Iraqi women protest against the government, defying powerful cleric
Hundreds of Iraqi women of all ages flooded central Baghdad Thursday alongside male anti-government protesters, defying an order by powerful cleric Moqtada Sadr to...
Middle East: Love and weddings in the Shadow of War
"Love, we have no aim but to be defeated in your wars," wrote the Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwish. Despite the armed conflicts devastating the...
550 Anti-government protesters killed in Iraq
Nearly 550 Iraqis have been killed in protest-related violence since unprecedented anti-government demonstrations erupted in the capital and southern cities in October, the Iraqi...
US uneasy as Iraq gets new prime minister
In happier times, Washington and Tehran might well have zeroed in on Mohammed Tawfik Allawi as their consensus candidate for the post of Iraq’s...
Iraqi clerics mount pressure on government for a new premiere
Pressure mounted on Iraq's political elite Friday to nominate a new premier, after a stern sermon from the country's top Shiite authority and a...
Iraq weighs larger NATO role to replace US-led coalition
Iraq is considering a larger role for NATO at the expense of the US-led coalition, Iraqi and Western officials told AFP, after an American...
Rocket attack at Baghdad US Embassy amid anti-government protests in Iraq
Anti-government demonstrators rebuilt torched protest camps across Iraq on Monday as more than a dozen countries condemned the "lethal" reaction by security forces seeking...
3 rockets fired at US embassy in Iraqi capital: security source
Three out of five rockets fired on Sunday directly hit the US embassy in Iraq's capital, a security source told AFP, including one that...
Iraqis mass to urge US troop ouster, rival rallies turn deadly
Two anti-government protesters were killed in clashes with security forces in the Iraqi capital on Friday, hours after thousands of supporters of Shiite cleric...
Iraqis apprehensive ahead of cleric’s anti-US rally
Supporters of volatile Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr prepared on Friday for a "million-strong" march in Baghdad to demand the ouster of US troops, putting...
ISIS might resurge if US leaves Iraq: US General warns
The Islamic State group is weakened but a resurgence is possible if the United States leaves Iraq, US Major General Alexus Grynkewich, the number...
Iraq to ‘stop’ Iran gas transfers if US waiver ends: bank
The bank through which Iraq pays for Iranian gas imports to power its grids said Tuesday it would stop processing payments if a crucial...