Iraq
U.S. troops withdrawn from Syria expected to go to western Iraq
U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said that all the nearly 1,000 troops withdrawing from northern Syria are expected to move to western…
Death toll surpasses 100 in Iraqi protests
Iraq's government has denied that any of its security forces have fired directly at protesters during six days of violent demonstrations. At…
Escalation of violence in the streets of Iraq
The violent protests in the street of Iraq show no sign of abating as the number of dead or injured continues to…
Protests in Iraq turn deadly and spread nationwide
The demonstrations have posed the first major challenge to Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi, who formed his government a year ago this…
Iraq re-opens border-crossing with Syria
Iraq reopened its Qaim border-crossing with Syria on Monday after eight years of closure amid regional turmoil. This has been interpreted as…
Two rockets fired target embassies’ zone in Iraq
Two rockets were fired on Monday at central Baghdad's fortified Green Zone, which houses foreign embassies and government buildings, but there were…
UK and Iraq agree future defence relationship
The UK has cemented its commitment to continued military support to Iraq, after an agreement was signed in London today. Defence Secretary…
Reports that Israel attacked Iranian targets in Iraq
The London-based Al-Sharq Al-Awsat citing unnamed western diplomatic sources reported that Israel used F-35 stealth fighter jets on late Sunday night to…
On this day…
In 1856 Nikola Tesla —a Serbian American inventor and researcher who discovered the rotating magnetic field, the basis of most alternating-current machinery—was…
Crowd storms Bahraini embassy in Baghdad
More than 200 demonstrators broke into the Bahraini embassy in the Iraqi capital Baghdad and took down the nation's flag on Thursday…
ExxonMobil and other oil firms targeted in rocket attack in Iraq
A rocket landed at a residential and operations headquarters of several global major oil companies, including U.S. giant ExxonMobil, near Iraq's southern…
Britain raises threat level in Iraq
Sky News is reporting that Britain has raised the threat level for UK forces and diplomats in Iraq because of what sources…