Archaeologists solve mystery of Iraq’s huge network of ridges and canals - The researchers reviewed images from the 1960s showing the remains of more than 7,000 massive ridges ...

BEIRUT (AP) — A system of thousands of ridges and canals across a floodplain in southern Iraq has long been believed to be the remnant of a massive agricultural system built by slave labor. Now ...

Iraq’s health ministry spokesman, Saif al-Badr, said that emergency rooms across the south had received 3,747 cases of Iraqis suffering respiratory problems as a result of the storm.

A high-profile leader of ISIS, described as one of the world’s “most dangerous men,” was killed in a US air strike Friday.

A sandstorm swept through Iraq, filling the air with choking dust that closed airports and put more than 3,700 people in hospital with breathing difficulties, the health ministry said ...

Her adult daughter and another of Mr. al-Baghdadi’s wives were tried with her. Both women, the official said, were sentenced to life in prison for their roles in ISIS.

Baghdad — Iraq’s foreign ministry voiced “regret” on Saturday over a US decision to shut its consulate in the southern city of Basra which has been rocked by weeks of deadly protests.

The Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) is an Iraqi state security service that Iran has infiltrated and uses to wield significant influence in Iraq. Iran’s cooptation of the PMF enables Tehran to ...

Iraqi authorities handed over Kuwaiti blogger Salman Al-Khalidi, who was sentenced in absentia to long years in prison, to Kuwaiti authorities at the Kuwaiti Al-Abdali border crossing with Iraq. The ...

Halford-Macleod said Major-General Mohan al-Firaiji, commander of Iraqi security operations in Basra, was meeting leaders of political parties. Violence appeared to have subsided.