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A court certified October's parliamentary vote that gave Muqtada al-Sadr's party a plurality of seats, clearing a path for a government to be formed. Iraq's Federal Supreme Court on Monday [...]

The arrest of an Iranian-backed paramilitary leader in the killing of government protesters enraged powerful militias in Iraq and posed a test of the prime minister's pledge to rein them [...]

The decision by Lockheed Martin, after repeated rocket attacks, highlights the Iraqi government's failure to rein in militia groups. BAGHDAD -- Lockheed Martin said Monday that it was withdrawing its [...]

A blaze set off by an exploding oxygen cylinder swept through a hospital that lacked smoke detectors or sprinklers. More are expected to die from severe burns. BAGHDAD -- A [...]

The joint operation with Iraqi forces was aimed at stemming the group's resurgence, and illustrates Iraq's continued reliance on the U.S. military. BAGHDAD -- American airstrikes in a joint mission [...]

Iraqi witnesses against Blackwater guards were promised justice after a mass killing in Baghdad in 2007. 'Today,' one said, the bullets still in his leg, 'they proved to me it [...]

Record high temperatures were recorded in Baghdad and Damascus, and experts warned of the effects of prolonged heat waves as the planet warms. BAGHDAD -- A sweltering 125 degrees Fahrenheit [...]

A national march against the presence of United States forces, organized by a populist Shiite cleric and armed groups with ties to Iran, drew a crowd estimated at 200,000 to [...]

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Iraqis were celebrating the death of Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, but witnesses said that was not the whole story. The video lasted only 22 [...]

Tens of thousands mourned the killing of a major Iraqi official and a top Iranian general by a U.S. drone strike, as the Middle East braced for Iran's response. BAGHDAD [...]

The killing of General Suleimani, intended as a shot against Iran, could accelerate an Iranian objective: pushing the United States military out of Iraq. BAGHDAD -- American oil workers were [...]

Suleimani was planning attacks on Americans across the region, leading to an airstrike in Baghdad, the Pentagon statement said. Iran's supreme leader called for vengeance. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- [...]

Iran's ability to deploy militias to attack the American Embassy, with Iraqi support, made clear how much power it wields in Iraq. BAGHDAD -- After a second day of tense [...]

President Trump blamed Iran after demonstrators breached the compound's outer wall. Tensions are high after American airstrikes killed members of an Iran-backed militia. BAGHDAD -- Protesters broke into the heavily [...]

Iraq's Parliament voted to overhaul the country's election laws in a bid to reduce the power of political parties. But many protesters, who had called for just such a change, [...]

Mistakenly believing that a 16-year-old boy fired on them, a mob of antigovernment protesters stabs him to death. Protest leaders condemn the attack. BAGHDAD -- The anti-government protests that have [...]

It remained unclear who killed a dozen protesters and bombed the home of the antigovernment cleric Moktada al-Sadr. BAGHDAD -- Unknown assailants killed a dozen unarmed anti-government protesters in the [...]

Anger over corruption and Iran's influence on the country has driven weeks of unrest in Iraq's streets. But choosing a successor may be a long, arduous task. NAJAF, Iraq -- [...]

An elite Iraqi security force gunned down more than two dozen mostly unarmed people blocking bridges, in a day of violence that saw at least 35 killed. BAGHDAD -- Iraqi [...]

Antigovernment demonstrators, who have demanded an end to Iranian influence in Iraq, attacked the consulate in the city of Najaf. BAGHDAD -- Iraqi protesters in the southern city of Najaf [...]

The vice president's trip signaled the United States' continuing engagement in the country and came 11 months after President Trump made his own surprise visit to Iraq. BAGHDAD -- Vice [...]

The police and the politicians joined protesters in celebrating Iraq's defeat of Iran in a World Cup qualifying match. Tensions between the countries are running high. BAGHDAD -- The protesters [...]

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the cunning and enigmatic black-clad leader of the Islamic State who transformed a flagging insurgency into a global terrorist network that drew tens of thousands of recruits [...]

BAGHDAD -- The Iraqi government scrambled on Thursday to curb a third day of violent antigovernment protests, as people took to the streets in the capital and in a half [...]

BAGHDAD -- Violent protests erupted across much of Iraq on Wednesday as demonstrators poured into the streets for the second consecutive day, embittered over poor public services, corruption and unemployment. [...]

