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

The Turkish military has ramped up air strikes in northern Iraq, targeting PKK bases in Qandil, close...

The US military denied it was responsible

Sadr had urged his followers to remain calm after the explosion and ordered his office to investigate...

Iraq's parliament passed a law on Wednesday ordering a nationwide manual recount of votes in the...

Winning the largest number of seats does not automatically guarantee that Sadr will be able to hand-pick...

Sadr rose to prominence in the wake of the US invasion, when his militia fought a bloody insurgency against...

After years on the sidelines, he has now reinvented himself as a crusading champion of the poor who has...

Sadr has reinvented himself as an anti-graft crusader after rising to prominence as a powerful militia...

The three main ethnic and religious groups — the majority Shia Arabs and minority Sunni Arabs and...

In the Kurdish neighbourhood of Rahim Awa, passers-by prefer not to discuss the return to the polls

Between 100 to 200 US nationals travelled to Syria and Iraq after 2010 to work and fight in their ranks,...

Some believe one of Saddam's doubles was hanged

Kim and Trump are finally about to be in a room together