Iraq

Back in the 1970s, the city of Kirkuk was home to five cinemas

Country had recently landed in hot water for fielding overage players in U16 side

Iraq's dilapidated power grid is unable to cope, leaving business owners and citizens beholden to private supplies

In several cases, judges have ordered forensic medical examinations and found signs of torture

Since the US-led ouster of dictator Saddam Hussein in 2003, Iraq has been plagued by graft and sectarian fighting

Two policemen wounded

Protests against unemployment spread on Saturday from the port city of Basra to other parts of the country

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al Abadi went to Basra on Friday hoping to restore calm in the southern city

More than 380,000 people are still displaced in and around Mosul as the city lies in ruins

After losing parents during IS's brutal three year occupation of Mosul, many children have turned to street peddling

The women were travelling with three other nationals of Philippines on their way to Erbil

Marks the first time federal Iraqi forces and the peshmerga working together since Kurdish independence referendum

The vote recount is expected to begin on Tuesday in the Kurdish provinces of Arbil, Sulaymaniyah and Dohuk and Kirkuk

Last ballot is won by populist cleric Moqtada Sadr's electoral alliance with communists

Iraq put to death 12 convicted of terrorism hours after Prime Minister Haider al Abadi called for speedy executions

Islamic State militants have kidnapped six members of Iraq's security forces and threatened to kill them in three days

Varied groups have taken advantage of the war to stock weapons says Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi

The Britain-based monitor said the bombing raid targeted a Syrian government position in a desert area in Homs

In a renewed threat to the region, IS has attacked several remote villages seizing 30 locals from their homes

They have no medicine for their children and many have no running water or basic services, says UN special envoy

Mosul women gather in the Iraqi city's Al Minassa Square, desperate to learn the fate of husbands and sons

Fatih alliance was composed of political groups tied to Iran-backed Shi’ite militias

A failed Iraqi asylum seeker suspected of the rape-murder of a teenage girl in Germany was arrested in Iraq overnight

Sadr who opposes involvement of both United States and Iran, scored a surprise victory in the May 12 vote

The 33-year-old man, Ahmed H, is accused of partaking in the June 2014 execution of 1,700 mainly Shia army recruits

Her lawyers accuses Paris of putting pressure on Baghdad to prevent return of militants to France

A group of Iraqi university students in Mosul are salvaging its heritage and distributing aid

Two homemade bombs targeted the headquarters of the Iraqi Communist Party, a party in alliance with Moqtada alSadr

International Crisis Group urges Saudi Arabia, Iran to not turn Iraq into 'battleground' after Iraqi election

Over three days, 763 bodies have been pulled from the rubble

Sadr himself cannot become prime minister as he did not run in election

Sadr faces a difficult act to herd together groups from across Iraq to form a government

Electoral surprise comes with tensions surging between US & Iran after Washington's withdrawal from 2015 nuclear deal

The winner will have to contend with the fallout from US President Donald Trump’s decision to quit Iran’s nuclear deal

Complex electoral arithmetic of Iraqi system means that final makeup of the parliament is still far from decided

May 12 election will face the challenge of rebuilding Iraq after four years of war with Islamic state

Little violence is seen on election day itself, but the vote was overshadowed by threats from extremist groups

The US president charged that the deal, negotiated under Obama did not address Iran’s ballistic missile programme

Zaidi flung his shoes at the US leader at a farewell press conference Bush was holding in Baghdad

US Immigration and Custom Enforcement officials signs over artefacts to Iraqi Ambassador Fareed Yasseen

In Iraq's last election in 2014, Kurdish parties won 62 out of parliament's 329 seats

"It's the same old faces! All they care about is getting rich, not serving the people!"

the country's reservoirs currently hold about 12 per cent of their total collective capacity

In a new report, the watchdog revealed widespread discrimination by security forces

The man who ruled Iraq with an iron fist for a quarter of a century was hanged at dawn on December 30, 2006

Pakistan's ex-envoy to UN also cautions Muslim countries on remaining divided at the critical juncture

Iraq's GDP has increased from $29 billion in 2001 to $171 billion in 2016

Activists plan to demonstrate to condemn controversial law ahead of Parliamentary elections

Since end of Vietnam War, where 58,000 Americans were killed, several times that number have taken their own lives

A US military official told the US HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter was carrying seven people