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

describing him as "one of the most dangerous terrorists in Iraq and the world." Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said Abdallah Makki Muslih al-Rufay'i, also known as Abu Khadija, had been ...

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

The head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed in Iraq in an operation by members of the Iraqi national intelligence service along with US-led coalition forces, the Iraqi prime ...

Iraq wants to diversify its economy away from ... The central Baghdad square where Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani is about to give a speech on tourism is surrounded by exactly ...

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 ...

Cape Town's Muslim Shia community is "tense", says Moulana Syed Aftab Haider, after a deadly attack on a Shia mosque in Verulam last week. They are trying to raise money for extra security. Haider is ...

Either of these conflicts could arise along any of the major fault lines in Iraq: Shia-Sunni, Arab-Kurd, or intra-Shia. Further, either of these contingencies could spark the other, as political ...

(250318) -- MOSUL, March 18, 2025 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on March 17, 2025 shows the reconstruction site of the Grand al-Nuri Mosque in the old city of Mosul, Iraq. The Grand al-Nuri Mosque was ...

I was appalled by how little our senior policymakers knew about the formation of modern Iraq and the establishment of Shia Islam in the year 681 following the “martyrdom” of Husayn bin Ali in the ...