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IRAQ 'CHILD MARRIAGE' BILL PROPOSES TO SCRAP MINIMUM AGE
Conservative Shiite deputies on October 31 proposed an amendment to a 1959 law that set the minimum age for marriage at 18... READ MORE›
CRITICS VIEW PROPOSED IRAQ CHILD MARRIAGE BILL AS LICENSE TO RAPE
Majeda al-Tamimi, a female legislator, said she is confident that many of her colleagues in parliament would oppose the bill... READ MORE›
U.S. RAISES ALARM AS IRAQ ARMY SEIZES OIL-RICH KIRKUK FROM KURDS
That could lead to agreements on Kurdish withdrawals from some areas and potentially joint administration, he added... READ MORE›
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AMPUTEE SOLDIER'S MUSLIM FACEBOOK POST GOES VIRAL
Chris Herbert, who served in the British Army in Basra, Iraq, lost his right leg when a bomb went off next to his Land Rover in 2007... READ MORE›
SECOND DEADLY BLAST STRIKES BAGHDAD IN 24 HOURS
Suicide bombers kill more than 50 people in separate attacks in Baghdad and Basra, police say... READ MORE›
THE HISTORY OF MOSUL, IN FIVE MAPS
For a thousand years, Mosul has been at the heart of battles that shaped the Middle East... READ MORE›
FORMER ARMY CAPTAIN RACHEL WEBSTER TO SUE THE GOVERNMENT OVER IHAT RAID
Miss Webster was swooped on in a dawn raid at her home in London and driven 100 miles to Portsmouth for questioning... READ MORE›
SHIITES ARE PARTICIPATING IN THE WORLD'S LARGEST PILGRIMAGE TODAY. HERE'S HOW THEY VIEW THE WORLD.
Last November, we used this pilgrimage as an opportunity to survey religious Shiites from Iran and Iraq, an important but largely understudied population... READ MORE›
TWO MIDDLE EAST LOCATIONS HIT 129 DEGREES, HOTTEST EVER IN EASTERN HEMISPHERE, MAYBE THE WORLD
Death Valley currently holds the record for the world's hottest temperature of 134.1 degrees 56.7 Celsius, set July 10, 1913... READ MORE›
IRAQ: SCORES KILLED IN PETROL STATION HILLA ATTACK
Fighters claim responsibility for blast targeting Shia Muslims returning from Arbaeen pilgrimage in city of Karbala... READ MORE›
AN EPIC MIDDLE EAST HEAT WAVE COULD BE GLOBAL WARMING'S HELLISH CURTAIN-RAISER
Can people live in fire? Mustafa Salim in Baghdad and Sheikha al-Dosary in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, contributed this report... READ MORE›
ISIL SUICIDE ATTACK ON IRAQ POWER PLANT KILLS SEVEN
Disguised suicide bombers have killed seven people and wounded 12 others in an attack on a power plant north of Baghdad... READ MORE›
HAJJ PREP SEARCH SOUL BUY STURDY SHOES PAY THE DENTIST
If you buy them in Mecca or Medina, it's around 35 a kilo... READ MORE›
ANGER AS THREE SOLDIERS WARNED THEY FACE PROSECUTION OVER IRAQI TEENAGERS DEATH
Mr Mercer called for Ihat, which is pursuing almost 1,500 allegations of abuse made against British troops by Iraqi civilians, to be closed down... READ MORE›
BRITISH SOLDIER DIES IN IRAQ IN AN INCIDENT NOT CAUSED BY 'ENEMY ACTIVITY'A
The 21-year-old from Surbiton, Surrey killed himself at a base in Basra in February 2009.A Camp Taji in Iraq Credit U.S. Air Force Tech... READ MORE›
SHELL SIGNS $11 BILLION DEAL TO BUILD PETROCHEMICALS PLANT IN IRAQ
Shell is one of the main major oil companies operating in south of Iraq, operating the Majnoon oilfield and leading the Basra Gas Company joint venture... READ MORE›
ISIS IS NEAR DEFEAT IN IRAQ NOW COMES THE HARD PART
