Tag: Iraq

WADI NAHLEH, Lebanon — Two weeks before he was supposed to get married, Bakr Seif told his mother he was going out to see his fiancee and would be back ...

BEIRUT — The leader of the Islamic State group killed in a U.S. raid overnight in northwest Syria was largely a mystery, with almost no known photos, never appearing in ...

BEIRUT — A distressing series of voice notes sent by an Australian teenager from a prison in northeast Syria underscores the plight of thousands of forgotten children who remain trapped ...

BAGHDAD — War kept him away from his beloved homeland for decades. Now, virtuoso oud player Naseer Shamma hopes to help rebuild conflict-scarred Iraq through a series of concerts and ...

The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan invited both praise and blame, but most commentators assumed this action, begun under the Trump administration and finalized under U.S. President Joe Biden, signaled a ...

BAGHDAD — Iraq’s new parliament held its first session on Sunday, nearly three months after Iraqis voted in a general election whose results have been contested by powerful Iran-backed factions. ...

For most people, the dawn of a new year is filled with hope and anticipation about possibilities in the months ahead. For U.S. troops still stationed in Iraq, however, the ...

The incident, which was not claimed by any group, came two years after a US drone strike near the airport killed Iran‘s revered General Qassem Soleimani and his Iraqi lieutenant. ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Hackers targeted the website of an Israeli newspaper on Monday, the anniversary of the 2020 killing of a top Iranian general, replacing its content with ...

“The Federal Court has decided to reject the complaint… and to make the plaintiffs bear the costs,” Judge Jassem Mohamed Aboud said, reading out the verdict. The court “rejects the ...