The Latest Breaking News from Iraq

Iraq temporarily closed Baghdad airport Monday as choking clouds of dust blanketed the capital, the latest crippling sandstorm in a country that has warned climate change poses an "existential threat". It was the tenth such storm since mid-April to hit Iraq, which has been battered by intense droughts, soil degradation,…

Israel has carried out numerous strikes against truck convoys smuggling Iranian weapons to the Hezbollah party in Lebanon, revealed an Israeli source. Israel would target the convoys as they were making their way from Iraq to Syria and carry out the strike in either country. The announcement was made after…

Asylum seekers from Sudan and Iraq share their worries about Home Office deportation plans

Iraqi leaders vowed Monday to move forward with efforts to form a government following the shocking resignation of 73 lawmakers from parliament during a prolonged political impasse. But the unprecedented mass withdrawal by members of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr’s bloc dramatically alters the political landscape, throwing government formation talks into…

Baghdad (AFP) - Iraq, an oil-rich but poverty-stricken country battered by decades of war and insurgency, has been mired in a long political crisis that just took a turn for the worse.

Baghdad (AFP) - Iraq temporarily closed Baghdad airport Monday as choking clouds of dust blanketed the capital, the latest crippling sandstorm in a country that has warned climate change poses an "existential threat".

Iraqi leaders say they will move forward with efforts to form a government following the shocking resignation of 73 lawmakers from parliament during a prolonged political impasse

Campaign group Stop the War said former prime minister Sir Tony Blair has "blood on his hands" and is responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent civilians and troops in Afghanistan and Iraq

IT’S hard to imagine what it will feel like for any migrant from Afghanistan, Iraq or similar country to be dumped in Kigali this week if Priti Patel’s first deportation flight to Rwanda manages to clear last-ditch court hurdles and take off tomorrow.

Baghdad (AFP) - Iraq temporarily closed Baghdad airport Monday as choking clouds of dust blanketed the capital, the latest crippling sandstorm in a country that has warned climate change poses an "existential threat".

Hussam al-Aqouli remembers the exact spot along southern Iraq’s Lake Sawa where his two daughters once dipped their feet into clear waters. Now he stands there two years on and the barren earth cracks beneath him. This year, for the first time in its centuries-long history, the lake dried up.