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 has thrown out a legal challenge that had temporarily halted three controversial laws passed last month by ...

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 ...

But it did not work out so well. To be sure, Iraq had many problems besides rushed elections. By early 2005, the country was beset by insurgency, terrorism and civil war. But all the voting made ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

vote, you have to go for three reasons: Vote to satisfy your conscience and to obey God and to bring peace in this world." During the Iraq war, Al-Husainy gained national attention, appearing on ...

Newsweek contacted Iraq's Ministry of Foreign Affairs for comment ... Press that half of the lawmakers in the session did not vote. Proponents meanwhile praised the laws' passage, with Parliament ...

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 ...