Iraq's Finance minister said during a Television interview, "Iraq will have a surplus of the difference in selling oil, up to 20 billion dollars," stressing that "in light of the current financial abundance, it is unlikely to resort to borrowing."

The Central Bank of Iraq has announced an increase in its capital to 5 trillion dinars ($3.42 billion) Iraqi media reports said recently that the bank decided to its capital from 3 trillion dinars to 5 trillion dinars. "This increase comes to enhance the results of its balanced policies with...

Iraqi Foreign Minister said his country is determined to repatriate all the families stuck in the Syrian camp after "security checks" are completed.

The swamps, nestled between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, are one of the world's largest inland deltas and were declared in 2016 a UNESCO World Heritage site.

The world's tallest building disappeared behind a grey layer of dust on Wednesday as sandstorms that have swept the Middle East hit the United Arab Emirates, prompting weather and traffic warnings. The 828-metre (2,716 ft, 6ins) Burj Khalifa, which towers over Dubai and is usually visible across the busy financial...

The UN envoy to Iraq on Tuesday urged Iraqi politicians to end a deadlock which has kept parliament from forming a new government for more than seven months, warning that the crisis could spark civil unrest. "The streets are about to boil over in Iraq," Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert told reporters.

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

Iran is considering the possibility of exporting gas to Europe, an oil ministry official said Sunday against the backdrop of soaring energy prices due to Russia's war in Ukraine. "Iran is studying this subject but we have not reached a conclusion yet," deputy oil minister Majid Chegeni was quoted as...

Iraq has agreed to pay $1.6 billion in debt to Iran by June 1 to secure a steady gas supply for power generation through the summer, its electricity minister said.

Iraq will have to import wheat this year as it may only grow 2.5-3 million tons of wheat, "not enough for a whole year for the Iraqis," Agriculture ministry spokesman said.

In Iraq, "maku" means "nothing", and father-of-five Issa al-Zamzoum says "maku" a lot: no electricity, no home, no rebuilding and no job. Eight years after heavy fighting between Islamic State jihadists and the army, the reconstruction of his war-ravaged village in northern Iraq is at a standstill.

The mission underlined, in a statement on Monday, the importance of overcoming the political stalemate for the benefit of all Iraqis.

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...

Iraq on Sunday was yet again covered in a thick sheet of orange as it suffered the latest in a series of dust storms that have become increasingly common.

Iraqi security forces said Saturday they had broken up a drug trafficking ring and seized more than six million pills of the amphetamine-type stimulant captagon, making several arrests. Iraq's northwestern neighbor Syria is the Middle East's main captagon producer, and its southern neighbor Saudi Arabia the main consumer. Iraqi forces...

An end to years of tension between regional rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia is near, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi said in an interview published on Saturday. Iraq, a neighbor to both countries, has hosted five rounds of talks over the past year aimed at restoring ties between Saudi Arabia...

With joyous ululations, thousands of Iraqis have celebrated for the first time the arrival of the "Holy Fire" brought from Christianity's holiest site in Jerusalem to mark Orthodox Easter.

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.

Oil-rich Iraq, despite its mighty Tigris and Euphrates rivers, is classified as one of the world's five countries most vulnerable to climate change and desertification.

Eight people have been sentenced to death in Iraq, half of them over a 2020 car bombing in the city of Ramadi, the judiciary said on Thursday. The men who carried out the September 2020 attack that wounded six people had been "working with the terrorist gangs" of the Islamic...

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.

Envisioned as a lush fortress against worsening desertification and sand storms, the "green belt" of Iraq's Karbala stands as a wilted failure. Sixteen years after its inception, only a fraction of the 76-kilometre (47-mile) crescent-shaped strip of greenery has materialized, though the years proved a deep need for protection against...

Turkey on Monday said it has launched a new air and ground offensive against outlawed Kurdish militants in northern Iraq involving special forces and combat drones. The defense ministry said the operation was meant to thwart a large-scale attack against Turkey by the PKK.

