Iraq’s Nuri al-Maliki digs in as President nominates new Prime Minister ... Kirk Sowell, author of “Inside Iraqi Politics,” said the end of al-Maliki’s eight-year rule appears near.

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki gave up the fight Thursday to keep his post, clearing the way for a new leader that many hope can hold Iraq together as the country battles brutal extremist fighters ...

Iraq Lays Cornerstone To Restore Al-Nuri Mosque, ... As NPR's Jane Arraf reported, the United Nations said 8,000 homes in the Old City were damaged or destroyed in fighting, ...

After eight months of grinding urban warfare, Iraqi government troops on Thursday captured the ruined mosque at the heart of ...

That project exists, but I am fighting it, and it is to be fought politically and militarily,” said Nuri al-Maliki about his longtime political rival, Moqtada al-Sadr, in a leaked recording.

Lt. Gen. Steve Townsend, who commands the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq and Syria, said he caught one last glimpse of al-Nuri mosque not long before he learned it had been demolished.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) -- Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, growing in strength as violence fades and Iraq tries to embrace political unity, has called for forgiveness for allies of Saddam Hussein. "We ...

IRBIL, Iraq (CNN) — Iraqi President Fuad Masum nominated a new Prime Minister on Monday, further complicating the country’s intense power struggle amid a dire humanitarian crisis and a … ...

Iraq's military said ISIS destroyed the 12th century al-Nuri mosque in Mosul's Old City, where ISIS fighters remain. Iraq's prime minister called it "a formal declaration of their defeat." ...

"As our Iraqi Security Force partners closed in on the al-Nuri mosque, ISIS destroyed one of Mosul and Iraq's great treasures," Maj. Gen. Joseph Martin, commander of the ground forces component of ...