Iraq

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi landed in Tehran on Tuesday in his first visit overseas he took power, Iranian state television reported. PM Kadhimi, who was greeted by officials at Mehrabad airport in Tehran, is supposed...

Three Katyusha rockets landed Sunday near the U.S. embassy at the heavily fortified Green Zone in central the Iraqi capital Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said. The attack took place in the afternoon when the three...

Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said on Sunday that the United States would be expelled from Iraq and Syria and that Washington’s allies were now “hatefully rejecting” the country, reports BSS. “The United States cannot...

The Bangladesh embassy in Iraq has decided to remain open 24 hours in seven days to provide assistance to Bangladesh expatriates residing in the Middle Eastern nation as tension escalating between Tehran and Washington DC. The...

Pro-Iran demonstrators left the besieged US embassy in Baghdad on Wednesday after the Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary force ordered them to withdraw a day after their dramatic incursion. Thousands of Iraqi supporters of the largely Iranian-trained Hashed...

Iraqi security forces fired tear gas to force protesters away from Baghdad’s Green Zone Saturday ahead of a planned parliament session, AFP correspondents said, a day after 42 demonstrators were killed. In the capital and across...

Police used tear gas, water cannon and live fire to disperse demonstrators in Baghdad on Tuesday, wounding several people as thousands of Iraqis rallied in protest against unemployment, government corruption and poor services. Police initially opened...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency and Qatar Charity (QC) have signed today three agreements worth USD 4 million, in support of UNHCR operations in Iraq, Bangladesh and Yemen. These agreements were signed at QC’s headquarters in...

Tens of thousands of Iranians marking the annual “Quds (Jerusalem) Day” in the Islamic Republic on Friday condemned a planned Middle East peace plan that U.S. President Donald Trump has touted as the “deal of the...

Iraq’s premier Monday marked a year since his country announced victory against the Islamic State group by pledging to root out corruption and ensure hundreds of thousands of displaced return home. One year since his predecessor...