Iraq is set to open its first industrial-scale solar plant in a vast desert area in Karbala as the government attempts to tackle an electricity crisis that has led to widespread blackouts.

Iraqi Vice President and former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki attends to cast his vote at a polling station during the ...

Forty-seven French citizens suspected of being Islamic State members have been handed over to Iraq for prosecution.

Ahmed al-Sharaa became the first Syrian president in almost 60 years to deliver a speech at the UN General Assembly on ...

The commander, Omar Abdul Qader Bassam, known as "Abdul Rahman Al-Halabi", was the group’s head of external operations and ...