Iraqi President Barham Salih told the 2020 U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday that his country is struggling to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, which struck Iraq after years of difficult and expensive struggles with extremism, terrorism, and corruption, at a moment when falling oil prices were cutting into the nation’s income.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani delivered a bizarre address to the 2020 U.N. General Assembly in which he claimed Iran single-handedly defeated the Islamic State, portrayed his brutal regime as a paragon of tolerance and human rights, and compared the Iranian people suffering under U.S. sanctions to George Floyd suffering beneath the knee of a policeman.
Iraq announced a travel ban on the governor of Kirkuk, Rakan al-Jabouri — appointed to restore Baghdad-led leadership and expel Kurdish leadership in the aftermath of the 2017 Kurdish independence referendum — on Tuesday amid charges of criminally misappropriating public funds.
During a speech to veterans in Tampa on Tuesday, Joe Biden confused Iraq and Iran for at least the second time.
President Donald Trump on Friday awarded the Medal of Honor to Sgt. Maj. Thomas “Patrick” Payne at the White House. The special operations raid took place in October 2015 in Northern Iraq freed 75 Iraqi citizens from Islamic State terrorists.
Biden said in an interview Thursday that he would keep an enduring U.S. troop presence in the Middle East if elected president.
Former Vice President Joe Biden tried to use military deaths from coronavirus to bash his rival, President Donald Trump, but botched the numbers badly.
President Donald Trump will withdraw 2,200 American troops from Iraq in September, Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie, the top U.S. commander of Central Command, said on Wednesday.
Nearly 3,000 Yazidis remain missing in the wake of the Islamic State invasion of Iraq, which oversaw a systemic effort to eliminate the minority group through genocide and forced assimilation.
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — An American soldier who helped rescue about 70 hostages set to be executed by Islamic State militants in Iraq has been approved to receive the Medal of Honor for actions during a daring 2015 raid, The Associated Press has learned.
Residents of a Christian village in Northern Iraq’s Kurdistan Region have been forced to abandon the settlement in recent months over Turkey’s ongoing military operations in the area, Kurdish outlets reported on Tuesday.
Yazidi groups reported Turkish airstrikes on Tuesday in Sinjar, an Iraqi city once at the heart of the nation’s Yazidi population devastated in 2014 by the Islamic State’s attempted genocide of its residents.
Iraq is set to “significantly” reduce its reliance on Iranian energy imports by 2021, Iraq’s finance minister said this weekend.
The 2020 Democratic National Convention was very light on policy details in all areas, but especially in the realm of foreign policy.
Speaking from the Oval Office alongside visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi on Thursday, President Donald Trump said the United States would “be leaving shortly,” without providing an exact timetable for the removal of American forces from the country.
U.S. Attorney-General William Barr has written to Home Secretary Priti Patel promising not to seek the death penalty against the so-called “Beatles” terrorists after British judges ruled the UK government could not provide the Americans with evidence against them if a conviction might result in their execution.
Analysis of the historic peace deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) tends to focus on Iran and Turkey as the big losers. They were certainly the loudest complainers.
Marine General Kenneth McKenzie, head of the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), said during an online forum on Wednesday that he is concerned about a resurgence of the Islamic State in Syria’s prison camps. McKenzie recommended repatriating foreign ISIS prisoners as quickly as possible and working to deradicalize them once they have returned to their countries of origin.
A Turkish drone strike in northeastern Iraq’s Kurdistan Region killed three Kurds on Tuesday, “two members of Iraq’s border guard and the driver of the vehicle they were in,” according to the Iraqi military.
Security forces in Baghdad, Iraq, opened live fire on anti-government protesters this weekend, leaving two men dead and 26 others injured, Kurdish news agency Rudaw reported on Monday.
BAGHDAD (AP) – A German woman well known in Iraq´s art scene and an ardent supporter of mass anti-government protests was kidnapped outside the Baghdad arts center where she worked, a security official and activists said Tuesday. The abduction of
Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley said Sunday that Joe Biden would reverse all of the progress achieved by President Donald Trump in the Middle East by reverting to the failed policies of the Obama administration.
South Korean health officials reported 47 of the 61 new coronavirus infections detected on Thursday came from overseas. Twenty of them were sourced to local construction workers who recently worked in Iraq.
The Trump administration recently appointed Simone Ledeen as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East, the first woman in the position for at least 10 years.
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) of Iraq announced a “total lockdown” of its capital province, Erbil, on Sunday, in an attempt to stop the spread of the Chinese coronavirus.
Drone strikes of unconfirmed origin killed at least six people in Sulaimani province, northern Iraq, on Thursday, including multiple children. The strike, reportedly targeting members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), occurred near what the Kurdish outlet Rudaw described as a “village resort” popular with families.
Iraqi counter-terrorism units raided the Baghdad headquarters of Kataib Hezbollah (KH) late Thursday night, capturing as many as 23 of the Iran-backed terrorist militia’s fighters, according to Iraqi officials.
The militant separatist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) launched an attack against a Turkish outpost near the Iranian border on Tuesday night, killing at least one Turkish soldier and wounding another.
The government of Iraq announced the shutdown of 20 refugee and internally displaced persons (IDPs) camps in western Anbar province this weekend, stating that people no longer need them as they are returning home.
Members of the few remaining Christian communities of northern Iraq following attempted genocide by the Islamic State told the Kurdish outlet Rudaw this weekend that they are “terrified” as Turkey continues to bomb alleged Kurdish terrorist targets near them.
