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  IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Iraq’s self-ruled Kurdish region was holding long-delayed parliamentary elections on Sunday, a year after a…

  The United States announced on Friday it will effectively close its consulate in the Iraqi city of Basra and…

  BAGHDAD (AP) — Masked gunmen shot dead a human rights activist and mother of four outside a supermarket in…

    Hajar Youssif was on her daily commute to work, staring at her phone and flicking through her Instagram…

  KERBALA, Iraq (Reuters) – Millions of Shi’ites Muslims gathered at shrines and mosques in Kerbala and other parts of…

  ERBIL (Reuters) – Shi’ite militia leader Hadi al-Amiri, one of the most powerful figures in Iraq, withdrew his candidacy…

  An attack Saturday on a Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan base in Iraq killed at least 11 people and…

  Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi faced calls to resign Saturday as his alliance with a populist cleric who won…

  Iraq’s parliament on Friday called an emergency session after a curfew was imposed in the southern city of Basra…

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Israeli jets flying high over Lebanon struck at targets inside Syria on Tuesday, Syrian state media…