Iran launches new strikes on Kurdish groups in Iraq
KIRKUK, Iraq: Iran launched new cross-border missile and drone strikes Tuesday against Iranian-Kurdish opposition groups based in northern Iraq whom it accuses of stoking a wave of protests in the…
Baghdad tanker blast accident kills at least 9: security forces
BAGHDAD: A gas tanker exploded in Baghdad on Saturday night killing at least nine people and injuring 13 others, security forces said, adding that it was an accident. “Nine civilians…
In Iraq’s Babylon, age-old building techniques heal climate scars
RUINS OF BABYLON: At the temple of Ninmakh, the Sumerian mother goddess, Iraqi archaeologists are using 7,000-year-old techniques to protect the monument, and the rest of the ancient city of…
Iraq judge questions five tax officials over missing $2.5bn
BAGHDAD: An Iraqi investigative judge has questioned five senior tax officials over $2.5 billion in public funds that have gone missing, and more arrest warrants have been issued, authorities said…
UN sounds alarm over leukaemia in Iraq linked to oil fields
The UN has warned that people living near oil fields, where gas is openly burned, face heightened risks of leukaemia, and that it has classified such areas as “modern sacrifice…
Kurdish protesters rally in Irbil over Mahsa Amini’s death
IRBIL, Iraq: Dozens of Iraqi and Iranian Kurds rallied in Iraq’s northern city of Irbil on Saturday over the death of Mahsa Amini, a young woman who died in the…
Twilight of the Tigris: Iraq’s mighty river drying up
BAGHDAD: It was the river that is said to have watered the biblical Garden of Eden and helped give birth to civilization itself. But today the Tigris is dying. Human…
Iraq powers agree to work toward snap elections following unrest
Iraq on Monday moved closer to a snap parliamentary election after crisis talks in Baghdad. Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi chaired a meeting with President Barham Salih, UN representative Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert…
Clashes in Iraq’s Basra among Shiite rivals cause casualties
BAGHDAD: Four people were killed in clashes among rival Shiite Muslim militants in the southern Iraqi city of Basra that took place overnight and on Thursday morning, local security officials…
Al-Sadr locked into ‘zero-sum’ game for Iraq dominance
BAGHDAD: Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr may have declared his “definitive retirement” from politics this week, but the violence that erupted after his announcement points to murkier intentions, analysts believe.…