Crude was higher, and the potential resumption of oil exports from Iraq’s Kurdistan region could challenge the country’s ability to comply with OPEC+ quotas, Commerzbank said.

The interim government in Damascus has called for a powerful Kurdish-led militia backed by the United States to disarm and ...

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It has been well known that Hezbollah received support from Iran’s regime; however, Hezbollah’s links to Iranian-backed militias in Iraq are not always as public. Hezbollah leader Sheikh Naim ...

In Iraq, the two most ubiquitous weapons were ... Brandon J. Weichert, a Senior National Security Editor at The National Interest as well as a Senior Fellow at the Center for the National Interest ...

Major Melissa Marshall, chief of staff at CFB Shilo, received the General Campaign Star in an award presentation on Jan. 17 after returning home from a months-long deployment to Iraq. In the Canadian ...

"It is clear that the PKK terrorist organization poses a threat to the national security of Türkiye and Iraq and violates Iraq's sovereignty," he said. "We will continue to fight together with Iraq ...

"While Tehran's influence may have weakened regionally, it remains strong in Iraq," Ghafuri said. "Disarming or integrating these groups into the Iraqi national army would not diminish Tehran's ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Shiite pilgrims pray at the golden twin-domed shrine of Imam Moussa al-Kadhimduring during their annual ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Thousands of Shiite pilgrims are marching in Iraq dressed in black, heading on foot toward the golden twin-domed shrine of Imam Moussa al-Kadhim in the northwestern Baghdad ...

On Friday, an Iraqi security source reported that a massive fire broke out in the Rumaila oil field in Basra province. The fire injured several workers with varying degrees of severity, according to a ...

Iraq’s parliament has approved new legislation that would lower the minimum age of marriage below 18, a shift rights groups say will legalize “child rape” in Iraq.