The city - Iraq's third-largest with nearly 700,000 ... in the southern city of Nasiriyah near the 4,000-year-old ziggurat at Ur, where the Bible says Abraham was born. Abraham, or Ibrahim in ...

Left: Official portrait of JD Vance by US Marine Corps, dated 2003. Right: Fellow marine Cullen Tiernan and JD Vance. (United States Department of Defense / Cullen Tiernan) JD Vance sparked a ...

The U.S. military said those killed in a joint assault by U.S. and Iraqi forces last month included the group’s top commander in Iraq and its leading bomb maker. By Eric Schmitt Reporting from ...

Kurdish minorities are sounding the alarm over an expected U.S. downsizing from Iraq by 2026, worried they will be left vulnerable to extremist attacks that have frequently targeted the group.

Iraq’s prime minister said US troops are no longer needed in his country because they have largely succeeded in vanquishing ISIS, and he plans to announce a timetable for their withdrawal soon.

Sept 30 (Reuters) - The Republic of Iraq owes more than $5.7 million to its former U.S. lawyer after failing to pay his legal bills for years, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled on Friday ...

Four ISIS leaders were killed as part of a U.S.-Iraqi raid in Western Iraq on Aug. 29 that killed 14 operatives, the U.S. military said on Friday. The U.S. disclosed the operation in August ...

Washington and Baghdad are working on a plan to draw down the U.S. troop presence in Iraq as soon as next year. The U.S. and Iraq have reached an "understanding" on plans to have hundreds of U.S ...

BAGHDAD, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Iraq faces a budget crunch in 2025 due to the slump in the price of oil, the overwhelming source of government revenue, a top economic adviser to Prime Minister ...

After negotiating for most of the year, U.S. and Iraqi officials finally reached a deal on Friday over the U.S. presence in Iraq—one that is frankly long overdue. Although U.S. officials insist ...

BAGHDAD — The United States will withdraw most troops from Iraq over the next two years but leave a small residual force in the northern Kurdistan region under a plan negotiated by American and ...

Hamas and the Houthis have opened offices in Baghdad, reflecting the two groups’ evolving relationship with Iraq as Tehran works to build a regional power bloc. By Alissa J. Rubin Reporting from ...