Iraqi leaders called on Monday for fundamental changes to be made to a huge public administration riddled with corruption, and for this to ...
The Guardian newspaper has been ordered to pay Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki financial compensation for describing him as increasingly autocratic in an ...
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has severely criticised Saudi Arabia for its negative stance towards Iraq since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's Sunni-dominated regime. "All the signals confirm that the Saudi position is negative regarding Iraqi affairs," Maliki said in answers to journalists' ...
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki appealed on Monday to the United Nations to take action against Iraq's neighbours he accused of meddling in its internal affairs as he met a UN special envoy. The Iraqi premier also said three people behind twin suicide ...
Iraq's electoral body warned on Sunday that polls set for January will have to be delayed if procedures are not ironed out in the next two days, as a parliamentary vote on an election law was again postponed. Lawmakers are deadlocked over ...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's upcoming election may mark a departure from the sectarianism that plunged the country into civil war as Shi'ite and Sunni politicians join forces and emphasize nationalism and unity. Iraqis have grown tired of the bloodshed between once dominant ...
More than 60 soldiers and policemen, including 13 officers, have been arrested over twin bombings in central Baghdad that killed 153 people, a security spokesman said on Thursday. Those arrested were deployed in the Salhiyeh neighbourhood of the capital where the suicide ...
Baghdad's governor called on Tuesday for the Iraqi interior minister and the capital's security forces chief to be fired over twin bombings claimed by Al-Qaeda that killed at least 135 people. Salah Abdul Razzaq's fiery comments came at a news conference in ...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Politicians blamed the security forces on Tuesday for Iraq's bloodiest bombing in two years, and an al Qaeda-linked group claimed responsibility for the attack in which 155 people were killed. Two high-profile attacks in the last two months have ...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The Iraqi government blamed the bloodiest bombings in years on al Qaeda and other extremists, but many ordinary Iraqis think political infighting before next year's election is the cause and fear worse is yet to come. Hundreds of mourners ...
Iraqi security forces were on high alert on Monday, a day after twin suicide vehicle bombs blamed on Al-Qaeda killed 99 people in Baghdad, provoking widespread international condemnation. The near-simultaneous attacks targeting government offices in the centre of the capital were the ...
Iraqi security forces were on high alert on Monday, a day after twin suicide vehicle bombs blamed on Al-Qaeda killed 99 people and blasted government offices in Baghdad. More than 700 people were also wounded in the near-simultaneous attacks, which the government ...
