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 Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani holds a joint news conference with his Kurdish counterpart Masrour Barzani in Baghdad, Iraq April 4, 2023.

Iraqi Kurdish government and Baghdad make progress on restarting oil exports

By THE MEDIA LINE
 US soldiers are seen during a handover ceremony of Taji military base from US-led coalition troops to Iraqi security forces, in the base north of Baghdad, Iraq August 23, 2020.

US forces accounted for after reported rocket attack in Baghdad, official says

By REUTERS
A general view shows the Kalso military base after it was hit by a huge explosion on late Friday, in Babil Province, Iraq April 20, 2024.

US carried out strike in Iraq, US official says

 Workers at a coal mine fill sacks of coal to load on a truck outside Quetta, Pakistan December 9, 2015.

Governments alarmed as 50-100k Pakistani workers flee to live in Iraq

By Hudhaifa Ebrahim , Arshad Mehmood/The Media Line
Iraqi police at site of Kirku bomb attack 370

Four Iraqi police officers killed in fighting with ISIS

By THE MEDIA LINE STAFF
 A man walks past a picture of Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr during Iraq's provincial council elections, in Baghdad, Iraq, December 18, 2023.

Powerful Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Sadr girds for political comeback

By REUTERS
 Missiles of the kind used during Iran's retaliatory strike on the U.S Ayn al-Asad military base in 2020 are seen on display at Imam Khomeini Grand Mosalla in Tehran, Iran January 7, 2022.

Mysterious explosion highlights threats of Iraqi Shi'ite militias

A general view shows the Kalso military base after it was hit by a huge explosion on late Friday, in Babil Province, Iraq April 20, 2024.

Airstrike hits military base south of Baghdad used by terror organization, sources say

 Esmail Qaani, the head of the Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force, speaks in Tehran, Iran April 14, 2022

On Iranian commander's request, Iraqi terrorists dial down attacks on US

By REUTERS
 People demonstrate in front of the United Nations headquarters, following missile attacks by Iran's Revolutionary Guards, in Erbil, Iraq, January 16, 2024.

Iraq recalls envoy from Iran after attack on 'Israeli spy HQ'

By REUTERS
 Burning books.

European rabbis to Sweden on Torah burning: Amend laws, ensure unity

Protesters clash with security forces members as they gather near the Swedish embassy in Baghdad hours after the embassy was stormed and set on fire ahead of an expected Koran burning in Stockholm, in Baghdad, Iraq, July 20, 2023.

Iraq expels Swedish ambassador over planned Quran burning

By REUTERS
 Protesters gather near the Swedish embassy in Baghdad hours after the embassy was stormed and set on fire ahead of an expected Koran burning in Stockholm, in Baghdad, Iraq, July 20, 2023.

Swedish FM condemns storming of embassy in Baghdad over Quran burning

By REUTERS
President Bashar al-Assad (C) meeting with Iraq's Chief of Staff Othman al-Ghanimi (4th-R) and Iran's Chief of Staff Mohammad Hossein Bagheri (5th-L) in the presence of Syrian Defence Minister Ali Abdullah Ayyoub (3rd-R) in the Syrian capital Damascus

Iraqi PM visits Syria in first trip since Syrian war

By REUTERS
 Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad speaks during a joint press conference with Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein (not pictured), in Baghdad, Iraq June 4, 2023.

Syria-Iraq ties continue to thaw with FM Baghdad visit - analysis

 EZRA & MASOUDA SASSOON and family, Baghdad, 1919.

The Sassoons are having a moment. Here’s why that matters

By Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah/JTA
A member loyal to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) waves an ISIL flag in Raqqa June 29, 2014. The offshoot of al Qaeda which has captured swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria has declared itself an Islamic "Caliphate" and called on factions worldwide to pledge their allegiance, a st

Belgium arrests suspected al Qaeda member over Iraq attacks

By REUTERS
Qasem Soleimani, commander of IRGC Quds Force

Did Soleimani think US might kidnap him on Syria-bound flight? - analysis