The Latest Breaking News from Iraq

Iran supports militant groups that have been striking out at U.S. and Israeli forces. These factions are increasingly under attack themselves as fighting in the region spreads.

For Iran, the attack has come at a precarious moment when tensions are rising in West Asia

Secretary of State Antony Blinken heads to the Middle East this weekend for the fourth time since the Israel-Hamas war erupted in October as once-abated fears about a regional conflagration are surging with attacks and assassinations in the Red Sea, Lebanon, Iran and Iraq

Senior commander of Iran-aligned Popular Mobilisation Forces group is among those killed.

Department claims key documents outlining reasoning behind joining US-led invasion were not included in an ‘apparent administrative oversight’

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has ordered an inquiry into why 20-year-old Cabinet documents relating to Australia joining the United States-led Iraq invasion remain secret, saying Australians have a right to know why their country went to war in 2003

Prime minister orders independent investigation into Scott Morrison’s government’s failure to transfer all documents

A failure by the former Morrison government to provide Iraq War documents to the National Archives will be investigated.

It's Day 87 of the Israel-Hamas war, and Hamas continued to fire rockets toward Israel on New Year's Day. Yemen's rebel army also pursued its disruption of Red Sea shipping, and Hezbollah carried out attacks toward northern Israel that displaced thousands of residents.

Nick McKim says national security committee documents used to justify the war may answer questions about momentous foreign policy decision

By far the most significant decision the Howard government made in 2003 was to support the invasion of Iraq. Journalists and historians have long maintained there was no submission to full cabinet weighing the pros and cons of the Australian intervention. Cabinet papers from 2003 released today by the National…