Voting in Iraqi provincial elections ended peacefully Saturday evening, and the mood was festive in some places, unlike the violence, intimidation and apathy that marked the balloting in 2005. "There ...

A former Iraqi cabinet minister has been sentenced to death for ordering the murder of a Sunni politician's two sons. Assad Kamal al-Hashemi, also a Sunni, resigned as culture minister and went into ...

At the U.N. General Assembly in New York, a man who one year ago had a U.S. bounty on his head strode to the center of the world stage as the President of Syria. Ahmed Al-Sharaa fought the Assad ...

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

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.

Former Borussia Dortmund coach Nuri Sahin has agreed to take over at Turkish Süperlig side Basaksehir, the club said on X on Saturday. The contract is to be signed on Monday. Sahin took a first ...

JERUSALEM/DOHA/WASHINGTON, Sept 10 (Reuters) - If Israel failed to kill Hamas leaders in an airstrike on Qatar on Tuesday, it would succeed next time, the Israeli ...

The Israeli military carried out unprecedented airstrikes Tuesday on senior Hamas leaders in a suburb of Qatar's capital, Doha. The attack killed six people, including the son of top Hamas negotiator ...

Adds Trump comments Qatar calls Israel treacherous Hamas leader's son killed in Israeli attack US feels badly about location of attack, Trump says Trump spoke to Israeli leader afterwards ...

George Retes is a 25-year-old U.S. Army veteran who served a tour in Iraq. On July 10, while on his way to work as a security guard at a Southern California cannabis farm, he was detained by federal ...

President Trump and the Iraqi government on Tuesday announced that Elizabeth Tsurkov, an Israeli-Russian citizen, U.S. permanent resident and Princeton graduate student, was released after being held ...

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