Most patients come from neighboring countries including Iraq and Afghanistan, Head of the tourism office at Iran’s Ministry of Health Mohammad Reza Tarjoman said.

Iran president accused Iraq's Kurdistan region of "negligence", adding that Iran is closely monitoring the movements of Israel.

Motorists in Iraq formed long queues for fuel Thursday after some owners of filling stations shut off their pumps to protest government policies on fuel distribution and pricing. Some government-run fuel stations have been ordered to operate around the clock to meet demand, the official news agency INA reported.

Syria has over the past few months repeatedly accused the US of using its forces to steal oil from its territories. Operation Inherent Resolve, the US military's operational name for the international military intervention against the Islamic State group, has refuted those claims.

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.

Iraq is particularly vulnerable to climate change, having already witnessed record low rainfall and high temperatures in recent years.

The Al-Hol camp for displaced people in Syria is a jihadist threat and should be dismantled, a senior Iraqi security official said on Saturday. Al-Hol, in the Kurdish-controlled northeast, is Syria's largest camp for displaced people. It houses about 56,000 including displaced Syrians and Iraqi refugees.

It comes less than a month after Iran's Revolutionary Guards claimed an assault on Arbil that it said targeted an Israeli ‘strategic center’.

The growth was driven by medical supplies, dermatology, knitting sector.

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

Traditionally, many Muslim-majority countries have followed dates set by Saudi religious authorities, but in recent years many have used their own astronomic calculations.

Shareholders sanctioned it for alleged payments to terror groups.

Iraq is building a concrete wall along part of its border with Syria to stop Islamic State group jihadists from infiltrating, an Iraqi military source said Sunday. In the "first stage" of construction, a wall around "a dozen kilometers (seven miles) long and 3.5 meters (11 feet) high was built...

Jordan imports crude from Iraq under an MoU that was signed by the two governments on January 28 last year.

Iraqi lawmakers failed again on Saturday to elect a new president for the country due to a lack of quorum in parliament, keeping the country mired in political paralysis.

Analysts have said that "most" of the parties to Friday's meeting in Jordan are "historic allies and friends of Washington but are linked to Moscow."

Four of the six GCC members feature within the top 50 of the World Happiness Report, and are atop the rankings among the Arab countries.

Iraqi authorities said Sunday that they had exhumed the remains of 85 Islamic State group fighters and their relatives from a mass grave in the northern city of Mosul. The remains of 35 people killed between 2016 and 2017 were dug up on Saturday while 50 were found on Sunday...

A woman burned alive by her husband, others shot dead by a father or a teenage brother -- bloody violence against women has spiked in northern Iraq's Kurdish region.

Iran warned that it won't tolerate "threats" coming from Iraq, a day after firing ballistic missiles at what it said was an Israeli site in the neighboring country. The attack came nearly a week after two officers of Iran's Revolutionary Guards were killed in Syria in a strike attributed to...

Iranian state media reported Sunday that no date has yet been set for further dialogue between Tehran and Riyadh, after other media reports said talks have been "temporarily suspended". Iran and the kingdom of Saudi Arabia support rival sides in several conflict zones across the region, including in Yemen, where...

Iran claimed responsibility for a missile strike Sunday on the northern Iraqi city of Arbil, saying it targeted an Israeli "strategic center". Sunday's assault comes nearly a week after the Guards vowed to avenge the death of two of their officers killed in a rocket attack in Syria they blamed...

However, Gulf countries have an interest in acting in coordination — both within OPEC, and with Russia-led allies in the OPEC+ group — to avoid a price war and keep control over the market.

Iraq's National Museum reopened Monday to visitors after a three-year closure due to the Covid-19 pandemic and political unrest.

In the oilfields of southern Iraq, billions of cubic feet of gas literally go up in smoke, burnt off on flare stacks for want of the infrastructure to capture and process it.

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.