A senior commander of an Iran-backed militia has been killed in a US drone strike in Baghdad.
A leader of Kataib Hezbollah and two of his guards were in a vehicle when it was targeted in the east of the Iraqi capital. All three of them died.
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A powerful Iran-backed Iraqi militia suspected of a drone strike in Jordan that killed three US soldiers says it has suspended operations against US forces.
Kataib Hezbollah, which is part of an umbrella group that claimed Sunday's attack, said this (...)
The US government has released the names of three US soldiers killed by a drone attack in Jordan on Sunday.
Sgt William Jerome Rivers, 46, Specialist Kennedy Ladon Sanders, 24, and Specialist Breonna Alexsondria Moffett, 23, were killed when a drone (...)
Iran has denied involvement in a drone attack on a US base near Jordan's border with Syria that killed three US troops.
The US blamed the attack on "radical Iranian-backed militant groups" which also left dozens injured.
US President Biden vowed (...)
The US carried out airstrikes in Iraq targeting facilities used by Iranian-backed militias in the country on Tuesday following repeated attacks on US forces, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced in a statement.
The strikes targeted three (...)
A number of US military personnel have been injured in a missile attack on an airbase in western Iraq.
The US military's Central Command said an Iran-backed militia targeted the Al Asad airbase, which hosts American troops, with ballistic missiles (...)
Iran's Revolutionary Guards on Monday launched ballistic missiles at what it said was a spy base for Israel's intelligence agency Mossad in northern Iraq, and at "anti-Iran terror groups" in Syria, in the latest escalation of hostilities that (...)
ISIS has claimed responsibility for the deadly twin blasts near the burial site of slain military commander Qasem Soleimani in southern Iran.
At least 84 people were killed and 284 injured in the blasts on Wednesday, state-run news agency IRNA (...)
An Australian man whose family argue he is being "held hostage" in Iraq has now spent 1,000 days in prison.
Robert Pether was jailed in 2021 on fraud charges, but the UN has described it as an arbitrary detention.
After three Christmases behind (...)
RIYADH — A Saudi citizen and a Kuwaiti national, who went missing recently in the Iraqi governorate of Anbar, have been found dead, according to Kuwait's foreign ministry sources.
"Two bodies found by Iraqi authorities are believed to be those of a (...)
President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas has denounced the "genocide" carried out in the Gaza Strip by Israel.
Abbas was speaking during a meeting with the American Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
"Once again, we meet in the harshest (...)
Anti-Israel protests flared across the Middle East and North Africa on Tuesday as the leaders of Arab countries condemned Israel over a deadly blast believed to have killed hundreds of people sheltering at a hospital in Gaza City.
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RIYADH — Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan held talks with Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani at the presidential palace in Baghdad on Monday.
During the meeting, they discussed the fraternal relations between the two (...)
Prime Minister Mohammad Al-Sudani attended a ceremony on Saturday near the Shalamcheh border crossing with Iran, setting the cornerstone for a railway project linking the two countries.
A statement by the Prime Minister's office said that Al-Sudani (...)
The United Nations on Friday paid tribute to 22 staff members killed in the bombing of its headquarters in Iraq 20 years ago, one of the darkest days in the organization's history.
The wreath-laying ceremony at the UN in New York was held on the eve (...)
Denmark is considering banning protests involving burning the Qur'an or other religious texts over security and diplomatic concerns.
The Danish foreign ministry said whilst protecting freedom of expression is crucial, such protests benefit (...)
A fire broke out at a power station in Basra governorate on Saturday, causing a full blackout in the country, Iraq's Ministry of Electricity said, adding service would back to normal in the coming hours.
The blaze erupted at the al-Bakr secondary (...)
Iraq and other Muslim-majority countries have strongly condemned the burning of a Qur'an on Monday by a group called "Danish Patriots" outside the Iraqi embassy in Copenhagen.
The far-right group livestreamed a similar act on Facebook on (...)
Muslim countries and organizations across the world voiced their strong disagreement on Friday over the desecration of the Qur'an in Sweden.
Outraged over the issue, thousands of people took to the streets in several countries to express their anger (...)
The United Kingdom and Iraq have agreed to strengthen their bilateral relations affirming joint commitment to work together for shared regional and global interests, the Foreign Office declared in a freshly released statement.
It said the agreement (...)
The Iranian government has refused to send a new ambassador to Sweden after a protester burned a Qur'an copy outside a mosque in the capital, Stockholm.
An Iraqi-born refugee burned the holy book outside a mosque on the first day of Eid al-Adha. (...)
Several Middle Eastern countries, including Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Iran, have condemned a "provocative" incident in which a man burned pages from the Qur'an outside a Stockholm mosque, denouncing it as "incitement to hatred".
At a rally authorized (...)
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and OPEC+ alliance succeeded in stabilizing oil prices, which benefited not only the member states and but the oil industry in general, Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman (...)
Egypt and Iraq affirmed Tuesday keenness on bolstering joint Arab work to counter various challenges facing Arab nation and achieve the hopes and aspirations of the people to live in peace and stability.
This came in meeting between Egyptian (...)
DAMMAM — Prince Saud Bin Naif, emir of Eastern Province, has launched the start of conducting the electrical linkage between the GCC Interconnection Authority (GCCIA) and Iraq.
The launch was attended by Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz Bin Salman (...)