BAGHDAD: The United States has urged Iraq to hold early polls and carry out electoral reform after a rights group warned a deadly crackdown on anti-government protesters could spiral into a “bloodbath”.…
KABUL: A labyrinth of concrete blast walls, spotlights, and checkpoints are eating up ever more of Kabul, standing in stark contrast to a similar area in Iraq’s Baghdad where easing tensions have…
BAGHDAD: At least one gunman killed the Turkish vice-consul to Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region in an attack on Wednesday in the regional capital of Arbil, a police source told AFP. “Three people, including…
RAWALPINDI: Lieutenant General (Staff) Pilot Muhammad Salim Al Araji, Acting Secretary Defence (Administration) and Chief of Logistic Staff, Iraqi Ministry of Defence called on General Qamar Javed Bajwa Chief of Army Staff (COAS)…
WASHINGTON: The United States on Wednesday sanctioned an Iraqi company and two of its associates, which it said had helped Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds force evade sanctions by smuggling hundreds of…
WELLINGTON: New Zealand announced on Monday that it will withdraw all of its troops from Iraq by next June. New Zealand has a small contingent of 95 so-called non-combat personnel deployed at…
BAGHDAD: Iraq hosted senior parliamentary officials from arch-rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran on Saturday as Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi sought to bolster his country’s nascent role as a mediator in the…
Iraq says Saudi Arabia has opened a consulate in Baghdad for the first time in nearly 30 years in a sign of improving ties. The consulate, which will issue visas to Iraqis,…
MOSUL: At least 72 people died when an overloaded ferry sank in the Tigris river near Mosul in Iraq, medical sources told Reuters on Thursday. Most of the casualties on the ferry…
–75,000 pilgrims travel to Iran and back within two months; experience improved facilities, security ISLAMABAD: An unprecedented surge in religious tourism between Pakistan and Iran was witnessed during the months of Muharram and…
WASHINGTON: A former security guard for the US firm Blackwater was found guilty of murder on Wednesday for his role in a notorious massacre of unarmed civilians in downtown Baghdad in 2007.…
WASHINGTON: The US-led coalition in Syria destroyed on Saturday a mosque in the town of Hajin which had been used as an Islamic State command and control center, the US military said.…
Pakistani pilgrims stranded at the Baghdad airport for the past four days, have finally received tickets to return back home, a private media outlet reported Friday. Over a hundred Pakistani pilgrims stranded in…
More than 120 Pakistani pilgrims were left stranded at an airport in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Tuesday night. The tour head organising the trip dissappeared with the passports of the…
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Friday expressed concern over the non-issuance of visas to Pakistani Zaireen (pilgrims) aspiring to visit Iraq. In a meeting with Ambassador of Iraq Dr Ali Yassin…
WASHINGTON: More than 1,100 civilians have been killed in US-led strikes against Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria since the operation began in 2014, the US military said on Thursday. The…
ANKARA: The head of Iran’s armed forces demanded on Tuesday authorities in neighboring Iraq hand over separatist Kurdish dissidents stationed there and close their bases, according to a report by the semi-official…
