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Iraq’s parliament postponed the election of a president on Tuesday to allow Kurdish rivals time to agree on a candidate.

Anti-narcotics authorities in Syria and Iraq have seized 2.5 million captagon stimulant pills during coordinated security operations carried out in both countries, Syria’s Interior Ministry announced on Thursday.

Severe winter weather on Tuesday forced the diversion of an UrAir flight and led to widespread flight suspensions at airports across the Kurdistan Region, including Sulaimani and Erbil.

The result of last month’s parliamentary elections in Iraq was ratified by the Supreme Federal Court on Sunday, confirming that the party of caretaker prime minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani won the largest number of seat...

Baghdad International Airport reopened Thursday after a 12-hour halt due to bad weather, the transport ministry said.

Operations restarted at Iraq’s Khor Mor gas field, with the transmission of gas to power stations starting at 2 a.m. on Sunday (2300 GMT on Saturday), the Kurdish regional government’s electricity ministry announced.

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.