At least 15 protesters were killed on Monday after powerful Shi’ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said he would quit politics, prompting followers to storm the Iraqi presidential compound in Baghdad. A video uploaded on Monday appeared to show U.S. Embassy staff in Baghdad being evacuated via military helicopter. However, the White House denied those reports […]
BAGHDAD—Several Middle Eastern leaders and French President Emmanuel Macron met in Baghdad on Saturday at a summit hosted by Iraq, which wants its neighbors to talk to each other instead of settling scores on its territory. Relationships within the region are strained chiefly by hostility between Iran on one side and the United States and […]
BAGHDAD—ISIS terrorist group claimed responsibility for an attack in a crowded Baghdad market on Thursday, killing at least 32 people in Iraq’s first big suicide bombing for three years, authorities said, describing it as a possible sign of the reactivation of ISIS. ISIS claimed early on Friday that two of its men blew themselves up […]
A missile strike on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad has President Donald Trump publicly calling out Iran. After months of negotiating, the House came together and failed to reach an agreement on the COVID relief bill. Stimulus checks now in limbo. In Arizona, the Senate is suing election officials to get them to hand over […]
Iraqi military officials on Sunday confirmed five rockets were fired into Baghdad’s Green Zone, resulting in no injuries or deaths. “Five Katyusha rockets hit the Green Zone without casualties,” the Iraqi Security Cell confirmed, adding that details will be released later. The Green Zone is a heavily fortified area in the Iraqi capital that also […]
BAGHDAD—Iraqi security forces fired teargas and live bullets in clashes on Sunday with protesters who resisted with stones and petrol bombs, Reuters witnesses and security sources said. More than 100 protesters were hurt, including at least 75 in the southern city of Nasiriya, in the renewed violence in Baghdad and other cities after the security […]
Tens of thousands of people marched in Baghdad, Iraq, on Jan. 4 to mourn slain Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and others killed in a U.S. airstrike, including Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. Al-Muhandis was the deputy commander of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), a grouping of Iran-backed militias. Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi […]
