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

Iraq's new parliament elected a senior figure from the Sunni Taqadom party as its speaker Monday, the first session since ...

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 ...

After the change in Syria’s political leadership, Damascus and Baghdad have kept diplomatic channels open between them, although the latter has not removed Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa from ...

Akram al Kaabi (left), co-founder of Asaib Ahl al Haq, with now-deceased Iranian Qods Force commander Qassem Soleimani (middle). Iran’s 45-year trajectory from the Khomeini revolution to its current ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...