Iraq
Iraq crackdown kills 13 protesters after Iran mission torched
Iraqi security forces have cracked down on anti-government protesters in the strife-torn south, leaving 13 people dead in a bloody escalation hours after the torching of an Iranian consulate.
More than 300 sentenced to death in Iraq for IS links
Iraqi courts sentence to death a total of more than 300 people, including dozens of foreigners, for belonging to the Islamic State group, judicial sources say.
Iraq demands US backtrack on Jerusalem, summons ambassador
Iraq demands that the US government backtrack on a decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and summons the US ambassador in Baghdad to protest the decision.
Baghdad cranks up pressure on Kurds with flight ban
Iraq has suspended all international flights to and from the Iraqi Kurdish capital Arbil, sending anxious foreigners rushing to the airport, as Baghdad cranked up the pressure on the Kurds over...
Pressure piled on Iraqi Kurds to reverse overwhelming independence vote
Baghdad have piled pressure on Iraq’s Kurds , demanding they cancel their overwhelming vote for independence while parliament urged the Iraqi central government to send troops to take control of...
Iraq holding 1,400 foreign wives, children of 'ISIS fighters'
Iraqi authorities are holding 1,400 foreign wives and children of suspected Islamic State fighters in a camp after government forces expelled the jihadist group from one of its last remaining...
Suicide bomber in Iraq is Neaz from Chittagong
A Bangladeshi who, according to a SITE Intelligence Group video, died in a suicide bombing in Tikrit city of Iraq recently is Neaz
'Suicide bombers kill 26 at Iraq wedding celebration'
At least 26 people are killed and 25 are injured as two suicide bombers attack a celebration being held the night before a wedding north of Baghdad, a police officer and a doctor say.
'IS behind' deadly Iraq car bombing
So-called Islamic State says it carried out a car bombing that killed at least 17 people in the central Iraqi town of Khalis.
‘I toppled Saddam’s statue, now I want him back
What effect did the Iraq war have on Iraqis themselves?
Anger over security as Iraqis mourn 200 dead in Baghdad bombing
Iraqis mourn more than 200 people killed in a Baghdad suicide bombing claimed by the Islamic State group and accused the government of not doing enough to protect them.