A large-scale power outage swept across much of central, western and southern Iraq for several hours on Monday as temperatures soared beyond 50C. Officials said electricity systems went offline in the ...

Iraq's navy has seized a Liberian-flagged oil tanker, the Liliana, suspected of fuel smuggling in Gulf waters near Basra.

Condemnation grew in Iraq after a 300-year-old minaret, viewed as a heritage site by the Ministry of Culture, was demolished in the southern city of Basra on Friday.

Iraq's navy has detained a Liberian-flagged oil tanker in its territorial waters as part of a crackdown on fuel smuggling at sea, sources with the navy and oil and transport ministries said on Friday.

With most areas of Baghdad reporting a maximum of four hours of electricity a day, however, those figures would appear to be optimistic, at best. Electricity officials in northern Nineveh province ...

Unrest in one of Iraq's biggest cities, Basra, has shaken up the country at a time of political instability. Basra is an oil hub, but people are poor and a water crisis has pushed them to the edge.

The crowd gathered outside the house of Muzahim Mustafa Kanan al Tamimi, the sheikh the British are appointing to take over civil administration of Basra. He's better known as Gen. Al Tamimi, a ...

COB BASRA, Iraq - The soon-to-open resiliency campus at Contingency Operating Base Basra hosted Gen. Ray Odierno, United States Forces-Iraq commander, during his visit to the base Aug. 18.