The Latest Breaking News from Iraq

Analysis: Why Biden is pressuring Israel on Gaza ‘humanitarian pauses’

The US counts Israel as its closest ally in the Middle East. But it needs Arab partners, too.

Al Jazeera · Nov 10, 2023

Why Are American Troops Still in Iraq and Syria?

Our troops are just sitting there with targets on their backs. Why?

Reason · Nov 10, 2023

U.S. launches airstrike in Syria in response to attacks by Iranian-backed militias

The U.S. carried out an airstrike on a weapons warehouse in eastern Syria used by Iranian-backed militias, the Pentagon said, in retaliation for a number of attacks on U.S. troops in the region.

WEKU · Nov 9, 2023

The Israel-Hamas war again shows that we need to stop thinking there are military solutions to political problems

Just as in Afghanistan and Iraq, using intense force against paramilitaries is not working. Once more it will have disastrous consequences, says academic Paul Rogers

The Guardian - UK · Nov 8, 2023

Artes Mundi 10 review – an exotic plunge into broken, borderless worlds

From the marshlands of Iraq to a beach in Bougainville, this Wales-wide art extravaganza feels like a passport to the entire planet

The Guardian - UK · Nov 8, 2023

Human-caused heating behind extreme droughts in Syria, Iraq and Iran, study finds

Millions of people’s lives wrecked by droughts that used to happen once every 250 years but now expected once a decade

The Guardian - UK · Nov 8, 2023

Nasty drought in Syria, Iraq and Iran wouldn't have happened without climate change, study finds

A new study says the three-year drought that has left millions of people in Syria, Iraq and Iran with little water wouldn’t have happened without human-caused climate change

The Independent UK · Nov 8, 2023

Is Israel’s Gaza war the deadliest conflict for children in modern times?

Many more children have been killed in Gaza every day compared with Ukraine, Afghanistan, Iraq, other conflict zones.

Al Jazeera · Nov 7, 2023

The GOP's anti-war schtick falls flat

Candidates often tell us who they are. We just need to listen

Salon · Nov 7, 2023

Impossible balancing act? Blinken's Middle East tour concludes in Turkey

"We obviously don’t agree on everything." That understatement comes courtesy of the US secretary of state. Now that Antony Blinken's weekend shuttling from Jordan and the West Bank to Iraq and Turkey is over, we can ask: what was it all about?

France 24 · Nov 6, 2023