Iraq

As if life was not bad enough for Adnan Kadhim – he lives in a slum where municipal authorities dump Baghdad’s rubbish – now someone is setting the waste on fire, making his children sick. As the United Nations marks World Environment Day on Wednesday, Iraq is suffering a pollution …

More than a dozen families from the Izadi minority group have repatriated to Iraq’s northern province of Nineveh, after four years of displacement caused by the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group’s occupation of their homeland and brutal atrocities committed against them. The media department of the Iraqi security forces said in …

Iraq’s Oil Minister Thamer Ghadhban told Reuters his country supported a rollover of a current deal between OPEC and its allies to curb oil output, adding that more serious measures should be taken in light of recent market developments. Ghadhban said the current deal to reduce output by 1.2 million …

An Iraqi court has sentenced to death the last two French nationals on trial for joining the terrorist Daesh group and involvement in acts of terror. The men, identified as Bilel Kabaoui, 32, and Mourad Delhomme, 41, were convicted of joining Daesh and carrying out criminal operations by a criminal …

Iraq lifted a state of emergency which was declared at the Majnoon oil field in the south of the country because of floods, Oil Minister Thamer Ghadhban said on Saturday. The floods did not impact production at the field, which runs at 240,000 barrels per day, he said in a …

Iraq’s president told an emergency Arab summit in Saudi Arabia on Thursday that regional and international tensions with Iran could spark a war if not managed well and voiced hope that Iran’s security would not be targeted. President Barham Salih also called on neighbours and allies to support his country’s …

Regional lawmakers elected Nechirvan Barzani as president of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq, a spokesman for the regional parliament told Reuters on Tuesday. Barzani, who had been serving as regional prime minister, won 68 votes from the 84 lawmakers present. The regional legislature has 111 seats in total. He …

An Iraqi court has sentenced to death a fourth French citizen for his suspected membership in the Daesh terrorist group and committing crimes, a day after three others were also condemned to capital punishment over the same charge. Iraqi Judge Ahmed Mohammed on Monday sentenced Mustafa Mohammed Ibrahim, 37, to …

Iraq and Iran have stressed on cooperation between the two neighboring countries to prevent a war that could jeopardize stability in the Middle East region. The common stance was reiterated during a Saturday meeting between Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Baghdad. The …

An Iraqi court sentenced three French men to death on Sunday after finding them guilty of joining Islamic State, two court officials told Reuters. The ruling can be appealed. “They were sentenced to execution after it was proven that they were members of the terrorist Islamic State organization,” said one …

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif arrived in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on an official visit. Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammad Ali al-Hakim and a number of Iraqi officials are scheduled to meet Zarif to discuss developments in the region and relations between the two countries.

The US envoy to Baghdad says Washington has exempted Baghdad from some of its unilateral anti-Iran sanctions, allowing Iraq to continue importing energy from Iran. US charged affaires Joey Hood told reporters on Wednesday Baghdad can now buy energy from Iran,   The waiver will allow Iraq to continue buying gas …

Energy company Exxon Mobil’s evacuation of its foreign staff from a major Iraqi oil field is “unacceptable and unjustified,” Iraqi Oil Minister Thamir Ghadhban said on Sunday. On Saturday, the US-based firm evacuated 50 US employees from Iraq and flew them to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates amid escalating …

A team of United Nations investigators has unearthed 12 mass graves in Iraq during a probe into the atrocities committed by the Daesh terrorist group in Iraq. The finding was announced in a report prepared by the UN team and sent to the United Nations Security Council, AFP reported on …

Iraq’s Kata’ib Hezbollah, a major pro-government resistance group, says a rocket attack on Baghdad’s Green Zone Sunday night is “unacceptable” and against the country’s national interests. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack which came in the wake of back-to-back sudden decisions taken by the US recently, including its …

Iraq’s national carrier is to resume flights to the capital of neighboring Syria for the first time since the war there erupted in 2011, a spokesman said Thursday. Iraqi Airways will operate a weekly service from Baghdad to Damascus starting Saturday, spokesman Layth al-Rubaie said. Rubaie said the resumption of …

At least four people have been killed in Iraq’s holy city of Najaf during an anti-corruption protest called by a political movement led by Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Reports said that Wednesday’s demonstration turned violent after security guards outside the al-Bashir shopping mall, owned by a former local official, opened …

Germany is keeping the number of staff at its embassy and consulate in Iraq constant for now, the Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday after Washington ordered the departure of non-emergency government employees from Iraq. Washington took that step after repeated U.S. expressions of concern about threats from Iranian-backed forces. A …

The Iraqi Ambassador to Moscow, Haidar Mansour Hady, announced that the Iraqi government decided to purchase the Russian S-400 missile system. Hady said in a press statement that the Iraqi government has made a decision to purchase Russia’s S-400 missiles defense systems Earlier this month, former Head of the Security …

The US State Department has ordered the departure of non-emergency government employees from Iraq, following Washington’s repeated expressions of concern about so-called threats. The State Department ordered the pullout of the employees from both the US Embassy in Baghdad and its consulate in Erbil, the embassy said in a statement …