"We see this historic step as a long-awaited justice and a positive step towards achieving justice," said President Abdul ...

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 ...

Authorities temporarily shut the airports in the southern provinces of Najaf and Basra as the sandstorm - the biggest this year - obscured visibility in an eery orange cloud. Iraq, which endures ...

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 ...

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 ...