Christians in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region have long requested special voting for the minority to prevent external, well-established parties from interfering in the minority quota, but their calls ...

Iraq’s top court on Tuesday threw out a legal challenge that had temporarily halted three controversial laws passed last ...

Iraq’s top court on Tuesday threw out a legal challenge that had temporarily halted three controversial laws passed last ...

This is a locator map for Iraq with its capital, Baghdad ... A number of members of parliament filed a complaint alleging that the voting process was illegal because all three bills — each supported ...

Iraq’s cabinet in November had approved a plan to pay $16 a barrel for oil production and transportation from the Kurdistan region. Following two readings, the parliament was scheduled to vote ...

A "sectarian" bill that could potentially legitimise child marriage in Iraq has passed into law reportedly without a vote in the parliament. The parliamentary website said "the proposal to amend ...

The Iraqi parliament is set to convene on Sunday to vote on an amendment to the budget law proposed by the federal government which could lead to the resumption of Kurdistan Region’s oil exports.

IRAQ has effectively legalised child marriage, with girls as young as nine being able to marry after amendments to decades old laws. The change on Tuesday has increased the interpretation of ...

Iraq's top court has temporarily suspended three controversial laws passed by the parliament, following allegations of an ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraq’s legislature on Tuesday passed ... became a headache for the parliament as discussions and voting on them were repeatedly delayed due to agreements.

With the remarkable overthrow of Bashar al-Assad in Syria by a group of rebels led by Ahmed al-Sharaa, American officials are scrambling for a strategy. The U.S. is rightly reaching out to al ...

Speaking at the founding conference of the Karbala Tribal Council on Saturday, al-Maliki claimed that followers of Ahl ...