Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced on Sunday his candidacy for the May 12 parliamentary elections to choose a prime minister... READ MORE›
Managing the more than two million displaced Iraqis is one of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's toughest tasks... READ MORE›
BAIJI, Iraq -- On the front lines of the battle against the Islamic State, suspicion of the United States runs deep... READ MORE›
Five people from a single family in Sadr City, a poor Shiite neighborhood in eastern Baghdad, were also missing... READ MORE›
Attacker targets a football stadium at mixed Sunni and Shia Muslim town in Babel province, killing at least 29 people... READ MORE›
The UN human rights office also said ISIL fighters have taken over many hospitals in western Mosul and are using them as military bases... READ MORE›
Muqtada al-Sadr has grand ambitions for Iraq, and self-confidence to match. But he has yet to show how he will deliver... READ MORE›
The first is Tal Afar and the second is to support the forces going into the center of Mosul, a statement on the PMF website said... READ MORE›
Pact would give Saudi Arabia a leading role in rebuilding war-torn country, and allow it to shepherd Iraq away from its rival Iran... READ MORE›
But the Trump administration's antagonism toward Iran could alienate Abadi and other prominent Iraqi Shiites in Baghdad... READ MORE›
Daesh is hiding in different places, he said, using an acronym for Islamic State... READ MORE›
Seeking to control the oil income from the autonomous Kurdish region is central to Abadi's strategy after the Kurdish referendum on independence held on Monday... READ MORE›
To work on the deployment of federal Iraqi forces in all disputed areas, including Fish-Khabur, and the international border, Abadi said in a statement... READ MORE›
Abadi, the interior ministry spokesman, said he expected them to be gradually withdrawn after the prime minister's order... READ MORE›
Instead, Abadi won the backing of Iraq's neighbors and the United States, who all decried the Kurds' effort and stressed their support for Iraq's territorial unity... READ MORE›
On the front lines of the battle against the Islamic State, suspicion of the United States runs deep... READ MORE›
Kerry will meet with Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari and Council of Representatives Speaker Saleem al-Jabouri... READ MORE›
Trump told Abadi that he knew Iraqi forces were fighting hard against ISIL... READ MORE›
Tillerson and Abadi, along with Saudi King Salman, also participated in the inaugural meeting of the Saudi Arabia-Iraq Coordination Committee in Riyadh on Sunday... READ MORE›
Abadi said Germany could play a key role in supporting the fight against IS as it had weapons that Iraq requires, particularly anti-explosive devices... READ MORE›
Despite efforts by the security forces to stop protesters, some clambered over blast walls to get into the Green Zone... READ MORE›
Defeating the Islamic State in Fallujah deprives the group of one of its last strongholds in Iraq and gives a boost to the embattled Abadi... READ MORE›
Abadi on Feb. 24 announced the first Iraqi air strike inside Syrian territory, targeting Islamic State positions in retaliation for bomb attacks in Baghdad... READ MORE›
Speaking to reporters in the Iranian capital Tehran on Thursday, Abadi said his government had warned Iraq's northern Kurdish region against holding the referendum... READ MORE›
The Iraqi interior minister has offered to resign after a massive suicide bombing in Baghdad earlier this week killed more than 200 people... READ MORE›
The collapse in oil prices has dented its revenue from oil smuggled, now through a less permeable Turkish border, from captured Syrian and Iraqi fields... READ MORE›
Grout to reinforce the dam must be trucked in from Turkey, officials said, because the previous factory is in Mosul, now controlled by Islamic State militants... READ MORE›
Iraq lies on the fault line between Shi'ite Iran and the mainly Sunni Arab world... READ MORE›
Iraq has endured months of discontent prompted by Haider al-Abadi's attempt to replace party-affiliated ministers with technocrats as part of an anti-corruption drive... READ MORE›
The Iraqi government official said Abadi and Soleimani had not fought but were keeping an operational, business-like relationship... READ MORE›
The week started with word Iraqi forces were set to storm ISIS-held Fallujah... READ MORE›
Meanwhile, ordinary Iraqis have protested his attempts to trim public workers' salaries to cut a bloated wage bill... READ MORE›
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