BAGHDAD -- Secretary of State Mike Pompeo scrapped a visit to Germany on Tuesday to make an unannounced trip to Iraq, pressing Iraqi leaders about what he called the increased [...]

MOSUL, Iraq -- In a rare show of deference to the anger of Mosul citizens over government abuses, the Iraqi Parliament on Sunday voted overwhelmingly to remove the province's governor, [...]

BAGHDAD -- A range of Iraqi politicians criticized President Trump on Thursday over his surprise visit to a United States military base in Iraq, and some called for a parliamentary [...]

BAGHDAD -- The blast walls and barbed wire came down. The checkpoints went away.Fifteen years after it was sealed off, the heavily fortified neighborhood in the heart of Baghdad was [...]

BAGHDAD -- The Islamic State has been stripped of nearly all the territory it ruled in Iraq and Syria and has been pummeled by nearly 30,000 airstrikes. But the extremist [...]

BAGHDAD -- The Iraqi authorities released a video on Friday with the confession of a recently captured Islamic State operative who was involved in a notorious incident in which captured [...]

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- For nearly five months, Iraqi politicians have wrangled over the shape of their new government. The bloc led by Moktada al-Sadr, the former Shiite militia leader and [...]

BAGHDAD -- Iraqi security forces stepped up patrols Saturday in the southern city of Basra, a strategically important oil port on the border with Iran where longstanding protests about quality [...]

BAGHDAD -- Iraq's outgoing Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, an American ally, and the radical Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr, a longtime foe of the United States, said on Saturday that they [...]

BAGHDAD -- Iraq's Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that officials could proceed with an extraordinary manual recount of more than 11 million votes cast in the May 12 legislative elections, [...]

BAGHDAD -- An Iraqi judicial body will oversee a manual recount of ballots from last month's election, according to an announcement on Thursday, as a crescendo of fraud complaints and [...]

TARMIYA, Iraq -- Islamic State militants dressed in Iraqi military uniforms launched a brazen nighttime attack in a farming hamlet close to Baghdad, killing 21 members of a local tribe [...]

BAGHDAD -- The 42-year-old housewife had two minutes to defend herself against charges of supporting the Islamic State. Amina Hassan, a Turkish woman in a flowing black abaya, told the [...]

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- In just three years, the Iraqi prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, has rebuilt the army, defeated the Islamic State and restored sovereignty across this deeply divided [...]

BAGHDAD -- Two suicide bombers killed more than two dozen people in Baghdad on Monday, mostly street vendors and day laborers gathered at dawn in hopes of finding work at [...]

BAGHDAD -- Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi of Iraq declared victory over the Islamic State on Saturday, announcing the end of more than three years of battles to regain control over [...]

BAGHDAD -- Kurdish and Iraqi officials rushed Friday to calm fears of impending military action around the contested city of Kirkuk. Late Thursday, Iraqi media outlets began reporting Kurdish statements [...]

BAGHDAD -- As the bloody battle to retake Mosul from the Islamic State ground on for months, with losses in lives and infrastructure piling up, soldiers and civilians kept in [...]

ERBIL, Iraq -- Iraq opened the next chapter in its offensive to drive the Islamic State out of Mosul on Sunday, preparing an assault on the western half of the [...]

ERBIL, Iraq -- Many Muslims in the Middle East reacted with a mix of fear, caution, suspicion and scorn on Friday to President-elect Donald J. Trump's appointments of aides with [...]

ERBIL, Iraq -- Facing Islamic State artillery, snipers and suicide attacks, Iraq's elite counterterrorism forces breached Mosul's city limits on Tuesday, officers said, the first time government forces have entered [...]

BAGHDAD -- If there were one safe place in Iraq, it should be a hospital nursery, locked down for the night with dozens of babies nestled inside. But here, not [...]

BAGHDAD -- As Britain on Wednesday looked back on its decision to go to war in Iraq 13 years ago, Thamir al-Shemmary went to the funeral of his brother and [...]

BAGHDAD -- As grief-stricken Iraqis held a candlelight vigil Sunday night at the site of a car bombing that killed more than 150 people, workers often using the flashlights from [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDBAGHDAD -- As celebrations for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan stretched past midnight into Sunday in central Baghdad, where Iraqis had gathered to eat, shop and just be [...]