BAGHDAD: A bloody, age-old custom used by Iraq’s powerful tribes to mete out justice has come under fire, with authorities classifying it as a “terrorist act”...
HABBANIYAH, Iraq: In the 1980s, Iraq’s Lake Habbaniyah was a tourist hot spot, popular with wealthy newlyweds and so luxurious it was even a haunt of dictator...
BAGHDAD: Suha Abdel-Hamid’s life has dramatically improved over the past two months – thanks to the removal of fortified roadblocks that had made her daily...
KUT, Iraq: On a strip of pavement in the southern Iraqi city of Kut, a gaggle of amateur comedians pulls in the crowds every Friday – drawing chuckles,...
Khalidiyah, Iraq: While the election campaign is in full swing elsewhere in Iraq, the country’s displaced camps holding hundreds of thousands of people barely...
BAGHDAD: Karrar Hassan, 25, is just one of tens of thousands of Iraqi fighters wounded battling the Islamic State group. Now disabled, he struggles to survive...
TAJI BASE, Iraq: Iraqi soldiers maneuver sections of floating bridge on a muddy, man-made lake as American trainers instruct them in skills that have played a...
FALLUJAH, Iraq: More than six months after Iraqi forces retook Fallujah from Daesh (ISIS), reconstruction is slow and the government risks alienating those...
BAGHDAD: With wooden crosses around their necks and others tattooed on their arms, several dozen Iraqi Christians are training to recapture their homes...
BAGHDAD: Iraqi Sunni lawmakers said Sunday they were boycotting parliament after the killing of a senior tribal leader was blamed on Shiite militia, sparking...
BAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi ordered an end to a years-old nightly curfew in Baghdad in a bid to ease restrictions on daily life despite...
BAGHDAD: For 40-year-old Ghassan, who shares a small, damp Baghdad classroom with nine relatives, Christmas this year is offering little to celebrate....
BAGHDAD: ISIS launched a major attack on the Iraqi city of Ramadi Friday, attempting to seize one of the last urban pockets under government control in...
BAGHDAD: Canada conducted airstrikes on ISIS positions in Iraq for the first time Sunday, while reports emerged that the jihadist group had executed more than...
BAGHDAD: ISIS has carried out a fresh wave of mass killings, officials said Sunday, executing more than 200 members of an Iraqi tribe that took up arms...
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama Thursday hailed Congress for backing his plan to arm moderate Syrian rebels and France for signing off on airstrikes in...
BAGHDAD: Washington was set Thursday to approve plans to train and arm Syrian rebels in the fight against the ISIS group, as jihadist fighters gained ground...
BAGHDAD: Displaced Iraqis, many from the Yazidi minority, have been stranded in a jihadist-hemmed mountain for a week and will die en masse if not rescued...
BAGHDAD: A wave of attacks across Iraq, including twin car bombs in an ethnically mixed tinderbox city, killed 21 people Wednesday as a year-long surge of...
BAGHDAD: Violence across iraq, including shelling of the conflict-hit city of Fallujah, killed 35 people Tuesday, as politicians haggle over forming a new...
BAGHDAD: Violence across Iraq, including shelling of the conflict-hit city of Fallujah, killed 33 people Tuesday, as politicians haggle over forming a new...
BAGHDAD: A wave of attacks in iraq, including a suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque in Baghdad, killed 27 people Tuesday, the latest in a protracted surge in...
BAGHDAD: Violence in Iraq, including shelling in a militant-held city and an attack targeting Shiite pilgrims, has killed more than 30 people in 24 hours,...
BAGHDAD: As recently as the 1970s, Baghdad was lauded as a model city in the Arab world. But now, after decades of seemingly endless conflict, it is the...
BAGHDAD: Bombings mainly targeting Shiite areas of Baghdad and attacks on security force checkpoints in and around the capital killed at least 21 people...