September 11, 2024 3:39 PM
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian visited Iraq on Wednesday on his first foreign trip, signalling the clerical establishment's intention to strengthen ties with a strategic ally of both Tehran and Washington as regional tensions rise. Pezeshkian, ...
August 2, 2024 5:51 PM
Fahad Qassim was just 11 years old when Islamic State militants overran his Yazidi community in the Sinjar region of northern Iraq in August 2014, taking him captive. The attack was the start of what became the systematic slaughter, enslavement, and...
July 24, 2024 9:15 PM
Iraq has resumed rice cultivation after a two-year ban prompted by water scarcity, and is testing out a strain of the grain that consumes less water than traditionally planted versions. Deputy Minister of Agriculture Mahdi Sahar al-Jubouri told Reut...
June 10, 2024 11:02 AM
It was the simple night-time act of watering flowers on his street in Mosul's Old City that made Saqr Zakaria stop and think about just how safe this last bastion of Islamic State militants had become since it was liberated in 2017. "I thought for a...
April 19, 2024 9:03 AM
Israel launched missile strikes against Tehran during early hours on Friday morning (local time), ABC News reported citing a senior US official. However, the official could not confirm whether Syria and Iraq sites were hit as well. The report came sh...
April 15, 2024 11:59 AM
Turkish, Jordanian and Iraqi officials said on Sunday that Iran gave wide notice days before its drone and missile attack on Israel, but U.S. officials said Tehran did not warn Washington and that it was aiming to cause significant damage. Iran lau...
March 20, 2024 9:05 PM
Soumendu Bagchi, Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer of batch 1993, has been appointed as India's next ambassador to Iraq, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Monday. Bagchi is currently the Deputy Director General, of the Indian Council...
November 28, 2023 3:02 PM
Iran on Monday called for a permanent ceasefire in the Gaza Strip as the four-day truce between Hamas and Israel entered its final day. At a press briefing in Tehran, Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani demanded an end of the ongoing co...
November 22, 2023 2:57 PM
Iraq's Kataib Hezbollah militia said five of its members were killed in its stronghold of Jurf al-Sakhar, south of Baghdad, in U.S. strikes that Washington said were in response to attacks by Iran-aligned militias against its forces in the region. T...
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