At least nine people were killed and many wounded when a gas tanker blew up in Baghdad on Saturday night in what is being termed as an accident. The explosion was so powerful that it could be heard across much of Iraq's capital. The tanker was in a car park...

Iraqi firebrand cleric Moqtada Sadr's movement announced its refusal to join a new government being formed by prime minister-designate Mohammad Shia al-Sudani.

Brandishing banners and Iraqi flags, the non-partisan protesters streamed into west Baghdad's al-Nusoor square, demanding a complete political overhaul. Demonstrators shouted the Arab Spring slogan: "The people want the fall of the regime."

For nearly a year, Iraq has struggled to break a political deadlock that has left the country without a new government, prime minister or president, due to disagreement between factions over forming a coalition. Now with Sadr calling for parliament to be dissolved, it will only deepen the uncertainty.

Iraq plans to establish free-trade zones adjacent to Baghdad and Najaf airports and another one near the Iraqi-Jordanian border, which is part of a joint economic city and one of the most important future projects. The country is also working to open free-trade zones near the Iraq-Saudi Arabia border.

Sadr, a longtime political and religious force in the oil-rich but war-scarred country, has for months been in a political standoff with a rival Shiite alliance backed by Iran. Worshippers converged on a vast square inside the normally secure Green Zone, home to government and diplomatic buildings, including the parliament...

On Monday afternoon, large numbers of security forces set up roadblocks in a bid to contain the counter-protests.

The federal government in Baghdad and the autonomous Kurdish region pledged Saturday to "increase dialogue" to ease a simmering oil dispute that has been playing out in the courts in recent months.

Abandoned sandals and upturned chairs attest to the panic that gripped this peaceful rest spot in Iraq's Kurdish mountains when deadly shelling slammed into it this week. Turkey denies that its forces were responsible for the artillery fire that killed nine people and wounded 23 on Wednesday.

Nine civilians including children were killed in a park in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region Wednesday by artillery fire that Baghdad blamed on neighbouring Turkey, a country engaged in a cross-border offensive. In an unusually strong rebuke, Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi warned Turkey that Baghdad reserves the "right to retaliate", calling...

The long-simmering dispute came to a head in February when the federal supreme court ordered Kurdistan to hand over oil extracted from its territories to the federal authorities. Authorities in the Kurdistan capital Arbil have cried foul, accusing Baghdad of heaping "unjust pressure" on them.

Iraq's oil wealth is rekindling tensions between federal authorities and the autonomous Kurdish region, in a row that could compromise the lifeline industry and keep investors away, analysts say.

A cholera outbreak in Iraq claimed its first victim Tuesday, with 17 new cases recorded in the country within 24 hours, a health ministry spokesperson said.

Five years ago, Iraqi taxi driver Osama Mohammed would make about six trips a day across Baghdad. Today, traffic is so bad he feels lucky to do three.

Two billion dollars are allocated in the budget for Baghdad Metro project, Iraq’s Minister of Transport Nasser Hussein Al-Shibli said on Saturday. "The project was included in the budget for the year 2022, and an amount of two billion dollars was allocated by the Ministry of Finance and the ministry...

Iraq closed public buildings and temporarily shut airports Monday as another sandstorm -- the ninth since mid-April -- hit the country, authorities said. The capital Baghdad was enveloped in a giant dust cloud that left usually traffic-choked streets largely deserted, an AFP correspondent said. Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi ordered all...

Iraq's Lake Hamrin, a once-vast reservoir northeast of Baghdad that is the sole source of water for irrigation across Diyala province, has nearly dried out, a senior official said Friday. Successive years of low rainfall and a sharp reduction in the flow of water down the Sirwan River from neighbouring...

On Monday a thick cloud of dust enveloped the capital Baghdad in an orange glow and blanketed many other cities.

More than 1,000 Iraqis were rushed to hospital with respiratory ailments on Thursday due to a sandstorm, the seventh to hit the country in the past month, state media said.

Six rockets landed Sunday in northern Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, Kurdish counter-terrorism forces said, with "minor damage" reported at a key oil refinery, according to a separate security source. "Six rockets fell near the Zab river in the Khabat district," Kurdish counter-terrorism forces said in a statement, without specifying the target...

Baghdad's infrastructure was laid to waste by a 13-year international embargo against the regime of late dictator Saddam Hussein.

Regional rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia have resumed key talks in the Iraqi capital Baghdad after negotiations were suspended last month, a senior Iraqi official said Saturday. "Talks resumed last Thursday in Baghdad," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity, and without giving further details.

Iraq’s charge d’affaires was called in a day after officials in Baghdad denied Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s claim that they backed the offensive.

