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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
11/22/2023 11:07:32 AM
At least five fighters of a pro-Hezbollah group within Iraq's Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation) forces were killed in two US strikes south of Baghdad early Wednesday, security sources said.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
11/5/2023 9:40:28 PM
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken made a surprise visit to Baghdad on Sunday following a trip to the occupied West Bank earlier in the day.
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World
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Region
10/13/2023 12:55:37 PM
Thousands of Iraqis poured onto the streets of Baghdad Friday in support of Palestinians, state television reported, as unprecedented Israeli air strikes rocked Gaza killing hundreds of civilians in reprisal for a weekend incursion by Palestinian militants.
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World
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Region
9/19/2023 11:27:03 AM
A senior military official in Baghdad said Tuesday that a drone which killed three Kurdish counterterrorism officers had originated in neighbouring Turkey, and condemned the violation of Iraq's sovereignty.
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World
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Region
9/12/2023 8:20:48 PM
Austria reopened its embassy in Iraq's capital Baghdad on Tuesday after a 30-year absence, in what was hailed as a sign of a return to stability.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
9/12/2023 12:21:00 PM
Demonstrations in the oil-rich Iraqi province of Kirkuk led to the deaths of four people this week, raising fears of further violence in the region, writes Nermeen Al-Mufti in Baghdad.
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World
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Region
9/2/2023 11:12:04 AM
A road accident killed 16 people, mostly Iranian pilgrims, north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad overnight, the state news agency INA reported Saturday.
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World
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Region
8/29/2023 10:54:29 AM
Iraq has hanged three people convicted for a 2016 bombing that killed more than 320 people in a Baghdad shopping district and was claimed by the Islamic State group, the prime minister's office said on late Monday.
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World
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Region
8/28/2023 3:34:47 PM
Iran and Iraq have reached an agreement to disarm members of Iranian Kurdish dissident groups based in northern Iraq and relocate their members from their current bases, officials from the two countries said Monday.
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World
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Region
8/20/2023 2:58:21 PM
Iraqi authorities on Sunday ordered the shutdown of LED advertisement screens installed across Baghdad after a hacker managed to show a pornographic film on one, security forces said, announcing the arrest of a suspect.
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World
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Region
8/19/2023 6:25:13 PM
Iraqi and United Nations officials on Saturday marked the 20th anniversary of a deadly attack on the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
8/15/2023 11:02:11 PM
Egypt’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shourky announced on Tuesday that the Arab liaison committee concerned with resolving the Syria crisis will hold a meeting in Baghdad following their meeting in Cairo.
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World
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Region
7/30/2023 5:05:31 PM
Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Salem Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah arrived Sunday in Iraq on an official visit to discuss issues of common interest, including oil, border demarcation, as well as strengthening bilateral relations between Kuwait and Baghdad.
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World
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Region
7/27/2023 11:37:10 AM
Dozens of people protested in front of the Central Bank of Iraq in Baghdad and bank owners called for official action to stem a sharp increase in the dollar exchange rate Wednesday, after the United States blacklisted 14 Iraqi banks.
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World
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Region
7/22/2023 12:52:38 PM
Hundreds of protesters attempted to storm Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, which houses foreign embassies and the seat of Iraq's government, early Saturday following reports of the burning of a Quran carried out by a ultranationalist group in front of the Iraqi Embassy in Copenhagen.
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World
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Region
7/20/2023 10:25:11 AM
Protesters set fire to Sweden's embassy in the Iraqi capital Baghdad early Thursday, an AFP journalist said, ahead of a planned burning of a Koran in Sweden.
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World
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Region
7/14/2023 6:53:42 PM
With scorching temperatures and power cuts, Wissam Abed cools off from Baghdad's brutal summer by swimming in the Tigris river, but as Iraqi rivers dry up, so does the age-old pastime.
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World
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Region
7/10/2023 11:43:53 AM
A powerful alliance of pro-Iran factions in Iraq called Sunday on Baghdad to pressure the United States to unlock pending payments to Tehran for crucial gas imports.
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Arts & Culture
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Visual Art
6/30/2023 12:24:59 PM
Many masterpieces of Iraqi painting were looted or destroyed during the years of war, but now the country's artistic heritage faces another threat: rampant counterfeiting and illicit trafficking.
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World
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Region
6/29/2023 4:59:44 PM
A few dozen Iraqi protesters on Thursday briefly breached the Swedish embassy in Baghdad over the burning of the Quran by an Iraqi living in Sweden, an AFP photographer reported.
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