Iraqis have been eagerly awaiting the first sitting of parliament, called the Council of Representatives of Iraq, as they look for certainty over the leadership of the country following the November ...

International coalition forces will completely withdraw from Ain al-Asad Air Base in the western Iraqi province of Anbar next ...

Iraq’s parliament elected a new speaker on Monday. This is important because it is the first major appointment of the parliament since the November elections.Iraq continues to face challenges as it ...

Iraq's new parliament elected a senior figure from the Sunni Taqadom party as its speaker Monday, the first session since ...

Iraqi lawmaker Haibat al-Halbousi has been elected as the new speaker of the Iraqi parliament during the parliament’s opening ...

More than a month after Iraq's parliamentary elections, the country's top leaders remain locked in talks to form a government ...

The historic “land between two rivers” faces a crisis as the Tigris and Euphrates shrink dramatically amid severe drought and the increasing toll of upstream dams, helping create the country’s worst ...

Political factions in Iraq have been maneuvering since the parliamentary election more than a month ago to form alliances that will shape the next government.

Akram al Kaabi (left), co-founder of Asaib Ahl al Haq, with now-deceased Iranian Qods Force commander Qassem Soleimani (middle). Iran’s 45-year trajectory from the Khomeini revolution to its current ...

Al-Qaeda has overstayed its welcome among a powerful group of Iraqi insurgents. One of the most influential nationalist insurgent groups in Iraq has asked Osama bin Laden to remember his religious ...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - The most feared and effective rebel group battling President Bashar al-Assad, the Islamist Nusra Front, is being eclipsed by a more radical jihadi force whose aims go far beyond ...

Al-Qaeda has lost its most powerful friend in Iraq: Harith al-Dari, the country’s most influential Sunni cleric and a prominent anti-American figure, has rejected al-Qaeda’s vision of an Islamic state ...