The Syriac Catholic archbishop of Mosul and its dependencies, Archbishop Benedict Younan Hanno, has rejected the results of the investigations into the incident of a wedding party blaze in which hundreds were killed in the majority Christian district...

A royal wedding is a marriage ceremony attended by royal family members. Senior royal family members' weddings are frequently regarded as significant state affairs and attract a lot of domestic and international attention.Over the last centuries, the...

Belgium police have arrested an Iraqi immigrant suspected of belonging to an Al-Qaeda cell that carried out deadly car bombings in Baghdad in 2009-2010, prosecutors said Friday.The man, identified by the initials O.Y.T., born in 1979, was detained on...

Turkey will release more water flows from the Tigris River to its southern neighbor, Iraq, as a sign of a breakthrough in the water stress crisis that has been facing Iraq since 2015 due to the impacts of climate change and the ongoing building of da...

Sectarian violence looms between the Sunni and Shiite Muslims in Iraq over the renaming of a Sunni mosque by the administration of the Shiite Al-Askari Holy Shrine in the city of Samarra in Saladin governorate, which has a Sunni majority.The Iraqi As...

Twenty years after the US-led invasion of Iraq toppled Saddam Hussein, the oil-rich country remains deeply scarred by the conflict and, while closer to the United States, far from the liberal democracy Washington had envisioned.President George W. Bu...

By AFPIraq's customs department gave orders on Saturday to start enforcing a ban on alcohol imports that became law last month despite divisions over the legislation.But the specialist retail stores that dominate alcohol sales in the virtual absence...

The “eternal” flames of Baba Gurgur have been burning for thousands of years. Baba Gurgur was thought to be the world's largest oil field before the Ghawar field in Saudi Arabia was discovered in 1948.HistoryFirst discovered in northern Iraq in 1927,...

By AFPBlack buffaloes wade through the waters of Iraq's Mesopotamian marshes, leisurely chewing on reeds. After years of drought, winter rains have brought some respite to herders and livestock in the famous wetlands.Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage...

By AFPOne person was killed and dozens injured Thursday when a stampede broke out outside a football stadium in Iraq hours before the Gulf Cup final, medical and security sources said.Long banned from hosting international football matches, war-torn...

Married for over a decade, Alia Abdel-Razak is one of a million Iraqis deprived of crucial civil status documents, often caught in legal limbo in a country paralysed by bureaucracy and the ravages of war.The 37-year-old has to overcome countless hurd...