Iraq’s hopes of World Cup qualification are being impacted by the Iran war because players cannot get visas for the playoff tournament in Mexico and the team’s coach is stranded ...

An Iraqi Shiite militia has claimed a drone attack targeting U.S. troops at the airport in Iraq’s capital, Baghdad. The claim further widens the retaliation over the killing of Iran’s ...

Pro-Iranian protesters angered by the death of Iran supreme leader Ali Khamenei tried to storm the US consulate in Pakistan's ...

Meanwhile in Cyprus, two drones were intercepted near a UK base on Monday. Keir Starmer calls Iran's actions "outrageous", but defends the UK's decision not to join US-Israeli strikes.

BAGHDAD — Of his countless stories of his life as a hairdresser in Iraq, the one Qaiss al-Sharaa most enjoys retelling is about the day April 9, 2003, when he watched Iraqis and American Marines pull ...

Baghdad Traders Protest New Customs Tariffs as Iraq Wrestles With Shrinking Oil Revenues BAGHDAD (AP) — Hundreds of traders and customs clearance company owners protested in central Baghdad on Sunday, ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Hundreds of traders and customs clearance company owners protested in central Baghdad on Sunday, demanding that Iraq’s government reverse recently imposed customs tariffs that they say ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Baghdad’s main commercial districts were largely shut down on Sunday as wholesale traders went on strike to protest newly imposed government customs tariffs on imported goods ...

The image of bombardment in Baghdad that appeared on the Guardian’s front page on 21 March 2003. Photograph: Ramzi Haidar/EPA In spring 2003, exuberance at the fall of Saddam was swiftly followed by a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Every thirty minutes on a recent Tuesday night, the dulcet tones of Enrique Iglesias’s 2001 hit single “Hero” ...

The killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in joint U.S.-Israeli strikes has sparked anger across Shiite communities worldwide and is raising fears of wider unrest. Protests have spread fast ...