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Tribal clashes over agricultural land in central Iraq have killed eight people and injured another nine, a security official in Wasit province told AFP on Saturday.

The list backing incumbent Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani has scored a big win in parliament after elections, sources close to his alliance told AFP on Wednesday.

Dr Aed Al-Hilali, Adviser to the Iraqi Prime Minister, has said that Iraq has overcome a serious crisis that had threatened to drag the country into the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. He stressed that the leadershi...

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani has cast himself as the leader who can finally make the country a success after years of instability, and has moved against established parties that brought him to power as he...

Iraqis are bracing for yet another election they fear will change little, with many seeing the pro-reform campaign banners for the November 11 vote as empty gestures from elites who have delivered little since the 2003 U...

Iraq is weeks away from parliamentary elections that will set the country’s course during one of the Middle East’s most delicate moments in years.

Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani on Wednesday ordered the formation of a joint forensic task force and a high-level investigative committee to examine the killing of election candidate Safaa Al-Mashhadani in...

Iraq will restart the export of oil from its Kurdish region to Turkiye after an interruption of more than two years, following what Prime Minister Shia Al-Sudani called a historic agreement between Baghdad and the Kurdis...

Iraq’s Euphrates river is running at historically low levels as the drought-stricken country faces its worst water scarcity in living memory.

A court in Iraqi Kurdistan sentenced opposition leader Shaswar Abdulwahid to five months in prison on Tuesday, his lawyer and party said.

Power has been restored in Iraq after a blackout hit central and southern regions on Monday, Adel Karim, an adviser to the prime minister, told Reuters on Tuesday.

Iraqis grappled on Monday with searing heat in the capital Baghdad and parts of the country’s south, where the weather service said temperatures reached 51C in the shade.

Hundreds of Iraqis protested Friday against severe water shortages exacerbated by the summer’s sweltering heat in the central province of Babylon, an AFP correspondent said.

A massive fire in a hypermarket in Al-Kut city in eastern Iraq has left at least 60 people dead and 11 others missing, the city’s health authorities and two police sources told Reuters on Thursday.

A drone strike forced a US company to suspend operations at an oil field in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region Tuesday, amid a wave of similar attacks targeting the region’s energy infrastructure.

Iraqi authorities said they arrested a political commentator on Wednesday over a post alleging that a military radar system struck by a drone had been used to help Israel in its war against Iran.

Middle East leaders and their Western allies have been warning that Islamic State could exploit the fall of the Assad regime to stage a comeback in Syria and neighbouring Iraq, where the extremist group once imposed a re...

A massive dust storm blanketed eastern Iraq on Tuesday, turning the skies a deep orange and bringing daily life in several cities to a standstill.

Five Iraqi Kurdish security personnel were wounded in two drone attacks in northern Iraq in less than 48 hours, authorities in the autonomous Kurdistan region said on Tuesday.

A sandstorm in central and southern Iraq sent more than 1,800 people to hospitals with respiratory problems on Monday, health officials said.