Tag: Iraqi

Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Friday insisted that claims his supporters were involved in fighting in Syria were false, but said members of “splinter”...

Iraq’s main Sunni-backed bloc should help resolve the country’s political crisis within parliament rather than stage a boycott, the UN’s envoy to Baghdad told...

Four US embassy security staff were held by Iraqi forces Thursday over “suspicious” activity in central Baghdad but were released shortly after following an...

Fiery Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr sharply criticised an offshoot of his movement on Sunday, accusing them of killing Iraqi soldiers and policemen and being...

Iraq’s Sunni Arab vice president denied terror charges against him and vowed to defend himself in a defiant news conference on Tuesday as rival...

Ambassador of Iraq Dr Rushdi Al-Ani has invited Pakistani businessmen to initiate joint ventures with their Iraqi counterparts as abundant investment and business opportunities...

Heavily armed gunmen and suicide bombers stormed a local Iraqi government building in western Anbar province on Monday, taking around 15 people hostage including...

A spate of attacks appearing to target security forces in central and western Iraq on Wednesday killed at least 17 people, including five policemen...

Gunmen killed eight soldiers at a checkpoint in western Iraq before burning their corpses on Tuesday, a police officer said. "Unknown gunmen attacked a checkpoint...

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki wants to cut the number of ministries and ministerial positions by nearly half in an effort to improve government...

Two suicide car bombs ripped through a guard post killing 26 people outside the provincial governor’s home in Diwaniyah city on Tuesday, officials said,...

Five Iraqi soldiers were killed on Wednesday in a spate of shootings against patrols and checkpoints in Baghdad and the main northern city of...

A high level delegation from Rasheed Bank, the leading Iraqi bank led by its chairman Khadim M Nashoor, visited the head office of MCB...

Attacks killed five American soldiers and 20 Iraqis on Monday, the deadliest day for US forces in Iraq in more than two years, just...

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki called for a dialogue on Wednesday with rival blocs to gauge whether or not US troops currently in Iraq...

UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. human rights chief called on Friday for an independent investigation into the deaths of 34 people at an Iranian dissident camp in Iraq after Iraqi security forces moved against it last week.
"It now seems certain that at least 34 people were killed in Camp Ashraf, including seven or more women," U.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay said. "Most were shot, and some appear to have been crushed to death, presumably by vehicles."
A U.N. spokesman said

BAGHDAD - Iraq's fiery anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr will "escalate military resistance" and unleash his Mehdi Army militia if US troops fail to leave Iraq as scheduled this year, his aides said on Saturday.
On the 8th anniversary of the day US forces toppled Saddam Hussein's statue in Baghdad, senior Sadr aide Hazem al-Araji told tens of thousands of followers: "We say to the Black House (White House), 'we are all time bombs and the detonators are at the hands of Moqtada