Iran's economy, known as the 'resistance economy', is facing severe impacts from the ongoing US-Israel war. Economic pressures are mounting...

According to the state broadcaster Press TV, the high-ranking cleric on Tuesday urged the Iranian people to maintain their "sacred and hist...

Nouri al-Maliki: A central figure in Iraq's politics and its only two-term premier since the US invasion of 2003, the 75-year-old Shiite Ar...

The United States has not renewed a waiver allowing Iraq to buy electricity from Iran without violating sanctions. This decision is part of...

On March 20, 2003, then US president George W. Bush launched Operation "Iraqi Freedom" with a ground invasion by 150,000 US and 40,000 Brit...

The dinar hit new lows on Friday, reaching about 1,670 to the dollar. The currency has lost nearly 7 per cent of its value since mid-Novemb...

A new single-member constituency system is supposed to boost independents and reduce traditional political blocs, largely centred on religi...

Most of Iraq’s paramilitary units were formed in 2014 in response to a call by the country’s most revered Shiite cleric for Iraqis to mobil...

Pompeo spoke after talks with senior Iraqi officials and a day before a White House meeting between Trump and Iraq's prime minister, Mustaf...

Southern Iraq is home to most of Iraq’s oil industry and the protests have reached Basra.

The Berlin-based anti-graft organisation has used World Bank data, the World Economic Forum and other institutions to rank 176 countries by...

"Corruption risks are particularly prevalent in developing economies," Trevor Slack, legal and regulatory analyst at Verisk Maplecroft, wro...

Fed up with corruption in India? Wearing a Hazare topi to work? Don’t despair too soon, because things can get worse.

India has been ranked 84th in the list of 180 countries in terms of public-sector corruption, which is perceived to be highly corrupt. Worl...

UN reconstruction projects made a "real and meaningful impact" on Iraq's recovery, an independent report has found.

The growing cost to the United States of fighting the war in Iraq "is not only linked to our economic skid, but is a leading cause of it," ...

Sex and corruption scandals, as much as the war in Iraq, motivated US voters to cast their ballots against President George W Bush’s govern...