Iraqis are awaiting the preliminary results of Tuesday's election for a new parliament, as Washington watches closely and pressures Iraq's government to curb neighboring Iran's influence.

This edition of the Farda Briefing looks at why Iran needs the results of Iraq’s upcoming parliamentary elections to go its ...

Currently, one in three young Iraqis is unemployed and corruption is rampant, so the promise of these wages - more than four times the salary of an Iraqi soldier - has become irresistible to many. In ...

Iran’s setbacks in Syria and tighter constraints on the Lebanese Hezbollah make Iraq the pivotal battleground for Tehran.

I hope our grassroots work will push the leaders, but I don’t know.” His uncertainty is warranted for Iraq as well. Under the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, a Sunni, the nation had a nominally ...

In the heat of the day, groups of Syrian refugee students walk purposefully to the learning centre in Domiz refugee camp. Here, they are studying the local Kurdish dialects in preparation for the new ...

It is not every day that the Assyrian language, the modern version of what Jesus Christ spoke, is heard in theatres, but "Iraq, But Funny," a satirical play showing at Chicago's Lookingglass Theatre, ...

The exodus of Iraqi Christians from their ancestral homeland is once again making headlines. Many families are fleeing the country, seeking refuge in neighboring nations as a temporary stopover before ...

Operating in the shadows as a silent string-puller, Amir Al-Ammari is the understated heartbeat of one of Asia’s rising powers. Clinically efficient in and out of possession, a gap-filling artisan and ...

President Joe Biden attended the dignified transfer of the three American soldiers killed in Jordan, as he readied the U.S. campaign of retaliatory strikes. Coverage on this live blog has ended.

Washington (Reuters) - What do you call a situation where 3,000 citizens of a country kill each other every month through bombing, shooting and beheading? If the country is Iraq, it depends on who ...

HAQLANIYAH, Iraq - Arguably some of the fiercest violence by insurgents against Coalition Forces in the Al Anbar Province occurs in Haqlaniyah, Iraq, a city nestled along the Euphrates River northwest ...