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Baghdad has announced a financial reward for information on the location of burial sites for Iraqi and Kuwaiti victims of the 1990-1991 Gulf War. In a joint statement on Sunday, the Iraqi ministries of defense and interior called on anyone who has information about graves of missing persons inside...

The United Kingdom has acknowledged that the ISIL (ISIS) group committed “acts of genocide” against the Yazidi people in 2014. Marking the ninth anniversary of atrocities committed by ISIL against the Yazidi community, the UK’s decision on Tuesday follows a ruling by the German Federal Court of...

The remains of 605 people believed to have been killed by ISIL (ISIS) have been exhumed from a mass grave near a prison in northern Iraq over the past two years, a government agency has said. The group, which took over vast swathes of Iraq and Syria in 2014, had taken the inmates from the prison in...

The head of Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Iraq met on Sunday with the military leader of the US-led coalition in Iraq and Syria to discuss the importance of protecting the sovereignty and security of Iraq and the Iraqi Kurdistan region. Both sides discussed the urgent need to solve the...

Cholera has swept across Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq as the countries have struggled with devastated infrastructure, turmoil and housing large populations of people displaced by conflict. The hundreds of thousands of cases, worsened by conflict, poverty and climate change, have become a major setback...

Iraqi firebrand leader Moqtada al-Sadr’s movement announced its refusal to join a new government being formed by Prime Minister-designate Mohammad Shia al-Sudani. The announcement came two days after lawmakers elected Abdul Latif Rashid as Iraq’s new president, and he swiftly named al-Sudani as...

Lawmakers in Iraq have elected Kurdish politician Abdul Latif Rashid as the country’s new president, paving the way for the formation of a new government and ending a year of deadlock, even as rockets landed near the parliament building. Rashid replaced fellow Iraqi Kurd Barham Saleh as head of...

Iraq’s top court, the Federal Court, on Wednesday rejected a petition to dissolve the parliament, saying that to do so would be beyond the court's legal authority and that the parliament—which has the power to choose a president and prime minister—must dissolve itself if it is deemed to not have...

Supporters of the Iraqi Shia religious leader Muqtada al-Sadr have rallied in front of the country’s Supreme Judicial Council, expanding a sit-in that initially began in front of the parliament building, and escalating their calls for parliament to be dissolved. In response, the Supreme Judicial...

Hundreds of Iraqi demonstrators, most of them followers of the Iraqi Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr, have stormed the parliament building in Baghdad to protest against the nomination for prime minister by Iran-backed parties. No lawmakers were present in parliament when the protesters penetrated the...