Shanahan is to meet leaders including Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi and will also discuss the withdrawal...
Both countries have suffered for years at the hands of the Islamic State group
Most of those emerging from the desert over the past two weeks have been IS militants' wives and...
The US has been leading a coalition to crush the Islamic State group which grabbed swathes of Syria and...
Abdul Mahdi has previously said that about 2,000 Islamic State fighters are operating near the border...
He was accompanied by first lady Melania Trump
The new premier faces the daunting task of rebuilding much of the country after a devastating war against...
In September, the Treasury took action against Islamic State financial facilitators with ties in the...
The presidency, traditionally occupied by a Kurd, is a largely ceremonial position, but the vote for...
The United States announced on Friday it will effectively close the consulate following increasing threats...
The election is taking place a year after a failed bid for independence
In May, Trump withdrew the United States from an international deal to put curbs on Iran's nuclear...
Iraq's autonomous region of Kurdistan, which votes for a new parliament on Sunday, has endured a...
Tensions ramped up between Iran and the United States after President Donald Trump pulled out of a landmark...
Iraq’s second city has been rocked by five days of demonstrations
Public anger has grown at a time when politicians are struggling to form a new Iraqi government after...
The assailant blew up a vehicle at a checkpoint on the outskirts of al-Qaim, one of the last towns in...
The suicide bombing also wounded 16 others
It was not immediately clear who the attackers were
Security forces on Wednesday found the bodies of eight men mutilated and rigged with explosives, two...
Pakistan is now a volatile cocktail of tribalism, sectarianism, and Islamism