Corruption within the security forces and judiciary contributes to the perception that Islamic State fighters have bought their way out of prison... READ MORE›
IRAQIS PROTEST ELECTRICITY SHORTAGE DURING HEAT WAVE
Iraqis in Baghdad had been used to a fairly reliable supply of electricity... READ MORE›
7-YEAR IRAQ INQUIRY ENDS IN STINGING CRITIQUE OF BLAIR
The inquiry concluded, bluntly Mr. Blair eventually succeeded only in the narrow goal of securing President Bush's agreement that there should be U.N... READ MORE›
U.S. SEES A VITAL IRAQI TOLL ROAD, BUT IRAN SEES A THREAT
Mr. Abadi has awarded the development project to Olive Group, although the final details are still being worked out... READ MORE›
DOZENS KILLED IN WAVE OF SUICIDE CAR BOMB ATTACKS
Iraqi government forces backed by a US-led international coalition have since retaken many cities, including Tikrit and Fallujah... READ MORE›
HOW WILL MOSUL AND ALEPPO SURVIVE TODAY'S WARS? THEIR SHARED ANCIENT HISTORY OFFERS SOME CLUES
Omar Sanadiki Reuters Just 300 miles separate Mosul, Iraq, and Aleppo, Syria, two cities very much in the news in recent months... READ MORE›
DAVID CAMERON TO DELAY PUBLICATION OF IRAQ WAR INQUIRY UNTIL AFTER EU REFERENDUM
It is beyond appalling that the Government should casually extend their misery further by delaying the publication of the Chilcot report... READ MORE›
BRITAIN'S MOST EXPERIENCED SNIPER TELLS OF HIS FRUSTRATION IN IRAQ
Soldier training Iraqi army in remote base says he would love to help fight against Isis in Mosul but has not been allowed out... READ MORE›
'BLAIR IS WORLD'S WORST TERRORIST': FAMILIES OF IRAQ WAR VICTIMS REACT TO CHILCOT REPORT
Tony Blair has been described as the world's worst terrorist by a woman who lost her brother in the Iraq war... READ MORE›
ISIS HOLDING ESTIMATED 3500 SLAVES IN IRAQ SAYS UN
Islamic State militants have enslaved an estimated 3,500 people in Iraq, primarily women and children from the Yazidi community, a UN report says... READ MORE›
ISIS SUICIDE ATTACK: MORE THAN 80 KILLED IN SOUTHERN IRAQ
Iraqi officials said 84 people had been killed and 93 people injured in the attack in Nasiriyah, in Iraq's southern Thi Qar province on Thursday evening... READ MORE›
BRITAIN LAUNCHES FIGHTER JETS AGAINST ISIS FORCES IN IRAQ
Denmark and Belgium have also committed their air forces to tackling Isis, but, like Britain and France, have limited their roles to inside Iraq... READ MORE›
'EPIDEMIC OF BIRTH DEFECTS & CANCER IN IRAQ AFTER US-LED WAR'
The US-led assault on Fallujah, a stronghold of the Iraqi insurgency west of Baghdad, became one of the major operations during the Iraq war... READ MORE›
BP IS MOST-EXPOSED AMONG OIL MAJORS TO OPEC-RUSSIA CUTS
Total follows BP with 670,000 barrels a day of output in the countries, according to Rystad... READ MORE›
ANALYSIS | WHAT THE ISLAMIC STATE IS SAYING ABOUT ITS LOSS OF MOSUL
In Mosul right now, families are cheering, singing as they clutch the Iraqi flag... READ MORE›
JORDAN BORDER CROSSING WITH IRAQ TO REOPEN IN MAJOR BOOST TO TIES
Tureibil would open on Wednesday after the road was secured from attacks and criminal gangs, the Iraqi and Jordanian governments said in a joint statement... READ MORE›
CRYSTAL METH EPIDEMIC FORCES BASRA'S POLICE TO PICK BATTLES WITH SMUGGLERS
He is a drug dealer, not someone selling tomatoes that you can just send a police car to capture... READ MORE›