The Latest Breaking News from Iraq

The issue of burn pits was given more airtime than voting rights, gun violence and abortion in Biden’s SOTU address. Two days later, the House passed sweeping burn pits legislation. Rachel Sharp hears from veterans, lawmakers and advocates about whether America’s sick and dying soldiers are finally being heard

War is expensive. The United States spent about US$1.1 trillion (£830 billion) on the 2003 Iraq war in today’s money, while the Falklands war cost the UK the equivalent of about £2.6 billion.

In a busy district of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, there is little to distinguish the faded brick building, except for a Hebrew inscription above the entrance. Iraq's Jewish community was once one of the largest in the Middle East but its members have dwindled to a handful, outside of the…

The House is poised to pass legislation that would dramatically boost health care services and disability benefits for veterans exposed to burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan

Baghdad (AFP) - In a busy district of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, there is little to distinguish the faded brick building, except for a Hebrew inscription above the entrance.

Danielle Robinson tells The Independent Boebert’s heckling during Biden’s comments about burn pits was a ‘slap in the face’ to soldiers like her late husband Sgt 1st Class Heath Robinson who died serving the US

Are Ukrainians more deserving of sympathy than Afghans and Iraqis? Many seem to think so

The U.S. Department of Justice admitted that Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) failed to make adequate disclosures about its operations in Iraq before entering a deferred prosecution agreement in 2019 Bloomberg reports. The DOJ also determined that Ericsson breached the agreement by "failing to make subsequent disclosure" after signing it.  Ericsson's dealings in Iraq came…

Telecoms group’s admission comes days after revelations about alleged bribes given to Islamic State

If generals are to succeed in the eyes of their political masters, they need to be given clear guidance as to what success will look like. “Tell me how this ends” General David Petraeus, who commanded the US 101st Airborne Division, had wanted to know before the invasion of Iraq…

‘We learned that in Iraq’, says Ben Wallace as he predicts Ukrainian resistance will last years