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UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee voted on Friday to list the sprawling Mesopotamian metropolis of Babylon as a World Heritage Site after three decades of efforts by Iraq. Iraq had been trying since 1983 to have the site — a massive 10-square-kilometer complex of which just 18 percent has been excavated …

Iraq and Oman signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate in the oil and gas sector, including the possibility of building a shared refinery in Oman for processing imported Iraqi crude, the Iraqi oil ministry said in a statement on Thursday. Iraq will aim to export crude to Oman, according …

Firefighters have successfully put out a fire at a strategic oil pipeline in northern Iraq that links oil-rich Kirkuk to the Turkish port of Ceyhan, a security source said. The pipeline is currently not operational, the source said. The fire started after six improvised explosive devices went off in succession …

Hundreds of Iraqi people have stormed the Bahrain embassy in the capital city of Baghdad to protest Manama’s decision to host a key summit where the US showcased its so-called deal of the century to end Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Videos showed hundreds of people with Palestinian flags marching outside the Bahraini …

Hundreds of US defense contractor personnel will evacuate Balad Air Base in Iraq due to “potential security threats,” Iraqi military sources have told the media. Nearly 400 employees of Lockheed Martin and Sallyport Global stationed at the base north of Baghdad are due to leave the country in a two-stage …

Washington has granted Iraq another 90-day waiver to allow it to keep importing gas and electricity from neighboring Iran, which is under tough US sanctions, two Iraqi government sources say. Speaking on condition of anonymity, one of the sources said on Saturday that the extension came following “long discussions” with …

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 …

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 …

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’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 …

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 …

Iraq will host senior officials from neighboring countries including regional arch-rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran on Saturday, as it carves out a role as a mediator in the deeply divided region. The one-day summit will bring together parliament heads from Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, and Kuwait, a parliamentary spokesman …

Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi received at his residence at the King Saud Palace in Riyadh the Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Dr. Abdul Latif Al-Zayani. Abdul-Mahdi discussed the development of relations between Iraq and the GCC countries and issues of mutual interest and enhancing opportunities for security, …

Engineers working at the site of Mosul Dam in northwest Iraq say the structure is not at risk of collapse despite recent heavy rain filling its reservoir to a 30-year high. Located 50 km north of the war-torn city of Mosul in Nineveh province, the dam straddles the Tigris River. …

Iraq has begun trial proceedings for nearly 900 Iraqi members of the Islamic State group caught fleeing many territories in neighboring Syria, a judicial source said on Sunday. They were handed over to Iraqi authorities by the Syrian Democratic Forces, which ousted IS from swathes of eastern Syria including territory …

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. …