A hilly area surrounding the Zagros Mountains in Iraq is being pulled into the Earth. Tectonic changes are forcing the Zagros Mountains region in Iraq to sink. Koshnaw, who hails from Erbil, Iraq ...

As this map shows, the U.S. military has dropped ordnance around the Mosul Dam at least 94 times since President Obama first authorized airstrikes in Iraq on Aug. 7.

Iraq's cabinet said on Tuesday it had ordered the semi-autonomous Kurdish region to immediately transfer its oil output to the country's state-run firm SOMO.

A man registers to vote during parliamentary elections of Iraq’s semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region, in Irbil, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Salar Salim) A man registers to vote during … ...

Iraqi Kurdish authorities are pushing back against a decision by Iraq’s top court that blocked payments from state coffers funding the semi-autonomous region Qassim Abdul-Zahra , Abby Sewell ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's oil minister said that the federal government has reservations about energy agreements signed by the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, after Iraqi Kurdish Prime Minister ...

With parliamentary elections due on 15 December, violence is expected to surge in much of Iraq. But the Kurdish autonomous region in the north of the country is a case apart.

Toppling of Saddam Hussein In 2003 the United States invaded Iraq and toppled the decades-long regime of Saddam Hussein. The violent insurgency that followed resulted in more than 4,000 U.S ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The semi-autonomous Kurdistan region of northern Iraq has set a new date to hold parliamentary elections on Oct. 20, following a repeated delay, the regional presidency said in ...

Iraq war map: Who controls what. ... ISIL, also known as ISIS, no longer holds towns and cities, but its fighters still operate in the desert regions around the Iraq-Syria border.

The major players in the Iraq and Syria crisis are often both allies and antagonists, working together on one front on one day and at cross-purposes the next. Here are brief sketches of some of ...

In the buildup to a long-awaited offensive on the city of Mosul, Kurdish forces are seizing new territory in northern Iraq that they say will become part of their autonomous region.