Iraq

Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul Mahdi received on Saturday 1,300 ancient artifacts that had been smuggled into Jordan. “Such ancient pieces do not belong to Iraq alone, but they belong to humanity as a whole… their retrieval is of great importance to Iraq and Jordan,” Abdul Mahdi said The handover …

Foreign Minister Mohammed Ali al-Hakim said on Thursday that Iraq’s relations with Russia and Iran are not in conflict but are a matter of strength, pointing out that Russia played a major role in supporting Iraq during the liberation process. “The minister of Foreign Ministry Mohammed Ali al-Hakim met today …

Spain’s King Felipe VI arrived in Iraq on Wednesday in the first visit there by a Spanish monarch in four decades, The king, whose country is part of an international coalition battling ISIS, visited Spanish special forces and was set to hold talks later in the day with President Barham …

Three Iraqi people were killed and 11 others wounded when two explosive charges went off early morning Sunday in the central province of Salahuddin, the Ministry of Health announced. “The death toll from the two bomb blasts in al-Shirqat district in Salahuddin rose to three, while 11 others were wounded,” …

  The Iraqi Foreign Ministry says it will summon the Turkish ambassador to Baghdad over the death of an Iraqi Kurd by Turkish fire in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region. On Saturday, a crowd attacked a Turkish military camp in the Shiladzeh area of Iraqi Kurdistan’s Duhok Province to apparently protest …

Lamia Al-Gailani Werr, who as one of Iraq’s first female archaeologists helped her country’s national museum recover from the looting of its antiquities at the outset of the Iraq war, died on Jan. 18 in Amman, Jordan. She was 80. Her daughter Noorah Al-Gailani said the cause was a stroke. …

The United States is reportedly planning to keep some of its forces in a military base in southeastern Syria despite a total withdrawal ordered by US President Donald Trump. Informed sources told Washington-based Foreign Policy magazine on Friday that given the strategic importance of the al-Tanf garrison, situated in Syria’s …

A mob of angry civilians has attacked a Turkish military camp near the Iraqi city of Dohuk, burning equipment, and vehicles. The incident comes in response to the deaths of civilians during Turkish airstrikes, local media reports. The incident occurred in northern Iraq on Saturday, when a large mob of …

Iraq’s pro-government Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), known in Arabic as Hashd al-Sha’abi, have advised Israel against “playing with fire” after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo hinted that Tel Aviv may attack the anti-terror volunteer fighters. Moein al-Kazemi, a Hashd commander, said on Sunday that the force was ready to …

Three Islamic State terrorists were killed Saturday in an airstrike on a terrorist hotbed in Diyala, a well-placed provincial official said. Sadeq al-Husseini, the head of the Security Committee in Diyala Provincial Council, said that Iraqi warplanes targeted a hotbed of Islamic State in al-Waqf basin, northeast of Baquba, leaving …