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.

The Federation of Arab News Agencies (FANA) has stressed on the significance of the Palestinian cause and flayed the attempts of some agencies to block the information related to the issue. FANA approved a memo on dealing with global platforms on the conclusion of its 48th General Assembly on Wednesday,...

Dana Gas and its partner Crescent Petroleum have reported record sales gas production from their operations in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI), reaching 452 million standard cubic feet per day (MMscf/d) at the end of 2021. The production milestone is the culmination of numerous process improvements at the Khor...

The modern history of Iraq -- with its succession of conflicts, especially since the 2003 US-led invasion and its bloody aftermath -- has kept foreign researchers at bay.

Sunday saw the swearing-in of 329 members of the unicameral parliament and the re-election of influential Sunni MP Mohammed al-Halbussi as speaker.

Gunmen in Iraq on Saturday shot and wounded two protesters who disrupted an anniversary commemoration of the death of Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani, a security source said.

The emission reduction is expected to take place through upcoming contracts in solar energy field.

The possible reason for the strikes is that Iranian militias may have been planning an attack on US forces to coincide with the two-year anniversary of the US assassination of Qassem Soleimani.

The events of the play stretch from the dawn of time to more recent events including Washington's killing of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani.

None of the three attacks in less than 48 hours resulted in casualties but came as Iraq marked the second anniversary of the US assassination of Soleimani.

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.

Two major Israeli media outlets were hacked early Monday with a threatening message that appeared linked to the killing of a top Iranian general two years ago. The website of the English-language Jerusalem Post and the Twitter account of Hebrew-language Maariv were taken over with a picture of a fist...

The marriage of minors is rising in Iraq, with a government survey reports that for females under 18 it jumped to 25.5 percent last year, up from 21.7 percent in 2011.

The leopard which was given anesthetic before it was captured, is believed that fewer than 1,000 exist in the wild, with another 200 in captivity.

In a collaboration between the Mosul fine arts academy, a Belgian theatre company and UNESCO, 19 students are getting a chance to make their first short films.

Iraq's Ministry of Planning has said several positive economic indicators have risen during 2021 and several measures are being taken to activate the economy. Abdul Zahra Al-Hindawi, a spokesman for Iraq's Planning Ministry, said those who lost their jobs in 2020 returned to their jobs, which helped in the economic...

The ruling will allow parliament to meet and pave the way for the election of a president who will then appoint a prime minister tasked with forming a new government. The ratification follows a delay of more than two months since the October 10 legislative polls won by Shiite cleric...

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.

The economy of Iraq depends upon oil as it constitutes 45 percent of the GDP and affects about 80 percent of the growth of the economy, contributing to 93 percent of the government’s revenues.

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

The head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, has said the UN will continue supporting Iraq for development and prosperity. Iraqi media reports said that Hennis-Plasschaert "extended our best wishes to the Iraqi people on the occasion of the New Year". She said, "The year...

Minister of Transport Jassim bin Saif Al Sulaiti, and Minister of Transport of the Republic of Iraq Nasser Hussein Bandar Al Shibli, visited Doha Metro project where they were briefed on the operations of the metro stations, and also about the components of the project from officials at the Qatar...

The Iraqi government is trying to restore ancient artifacts from the Mosul museum.

School constructions across Iraq will take two years and three phases.

Poor or inadequate surveillance footage often contributed to deadly targeting failures.

The feat is said to have been achieved due to efforts from Iraq’s embassy in Moscow and ‘in coordination’ with Belarus.

The Iraqi fiscal year ends on December 31, 2021, and the effective financial management law begins from the first day of January 2022.

The United Nations says about one-third of Iraq's population lives in poverty, despite the country's oil wealth. The effects of low rainfall have been exacerbated as the levels of the country's two main rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates, drop because of upstream dams in neighboring Iran and Turkey.

The remaining coalition forces in Iraq will be present at the invitation of the government only to provide advice, assistance and empowering the Iraqi security forces.

A case filed by the Hashed al-Shaabi former paramilitary alliance contesting its defeat in Iraq's October 10 parliamentary election opened in a federal court on Monday.

Iran's Vice President for parliamentary affairs, Mohammad Hosseini said his country stood by Syrian people and government to the best of its ability to help preserve its territorial integrity.

The oil production in Majnoon Oil field will be increased to 450,000 barrels per day, said the Oil Minister of Iraq, Ihsan Abdul Jabbar Ismail.

At least four civilians were killed and four others wounded in Tuesday's motorcycle bombing near a hospital in central Basra. The office, who was amongst the deceased, worked for the intelligence, and was investigating targeted killings of activists.

In the northern Iraqi hamlet of Hassan-Jalad, almost every family has a story to tell about a time when a child, nephew or brother was lost to wartime munitions. Located near Mosul, a former stronghold of the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group, the area is littered with unexploded ordnance, sometimes...

UAE has risen to the top spot on Bloomberg's Covid Resilience Ranking, dethroning Europe that has been dominating the top rungs of the Ranking for months. Bloomberg said the UAE has been one of the most consistent performers since the Ranking’s inception a year ago. Daily cases in the country...

A 3,500-year-old tablet featuring the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh has been returned to Iraq three decades after it was stolen and illegally imported to the US.

Iraqi fishermen live in constant fear of arrest by Iran or Kuwait for mistakenly straying across frontiers.

Twice a week, a small football pitch in Iraq offers the 25-member national squad of little people a chance to fulfill dreams and tackle prejudice.

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

Iraq's Shiite Muslim firebrand cleric Moqtada Sadr was Tuesday confirmed the biggest winner of last month's parliamentary election that had sparked charges of voter fraud from pro-Iranian factions. Sadr's movement won 73 out of the assembly's 329 seats, the election commission said.

Iraq’s general budget for 2022 will focus on implementing a set of investment projects in line with diversifying economy and achieving sustainability.

Governor of Central Bank of Iraq called on his Turkish counterpart, to "provide facilities to Iraqi banks in a way that facilitates the settlement of the trade balance between the two countries.”

Hundreds of Iraqis, most of them Kurds, returned home last week on a voluntary repatriation flight from Belarus.

AD Ports Group and Turkey’s Turkiye Varlik Fonu signed a strategic partnership agreement to collaborate on major investment opportunities for port development and operations besides coordinating efforts to examine other logistics-related investment projects within Turkey. Under the terms of the agreement, the two organizations will also collaborate in establishing a...

Iraq's crude oil export revenues reached $7 billion in October, according to the Iraqi Oil Marketing Company (Somo). Local media reports, which cited the Iraqi oil ministry's statement, said more than 96 million barrels of crude oil were exported in October. Of this, the quantity of crude oil exported from...

Construction of the arch began in AD 540 during the Persian Sassanid dynasty's long wars with the Byzantine Empire.

Syria is an important destination for Shiite pilgrims, and has continued to welcome visitors from Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon during the conflict. However, European tourists —a constant before fighting started in 2011 — have not been visiting for a decade.

Consumption of electrical energy is increasing by 10 percent annually in Iraq, which necessitates a robust distribution network, said the French company Schneider Electric. Schneider has signed an MoU with Iraq's Ministry of Electricity for the development of the electric power distribution network in the country, local media reports said....

Iraq is making efforts towards joining the World Trade Organization and its Minister of Trade will visit Geneva to discuss the issue. A government delegation will visit Geneva next week to reach an agreement with European trade ministers and European countries in this regard, Muhammad Hanoun, the spokesman for the...

The financial advisor to Iraqi Prime Minister, Madher Muhammad Salih, has stressed the need for beginning  a set of measures that encourage civil activity to invest and produce.