The Latest Breaking News from Iraq

Hearts of Iron 4's new DLC lets you cast off the Brits as India, cast off the Brits as Iraq, resist the Brits as Iran, or ignore the Brits as Afghanistan

Someone needs to do something about these Brits.

PC Gamer · Feb 10, 2025

Baghdad's First Skatepark Offers Boarders Rare Respite

Rukaya al-Zubaidi placed a cautious foot on a skateboard and then struggled to find her balance as others glided back and forth at Baghdad's first park dedicated to the sport.

International Business Times · Feb 7, 2025

A wedding in a desert full of war props: Gohar Dashti’s best photograph

‘This is a reproduction of a memory I have from my childhood during the Iran-Iraq war. I went to a wedding and could hear bombs and alarms going off’

The Guardian - UK · Feb 5, 2025

Who is Jo Ellis, the transgender pilot wrongly named in DC crash?

She served in the Iraq War and the fight against the Islamic State. Now she is the latest victim of a far-right hoax machine that has repeatedly smeared trans people as killers

The Independent UK · Feb 1, 2025

Iraq arrests former security official over execution of Shiite cleric who opposed Saddam Hussein

Iraq’s National Security Agency says it has arrested a former high-level security official for his involvement in the 1980 execution of a prominent Shiite cleric and his sister during Saddam Hussein’s brutal crackdown on religious opposition

The Independent UK · Jan 31, 2025

Regime change in Syria has Iraqi factions backtracking on push for US withdrawal

The fall of Bashar Assad in Syria has led Iran-allied factions in neighboring Iraq to reconsider their push for U.S. forces to exit the country, multiple Iraqi and American officials told The Associated Press

The Independent UK · Jan 31, 2025

Sweden points to ‘foreign power’ after Iraqi refugee on trial for Qur’an burnings shot dead

Five arrested after Salwan Momika reportedly killed during TikTok live stream, hours before trial verdict due

The Guardian - UK · Jan 30, 2025

Iraqi Man Who Made Headlines After Setting Quran on Fire Gunned Down in Sweden

An Iraqi man who previously made headlines for burning a copy of the Quran was shot and killed in Sweden.

Latin Times · Jan 30, 2025

Salwan Momika, Iraqi man who burned Quran in Sweden, killed in shooting

Five people arrested over murder as the Swedish prime minister said the shooting could be linked to a foreign power.

Al Jazeera · Jan 30, 2025

Biden targeted the online right-wing terrorism threat − now it’s up to Trump

In the waning days of the Biden administration, the U.S. Department of State took its first major step against terrorism groups primarily focused on what is called “accelerationism” – the effort to inspire independent followers to engage in violence in ways that broadly destabilize society. The U.S. government has long…

The Conversation · Jan 30, 2025