt that took place in the late 9th century in southern Iraq. Some of the rebels were enslaved Africans working in various sectors of the local economy.