Iraq's government imposed a weekend curfew in Baghdad on Thursday amid clashes between government troops and Shiite militia fighters, and U.S. Embassy staff were told to remain indoors after days of ...

Iraq remains a fragile state deeply traumatized ... major Shia factions has held since the end of the final battle for Sadr City in mid-2008. While the major factions will occasionally criticize ...

There are currently 69 countries with UK Foreign Office 'do not travel' warnings in place. UK citizens were urged to stay away from the long list of destinations due to a number of safety and security ...

A report from Beirut, where the funeral of the militant group’s former Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah took place on ...

Talks to speed a resumption in oil exports from Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan ... His army outpost in scrubland near the rebel-held city of Idlib should have had nine soldiers but it just ...

We called it the Sadr City slumber party ... until the meaning was revealed during an intense firefight in Iraq. In Vietnam, SGM Darryle Endfinger rediscovered his faith amidst a horrifying ...

Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has called on Iran to extradite members of the controversial "Qurban" (Sacrifice) sect who fled Iraq amid a government crackdown ... disappeared from a cellar in the ...

In 2021, pro-Tehran parties were roundly defeated in Iraq’s parliamentary elections. Muqtada al-Sadr, a charismatic Shia cleric and vociferous critic of Iran, looked set to form a government.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraqi influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Monday called on Iran ... The groups allegedly have thousands of members across Iraq, believed to have been influenced ...

Since 1988, El-Sadr has been chief of infectious diseases at the Harlem Hospital Center in New York City, where she launched family-centered models for HIV and TB care. She was among the first to ...

More than 10 months on from elections, Iraq still has no government, new prime minister or new president, because of disagreement between factions over forming a coalition. Sadr wants parliament ...