The Latest Breaking News from Iraq

Iraq's local currency has been on a two-month roller coaster ride following a tightening of procedures for international transfers, AFP reported. While the official exchange rate has been fixed at 1,470 Iraqi dinars against the dollar, the currency was trading at up to 1,600 to the greenback on local markets…

Iraqi Prime Minister Muhammad Shia al-Sudani has called on German companies to invest in the energy sector in Iraq, especially in oil, gas and electricity. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, for his part, revealed on Friday ongoing talks with the Iraqi government over the possibility of importing natural gas from the…

The Iraqi government has continued to ignore Iran’s protests of Iraqi officials using the term “Arabian Gulf” as Basra hosts the 25th Arabian Gulf Cup football tournament. Iran has protested the name, summoning the Iraqi ambassador in Tehran to demand that it be changed to “Persian” Gulf. The term “Arabian…

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian denied on Wednesday “rumors” about his resignation amid criticism over his participation at the Baghdad conference in Jordan last month. Critics viewed the conference as an attempt to take Iran out of “regional equations”. French President Emmanuel Macron had at the summit remarked that problems…

A quarter of Iraq's population lives below the poverty line, despite the estimated $100 billion reserves at the Central Bank of Iraq, the largest in the country's modern history, according to bank sources. Economists and finance experts believed Iraq's problem was not related to its wealth but to lousy management…

Tehran complains to FIFA over Iraq’s use of the name for a waterway that separates Iran and several Arab states.

Its support is critical to the conflict, but the US is failing to learn the lessons of its sprawling wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, says former military officer Frank Ledwidge

Iraq ignored the Iranian protest against using the "Arabian Gulf" name and did not comment on Foreign Ministry's spokesperson Naser Kanaani's complaint, saying that authorities should take necessary measures. Earlier, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shiaa al-Sudani opened the Gulf Cup 25, referring to it as the "Arabian Gulf Cup" to…

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