when al Qaeda leader Abu Musab al Zarqawi attempted to drag Iraq into a sectarian civil war between Sunnis and Shia by running death squads and attacking Shia mosques, markets, neighborhoods, and ...

Iraq wants to diversify its economy away from oil and toward tourism. Although Western travelers have made headlines in ...

This photo taken on March 17, 2025 shows the reconstruction site of the Grand al-Nuri Mosque and its al-Hadbaa minaret in the old city of Mosul, Iraq. The Grand al-Nuri Mosque was built in 1172 ...

Since taking political power in 1979, Iran’s Shia clergy has been supporting the Shia Muslims of Iraq, Lebanon and Syria ... Muslims in the UK and the mosque has a central role in Islam.

Shia militias in Iraq have kidnapped and killed scores of Sunni civilians in recent months, a report by campaign group Amnesty International has said. The killings were in apparent revenge for ...

A high-profile leader of ISIS, described as one of the world’s “most dangerous men,” was killed in a US air strike Friday.

Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said Abdallah Makki Muslih al-Rifai, also known as Abu Khadija, was killed by Iraqi forces.