This year, an unprecedented fiscal crunch caused by low oil prices forced the government to suspend infrastructure investments. But new dams alone won’t save Iraq’s waterways,…
A pilgrimage could prevent thousands of Iraq’s Shi’ite Muslims from voting in an upcoming election.
For the first time since the fall of Saddam Hussein, Iraqis could be seeing election candidates kissing babies and canvassing neighbours.
Militants loyal to Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr clashed with Iraqi security forces throughout Iraq’s southern oil hub of Basra for a second day on Wednesday. A health official…
Iraqi security forces fought raging battles with gunmen from radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr’s Shi’ite militia in Basra on Tuesday amid a crackdown on armed groups in the southern…
Western oil giants are poised to enter southern Iraq to tap the country’s vast reserves, despite the ongoing threat of violence, according to British Prime Minister Gordon…
Sixty people were killed or wounded by car bombs in the capital of mainly Shi’ite Maysan province in southern Iraq on Wednesday, hospital sources said. The bombs exploded in a…
British troops were quitting the southern Iraqi city of Basra overnight in a move that will end the British presence in the oil hub for the first time since the United States-led…
Iranian forces seized 15 British Royal Navy personnel who had searched a merchant ship on Friday, Britain said, triggering a diplomatic crisis. Britain said the incident took…
At least 20 people were killed when a car bomb exploded in the southern Iraqi port city of Basra late on Monday, an interior ministry source said. ”Twenty people, mostly…
Fourteen marines were killed on Wednesday in one of the deadliest attacks on United States forces since the invasion of Iraq as an American freelance reporter was gunned down in…
The chief of police in Basra admitted on Monday that he had effectively lost control of three-quarters of his officers and that sectarian militias had infiltrated the force and…
At least 68 people were killed and about 100 wounded in a series of five attacks on Wednesday against police forces in the southern, British-occupied port city of Basra in Iraq…
The UN’s World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Wednesday it expected a cholera epidemic in southern Iraq, where 17 cases have already been registered in two hospitals, and…
