The Latest Breaking News from Iraq

Iraq is exploring alternatives to Iranian gas imports, including options in the Gulf, a government official said, as it seeks to reduce dependence on its sanctions-hit neighbour.

Terry Cyrille, who served in Iraq as a combat medic, has battled life-threatening cancer and other severe illnesses

Public sector workers in Iraqi Kurdistan, a semi-autonomous region of northern Iraq, have endured irregular and delayed salary payments for more than a decade. Many of these people are owed staggering amounts of money – US$50,000 (£38,700) on average, and as much as US$120,000 for higher-level employees.

Agreement with US-backed group puts all border crossings with Iraq and Turkey, airports and oil fields in northeast Syria under new regime’s control

Iraq faces worsening power shortages after the US cuts waivers tied to Iranian gas and electricity imports.

Syria’s top diplomat and his counterparts from neighboring countries have called for the lifting of Western-led sanctions and post-war reconciliation

Washington has declined to renew a sanctions waiver that allowed Iraq to buy electricity from neighbouring Iran, a spokesperson for the American embassy in Baghdad said on Sunday.

The former NSC official who sparked Trump’s first impeachment says successive administrations have bought into Moscow’s vision of itself

Researchers have identified an extensive Mesopotamian canal network that supplied ancient farms in the Eridu region with water from the Euphrates river before the first millennium B.C.

The US-EU relationship is at its most fragile point since the build-up to the Iraq war in 2003. While President Donald Trump openly questions Nato and President Volodymyr Zelensky’s desire for peace, EU leaders have continued to voice their unequivocal support for Ukraine against Russian aggression.

US President’s comments compared to those of his deputy JD Vance, who has been slammed for disrespecting British veterans