BASRA, Iraq/BAGHDAD: Iraq is close to reaching a deal with oil majors BP and Eni for an export pipeline project that was initially planned as part of a...
BASRA/BAGHDAD: Just weeks ago, U.S. energy giant ExxonMobil looked poised to move ahead with a $53 billion project to boost Iraq’s oil output at its...
BAGHDAD: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s surprise visit to Baghdad this month came after U.S. intelligence showed Iran-backed Shiite militias positioning...
BAGHDAD: A growing rivalry between two powerful Shiite Muslim factions has paralyzed efforts to form a government in Iraq six months after an election aimed...
BAGHDAD: In May, Hassan Fada’am traded his military fatigues for a suit when he became one of 45 Shiite militiamen elected to Iraq’s 329-seat parliament....
SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq: The election of a respected Kurdish politician as Iraq’s new president and his designation of a compromise figure as premier gives the...
BAGHDAD: Iraq’s election commission ignored an anti-corruption body’s warnings about the credibility of electronic vote-counting machines used in May’s...
BAGHDAD: Under pressure from allies in the West, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi is staking his career on reining in the Shiite militias that helped him...
BAGHDAD/LONDON: After helping Iraq stifle a Kurdish push for independence, Iran is now positioning itself to take control of oil exports from the...
BAGHDAD/IRBIL: Iraq’s Cabinet proposed Sunday to slash the Kurdish share of the country’s revenue in the 2018 federal budget, a move that Kurdish officials...
BAGHDAD: Iraq has increased oil export capacity from its southern ports by 900,000 barrels per day to 4.6 million bpd after adding a new floating terminal in...
BAGHDAD/LONDON: When the Iraqi army and Iranian-backed Shiite militia entered a key oil processing facility in Iraq’s north to retake it from Kurdish...
BAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi faced calls to take measures ranging from an economic blockade to military action after Kurds voted in a...
BASRA/BAGHDAD: Worsening clashes among tribes and a political void is threatening security at oil installations in Iraq’s main southern oil-producing region,...
BAGHDAD/IRBIL: Five weeks after securing victory in Mosul, Iraqi forces have moved into positions around the city of Tal Afar, their next objective in the...
MOSUL/BAGHDAD: The leaning Al-Hadba minaret that has towered over Mosul for 850 years lay in ruins Thursday, demolished by retreating Daesh (ISIS) militants,...
SOUTHWEST OF MOSUL/BAGHDAD: The U.S.-backed Iraqi offensive to take back Mosul from Daesh (ISIS) gained fresh momentum on Thursday, with an armored division...
BAGHDAD: Two years ago, corruption was so rampant in Iraq’s wheat procurement program that even Daesh (ISIS) militants cashed in by smuggling the strategic...
BAGHDAD: Fighting corruption in Iraq is such a relentless and thankless job that Hassan al-Yasiri has been trying for nearly a year to quit. Yasiri, head of...
BAGHDAD: Iraq has assured OPEC it would fully comply with an agreement to cut oil supply in order to bolster crude prices, OPEC Secretary-General Mohammed...
MOSUL, Iraq/BAGHDAD: Crouching in his Mosul home, Abu Ayman suddenly felt the ground rock as if struck by an earthquake when a massive explosion tore through...
MOSUL/BAGHDAD: Iraqi forces battling Daesh (ISIS) in Mosul edged into the Old City and around the Al-Nouri Mosque Friday, trying to seal off a main road to...
BAGHDAD: Crude flows from Iraq’s northern Kirkuk fields resumed Thursday after being halted for several hours when Kurdish forces stormed a facility in...
BAGHDAD: Tension between Iraq’s Shiite leaders mounted Sunday as the toll from protests in central Baghdad Saturday increased to six killed, five...
BAGHDAD/BASHIQA, Iraq: Iraqi Shiite militias said Wednesday they had driven Daesh (ISIS) fighters from an air base west of Mosul, a victory that would...