The Turkish leader’s comments came a day after Iraq summoned Turkey’s ambassador to Baghdad to lodge a formal protest against Erdogan’s latest military campaign.

Iraq was hit Wednesday by its third heavy dust storm in two weeks, temporarily grounding flights at Baghdad and Najaf airports, as the weather phenomenon grows increasingly frequent. The air in Baghdad was thick with a heavy sheet of grey and orange dust, while the state news agency INA cited...

Iraq on Tuesday summoned Turkey's ambassador to Baghdad in protest against the new Turkish offensive targeting rebels in the north's autonomous Kurdistan region.

The 200 volunteers at work in Baghdad remove garbage from a stretch of one of the mighty rivers that gave birth to the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

Lebanon is grappling with an unprecedented financial crisis that the World Bank says is of a scale usually associated with war.

Retirees and YouTubers, on package tours or lugging backpacks, are braving Iraq's still basic tourist infrastructure to visit ancient sites that rival those of Egypt, Syria and Jordan.

In Ottoman-ruled Baghdad, Jews made up 40 percent of city inhabitants. By the time of Israel's creation in 1948 they numbered 150,000.

Iran's foreign ministry on Saturday condemned a rocket attack against Baghdad airport that took place the previous day as an act that seeks to "destabilize" Iraq.

Six rockets were fired Friday at the Iraqi capital's airport, causing damage but no casualties, security sources said, the latest in a string of attacks the US blames on Iran-linked militias. The rockets hit Baghdad International Airport's runways or parking areas, a source at the interior ministry said, noting that...

Naseer Shamma, an icon of the Arabic oud, has returned home to help rekindle the flame of Iraqi music, snuffed out by decades of conflict.

Baghdad has repatriated almost 4,000 of its citizens stuck on the Belarus borders with European Union members Poland, Lithuania and Latvia in recent weeks, Iraq's foreign minister said Sunday. Since November 18, the Iraqi government has organized "10 flights from Baghdad to Belarus" to repatriate its citizens, Fuad Hussein told...

An explosion from a hand grenade hit the headquarters of Iraqi parliament speaker Mohammed Halbousi’s Taqaddum party in Baghdad early on Friday wounding two guards, police sources said.

According to officials of the US-led coalition fighting against the Islamic State group, two fixed-wing drones rigged with explosives were destroyed by defensive capabilities at the Iraqi Al-Asad Air Base.

On Sunday evening, hundreds of supporters of Hashed al-Shaabi, an Iran-aligned group, gathered at the site, to pay tribute to the slain men.

Colorful fireworks lit up the sky during the festival organized by Baghdad municipality to inaugurate the renovated Al-Mutanabbi Street, which has long drawn bibliophiles.

Saudi Arabia has granted visas to Iranian diplomats as part of a routine procedure for representatives of a member state in OIC.

Louai al-Yasseri resigned from his leadership in Najaf, in central Iraq, a day after the governor of Nasiriyah province in the south quit following the violent suppression of protesters

Iran's ambassador flew out of the rebel-held Yemeni capital to receive Covid treatment Saturday in a rare exemption from an air blockade enforced by a Saudi-led coalition, Saudi and Iranian officials said. "The ambassador left on an Iraqi aircraft and is probably now in Baghdad," a senior Saudi official familiar...

Youth in Iraq get job through “wasta,” the system of “who you know” that has become Iraq’s pervasive scourge.

The last edition of the festival was held in 2002, the year before the US-led invasion that toppled the veteran dictator Saddam Hussein.

The attack, the first to target the Green Zone since July 29, comes as authorities conduct a recount of votes cast in an Oct.10 parliamentary poll.

Lost in rocky hills and surrounded by humble palm groves, Al-Sahl is around 250 kilometres (155 miles) northwest of the capital Baghdad.

The Conquest (Fatah) Alliance, the political arm of the multi-party Hashed, won around 15 of 329 seats.

Halbussi, 40, travels frequently about the region, trading his elegant suits for jeans during field visits to shepherd the projects in Anbar province.

The discussions, hosted by Iraq as it seeks to act as a regional mediator, were launched under Iran's former, moderate president Hassan Rouhani, who was replaced in August by Raisi.

The first initiative of its kind in Iraq, where Israel's sworn enemy Iran has a very strong influence, the conference took place on Friday and was organised by the New York-based Center for Peace Communications (CPC). More than 300 Iraqis, including tribal leaders, attended a conference in autonomous Kurdistan.

Amir-Abdollahian attended a summit in Baghdad on Saturday alongside regional leaders and Macron, the only leader from outside the region.