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Rockets fired after day of mourning for slain Iranian leader

BAGHDAD — Thousands of militiamen and other supporters chanting “America is the Great Satan” marched in a funeral procession Saturday in Baghdad for I...
19:37 4 January 2022

Iran vows revenge for US attack that killed powerful general

BAGHDAD — Iran promised to seek revenge for a U.S. airstrike near Baghdad's airport that killed the mastermind of its interventions across the Middle ...
1:47 4 January 2022

Trump stirs Mideast tensions despite talk of ‘endless wars’

WASHINGTON — With a single drone strike, President Donald Trump did more than just take out an avowed enemy of the United States. He may have have als...
0:01 4 January 2022

The Latest: Trump says US not looking to start war with Iran

BAGHDAD — The latest on the U.S. airstrike in Baghdad that killed Iran's top general (all times local):
20:30 3 January 2022

Middle East long riven by killings of high-profile figures

Killings of major political and military figures have been a recurring factor in the modern Middle East, often presenting a defining moment and changi...
14:08 3 January 2022

Iran can call on powerful friends if conflict engulfs region

JERUSALEM — If Iran decides to follow through on its vow of harsh retaliation for the killing of its top general, it can call upon heavily armed allie...
8:22 3 January 2022

Iraqi militant killed by US worked with Iran for decades

BAGHDAD — Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, a veteran Iraqi militant who was closely allied with Iran and rose to be a senior militia commander during the war ag...
6:12 3 January 2022

US kills Iran’s most powerful general in Baghdad airstrike

BAGHDAD — The United States killed Iran's top general and the architect of Tehran’s proxy wars in the Middle East in an airstrike at Baghdad's interna...
5:03 3 January 2022

Attack on US Embassy exposes widening US-Iraq divide on Iran

WASHINGTON — The New Year's Eve attack on the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad has exposed a deepening divide between the United States and Iraq over ...
20:32 2 January 2022

Militiamen withdraw from US Embassy but Iraq tensions linger

BAGHDAD — Iran-backed militiamen withdrew from the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad on Wednesday after two days of clashes with American security forc...
16:53 1 January 2022

Attack on US Embassy in Iraq shows stark choices for Trump

WASHINGTON — The attack on the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad by Iran-supported militiamen Tuesday is a stark demonstration that Iran can still stri...
1:08 1 January 2022

Protesters attack US Embassy in Baghdad after airstrikes

BAGHDAD — Angered by deadly airstrikes targeting an Iran-backed militia, dozens of Iraqi Shiite militiamen and their supporters broke into the U.S. Em...
19:04 31 December 2022

Iraqi artists pay tribute to dead protesters with sculptures

BAGHDAD — The sculptures carved by seven art trainees were lined up outside a makeshift workshop in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square. With them were posters de...
7:01 29 December 2022

Iran-backed groups accuse Iraqi president of caving to US

BAGHDAD — Iran-supported groups on Friday blasted Iraq's president for not naming their preferred prime minister candidate, saying his decision was at...
18:11 27 December 2022

Iraq president offers to quit after rejecting PM nominee

BAGHDAD — Iraq's president refused on Thursday to designate a prime minister candidate nominated by the Iran-backed parliamentary bloc and offered to ...
22:30 26 December 2022

Iraq’s parliament approves new election law amid protests

BAGHDAD — Iraq's parliament approved a new election law on Tuesday aimed at giving political independents a better chance of winning seats in parliame...
17:16 24 December 2021

Iraq protests take toll on economy, vulnerable suffer most

BAGHDAD — With wisps of smoke still rising from the remnants of another night of violence, the workers came in the morning to salvage what merchandise...
7:11 20 December 2021

Protesters in Arab world’s newest uprisings face a long haul

BAGHDAD — Abbas Ali spends most of his free time camped out in Tahrir Square — the epicenter of Iraq's anti-government protests — going home only at 3...
5:45 17 December 2021

15 killed in Iraqi capital as assailants fire live rounds

BAGHDAD — Gunmen in cars opened fire Friday in Baghdad's Khilani Square. leaving at least 15 people dead and 60 wounded, Iraqi security and medical of...
19:48 6 December 2021

With prime minister out, Iraq in constitutional ‘black hole’

BAGHDAD — Iraq’s parliament on Sunday formally accepted the prime minister’s resignation, but the path to replacing Adil Abdul-Mahdi was clouded with ...
20:25 1 December 2021

Century ago and today, Baghdad street a front line in revolt

BAGHDAD — When discontented Iraqis sought independence from British occupation in 1920, Baghdad’s most prestigious new boulevard, Rasheed Street, was ...
3:37 1 December 2021

Iraqi prime minister to resign in wake of deadly protests

BAGHDAD — Iraq’s prime minister announced Friday that he would submit his resignation to parliament, a day after more than 40 people were killed by se...
17:40 29 November 2021

Baghdad bombings kill 5 as Iraqis protest government

BAGHDAD — Three simultaneous explosions rocked Baghdad late Tuesday, killing five people and wounding more than a dozen, Iraqi officials said, in the ...
20:04 26 November 2021

Conan the dog gets hero’s welcome at White House after raid

WASHINGTON — A U.S. military dog that played a starring role in the raid that killed Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi seemed oblivious to the...
20:11 25 November 2021

Pence works to reassure Kurdish allies in surprise Iraq trip

IRBIL, Iraq — Vice President Mike Pence sought to reassure the United States’ Kurdish allies in an unannounced trip to Iraq on Saturday, the highest-l...
18:09 23 November 2021

Iraqi officials: 8 protesters dead in day of violent clashes

BAGHDAD — Eight people died and at least 90 were wounded on Thursday in renewed clashes in central Baghdad, in the most violent clashes between anti-g...
22:16 21 November 2021

“Tuk Tuk” a newspaper for the Iraqi protest movement

BAGHDAD — Every other day, the editor, bespectacled and perpetually pecking at a laptop, sends a top secret 8-page document to an anonymous printing h...
15:12 20 November 2021

5 protesters dead in violence over key Baghdad squares

BAGHDAD — Iraqi security forces fired live ammunition and tear gas in renewed clashes with anti-government protesters in central Baghdad on Friday, ki...
20:46 15 November 2021

Top Shiite leader backs UN plan to resolve Iraqi crisis

BAGHDAD — Iraq's most powerful Shiite religious leader said Monday he backs a U.N. roadmap aimed at meeting the demands of anti-government protesters ...
18:29 11 November 2021

UN mission in Iraq proposes roadmap for ending upheaval

BAGHDAD — The United Nations' mission for Iraq on Sunday proposed a roadmap out of the country's social upheaval, while Amnesty International said Ira...
3:05 11 November 2021