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...

``The war against IS and the readiness of our forces requires a special timetable, and this depends on the negotiations that we will conduc...

The explosion occurred in the densely populated Sadr City district. Iraqi security services believe that the explosives were detonated by t...

Over the past two years, Sadr's political organisation, the Sadrist Movement, has quietly come to dominate the apparatus of the Iraqi state...

Supporters of Qassim Mahmoud Musleh greeted him with hugs and kisses on Baghdad's central Jadriya Bridge after his release, taking photos a...

Musleh is the head of the Popular Mobilization Forces in Anbar province. The PMF is a state-sanctioned group comprised of an array of milit...

"We urgently need to review safety measures at all hospitals to prevent such a painful incident from happening in future," spokesman Khalid...

It is a tightrope for al-Kadhimi, who has said bringing armed groups under state control is a goal of his administration but finds himself ...

Paramilitary groups aligned with Iran in Iraq and Yemen have launched attacks against the United States and its Arab allies in recent weeks...

The rare suicide bombing attack hit the Bab al-Sharqi commercial area in central Baghdad amid heightened political tensions over planned ea...

An uncertain future awaits them – wrecked towns with no services, surrounded by paramilitaries who regard the returnees with suspicion for ...

Making Lami a senior officer in the army is one of the boldest moves yet by Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, a U.S. ally, to dilute the p...

"What we're being told is that it is a gradual closure of the embassy over two to three months," an Iraqi official told The Wall Street Jou...

The planned announcements come as the president has been trying to make the case that he has fulfilled the promises he made four years ago ...

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

The king was "admitted today to King Faisal specialist hospital in Riyadh for some medical tests due to cholecystitis," the royal court sai...

The upheaval prolongs a leadership vacuum at the helm of the government amid a severe economic crisis and viral pandemic. In December, care...