The Latest Breaking News from Iraq

Largest economy among six.

More than 30 percent of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region now has 24-hour state electricity, authorities said Thursday, with plans to extend full coverage by the end of 2026.

The troops had been looking for the remains of a comrade killed by Kurdish militants.

Soldiers died from gas exposure during a mission to recover a Turkish soldier missing in the cave since 2022.

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While the U.S. military’s strikes on Iran on June 21, 2025, are believed to have damaged the country’s critical nuclear infrastructure, no evidence has yet emerged showing the program to have been completely destroyed. In fact, an early U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency assessment surmised that the attack merely delayed Iran’s…

A Kurdish militant group has announced plans to start disarming as part of a peace process with Turkey

Independent MP Zarah Sultana drew a sharp comparison between Keir Starmer’s past and present when recalling how, as a barrister, he defended an activist who broke into RAF Fairford what> to prevent war crimes crimes either needs quotes or a different way into it> in Iraq—calling it “not terrorism, but…

Keir Starmer has suffered a blow inflicted by his own Labour MPs, but how does it stack up against previous votes under other prime ministers, including Tony Blair’s controversial policies on university tuition fees and the Iraq war?

The ongoing debate over whether Iranian nuclear sites were “obliterated”, as the US president and his team insist, or merely “damaged”, as much of the intelligence suggest, should make us pause and think about the nature and purpose of intelligence.

The Man Who Pays His Way: Iraq is back on the map, Iran is taking a little longer