The Iraqi parliament voted this week on a law recognizing Halabja as a province in Iraq. The law passed, which was the final step in creating this new, primarily Kurdish province, which is an ...

The sandstorm blanketed parts of southern Iraq in an orange haze [Getty Images] ...

Hospitals in Muthanna province in southern Iraq received at least "700 cases of suffocation", a local health official said. More than 250 people were taken to hospital in Najaf province ...

More than a thousand people have been left with respiratory problems after a sandstorm swept across Iraq's central and southern parts of the country, health officials said. One official in Muthanna ...

BP had stalled plans for Kirkuk for years citing risks of political instability in the province claimed by Iraq’s autonomous region of Kurdistan. In 2013 BP signed an agreement with the Iraqi ...

and Diyala provinces. Iraq’s air force also frequently carries out airstrikes against ISIS hideouts in the disputed territories. In late February, the head of Iraq’s Security Media Cell told ...

Sandstorms in central and southern Iraq have led to the hospitalisation of more than 1,800 people due to respiratory issues, health officials said. Mazen al-Egeili, a local official in the Muthanna ...

Mazen al-Egeili, a local official in the Muthanna province in the south of the country told AFPnews agency that at least 700 people were hospitalised due to suffocation on Monday. Iraq’s ...