Iraqi lawmaker Haibat al-Halbousi has been elected as the new speaker of the Iraqi parliament during the parliament’s opening ...

Iraqis have been eagerly awaiting the first sitting of parliament, called the Council of Representatives of Iraq, as they look for certainty over the leadership of the country following the November ...

Iraq’s NPC decided on Sunday to nominate Haibat al-Halbousi of the Taqadum Party as a candidate for speaker of parliament.

More than a month after Iraq's parliamentary elections, the country's top leaders remain locked in talks to form a government ...

For the first time, several well-known armed groups in Iraq have released statements supporting the idea of “the state’s ...

Iraq's Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein welcomes his Syrian counterpart Bassam al-Sabbagh ahead of a meeting in Baghdad — AHMAD AL-RUBAYE Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani on Friday said his ...

The report on Saddam’s terrorist ties released last week by the Joint Forces Command confirms this (not that you would know it from the scant press coverage of the study). The study, citing captured ...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - The most feared and effective rebel group battling President Bashar al-Assad, the Islamist Nusra Front, is being eclipsed by a more radical jihadi force whose aims go far beyond ...

Al-Qaeda has lost its most powerful friend in Iraq: Harith al-Dari, the country’s most influential Sunni cleric and a prominent anti-American figure, has rejected al-Qaeda’s vision of an Islamic state ...

Al-Qaeda has overstayed its welcome among a powerful group of Iraqi insurgents. One of the most influential nationalist insurgent groups in Iraq has asked Osama bin Laden to remember his religious ...

Editor's note: Due to security concerns, this segment has been updated to blur the faces of the Iraqi prime minister's team. Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani is in Washington this week on ...

Prime Minister Shia’ al-Sudani discusses Iraq-U.S. relations, Iraq’s foreign policy priorities, and geopolitical and security trends in the region. MOHYELDIN: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the ...